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What Does the Bible Say About ESCR?
The book James
speaks of some of the motivation behind a great
deal of ESCR. Consider that he says that “You
lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You
are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and
quarrel. You do not have because you do not
ask.” (James 4:2). So we see that within
the passage of James is a good description of
why the ESCR industry continues to work to
produce thousands of clones as they cannot have,
so they kill and steal what is another’s.
The passage in
James clearly shows that there is a violating of
many of the 10 Commandments, which God still
holds us accountable to follow.
When we murder a
person, we have broken the 6th
commandment. When we steal something that is
another’s, especially their parts for our
benefit, it violates the 8th
commandment of “thou shall not steal.” We can
also see that envy of a person’s property is
considered to be coveting which violates the 10th
commandment of God and according to the book of
James, it leads to murder.
If anyone is
offended that I would even use the 10
commandments because they are religious in
nature, then one should be consistent and remove
their own laws in the land that are like these
“religious” laws. But I do not think that anyone
wants to have widespread evil against their
fellow neighbor, let alone against themselves.
The highest form of morality and justice are to
be described in the Word of God.
Jesus Christ said
that what defiled a man was what came out of
their hearts (Mark 7:21-23). He lists the
things defile a man as “evil thoughts,
fornications, thefts and murders.” These sins
are the very things entrenched in IVF and ESCR.
In short, these industries, because of their
“evil thoughts”, steal (kidnap) and kill the
innocent human embryo.
When unmarried
women seek children by IVF, they have committed
a form of fornication by having children out of
wedlock, whether they are lesbian or
heterosexual. They have violated the marriage
bed which should be the domain of pro creating
children. Though their actions may have been
well intentioned, it goes against what God
originally desired for the sanctity of marriage
and the stability of families.
I believe that
everyone should take a very hard look at these
industries and consider what Jesus said about
“Knowing a tree by its fruit”. Jesus said that
He would reject those who do not produce good
fruit, but practice lawlessness (Matthew
7:20-23). ESCR commits lawlessness because
it violates so many of God’s commands on how we
are to treat the most vulnerable in our society.
It is a sad commentary on a society that falls
headlong toward a path of destroying and
exploiting little unborn children.
Once again, the
problem with IVF is that the IVF process is
capable of producing more embryo’s than the
woman can carry and thus the extra children who
are in the womb or in the laboratory are either
selectively aborted from the mothers womb or are
put into cold storage to hold for the parents at
a later time to produce more children. This
practice of putting embryos into cold storage
should be considered abusive and degrading.
There are also inherent risks in using IVF
procedures as they may cause severe birth
defects.
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Some times
couples simply donate these extra embryos for
research, which seems generous and yet these
little tiny humans are killed in the process. So
the IVF clinic which was meant to give promise
to infertile couples are also greatly increasing
the aborting and cloning to kill for research,
the embryonic child.
Many will say
that these extra children will be thrown away
anyway and is it not better to allow life this
saving research? Using that logic we could
gather up small, unwanted poor children and use
them for life saving research as well. I for
myself refuse to benefit at the expense of the
death or mutilation of another.
And to define
some people as “extra” is a convenient euphemism
for taking away a persons God given right to
life.
What does the Bible have to say about embryos?
Is a human
embryo alive? What makes an embryo alive? What
makes any of us alive? The Bible says it is our
spirit that makes us alive (James 2:26).
When the little girl in the Gospel of Luke was
dead, she became alive again by her spirit
returning (Luke 8:55). Therefore, the
human embryo is also made alive by the spirit
that God gives to them personally. We are alive
because God has placed a spirit in us to
activate us from the moment we were conceived in
our mother’s womb.
After 18-21 days
the unborn child has a beating heart and 42 days
after conception the unborn child has measurable
brain waves. By the time a mother finds out
that she is pregnant, her child already has a
beating heart and measurable brain waves. How
is this possible? We are very complex beings
even at these early stages of life and we have
been given the very breath of God to live just
as Adam was. God did not breathe air into Adam.
It would have to be something very amazing and
dynamic like the human spirit to make us alive.
I was once asked
if I could prove from the scriptures if an
embryo is a human. It was a good question, so
please consider these scriptures.
Job 3:3
“May the day
perish on which I was born, and the night in
which it was said, ‘A male child is conceived.’
Notice how the
verse says that even at conception that they are
called a male child. In the Hebrew language
it’s an even stronger term, like “a man child”
or “valiant warrior.”
Luke
1:36
Now indeed,
Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son
in her old age; and this is now the sixth month
for her who was called barren.
Notice how the
Bible does not call them clumps of cells, John
the Baptist was conceived a son, which in the
Greek is “uihos”, which is a son or child. This
same word was used for a baby that was born as
well as for Christ when He was an adult (Matthew
3:17).
James 2:26
“For as the body
without the spirit is dead, so faith without
works is dead also.”
We were given a
human spirit at the moment of conception to give
us the ability to live even into eternity
Psalm 139:13-16
“For You formed
my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works,
and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not
hidden from You, when I was made in secret, And
skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written the days that
were ordained for me, When as yet there was not
one of them.”
At what point was God involved in making us?
From the book of Psalms you can see that God was
with us from the very beginning of life itself.
God Himself saw our unformed substance as an
embryo and sought to form us in our mothers
womb. Should we not offer the same love and care
we received and extend it to the unborn
embryonic child?
Conclusion
We must stand for
the ethical treatment of all human beings and
enjoy the fact that God has given us ethical and
godly treatments for us to use for the benefit
of those who are suffering. We must also affirm
that we are not entitled to another’s life to
benefit our own regardless of the consequences
to our own person or to those in our family,
lest we are those who benefit by the shedding of
innocent blood. True compassion considers not
only the most workable solution, like Adult Stem
Cell therapies, but what will affirm the dignity
of all people regardless of their stage of
development. I believe by taking the higher
moral ground will not only insure better
results, it will keep society from going down a
very frightening and degrading path. |
