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Not Just A Clump Of Cells

What the Christmas story says about our bodies and our bioethics debates.

Colleen Carroll Campbell | posted 12/20/2007 08:17AM

As Christians prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, pastors are struggling to draft sermons that will make the 2,000-year-old Christmas story come alive for the faithful who pack the pews on ...

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Tapolyai Mihály

Posted: December 29, 2007 5:02 AM

I am a medical doctor.I made experimentations in embryology and this way I have been challenged to understand the conception of Jesus. —Shortly: The egg (ovum) must carry the nutrition for the new life to build up the human body, as it happens for instance with the hen. and in he egg of all women and in a Mary, too.— While the sperm carries the vitality, the power to induces the egg, it carries the necessary energy (Yellow part of the egg) to live and develop the ovum (egg) to a living person.—This could happen to Mary, mother of Jesus,—as it is written, 'she was overshadowed by the most High' and his divine power induced the hidden egg in Mary to live and from this egg was born Jesus, called Son of God. (Luke, 1,35)— I am convinced it was true. This heavenly power makes difference between Jesus and the ordinary man.

Jackie

Posted: December 21, 2007 10:41 PM


I agree with Samantha on this one.

Samantha

Posted: December 21, 2007 12:40 PM

Jesus was born therefore he has "endowed the human body in all its developmental stages with intrinsic dignity". Where does that principle come from? I think you made it up. Jesus died in tortured agony, so that means we must respect and revere death by torture? Jesus never made it to old age, so does that mean old age has no 'intrinsic dignity'. Furthermore, my bible says nothing about how or if Jesus developed as an embryo. And if abortion is so terrible, why doesn't the bible prohibit abortion? It has plenty of room to prohibit picking up sticks on the sabbath or wearing cloth of mixed fibres. Indeed I can't see why it didn't make the top ten, since most christians think abortion is worse than coveting thy neighbour's ass. Also, Exodus 21:22 makes clear that an aborted embryo is worth less than a real person. I would suggest sticking to using reason to argue against abortion (as you do mid-article) and avoid flailing around for biblical justifications.

Ephrem Hagos

Posted: December 21, 2007 3:18 AM


"Respect" to the human bodily life yes; but "reverence" is due only to a born-again life in the image of God, i.e., the Spirit (Gen. 2:7 and John 3:5), not to the first created from the soil of the ground like all other animal life. Such a humbling thought is not unbiblical!

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