Evangelist

Chris Pruitt

Elders

Chuck Claiborne

Leonard Leavitt

Billy Hale

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Charlie Brown

Richard Kopydlowski

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Hope springs eternal for the faithful Christian knowing that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son”  (John 3.16).  Through His sacrifice those who submit to the conditions of the gospel and live faithfully to God are promised life after death  (2 Tim. 4.7,8).  But what does the Bible say regarding life before birth?

    Looking into the birth of Christ brings out a striking detail that pro-choice advocates are sure to dismiss.  In the first chapter of Luke, we find Mary coming to the house of her cousin Elizabeth  (Luke 1.39,40).  Mary had just learned that she was pregnant with Jesus, the Son of God  (Luke 1.35).  She wanted to announce the good news to Elizabeth who also learned that she was carrying in her womb John the Baptist  (Luke 1.13).  When Mary arrived, John leaped for joy in his mother’s womb  (Luke 1.41-44).

     What does this mean?  It offers additional evidence that life does not begin at birth, but at conception.  While still in the womb, John experienced joy.  Furthermore, it is no accident that the inspired word of God does not refer to the unborn John as a fetus.  Instead, the word of God describes Elizabeth as having “conceived a son”  (Luke 1.36), and that the “baby leaped in her womb”  (Luke 1.41), and “the baby in my womb”  (Luke 1.44).   Son?  Baby?  This doesn’t sound like a simple lifeless embryo or fetus that has no soul.  

     The word of God teaches that life in the womb is just that – life.  Can we ever justify the taking of an innocent life?       CLP