"When Does Life Begin"
This is such an important principle that God appears to author life PRIOR to conception.
The Lord is quoted as saying to the prophet Jeremiah: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." Not only does Jeremiah’s life begin prior to conception – in the mind of God – but Jeremiah’s destiny is formed then and there, as was Creation itself, in God’s mind and by God’s command.
Indeed, the very notion of "conception" in the Bible does not refer to the fertilization of an egg by a sperm, rather conception is what happens when God "conceives" of someone or something. The Psalmist, in fact, paints a vivid picture of the process: "Thou knowest me right well; my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them." (Psalm 139)
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