A Human Being Or A Blob Of Tissue?
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesA querist asks, “How does the Bible view an unborn entity found in a mother’s womb — as a human being or merely a blob of tissue?”
When Mary (the mother of Jesus) greeted Elizabeth (a relative – Luke 1:36), who was pregnant with John the Baptizer, Luke records the following response:
“And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb…..” (Luke 1:41).
The Greek word used by Luke (a physician – Colossians 4:14) for the term “babe” is “brephos” (Strong’s 1025) which can either refer to an unborn child or a new-born child (cf. Luke 2:12; Luke 2:16; Luke 18:15; Acts 7:19; 2 Timothy 3:15; 1 Peter 2:2).
Luke also uses the same Greek word in Luke 2:12 regarding the birth of our Lord.
Thus we see from the inspired writer Luke, that the entity which resides in the mother’s womb is indeed a human being — a baby both before and after birth — not merely blob of tissue as some uninspired humanists view it.
Almighty God condemns those who would seek to take a child’s life before its birth (cf. Exodus 21:22-25; Proverbs 6:17).
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