When does human life begin? Why do we have human life? It’s time this world with its carnal mind knew this TRUTH that has remained a mystery for ages!
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Question: Is abortion murder? Is it a crime? Is
it a sin? A crime is a violation of a man-made law. Sin is transgression of God’s Law. God ’s law defines right as opposed to wrong. Humanly legislated laws do not always do that. Some things can be sin that are not a crime in man-made laws. But man-made laws have even made obedience to the higher law of God a crime, punishable by death. For example, the Council of Laodicea, A.D. 363, enacted a law enforced by the Roman government: “Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honoring the “Lord ’s Day.” If any were found to be Judaizing by “resting of the Sabbath,”they were to be declared “anathema from Christ.” This was interpreted by the government as a crime and often was punishable by death. Yet the law of God commands:
“Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy.
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But in the final judgment, every individual will
be judged and sentenced according to the law of
God, regardless of what has received general
human acceptance or what has been made into a
human law.
Now, the whole controversy on abortion revolves
around the question: When does human life start?
Where did human life first begin? Whether this
world likes it or not, human life began when God
formed man from the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
(Gen. 2:7). God had said, “Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness
.” God is composed of spirit. God
is a Spirit (John 4:24). But man was made
out of the ground—he is matter.
God’s purpose is to reproduce himself
through man, who is formed of matter or
substance. God creates in a system of duality.
Man was, made first of material, the ground. The
second stage of man’s creation calls for
making him into a holy, righteous spirit being as
a child of God. Thus God’s ultimate purpose
is to reproduce himself. God not only is formed
and composed of spirit, but God has perfect,
righteous, spiritual character. God’s
spiritual creation involves the development in
man, during this physical life, of God’s
righteous character. To reproduce himself, God
purposed that man should reproduce himself
physically, even as God is reproducing himself
spiritually. The one is the type of the other.
Human life first began with the creation of the
first man Adam by a process of reproduction.
Human life has continued from that original life
and is transmitted from generation to generation.
God said to the first man, Adam, “Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth” (Gen. 1:28). Man was to
reproduce himself physically – in other
words-- continue that human life from generation
to generation. But the man was unable to do that.
No man has ever been able to reproduce himself
all by himself. So God performed an operation. He
put man into a “deep sleep,” which
today we would call anesthesia, and operated,
removing one of the man’s ribs, out of
which he made a woman. The woman was not made
from the dust of the ground. Woman was first made
from man. The two, the man and the woman, became
one. How did the two become one? They became one
human family. A family is composed of two or
more. They reproduced, had children, and the
family increased. That original family, by the
process of human reproduction, has been
increasing for 6,000 years until today there are
about 6 or 7 billion of us on this earth.
The human life in every being started from the
human life God created in Adam. Even Eve’s
life came from Adam. Every human life since is a
continuation of that same kind of human life
continually reproduced after its kind. This human
reproduction was the exact type of divine
reproduction by which God is reproducing himself.
Human reproduction started with Adam. Divine
reproduction has started with the second Adam,
Jesus Christ. Jesus was begotten and born as a
human being-- just as all humans have been--
except that God was his Father. Therefore, one of
his names is Emmanuel, which means “God
with us,” or, “God in the human flesh,
” therefore Jesus Christ was human, born of
the human, virgin Mary. But he was also God, sired
by the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God actually
fertilized or imparted life to an ovum in the womb
of the virgin Mary.
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
Now let us examine human reproduction. Human life
starts from an egg, or an ovum, produced through
an ovary in the human mother-to-be. This ovum, of
itself, has only a very temporary life--just a
matter of days. Unless fertilized by a sperm cell
from the body of a male, it will soon die. The
female ovum is about the size of a pinpoint, not
the head, but the tiny point of a pin, barely
large enough to be seen through the naked eye. The
male sperm cell that will fertilize it is the
smallest cell in the human body-- only one
fiftieth the size of the ovum. In the female ovum
is a still tinier nucleus. Once the male sperm
cell penetrates and enters the ovum, it joins
immediately with the nucleus. At that instant,
human life has begun.
The very start of human life is the exact type of
the beginning of the divine life. Jesus said
”he had come that we might have
life, and that (we) might have it more
abundantly” (John 10-10). He was
talking about the fact he had come that we might
have immortal, divine life, which would be a much
more abundant life than this frail human life.
Jesus said, at the beginning of his ministry on
earth, “I will build my church” (Matt. 16:18). Jesus chose and called 12
disciples to be taught the good news or gospel of
the kingdom of God--The kingdom of God beings
that shall reign over all the nations of this
earth, beginning with the Second Coming of Jesus
Christ.
Now consider carefully this fact: Human
reproduction is the exact type of divine
reproduction. In every human there is human
spirit. The human brain, as scientists have
learned in the new science of brain research,
differs little from animal brain. Yet we learn
from many scriptures in the Bible that in every
human brain resides a human spirit. This spirit
empowers the physical brain with intellect, which
makes the vast difference between human ability to
think, to reason, to acquire knowledge, to have a
sense of spiritual values, which animals do not
possess.
A factor that has greatly puzzled and mystified
human scientists, especially in the new science
of brain research, is what constitutes the
incredible difference between the vast output of
the human brain as compared to the animal brain.
They cannot account for it on physical grounds,
and most all stubbornly refuse to accept the
truth as it is on spiritual grounds.
The Bible is the Word of the Creator God. In it,
God, who knows the rationalization and reasonings
of the natural mind cut off from him, says of
these unbelieving skeptics, “But the
natural man receiveth not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto
him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned” ( I Corth.
2:14). The God-rejecting mind, therefore, will be
incapable of understanding what is to follow in
this article.
In the comparison of human reproduction to divine
reproduction each human being is an ovum. Each of
us might be called a spiritual ovum. Each has a
limited life span on average of somewhere between
72-75 years at present. Unless fertilized within
a life span the spiritual male sperm, which is
the Holy Spirit from the very body of God the
Father, each of us will perish.
HOW DOES DIVINE LIFE START?
The original apostles had been taught and trained
for some three and one half years by Christ. They
were, as it were, spiritual ova. They did not
receive the spiritual sperm cell from God the
Father until after Christ’s sacrifice and
resurrection and ascension to heaven. On the day
of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came and entered
into the disciples who were gathered together, all
in one accord. This divine sperm cell from the
body of God the Father was the Holy Spirit, the
very divine, life-imparting Spirit of God.
Naturally, on entering the apostles, this Spirit
went immediately to the nucleus of the human,
which is the mind. There it joined with the
human spirit that had been a part of the human
being from human conception. Thus the humans who
received the Holy Spirit of God had the divine
life of God imparted into them. They thus became
the begotten children of God. When the Holy
Spirit enters the human mind, it unites the human
mind with the mind of God.
The human spirit imparts capacity to acquire
physical and material knowledge infinitely
superior to that acquired by the animal brain. It
also imparts to the physical brain limited
spiritual concepts of good as opposed to evil,
albeit on the human spiritual level. However,
with the addition of the divine Spirit of God to
this human spirit, the human mind is capable of
acquiring the spiritual knowledge of the purpose,
ways and objectives of God. The human spirit
cannot see, think, hear or indulge in the process
of reasoning. It is the brain that sees through
the eye, hears through the ear, and does the
thinking and reasoning as it is empowered in the
reasoning and thinking process by the human
spirit.
However, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man,
the things which God hath prepared for them that
love him” ( I Corth. 2:9). This further
and deeper and more profound spiritual knowledge
of God’s purpose and plans and of God’
s righteousness is acquirable only by the
addition of the Holy Spirit of God uniting with
the human spirit of man.
On the day of Pentecost, 31 A.D., at the very
founding of the Church of God, this divine
Spirit of God entered into the believers there
assembled in Jerusalem. The point being made, is
at this juncture, at this moment of divine
conception, the receiving of the Holy Spirit, they
became the children of God, though as yet unborn.
The divine “sperm” of the Holy Spirit
had entered the human “ovum” as it
were, and divine conception had taken place. The
human sperm cell entering the human ovum
constitutes human conception.
The then-fertilized human ovum from that instant
is medically called an embryo. After some weeks,
as it grows gradually into a human form, it is
called a fetus. This growing and developing stage
is called gestation. This is the precise type of
spiritual conception and the Christian period of
growing spiritually in grace and spiritual
knowledge (II Peter 3:18).
The Bible calls the Church of God “the
mother of us all” who are the begotten
children of God. The Church, as the spiritual
mother, feeds spiritually the converted Christians
within her, protects them from false teachings
and ways, and brings them along in a spiritual
period gestation, ready to be born spiritually by
a resurrection ( at Christ’s coming), an
instantaneous change from mortal human to divine
God in the kingdom of God. Reproduction of human
life is the exact type of spiritual reproduction.
Our question is, WHEN does human life begin?
Human life in general started with the creation of
Adam. He alone was specially created. All other
humans have been reproduced from Adam. This
reproduction process was designed by the same God
who designed the spiritual reproductive process
by which God is reproducing himself. A human life
first starts in each individual human: so divine
life starts by a spiritual conception, when the
Holy Spirit first enters the human.
God purposed that man should reproduce himself
physically, even as God is reproducing himself
spiritually. Reproduction of human life is the
exact type of spiritual reproduction. Our question
is, WHEN does human life begin?
Now when does divine life start? When does one
become a Christian, one of Christ’s? In
Roman 8:9, one who has received the Holy
Spirit is Christ’s. One who has not
the Spirit of God is “none of his,” not a Christian. And verse 11, if the
Holy Spirit dwells in one, he shall be
born immortal. In verse 14, as many as
are led by the Holy Spirit dwelling within
them, are already, during this Christian life,
this spiritual gestation period, the sons of God,
though as yet unborn spiritually. They are
begotten children of God.
In I John 3:1-2: “Behold, what manner of
love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we
should be called the sons of God:
therefore the world knoweth us not, because it
knew him not. Beloved, now are we the
sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we
shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he
is.”
Already now in this human Christian life, as yet
unborn, in gestation stage, we are the children
of God. Yet we do not yet “appear”
visibly as we shall be when born.
From the instant of conception, a
human life is in existence. To
deliberately kill or destroy that human life, the
Great Lawgiver and Supreme Judge says, is MURDER,
punishable by eternal and final DEATH!
Regardless of human lawyers, human courts, human
judges, or even Supreme Court judges, abortion is
an act of murder, in defiance of the supreme
Almighty God. And those who commit it, and order
it, or “legally” by man’s law
authorize it, will be held in contempt of this
Supreme Court of Heaven, and answerable to that
great Supreme Judge.
God Almighty has called and authorized the Church
of God to “CRY ALOUD, AND SPARE NOT,
AND SHOW MY PEOPLE THEIR SINS!”
If we obeyed the laws of God we would avoid a
world filled with suffering, anguish and helpless
frustration. God’s laws are the way to
peace, to happiness, to joy, to accomplishments
that make life full, enjoyable and abundant.
God say, “Children are an heritage of
the Lord” (Ps. 127:3). Human family
relationship is one of the supreme blessings God
has given mankind. What a tragedy that a
rebellious mankind has spurned, forsaken and
deprived itself of the wonderful blessings and
happiness of a loving God has made possible.
However, the final conclusion of the whole story
of human life is this: When mankind has succeeded
in spurning and repudiating every blessing, and
has brought itself to the very brink of the total
extinction of the human race through man’s
own nuclear and other life-destroying inventions,
the merciful God will intervene and at last usher
in the happy, peaceful and overwhelmingly
satisfying eternal life in the glorious kingdom
of God.
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