In the Bible for Children (simplified Living Bible text, Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois) at Luke 9:46 we find the following:
“Jesus’ disciples began to argue about which of them was the greatest! But Jesus knew their thoughts. So he set a little child beside him, and he said to them: “Take care of little children like this. For by caring for them, you will be caring for me. And whoever cares for me, is caring for God who sent me…”
Does the age and size of the child make a difference to God? Clearly not!
Dr. Jerome Lejeune, the world dean of geneticists, taught that all is present to build the new human being we later will call Mary, or Peter, or Paul in the 3-cell human embryo. He explained that it is at the 3-cell stage that ‘individualization’ occurs. First, there is the 1-cell human embryo; then it divides into 2. He said, “We were expecting it to then divide into 4 cells, 8, 16, etc., but instead, after it divides into 2, it divides into 3 cells. He went on to indicate that this was a mystery to the geneticists. Why 3 cells? He said that it’s as though at the 3 cell stage the cells are talking to one another and they are saying, “We are no longer a mass of cells. We are an individual.” Dr. Lejeune added: “It is curious that it takes a trinity to make a new human being.”
We are coming up on Christmas next month. After the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her she was going to have a child and that the child was to be named Jesus, Mary went “with haste” to the hill country to visit her cousin Elizabeth who was 6 months pregnant at the time. Jesus was clearly only a newly developing human embryo in Mary’s womb. As soon as Mary came through the gate of Elizabeth’s house and announced her greeting, John the Baptist, as a 6 month old preborn child leapt in the womb of his mother, Elizabeth at the presence of his Savior, Jesus.
Dr. Lejeune first pointed this out in a paper he had written. He took it from a shelf and showed it to me in his home before Dr. Jack Wilke and the rest of us picked it up and pointed it out at the holidays.
What was God’s purpose in putting this factual scenario in His Holy Word? Does it not speak to us today to prove that preborn children are imbued with a human soul from the moment of conception (the soul of 6 month gestational John the Baptist was recognizing the soul of Jesus)? Souls who are inside separate wombs and yet in the presence of one another cannot see each other. Why did God place this factual scenario in His Holy Word?
He made it plain that:
Fact #1 – Jesus, was a newly conceived (by the Holy Spirit) human embryo
Fact #2 – John the Baptist was a 6 gestational month old developing preborn child
Does this factual scenario not speak to us today as the States of the Union seek to decide if it is okay to kill a preborn child, and set arbitrary time periods within which to do so. i.e. the 1st trimester or throughout all trimesters up to and including partial birth abortion or beyond?
If we have ears to hear God’s Word, we must listen.
Discuss this at your family Thanksgiving table as you say a prayer for all of your blessings.
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