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P1234567890 Emperor of the Universe
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:39 am Post subject: |
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| RevJP wrote: | | Quote: | | if you pinch someone who has been fully-anesthetized, then their pain receptors are still firing, but it simply isn't causing the emotion of pain in the head. | 'the emotion of pain' ? This makes no sense medically. |
By 'emotion of pain', I'm really talking about suffering. I have no doubt that when you cut off a bug's leg or if you poke a worm with a needle, it feels some sort of pain. But they lack a properly sophisticated brain to be able to *really* suffer because of it. With them, their pain responses are more of a mechanical reflex.
Higher mammals are more sophisticated. We can really *feel* the pain.
Before a certain point, fetuses are more like the lower life forms I was talking about. They can't really *feel* pain because their nervous systems aren't sophisticated enough. |
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dramatic_n_comedic_lynn Big Goldfish
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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I think she's trying to say that a fetus cannot feel pain until the cerebal cortex is formed in the brain. That's the function of the brain where pain is registered from nerve endings throughout the body.
It forms sometime in the second trimester, I think. |
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oxalex Not So Newbie
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| i dont think that the true issue lies within these zygotes or embry whatevers because quite frankly there's no difference between a fetus and a mature adult. you and i can both agree that there is no other species like human beings and the theory that we evolved from apes is completely obsurd but i'm sure there's another debate forum for that subject, but anyways, i dont know about you but MY God says that he knew me BEFORE i was even conceived or even thought of being conceived and He has my life completely planned out. if you choose to base your beliefs on the names scientists try to put on an inexplainable species then so be it, but my God is bigger than that and honestly i'll have to keep you in my prayers that God would build your faith in knowing that He loves us beyond reason. For God to neglect giving me a soul in the trimester or whatever as you say then how could He be big enough to do any of the other huge and amazing things that He has and is doing? i think that this use of scientific terms and throwing around the fact that roaches and tulip bulbs are alive too is completely kookoo. when you get the spare time, ask those tulip bulbs of yours to fall in love or to repent of their sins. please tell me what they say. |
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P1234567890 Emperor of the Universe
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| oxalex wrote: | i dont think that the true issue lies within these zygotes or embry whatevers because quite frankly there's no difference between a fetus and a mature adult.
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I can name about ten trillion differences between a fetus and a mature adult.
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you and i can both agree that there is no other species like human beings
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Agreed; humans are pretty cool. Although our fetuses are virtually indistinguishable from those of any other mammal...
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and the theory that we evolved from apes is completely obsurd
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Again, we are agreed. Nobody who knows anything about evolution thinks that we evolved from apes. But if what you really mean is that we did not evolve from lower primates, then it's not absurd; it's a fact, and it's scientifically indisputable. There are no scientific arguments against evolution.
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i dont know about you but MY God says that he knew me BEFORE i was even conceived or even thought of being conceived and He has my life completely planned out.
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I'm pretty sure that He was talking about Jeremiah... Where did He mention YOU in the Bible? He might also have just been talking about His own omniscience... Of course he knew you and everything you were ever going to do; He knows EVERYTHING!
That doesn't mean that fetuses have souls! |
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oxalex Not So Newbie
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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you're right. you can't "prove" that fetuses have a soul. you can't even "prove" that mature adults have a soul. does that mean that we don't have souls??
i'm going to completely disregard all you said about the primate thing because obviously our views are opposite and that's a different debate forum.
i want to ask you something, though. when you were a child, i'm sure your mother didn't ever have to tell you that it's wrong to visciously kill another human being (no regard to abortion because i don't think abortion falls under the viscious category) nonethe less you knew it was wrong. i believe that God places in us basic morals and He gives us the Holy Spirit to enstill these morals and principals and i don't think abortion would be an issue if some of us "pro-lifers" were led to think otherwise not only by our morals, but by the Holy Spirit as well.
| Quote: | | I'm pretty sure that He was talking about Jeremiah... Where did He mention YOU in the Bible? |
as far as Jeremiah goes...
Jeremiah was a prophet of God and i don't think that Jeremiah 29:11 would have been placed in God's very own word if it had absolutely nothing to do with us. in the new testament Jesus tells His disciples many parables. some of which were about farmers and how they planted the crops. according to your views though, Jesus probably didn't want to teach His disciples anything spiritual He just wanted them to know how and where to plant a seed so that a seed can grow. hopefully you see the foolishness in that and the meaning behing the parable.
the Lord said " I have loved you" but i'm sure He was just talking to the prophet Malachi. He also said "son of man, stand on your feet, and i will speak to you," but i'm pretty sure He was only including Ezekiel there. He also said, " I have been with you wherever you have gone," but hey, i'm pretty sure He could have just said that to Nathan the prophet. so, according to what you said about God talking to Jeremiah, we as human beings now have no plan for our lives except what our human minds can conjure up, we are not loved by God the Father, He never speaks to us, with the exception of Ezekiel because, well, He was talking to just him, i'm pretty sure, and God is no longer with us, therefore He's forsaken us, which is completely contradictory to His word, which only points out your ignorance in this area.
so i'm "pretty sure" God was just talking to Jeremiah at the specific moment, but that scripture wasn't put in God's word if it didn't benefit His people.
so yes, God does have a plan for me and every other beingg created. and He did know ho i was before the earth was even created. For you to try and simplify and put God in a box by saying that God gives us souls at a certain point in the development of a fetus is pretty whacko.
John17:24 "...You loved me before the foundation of the world."
how could God love something He hadn't put any thought into until the so and so trimester?? |
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P1234567890 Emperor of the Universe
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| oxalex wrote: | | you're right. you can't "prove" that fetuses have a soul. you can't even "prove" that mature adults have a soul. does that mean that we don't have souls?? |
The Bible leaves no doubt as to whether adults have souls. It leaves PLENTY of doubt as to whether fetuses do.
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| Quote: | | I'm pretty sure that He was talking about Jeremiah... Where did He mention YOU in the Bible? |
as far as Jeremiah goes...
Jeremiah was a prophet of God and i don't think that Jeremiah 29:11 would have been placed in God's very own word if it had absolutely nothing to do with us.
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It's a good thing you know how to read God's mind so well.
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the Lord said " I have loved you" but i'm sure He was just talking to the prophet Malachi. He also said "son of man, stand on your feet, and i will speak to you," but i'm pretty sure He was only including Ezekiel there. He also said, " I have been with you wherever you have gone," but hey, i'm pretty sure He could have just said that to Nathan the prophet.
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Interesting argument, but once again you're claiming to know what God meant even though it doesn't say so in the Bible. Once you start 'interpreting' scripture beyond what it literally says, you get into hot water. People interpret scripture for evil purposes all the time.
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John17:24 "...You loved me before the foundation of the world."
how could God love something He hadn't put any thought into until the so and so trimester?? |
God is omniscient. That means that before He created the universe, He already knew EVERYTHING that was going to happen in, even billions of years in the future. |
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Praying4U Newbie Alert
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Question... when did Jesus become both God and man?
Was it when he was born?
Or was it when the Holy Spirit of almighty God decended apon Mary?
Would we as "christains" abort the "fetus" of almighty God?
I think at the moment of conception, when the angel came to mary is when he became both God and man!
As it was the son of man was in the womb. The lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world! It was not the "fetus of man", or the "fetus" of God which takes away the sins of the world."
Oh dear friend, how awfull that would that have been for Mary and Joseph to say, "well.... it's only a "fetus" let's abort "it" to save you the death penalty for being pregnant out of marrage."
Doing so would have been the end of hope! The messiah would have never died for you and me.
There is great rejoycing in heaven for every sinner saved. It pleases God when people are saved! If the "fetus" of Jesus were aborted none would be saved. But what about your child or that child or that "fetus". Your child or that child or that "fetus", may have grown up to know the LORD and save souls! And that is pleasing to our father.
Jesus was never only a fetus. From eternity past to eternity future, he is the son of God. And all of us even the ones that don't believe are his children.
We need to celibrate life, our life in christ and everybody's opportunity to share that life!
PRAISE GOD FOR LIFE IT'S WONDERFULL! |
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P1234567890 Emperor of the Universe
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:09 am Post subject: |
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Are you saying that since Jesus was never 'just a fetus', we can safely conclude that nobody is ever 'just a fetus'?
That doesn't follow.
I don't see why you guys place so much value on embryos. They really just are little blobs. If they are aborted or miscarried (and a huge percentage of pregnancies end in miscarriages that the mother isn't even aware of), it's really no big deal. The mother can easily get pregnant again if she wants with a different baby that would never have existed if the first pregnancy would have survived.
And then there's the whole issue of women's rights, and all of the social benefits of allowing abortions.
How can you guys just TOTALLY IGNORE all of these important variables??? |
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Praying4U Newbie Alert
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Praying4U Newbie Alert
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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What doesn't follow?
Jesus had just as much right to live as you and I do. And to say that this "fetus" doesn't deserve to live is playing God! God is the creator and the sustainer of all life. God is behind every life, without God there would be no fetus! Therefore the BABY is human, God ordained that fetus to be created just as God ordaines a stars creation. Man didn't create it, and he has no right to destroy it! The funny thing is if man could find a way to destroy a star he would, and for no other reason than the fact that he could! We would find some kind of scientific way to justifiy it, just as we find ways to justify murdering people. Hitler did just that and he had his justification in evolution. He beleived Jews were an inferrior race, just as some believe "fetuses" are only tissue.
As for women's rights. Women have the God ordained right to bear children. Men can't share this blessing. Women have an unbreakable bond with there children. And statistics show that most women who have had an abortion become depressed and feel remorse for there murder, and rightly so! I don't stand for making people feel guilty but thats what happens when you kill a HUMAN. Ask a veteran.
Adam was formed out of the earth and was not man until God breathed into his nostrils. God breathes life he is life and he should take life not man!
I don't see social benefits to murder. On the other hand some have and include Hitler, Stalin, American settlers and anyone who can THINK of a person as less than what they are! The only people benefiting are those making money off of other peoples irresponsibility. People think that the Baby would be better off dead. But God has a far greater plan for every single one of us!
Ist's easy to TOTALLY IGNORE unimportant variables, when you understand the value of HUMAN LIFE, and the lies of satan. |
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FFT Emperor of the Galaxy
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| Praying4U wrote: | | Jesus had just as much right to live as you and I do. | Why?
I mean in the first place, it's easy to point out that Jeremiah (a prophet, not even related by blood to God or anything) was specially monitored in the womb what with his set of self-righteous verses. There's no way to claim that Jesus wasn't a special case if you're also going to go with the virgin birth deal.
In the second, just think how much more powerful the message would have been if Jesus had been aborted! Jesus died for your sins, does it actually matter how he died? It's not like He was supposed to be a sacrifice, after all. I mean, you'd have to look past the whole part where he wouldn't be able to preach his message or anything but who knows! Maybe He tried a whole bunch of times! Maybe Jesus died more than once for your sins!
| Praying4U wrote: | | God is the creator and the sustainer of all life. | So then God is responsible for miscarriages?
| Praying4U wrote: | | God is behind every life, without God there would be no fetus! Therefore the BABY is human, God ordained that fetus to be created just as God ordaines a stars creation. | God doesn't see abortions coming? Not very omniscient if you ask me
| Praying4U wrote: | | Man didn't create it, and he has no right to destroy it! | Uh, you're maybe right in the case of Jesus, but you're way off when it comes to your everyday pregnancy.
| Praying4U wrote: | | The funny thing is if man could find a way to destroy a star he would, and for no other reason than the fact that he could! | You're right, we would. Supernovae are
1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are pictures of light echoing from a supernova, and it's beautiful.
| Praying4U wrote: | | We would find some kind of scientific way to justifiy it | Well, it'd more likely be justified as "art" quite frankly.
| Praying4U wrote: | | just as we find ways to justify murdering people. | Yeah, that's an awfully cogent analogy you've got there.
| Praying4U wrote: | | Hitler did just that and he had his justification in evolution. |
And that's why science isn't supposed to be used as a source for purpose/morality/meaning
| Praying4U wrote: | | He beleived Jews were an inferrior race, | Something completely unrelated to evolution, by the way, which is why using Hitler as an argument against evolution is a pretty silly thing to do.
| Praying4U wrote: | | just as some believe "fetuses" are only tissue. | Aaand this is unrelated to everything previous.
Please, do be a dear and tell me which of these is human:
| Praying4U wrote: | | As for women's rights. Women have the God ordained right to bear children. Men can't share this blessing. | Want to bet?
| Praying4U wrote: | | Women have an unbreakable bond with there children. | Want to bet?
| Praying4U wrote: | | And statistics show that most women who have had an abortion become depressed and feel remorse for there murder, and rightly so! | They sure do! I'm surprised it's not higher than 95%! After all, the statistics were collected based on women who went to abortion counseling, you know.
Oh wait, you probably didn't, seeing as biased sampling pretty much invalidates a statistic. Oh well!
| Praying4U wrote: | | I don't stand for making people feel guilty but thats what happens when you kill a HUMAN. Ask a veteran. | I'm struggling to find a source (mostly just getting Veteran's Day results) but I guarantee you there are plenty of veterans who would happily take out another Charlie or insurgent or what-have-you.
Your analogy kind of fails, there.
| Praying4U wrote: | | Adam was formed out of the earth and was not man until God breathed into his nostrils. | Awesome! I see you're of the breath=soul school of thought.
Wait, why are you arguing against abortion, then?
| Praying4U wrote: | | God breathes life he is life and he should take life not man! | Yeah, can't have men putting anyone to death or anyth
20:9 “‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.
20:10 If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
20:12 If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; their blood guilt is on themselves.
20:13 If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
20:14 If a man has sexual intercourse with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.
20:15 If a man has sexual intercourse with any animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal.
20:16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual intercourse with it, you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
Oh. Oops
| Praying4U wrote: | | I don't see social benefits to murder. |
God does.
Can't have any of that lewdness going around.
Well, unless you believe putting a guy to death for having sex with their step-mother or another guy isn't murder, but then I'd like to point out that there's something seriously wrong with you.
Admittedly, this is probably a strawman. It's unlikely you actually believe this. However, I assert that this is because you have no idea what you're talking about and not because you've made an educated decision on the matter.
| Praying4U wrote: | | On the other hand some have and include Hitler, Stalin, American settlers and anyone who can THINK of a person as less than what they are! | And hey! You're caught in a logic trap, then, because you'd have to think of a person as less than what they are if you think anybody'd be justified in killing a gay guy.
So ...
| Praying4U wrote: | | The only people benefiting are those making money off of other peoples irresponsibility. | You mean churches? I agree. People do tend to donate more when they feel guilty
| Praying4U wrote: | | People think that the Baby would be better off dead. But God has a far greater plan for every single one of us! | Kind of silly of Him not to account for abortions in his Plan, then.
| Praying4U wrote: | | Ist's easy to TOTALLY IGNORE unimportant variables, when you understand the value of HUMAN LIFE, and the lies of satan. | What? What lies of Satan? Throwing Satan into this is a bit out of left field  |
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P1234567890 Emperor of the Universe
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:36 am Post subject: |
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Fantastic post, FFT. I especially like the picture; that's a powerful point. The ironic thing is that you can't rule out the ones with tails because human embryos have tails!
Praying4U, you have some answering to do... |
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