Curious what you all think about the spiritual implications of this.www.msn.com/en-us/health/healthtrending/frozen-embryo-conceived-the-year-after-her-mother-was-born/ar-BBH2jRx?li=AA5LBhu&ocid=ientp________________
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Curious what you all think about the spiritual implications of this.www.msn.com/en-us/health/healthtrending/frozen-embryo-conceived-the-year-after-her-mother-was-born/ar-BBH2jRx?li=AA5LBhu&ocid=ientp________________
According to what I learned on Actscelerate, her soul has been waiting for an extra 25 years to be put inside her.
I bet the donor was a Mormon.
Frozen
Guess timing must not be important to God.
Ethically, this is a troublesome issue. I consider it commendable to give the baby a place to grow. But if this created a market for freezing embryos, that might be a bad thing. Doctors who discard them might freeze them if there is a market for them________________
Thanks for your responses… I think.My questions on this are along the lines of… if God creates all life, how does this fit that? What does the church or the bible say about this? Is it ok to keep what most in our tradition view as human beings with rights on ice for 25 years? If not donated for another’s use, are the other embryos destroyed? Is that murder in the same way so many view abortion as murder? You joked about the soul but when
They can keep people alive during an operation on a heart lung machine. How does that fit into God creating life________________
They can keep people alive during an operation on a heart lung machine. How does that fit into God creating life? I’m not trying to be difficult. The tone of your response feels a bit like you think I am. I am asking because I don’t understand and I want to. To me, IVF and donated frozen embryos are about creating life. A ventilator is about sustaining an existing life. I see a difference. Whether or not sustaining a life is appropriate or is man playing God is a discussion for another thread.But again… what I am asking is from a biblical standpoint, how does this fit________________
They can keep people alive during an operation on a heart lung machine. How does that fit into God creating life? I’m not trying to be difficult. The tone of your response feels a bit like you think I am. I am asking because I don’t understand and I want to. To me, IVF and donated frozen embryos are about creating life. A ventilator is about sustaining an existing life. I see a difference. Whether or not sustaining a life is appropriate or is man playing God is a discussion for another thread.But again… what I am asking is from a biblical standpoint, how does this fit?
Any scriptural basis for this belief________________I’m not saved because I’m good. I’m saved because He’s good!My website: http://www.bradfreeman.comMy blog: bradcfreeman.tumblr.com/
Any scriptural basis for this belief?
I think JD has this one surrounded. Life begins at conception, which occurred prior to the embryo being frozen. There are ethical implications of this as Link pointed out, but I don’t see that there are any spiritual implications.
They can keep people alive during an operation on a heart lung machine. How does that fit into God creating life? I’m not trying to be difficult. The tone of your response feels a bit like you think I am. I am asking because I don’t understand and I want to. To me, IVF and donated frozen embryos are about creating life. A ventilator is about sustaining an existing life. I see a difference. Whether or not sustaining a life is appropriate or is man playing God is a discussion for another thread.But again… what I am asking is from a biblical standpoint, how does this fit? I see both as technologies that do things that would have shocked people in ages gone by, maybe even shook up their theology a bit. But it wouldn’t have to. Maybe those electrical paddle things to revive someone after a heart attack would have been a better example. Cryogenics may have been a better example. They may be able to do succeed with cryogenics if they drain the blood first and put in certain chemicals. If you can freeze someone, or keep them in suspended animation like Captain America, does that make them not human somehow? If Captain America were in frozen animation and Red Skull decided to kill him while he was in that state, that would be murder wouldn’t it? What is the theologically challenging issue________________
The primary ethical problem with IVF has always been what to do with all the extra embryos (persons) created in the process. For the Roman Catholic Church, a big issue is the separation of conception from natural copulation, with the baby being conceived in a test tube rather than the place where God designed babies to be conceived—the womb.