When many Christians are riding the fence on God’s values and principles, it raises a deeper query: What determines truth in our lives today? Is it culture that shapes our convictions? Or does God’s Word still carry the greater weight? With over 60,000 abortions, most performed for convenience, we must pause. Not to argue. But to look at God’s Word and ask: What should our stand be?
Moses received the commandments, etched by the very finger of God (Deuteronomy 9:10). These weren’t just moral suggestions. They became the inspiration upon which justice and law were built—even in our own nation’s beginnings. But today? We wink at them. We turn a blind eye to His laws that are supposed to give us life (Deuteronomy 30:15-16). As followers of Jesus, our selections reflect our devotion. But what about abortion? Scripture doesn’t say, “Do not have an abortion.” It does say, Do not steal. Honor the Sabbath. Have no other gods. So, how can we know the reality about abortion?
Let’s start with an issue: Who formed man and woman? It sounds easy. Yet in a culture that may’t even define woman, clarity grows cloudy. Why? Because sin deceives. It dulls discernment—even in well-meaning people. Loud voices have shaped the narrative: “It’s my body.” “It’s my selection.” “Abortion is just healthcare.” Even the Church has, at times, traded a biblical worldview for cultural convenience. But how much of this confusion stems from an absence of biblical knowledge?
Truth shouldn’t be hidden. It’s available—if we’ll look and hearken to the One who made us. For those that seek truth, God’s Word offers it. Clearly. Lovingly. Powerfully. God made man and woman in His image and breathed into them the breath of life (Genesis 2:7). He gave them the divine gift of making life, commanding them to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:27-28). And he didn’t step away after conception.
God is present—even within the womb. Psalm 139 tells us plainly: “For You created my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb… My frame was not hidden from You after I was made in the key place” (Psalm 139:13 -15). When we wish to dig deeper into Scripture, the unique language helps make clear meaning.
The Greek word brephos is an example. It refers to each the unborn and the newborn, without distinction. In Luke 1:41, John the Baptist is known as brephos while still within the womb: “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant (brephos) leaped in her womb.” In Luke 2:12, the identical word describes Jesus after birth: “You will discover a baby (brephos) wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” Again, in Luke 18:15: “People were also bringing babies (brephos) to Jesus for him to put his hands on them.” Same word. Same value. No biblical distinction between unborn and born. But the Word goes further. The Holy Spirit is energetic within the unborn.
John the Baptist’s story makes this unmistakable. Elizabeth, barren and advanced in years, conceives after prayer. Gabriel appears with details concerning the unborn child’s gender, name, calling, and purpose: “Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you might be to call him John… He can be full of the Holy Spirit even before he’s born… to make ready a people prepared for the Lord” (Luke 1:13–17).
God shouldn’t be passive. He’s present within the womb. He shapes, fills, and prepares—even before birth. Scripture leaves no ambiguity: There isn’t any difference in value between the unborn and the born. God is intimately involved in the key place (Psalm 139:15).
God Is Involved in Our Lives from the Beginning
Psalm 139 is a favourite of mine—each personally and theologically. It speaks of God’s intimate involvement in each life, starting long before birth. After my mom had three children, doctors told her she wouldn’t have any more. Yet despite their prognosis, I used to be born on April Fool’s Day, no less! That’s one reason these verses hold deep meaning for me. They remind us that each life is intentional, valued, and known by God.
“For you created my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I’m fearfully and splendidly made…my frame was not hidden from you after I was made in the key place…Your eyes saw my unformed body…all of the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one among them got here to be.” – Psalm 139:13-16
The phrase “secret place” refers back to the womb, described here as a sacred space where God personally knits and weaves each life, like a master craftsman creating something miraculous. Even after we are unformed, unseen by human eyes, God sees us. He is already there. Psalm 91:1 echoes this assurance:
“He who dwells in the key place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (NKJV).
God’s presence shouldn’t be distant. It is enveloping and energetic, even from our earliest moments. As Psalm 139:7 says, “Where shall I’m going out of your Spirit? Or where shall I flee out of your presence?”
Why is God so intimately involved with us, even from conception? Because His love can’t be separated from His creation. His presence within the womb reveals the worth He places on every life He forms.
We Are Set Apart for Divine Purpose Before Birth
Scripture confirms that God’s work within the womb shouldn’t be only creative but additionally purposeful. Time and again, we see individuals called, named, and set apart before they’re even born:
Jeremiah: “Before I formed you within the womb I knew you, before you were born, I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5).
Isaiah: “Before I used to be born the Lord called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name” (Isa. 49:1).
Israel: “He who made you, who formed you within the womb, and who will enable you to: don’t be afraid…whom I even have chosen” (Isaiah 44:1-2).
David: “Upon you I even have leaned from before my birth; you might be he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you” (Psalm 71:6). Even in acknowledging human sin, David writes: “Surely I used to be sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me” (Ps. 51:5)
In the New Testament, Paul speaks of being “set other than my mother’s womb” to serve Christ (Galatians 1:15). And Isaac, born to barren Sarah in her old age, was called a baby of promise, evidence that God’s plans are never hindered by human impossibility.
From the primary cell to a completely formed child, Scripture shows God’s direct involvement—forming, calling, naming, and loving each life from the very starting. As we consider these scriptural truths, we are able to now turn to what science and medicine confirm about when life begins, a truth that echoes what God’s Word has declared all along.
Science Says Life Begins at Conception
The cell formed by the union of a male sperm and a female ovum—the zygote—is a microscopic miracle. This single cell comprises an entire, unique genetic code, distinct from that of some other human being. From the very starting, the zygote biologically guides the event of varied attributes, including personality, eye color, hair texture, freckles, and diverse other traits. That one cell, so small it’s invisible to the naked eye, multiplies into roughly 6,000 million cells to turn out to be a living, respiratory person.
Medical and scientific professionals have confirmed that life begins at conception. Alexander Tsiaras, the creator of the MRI and a Yale University professor of medication and scientific visualization, described his astonishment at human development: “Even though I’m a mathematician, I take a look at this with the marvel of how do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they construct what’s us? It’s a mystery. It’s magic. It’s divinity.”
Tsiaras’s powerful visual presentation—a must-see—portrays the awe-inspiring journey of human life from conception to birth:
👉 TED Talk – Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to Birth Visualized
From the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Human Life Bill and testimony from experts in biology and medicine:
-Dr. Hymie Gordon, Mayo Clinic: “By all the standards of recent molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception.”
-Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth, Harvard Medical School: “It is scientifically correct to say that a person human life begins at conception.”
-Dr. Jérôme Lejeune, University of Descartes in Paris: “Each has a really neat starting—at conception.”
In testimony regarding embryonic stem cell cloning, Dr. Matthews-Roth added: “Physicians aren’t alleged to kill human beings of any age… a very good end (successfully treating disease) never justifies using evil means (killing a young human to get its cells) to acquire the nice end.”
Full testimony https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/matthews-roth_testimony_03_19_03.pdf
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, founding father of NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) and once director of the biggest abortion clinic within the U.S., later resigned after scientific discoveries in fetology and ultrasound technology confirmed to him that life within the womb is unmistakably human. Haunted by the reality, Nathanson admitted to having overseen over 60,000 abortions and later became a passionate pro-life advocate.
Even ancient Scripture affirms the worth of life within the womb. In Exodus 21:22–25, if a pregnant woman is harmed and provides birth prematurely, the offender is held accountable—as much as “life for all times”—demonstrating the equal value of the unborn: “If persons are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she or he gives birth prematurely…but when there may be serious injury, you might be to take life for all times…”
Why would we ever consider taking away this creative, divine gift? The God who formed life within the womb, who “scheduled on daily basis” for that child before one among them got here to be (Psalm 139:16), is identical God who calls that life sacred and filled with purpose.
Not all are called to be prophets or kings, but all and sundry formed within the “secret place” bears divine design and meaning. From the primary invisible cell to the ultimate breath of life, God’s love encompasses all of it. Who can fathom such intimate involvement?
That recent life, developing from one microscopic cell into 600 million cells, shouldn’t be a burden or mistake. It is a miracle, a sacred trust formed through the love of a person and a girl, overseen by the Creator of all things.
Each life is an original creation. Rather than seeing a baby as an inconvenience, we do not forget that “Children are a heritage from the Lord” (Psalm 127:3). So, when discouragement tries to dim your value, remember you were created with God’s eye upon you, from the womb to today. You matter to Him. You are significant. You are loved into eternity.
“My frame was not hidden from you after I was made in the key place.” – Psalm 139:15
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