So when does a baby “acquire” a human soul. During late term abortions, the babies are often born alive and the doctor’s toss them in a bucket with other babies and let them die.
An apt observation. It would seem that it must be that the mother imparts the soul to the child by the act of allowing its birth!
Oh, so there was no dispute, that those who were being imported from Africa were human beings, and that is why we didn’t need a 3/5ths compromise, right?Or a civil war, or the civil rights movement? Or there is no dispute that women are human beings and enjoy full human rights in places like rural South America, Africa, or the Middle East?
To your last sentence, I’m not sure I would use the word ‘destroy’ to describe what is a naturally occurring phenomenon within a woman’s reproductive system, but I get the gist of what you’re saying. And, yes, I do not believe that a woman is truly pregnant until implantation, as the fertilized egg may or may not implant. That’s just how biology works.
And the way biology works is that separate, distinct human life is present BEFORE implantation.
So let’s use a new expression. Rather than “truly pregnant”, let’s say “with child”. One is with child from conception, and truly pregnant from implantation. Sounds fair.
I like to quote Bishop Fulton J Sheen, as another poster often quotes " a lie is still a lie if everybody believes it, and the truth is still the truth if no body believes it. Ones belief counts more than others if it is the truth, contrary to what others believe. God designed the plan for the propagation of the human race, He even instituted the Sacrament of Marriage, and He said that man and woman shall leave father and mother and cleave to each other., and the two shall become one in the flesh". And how does one propagate one of his own? It’s a no-brainer. To interfere with God’s plan is to go against His will, and that is called “sin” To abort a fetus, or to use contraception are sinful situations. When one advises another to avoid such situations, it is not interfering, it is only manifesting God’s will to those who may not be aware of it, so as to prevent one from doing wrong, and counseling out of concern and love. Too many see it as apposing “their will” and not necessarily “God’s will” and that’s the real problem.
And there is absolutely no dispute in biology that life begins at conception
And per our fellow poster, it is often “destroyed” by the simple fact that it fails to implant.
I don’t think that was what the poster was referring to, since the word “destroy” connotes a deliberate act or at least an overt action. Things happening as a biological or natural causes, say like natural death, are usually not referred to as the action of a third party other than nature or God. (People do say, that God destroyed, or nature has destroyed my hopes, dreams, etc.).And per our fellow poster, it is often “destroyed” by the simple fact that it fails to implant.
Of course a lie is a lie even if everyone believes, but neither does it mean that something is the truth merely because you believe it. When so many people (a majority) believe that a fetus is not a human being at conception, that it only acquires a soul much later in its development, only God or someone like the Christ can resolve the differences and tell us for sure what is the truth.
So?And per our fellow poster, it is often “destroyed” by the simple fact that it fails to implant.
How do you know Christ returns “very soon”?
Many people in the world believe that and there are many signs/prophecies that indicate that it is imminent - both Christian and Islamic.
So am I.
Apples and oranges, my friend. Adulterers are not dangerous to the population at large. Murderers surely are. I trust you see the difference between these two “crimes.”