Life is very precious and fragile thing. It can be here one second and gone the next. We can fit the bill of health one moment and the next moment on our way to the morgue. James compares it to a vapor to steam. You see it for a few minutes as the water is boiling on the stove, but then it dissipates. Vanishes away. Gone so fast.
God commanded that we were not to kill, I don't read any qualifications in the commandment. It is not even a suggestion, or a good idea, it's The Word. Now James is telling this good church that they should never commit to anything without acknowledging that God could change their plans at any moment.
Life is from God and should be treated so. I find Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Life isn't some chance happening of certain Chemical reactions that occure accidentally. It is Created by God. Therefore should be protected, from conception to old age according to the commandment, THOU SHALT NOT KILL. It doesn't say anything at all about the, "Quality of life," or if it has a mother and father to take it home, or hold him/her in their arms. It doesn't start the moment the child has been seperated from the mother, it has begun at conception.
"We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child." — President Ronald Reagan
The bylaws of the Bible Holiness Church states - "We believe that the voluntary aborting of the unborn child, infanticide and euthanasia are all violations of God's sixth commandment
Since it comes from God life should be regarded as Sacred. Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. It is God's image or his likeness, bearing a resemblance. If God is holy, the life He creates carries some resemblance (poor excuse that it is) to being holy or sacred. When we tamper with it we desecrate it we contaminate it we commit sacrilige so to speak. We must beware of all of these new types of "experimenting" I heard just the other day of a new stem cell research program trying to help spinal injuries. However the longer I listened and the more I heard they began to hint at and finally said; they were using "Embryonic Stem Cells" Do you know what that is - Stem cells harvested from labratory babies. I do not use the term "Fetus" it is a baby. I quote from one source - The embryos from which human embryonic stem cells are derived are typically four or five days old and are a hollow microscopic ball of cells called the blastocyst.
http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/basics3.asp
That is just;
13-14 days from it's first heartbeat
Brain waves have been recorded about a month later
That sounds like life to me. Let us take our God given responsiblities and protect the sanctity of life. All life.
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