When Does Life Begin? A short 20 Minute Bible Study

                                     {Bible Study Number 12:  Easter 2018}

I.   Who is this for? What do you think?

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• Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ:   YES  /  NO
• Those who use scripture to win a debate or argument:  YES  /  NO
• Those who believe the Bible  is God inspired:  YES  /  NO
• All who genuinely seek truth      YES  /  NO
• Those who condemn any woman who ever had an abortion?    YES  /  NO

                       
                            New Testament    

 2  My Purpose For This Study:

• To turn off all the Noise / TV / Debates /  and hear God on the issue of when life begins
• To move beyond  raw emotion to consider the unchanging and unerring Word Of God:
• To settle the matter in our spirits so we can face others in peace and assurance

3  What scripture are we looking at?

Luke 1:36

"And behold, Elizabeth ,your relative, she also has conceived a son (huion)  in 

her old age and this is the sixth month with her called barren"

Look at the word HUION  in the Greek:      New Testament    

Look it up in Strongs as G5207   (Google it)

The KJV translates Strong's G5207 in the following manner: son (85x), Son of Man (with G444) (87x), Son of God (with G2316) (49x), child(ren) (49x), Son (42x), his Son (with G848) (21x), Son of David (with G1138) (15x), my beloved Son (with G27) (with G3350) (7x), thy Son (with G4575) (5x), only begotten Son (with G3339) (3x), his (David's) son (with G846) (3x), firstborn son (with G4316) (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

4. Why only one verse?

20 minute time limit 

It's good to study 1 verse  in detail at times (Exegesis)

Really is an amazing verse for present purposes

List of other verses given at bottom for your perusal

5.   Who is speaking here? See Luke 1:19

   

6, Whom does he represent? 

     How do you know? 

       Look up Romans 3 v 4

       Discuss Psalm 119:89 & John 14:6

    

 7. Did he speak the truth to Mary?

•       Did it happen as he foretold?
•       Is he  speaking truth about Elizabeth?

8 Did he say Elizabeth conceived ...

        (a) A Fetus?

     (b) An Embryo?

     (c) A son?

     (d) A fertilised egg?


9   Do you think the creator of man. woman and child  ...

•  Knows when Life or person-hood begins?
•  What Word is linked to conceived in the verse?

10.  What is your conclusion in light of this verse?

(a) Life begins after 20 weeks gestation?

(b) Life begins at 12 weeks?

(c) Life only begins at birth?

(d) Life begins at conception?

Towards The Adjusting Of The Saints

For some of us who have been so habituated to ...institutional, 
...highly structured, 
...profess-ionally led, 
...building-centered Christianity, 
...it feels like we are abandoning the Lord when we decide to simplify our Christian walk and simply walk the roads with him and talk as to a close friend all day long.

It has been reinforced in our psyche (over thousand of years of religiousy thinking) that “good Christians” go to church every week?: But tell me friends ..how can the church go to the church? That's a puzzler if ever there was one: I don't want to miss or forsake the asembling of myself with the Lord above all: And where ever 2 or 3 or 53 are together in His presence it's wonderful:

  Ceasing to follow that routine feels very strange at first and the churchgoers in your family will begin to express concerns about your “backsliding” when they note you aren’t going to church regularly as you once did. That's strange as in their hearts they know something big and glorious and clean and Godly has happened to you? Backsliding? Are you mad?

Those who have the church-as-a-building-with-religious-programs-you-go-to mindset cannot conceive that relaxed, simple conversation going beyond surface banter that results in everyone involved loving God and each other more deeply can be “church.”