Hi to my Forum Friends,
Often when I write an article and post it on public venues, I will get e-mails from those who do not agree with me, and sometimes from those who do agree. Yet, that is why I always include my e-mail address when I post an article -- I want to hear from everyone -- those who agree and those who disagree. Everyone has a point of view, everyone has something to say -- and, often, when responding to comments from other folks, this gives me an opportunity to share a dialogue with all my Friends which might be useful in your personal witnessing. The gentleman below, Don C., is responding to my article published in The Conservative Voice.
If so, please share this with your Friends, Relatives, Associates, and Neighbors -- all your FRANs. Let's keep dialogues and witnessing going with folks around the world -- until He comes again.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill Gray
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Don c. wrote:
I read your article in which a person thought life begins in God's thought. She may be very close to the truth. Jeremiah 1:5 seems to confirm her thinking. Doesn't conception take place in the belly? Isn't this part of forming. If so, god knew before the forming.
"Regarding your vote: The important thing is that you do vote. Not voting -- Is voting; but, often with undesired results. "
I really don't understand your logic in asking people to vote and saying "That not voting is voting"
Please don't toot your horn too loudly as a gift because it does not come over as a clear way for you to communicate to me.
Don c.
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Hi Don,
Thank you for writing regarding my article "When Does Life Begin?" Did you read the article in The Conservative Voice or in the TimesDaily Forum?
I am presuming that it was in The Conservative Voice:
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You mention Jeremiah 1:5, which says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Yes, because God is omniscient, He knows all of us before we become a human life in our mother's womb, during the process of fertilization. He knew us, just as He knew, or foreknew, who will become children of God and who will reject God. This does not justify the teaching that God fore-ordained, before creation, that some would be saved -- and others, without having a chance at salvation, would be fore-condemned to hell.
So, just as God's omniscience does not make the Calvinist teaching of predestination true -- neither does God's omniscience prove that human life is created in God's mind -- and not in the womb. God foreknew it; but the actual process of creating life happened upon fertilization of the female egg, in the mother's womb.
I personally believe that Scripture proves that life begins at conception, when the male sperm fertilizes the female egg.
Now, regarding my statement in the article, "Regarding your vote: The important thing is that you do vote. Not voting -- Is voting; but, often with undesired results" --- I also do believe this.
I believe it is the privilege of every American to vote. I believe it is the duty of every American to vote. I believe it is the responsibility of every American to vote. And, there is no doubt that when a person does not vote -- that, in itself, is a vote.
Let's say that, in your heart, you really do not want to see Barack Obama in the White House. Yet, there are some issues where you disagree with John McCain. So, because you cannot agree 100% with either candidate -- you refuse to vote. If enough people feel this way and do not vote -- then, Obama might win by default. And, that is exactly what I mean by "undesired results" from not voting.
Don, once more, thank you for sending me your thoughts. I pray that I have sufficiently answered any questions you may have had when you read my original article "When Does Life Begin?".
I look forward to having further dialogue with you. Would you like to be added to my Friends Ministry mail list?
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
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