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Of course I knew you would find something wrong with the scripture reference I gave you as you would find fault with any scripture reference I would give to you.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Jeremiah 1:5


Perhaps you should prove to me that this particular scripture passage doesn't mean life begins at conception. If God knew Jeremiah before he was in the womb, then sanctified Jeremiah as a prophet to the nations before he came out of the womb, how then can Jeremiah not be a human in the womb from the very beginning in God's intent?

If you can imply that a human is like the yolk of a chicken egg before 12 gestational weeks, then I can interpret that God knew Jeremiah before he was even formed in the belly. God knew Jeremiah when he was conceived and developing in the womb and God can ordain Jeremiah to be a prophet while yet a "fetus".
If God knowing Jeremiah before he was in the womb implies he was a human being while in the womb then it also implies that Jeremiah was also a human being before he entered the womb.
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If God knowing Jeremiah before he was in the womb implies he was a human being while in the womb then it also implies that Jeremiah was also a human being before he entered the womb.
There is no implication here frog. I never even said implication. I said that I can interpret this scripture in context to what it says. God said He knew Jeremiah before he formed him in the belly. God said He ordained him as a prophet to the nations. NO implications. Are we human beings after we die? No we become spirits because there is no flesh and blood. There is flesh and blood in the womb and that makes one human. The only implication here is that God knew Jeremiah's spirit before he was formed in the belly.

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There is no implication here frog. I never even said implication. I said that I can interpret this scripture in context to what it says. God said He knew Jeremiah before he formed him in the belly. God said He ordained him as a prophet to the nations. NO implications. Are we human beings after we die? No we become spirits because there is no flesh and blood. There is flesh and blood in the womb and that makes one human. The only implication here is that God knew Jeremiah's spirit before he was formed in the belly.

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I think everyone would disagree with you on the bolded position.

Anyways, I suppose I should ask, how does God saying he knew Jeremiah before he formed him the the belly show that Jeremiah was a human person at conception? (What does that verse have to do with this discussion if it wasn't for the reason I done countered?)
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There is no implication here frog. I never even said implication. I said that I can interpret this scripture in context to what it says. God said He knew Jeremiah before he formed him in the belly. God said He ordained him as a prophet to the nations. NO implications. Are we human beings after we die? No we become spirits because there is no flesh and blood. There is flesh and blood in the womb and that makes one human. The only implication here is that God knew Jeremiah's spirit before he was formed in the belly.

Did you watch the Silent Scream video?
So, you are saying that we are flesh and blood after we die? Scripture says we are as the angels when we die.

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So I suppose I should ask, how does God saying he knew Jeremiah before he formed him the the belly show that Jeremiah was a human person at conception? (What does that verse have to do with this discussion if it wasn't for the reason I done countered?)

You are the one making the deal out of all this. I am trying to answer your questions the best I can because a lot of them doesn't make any sense to me.

Gee...you can't figure that one out after all I posted about physicians and government declarations?

BTW, did you watch the Silent Scream video?
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So, you are saying that we are flesh and blood after we die? Scripture says we are as the angels when we die.




You are the one making the deal out of all this. I am trying to answer your questions the best I can because a lot of them doesn't make any sense to me.

Gee...you can't figure that one out after all I posted about physicians and government declarations?

BTW, did you watch the Silent Scream video?
For a religious woman you take a very naturalistic approach to humanity. You've not mentioned a soul once or that all humans will have an afterlife. The human soul is the reason most people here will not agree with you that we cease to be human when we die.

I asked for scriptural support of your belief and you quoted some passage in Jeremiah about God knowing him before the womb. You've yet to explain how that is scriptural proof that life begins at conception.

I can find a bunch of doctors and government types that will say just the opposite of yours. So what?

By the way, I'm still waiting on your definition of what it takes to be a human being...
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...I asked for scriptural support of your belief and you quoted some passage in Jeremiah about God knowing him before the womb. You've yet to explain how that is scriptural proof that life begins at conception.

I can find a bunch of doctors and government types that will say just the opposite of yours. So what?
So...they aren't going to be Judging you? I mean, by your metric I'm kind of wondering how you believe in God? We got no proof of that, either. (tag)
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For a religious woman you take a very naturalistic approach to humanity. You've not mentioned a soul once or that all humans will have an afterlife. The human soul is the reason most people here will not agree with you that we cease to be human when we die.
For one, I am not a "religious" woman in the sense that I adhere to religious regulations. I believe God and His word. I believe that Jesus is God who came to earth wrapped in a robe of flesh. I belief in Jesus Name baptism and the infilling of the Holy Ghost. I try to live what Christ taught us in the gospels and what is taught in the New Testament without all the legalism. I once got into the trap of the legalistic conditions that one must look like, speak and act in order to have membership in an organized church system. I am not even thought of as being a "Christian" by some christian members of any organization because I rarely attend the organizational churches. Unlike many people in the church system or even those who got hurt and left the church system, I've made up my mind years ago that what God thinks is the only thing I care about and nobody's judgment of me will affect me enough to quit loving God. That includes you. You see, I don't care what you think or how you try to paint me as a hypocrite. You don't know me. You only come here to try to blitzkrieg posts like your signature says. (more about that at the end of this post) The more you post here shows me who you are, what you believe, and it is not consistent with what Christ teaches. Would Christ teach that women could abort their babies because it is not convenient for them to bear them, raise them and nurture them? No. He taught that whoever shall offend one of the little ones, it would be better for a millstone to be hung around his neck and cast into the sea. That is how much Christ loves and protects little children and they would not even become little children if they are snuffed out before birth.

Could you actually stand before Christ and argue with HIM that a fetus isn't human because it has not been born yet?

I've not mentioned the soul because I thought that was a given..that everybody knew the human being is made up of spirit, soul and body (flesh). I didn't think that I had to write a dissertation on a forum for something I thought everybody already knew.

How can a dead human being still be human? The flesh and blood ceases to exist. It rots and turns back into dust. The dead body lacks a spirit and a soul. The Spirit goes back to God who gave it and the soul goes either heaven or hell....whichever God judges that person's deeds. The human being ceases to be mortal when the flesh and blood dies. This mortal body experiences corruption and God will give us a new body at the resurrection. But we will not be human beings, we will be as the angels in heaven.

But what does your demand for my definition of what a human being have to do with whether a fetus is human or not?

The only one who demands every jot and tittle of explanation on paper is you...I suppose that in hope so that you can try to trap people in their words. Yet, you rarely explain anything yourself. Heh. Nice try.

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I asked for scriptural support of your belief and you quoted some passage in Jeremiah about God knowing him before the womb. You've yet to explain how that is scriptural proof that life begins at conception.
When I give you scripture, you reject it. I wonder how I knew you would. I think Jeremiah is pretty self explanatory to those who read and pray. When God formed Jeremiah in the belly, he also formed the spirit and soul for the body to grow. He knew Jeremiah's spirit before He formed him in the belly. What other way would you interpret that scripture? That is something YOU haven't explained. Why don't you give us your explanation of that scripture ?

But, since you did not like that scripture, here is another scripture that you will most likely reject because you simply want to delude yourself into thinking that fetuses are not human until ...when???

10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Roman 9:10-12

Paul called Jacob and Esau children while they were yet inside the womb.

There are more, but I think that you would find all sorts of excuses to reject them.

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I can find a bunch of doctors and government types that will say just the opposite of yours. So what?
I'm sure you can and you wouldn't have to look far. But they cannot give unrefutable compelling evidence such as the physician did in the video, The Silent Scream did.

You won't watch it unless I watch some of your videos? How childish. You just admitted that you are like a block of concrete....all mixed up and set in stone. I think that you do not want to watch the video because it might just touch something in you...maybe. Or maybe you are squeamish..can't stand the sight of seeing a baby ripped apart in the womb. Maybe you don't want to see it's little mouth open up wide in a scream that you can see, but won't hear because it's flesh and bones are being ripped and shattered with only it's head left floating inside the womb. That would shatter your illusion that the baby inside is not a human being. That God couldn't possibly think enough of a "fetus" to give him/her a spirit and soul along with it's growing body. Perhaps you are not man or woman (whatever you are behind your blitzkrieg name) enough to take a good look at the reality of abortion and rethink your position. Perhaps your pride won't let you rescind that brick hard stance of viewing a helpless baby in the womb as being a human being.


For those of you who never thought about frog's signature--You better watch out before I blitzkrieg your thread cause I'm the Thread Nazi now....

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So are the people here considered to be your enemy frog? You have hopelessly mangled this thread by your confusing questions and offense tactics used here to try to make accusations of Christian hypocrisy over this abortion issue?
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For one, I am not a "religious" woman in the sense that I adhere to religious regulations. I believe God and His word. I believe that Jesus is God who came to earth wrapped in a robe of flesh. I belief in Jesus Name baptism and the infilling of the Holy Ghost. I try to live what Christ taught us in the gospels and what is taught in the New Testament without all the legalism. I once got into the trap of the legalistic conditions that one must look like, speak and act in order to have membership in an organized church system. I am not even thought of as being a "Christian" by some christian members of any organization because I rarely attend the organizational churches. Unlike many people in the church system or even those who got hurt and left the church system, I've made up my mind years ago that what God thinks is the only thing I care about and nobody's judgment of me will affect me enough to quit loving God. That includes you.



You see, I don't care what you think or how you try to paint me as a hypocrite. You don't know me. You only come here to try to blitzkrieg posts like your signature says. (more about that at the end of this post) The more you post here shows me who you are, what you believe, and it is not consistent with what Christ teaches.



Would Christ teach that women could abort their babies because it is not convenient for them to bear them, raise them and nurture them? No. He taught that whoever shall offend one of the little ones, it would be better for a millstone to be hung around his neck and cast into the sea. That is how much Christ loves and protects little children and they would not even become little children if they are snuffed out before birth.

Christ loving and protecting little children does not necessitate that he loves and protects a fetus before it turns into a little child.

Could you actually stand before Christ and argue with HIM that a fetus isn't human because it has not been born yet?

You are assuming it would be an argument. He might agree with me.

I've not mentioned the soul because I thought that was a given..that everybody knew the human being is made up of spirit, soul and body (flesh). I didn't think that I had to write a dissertation on a forum for something I thought everybody already knew.

Fair enough, I'd like to talk about the soul though. I'm assuming that since you believe it's a human being at conception that it has a human soul at that time too. What about identical twins who divided in the womb? Did God only impart one soul to them or did two souls inhabit the same thing until it finally split?

How can a dead human being still be human? The flesh and blood ceases to exist. It rots and turns back into dust. The dead body lacks a spirit and a soul. The Spirit goes back to God who gave it and the soul goes either heaven or hell....whichever God judges that person's deeds. The human being ceases to be mortal when the flesh and blood dies. This mortal body experiences corruption and God will give us a new body at the resurrection. But we will not be human beings, we will be as the angels in heaven.

Yes we will be different in the afterlife with a glorified body and all but that doesn't mean we cease to be human. I think you are tying your definition human too closely with this earthly body.

But what does your demand for my definition of what a human being have to do with whether a fetus is human or not?

The only one who demands every jot and tittle of explanation on paper is you...I suppose that in hope so that you can try to trap people in their words. Yet, you rarely explain anything yourself. Heh. Nice try.

I'm actually quite forgiving on that and try to give you every opportunity to correct and clarify yourself. However I will point out when I believe something isn't adding up.


When I give you scripture, you reject it. I wonder how I knew you would. I think Jeremiah is pretty self explanatory to those who read and pray. When God formed Jeremiah in the belly, he also formed the spirit and soul for the body to grow. He knew Jeremiah's spirit before He formed him in the belly. What other way would you interpret that scripture? That is something YOU haven't explained. Why don't you give us your explanation of that scripture ?

I already explained why the Jeremiah passage wasn't a good prooftext for showing he was a human being at conception but if you insist that I do it again okay...

God knew Jeremiah before he was conceived by his foreknowledge. There wasn't actually a person before conception for God to know but God still knew him. It's a passage detailing how special Jeremiah was to God's plan. It doesn't show Jeremiah was somehow human before or during his conception or even during the womb. What it does show is that God took notice in his foreknowledge of Jeremiah and that makes Jeremiah a pretty special person for God to take notice of him in such a way.


But, since you did not like that scripture, here is another scripture that you will most likely reject because you simply want to delude yourself into thinking that fetuses are not human until ...when???

10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Roman 9:10-12

Paul called Jacob and Esau children while they were yet inside the womb.

For President Barack Obama had yet to take the Oath of Office. (I can refer to Barack Obama as President Barack Obama even though I am talking about a time before he was President.) Likewise I can refer to Jacob while in the womb as a child even though I am talking about a time before he was born.

There are more, but I think that you would find all sorts of excuses to reject them.



I'm sure you can and you wouldn't have to look far. But they cannot give unrefutable compelling evidence such as the physician did in the video, The Silent Scream did.

You won't watch it unless I watch some of your videos? How childish. You just admitted that you are like a block of concrete....all mixed up and set in stone. I think that you do not want to watch the video because it might just touch something in you...maybe. Or maybe you are squeamish..can't stand the sight of seeing a baby ripped apart in the womb. Maybe you don't want to see it's little mouth open up wide in a scream that you can see, but won't hear because it's flesh and bones are being ripped and shattered with only it's head left floating inside the womb. That would shatter your illusion that the baby inside is not a human being. That God couldn't possibly think enough of a "fetus" to give him/her a spirit and soul along with it's growing body. Perhaps you are not man or woman (whatever you are behind your blitzkrieg name) enough to take a good look at the reality of abortion and rethink your position. Perhaps your pride won't let you rescind that brick hard stance of viewing a helpless baby in the womb as being a human being.


For those of you who never thought about frog's signature--You better watch out before I blitzkrieg your thread cause I'm the Thread Nazi now....

From Wikipedia:
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So are the people here considered to be your enemy frog? You have hopelessly mangled this thread by your confusing questions and offense tactics used here to try to make accusations of Christian hypocrisy over this abortion issue?
First: You questioning the importance of having a definition for human being in a discussion about whether unborns are human beings just boggles my mind.
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