The Choice of Free Will

Jeremiah 1:5 KJV

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Many believers view this Scripture to prohibit abortion, but when I read this Excerpt from the Unseen Realm, I am approaching this Scripture from another perspective. I am not here to debate but to interpret the meaning of this Scripture-both in its historical context and for us today. I aim to share a thought process instead of an argument. For example, there is life at the moment of conception; however, it is limited to the potential of what that life will become. For this reason, God informed Jeremiah of his potential and what he was destined to achieve after leaving his mother’s womb.

Therefore, my thought process revolves around the effort to protect life's free will instead of the safety of life’s potential. Can you imagine if the same effort was made in our society to preserve the potential of life compared to the ones whose existence is in their choice of free will? The modern-day filters we use to interpret the Scriptures while denying individual rights to fulfill their potential are mind-blowing. What are your thoughts on this Excerpt from the Unseen Realm…

“The pro-life position is based on the proposition that human life (and so, personhood) begins at conception (the point when the female egg is fertilized by the male sperm). The simple-celled zygote inside the woman’s womb, which pro-lifers believe to be a human person, is not self-aware; it has no intelligence, rational thought processes, or emotions; it cannot speak or communicate; it cannot commune with God or pray; and it cannot exercise its will or respond to the conscience. If you want to argue that those things are there potentially, then that means that you have only a potential person. That’s actually the pro-choice position. Potential personhood is not actual personhood. This thought process would mean that abortion is not killing until personhood is achieved, which nearly all pro-choicers would certainly consider to be after birth.”

Excerpt From

The Unseen Realm by Michael S. Heiser

Choice of Free Will

Can you imagine if the same effort was made in our society to preserve the potential of life compared to the ones whose existence is in their choice of free will?