Psalms 139:13-14 (NRSV)
“For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.”
Many in the pro-birth camp like to pull out these verses as Biblical justification. But if we follow these verses home and see where they live, and compare them with the following lines from Paul, we see a slightly different picture.
Ephesians 2:10 (NRSV)
“For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.”
Colossians 3:10 (NRSV)
“…[clothe] yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.”
And there’s more.
Galatians 5:6 (NRSV)
“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.“.
The point is firmly established here as well.
Genesis 1:27 (NRSV)
“So God created humankind in his image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.”
And again Paul says:
1 Corinthians 13:12 (NRSV)
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.”
Formed my inward parts. Fearfully and wonderfully made in the image and likeness of God. Renewed in knowledge. Created in Christ for good works of faith working through love. Fully known even now by our Creator. Life affirming. Beginning to end.
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