5. Each person becomes an immortal being at conception.
Every person born of a woman has two birthdays, not one. We all tend to celebrate our own birthday based on the day our mothers gave birth to us. Congratulations to all the mothers out there in the world! God bless them. While our physical birthday is important to us it pales in significance to the date of our spiritual birthday, which happens at conception. Our spiritual birthday is when our existence actually begins. We receive our eternal spirit fully formed at conception. There’s no such thing as a baby spirit that grows into an adult spirit. The Bible confirms that it is God himself who is both our spiritual birth mother and father because God alone is our maker. At conception God gives a piece of himself to each person.
John 3:6 – (Jesus) – That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Galatians 4:19 – My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you.
Isaiah 44:24 – Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens all alone, who spreads abroad the earth by Myself.
1 Peter 1:23 – Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.
Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 – Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the well. Then the dust (man) will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
God is an eternal invisible spirit so when God gives us a part of himself he is giving us a small sliver of his divine essence so that we receive an eternal spirit like God has. God has always existed and will never die, which means God is immortal. When God gives us an eternal spirit at conception it means from that moment onward we are immortal beings like God because we have God’s immortal essence inside of us. God doesn’t change his mind so we don’t have to worry about God taking back his immortality from us. Once God gives something he never takes it back because that would indicate God made a mistake and we know God is perfect and doesn’t make any mistakes.
1 Peter 1:3 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Romans 8:9 – But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 – Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
Romans 8:11 – But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Isaiah 57:16 – For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would fail before Me, and the souls which I have made.
Atheists don’t believe human beings have an eternal soul and our seventy short years of life is all there is. Atheists believe at death we lose consciousness and our existence simply ends. Atheists believe there is no such thing as right or wrong and people are free to do whatever they want without any need to feel guilty or any fear of being punished for their actions by a nonexistent God. Atheists feel secure in their own intelligence; they consider themselves wise. Atheists have made up their mind there’s no God without even giving God a chance. Oddly enough, atheists never attempt an in depth study of all the available facts about God to see if he is real or not. Atheists simply dismiss even the possibility of God and that stems from Satan blinding them to the truth of God.
2 Corinthians 4:4 – Whose minds the god of this age (Satan) has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
Ephesians 2:1-2 – And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sin, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience.
1 Corinthians 3:19 – For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness.”
Colossians 1:13 – He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.
Zechariah 12:1 – The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
Death is the great equalizer and the fear of all men. While Christian believers fear death like anyone else in their heart they know they’re immortal beings who are at peace with the God who made them. Believers approach death differently than do nonbelievers. Believers have what is called the, “peace of God”, because they know they’ll immediately go to heaven upon their death and into the presence of the Lord. Contrast that faith believers have in God with the nonbeliever (atheist) who is adamant there’s no God. Nonbelievers are confident when death is far away but when death approaches the false bravado of the nonbeliever flees from them. Their confidence and courage will wane, leaving only abject terror at the prospect of dying. That could all have been avoided if only the atheist had taken the time to look at the evidence for God right there in the Holy Bible. Nonbelievers dismiss the Bible as just a book and they walk by it all the days of their life. Nonbelievers have no excuse before God because the existence of God is self-evident.
John 14:6 – (Jesus speaking) – I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 11:25-26 – (Jesus speaking) – I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.
At the moment of their death the eternal spirit of the nonbeliever has to leave the corpse and immediately go somewhere. An eternal spirit leaving a dead person must go to one of two places, either to heaven or to hell. Believers go to heaven but for the nonbeliever, their eternal spirit will go straight to hell, where they’ll be in constant pain and torment while they wait for the final judgment from Jesus Christ on the last day. Those who go to hell will be resurrected bodily on the last day and thrown into the lake of fire for all eternity. As you can see our eternal destiny is too important an issue to be left to chance. If you’re a nonbeliever now don’t be so smug; be sure you’re right. Evaluate the truth of God contained in the Bible now to ease your mind. The proof of God will bear up under scrutiny. You’d be wise to heed my words while there’s still time for you to find salvation unto eternal life in heaven.
Hebrews 9:27 – And it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.
2 Corinthians 5:6 – So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.
Matthew 10:28 – (Jesus speaking) – And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
2 Corinthians 5:1 – For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Hebrews 12:9 – Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
Satan is the god of this world and throughout human history he has sponsored numerous fake religions and false gods to hide the truth of God from man. Satan has done a very good job of fooling man because most people don’t believe in the Lord, the one true God of creation. The only possible path to salvation unto eternal life in heaven is through belief in the Lord God and acceptance of his son Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Admittedly, all these other believers in religious cults like Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism also think their religion is the true religion and that their god is the right one. All religions claim their god is true and all others gods are false. Since all religions are mutually exclusive it means only one can be true or they’re all false. Common sense should tell us that there aren’t multiple gods or more than one way to heaven. When we look for evidence of God we find the only real proof of God belongs to the Christian God. To prove he is God the Lord has provided us with creation, his personal testimony (the Bible), and his son Jesus Christ; through whom we live and through whom we’re saved unto eternal life in heaven.
Colossians 1:16 – For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
Daniel 12:2-3 – And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.
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 being.
1 Corinthians 15:54-55 – So when this corruption has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?”
Psalm 8:4-6 – What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor.
All men have the stain of sin in their body and in their soul. The wages of sin is death. To redeem us from eternal death a just God required the blood sacrifice of a sinless man. Since there was no man on earth without sin God had to set aside his crown in heaven and lower himself by coming to earth as the incarnate Jesus Christ. To qualify as our Savior Jesus had to be human in every way, including how he was conceived and how he was born. Jesus was 100% human and 100% God without mixing the two natures. When the angel Gabriel informed Mary she was to be the mother of Jesus Mary asked, “How can this be since I know no man?” Gabriel responded to Mary, “The Holy Spirit will overshadow you.” That means the Holy Spirit is actually the father of Jesus because he provided the X-chromosomes, normally provided by a male donor, that were necessary to fertilize Mary’s egg and create a new human being.
Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ephesians 1:7 – In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.
Romans 5:9 – Much more then, having been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
Hebrews 2:17 – Therefore in all things He (Jesus) had to be made like His brethren (human beings), that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Revelation 4:11 – (Jesus speaking) – Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown (eternal life in heaven).
The Holy Spirit had to give the human Jesus his eternal spirit at his conception the same way it happens for all of us. There was no human father for Jesus and the Holy Spirit never made a follow up visit to Mary or the Bible would have said so. This tells me Jesus received his conception and eternal spirit at the same time. To qualify as being fully man Jesus had to get his eternal spirit the same way we do. To put it another way, because Jesus received his eternal spirit at conception it proves we do to. Another example is John the Baptist. He was another miracle birth orchestrated by God. As the forerunner of Christ, the baby John was filled with the Holy Spirit while still in the womb. You can’t have the indwelt Holy Spirit in a person before they receive their eternal spirit provided by God. You can’t put the cart before the horse; which means the eternal spirit of John the Baptist must also have been given to him at conception. The Holy Spirit indwelt both Jesus and John from conception.
Job 1:21 – Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there (back to God). The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Galatians 4:4-5 – But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Ephesians 1:13 – In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.
John 6:40 – (Jesus speaking) – And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Matthew 1:18 – Now the birth of Jesus was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.
This means that an unborn child who is aborted naturally or by medical means loses his physical life but their eternal life will live on in the presence of Jesus in heaven. The Bible confirms that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Does this lost baby remain a child in heaven? Do they become adults in heaven? We know the eternal spirit comes fully formed. Will the resurrected bodies of unborn babies look like the adults they would have become had they lived? I don’t know, but God knows. We’ll find out once we get to heaven. Abortion rights is an emotionally charged topic in this country with many passionate believers on both sides of the issue. I know the killing of an unborn child is wrong, not only because the Bible tells me so but also because I feel the sin in my soul. Instead of seeing things how you want them to be go read your Bible and see what God has to say about taking a priceless innocent life that he has made. You have no excuse.
2 Corinthians 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
John 5:24 – (Jesus speaking) – Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
John 5:28-29 – (Jesus speaking) – For the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth – those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of the damned.
Matthew 16:27 – (Jesus speaking) – For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.
Luke 1:31, 34-35 – And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is born will be called the Son of God.”
The truth is always the truth whether you agree with it or not. As a believer I’m obligated to share the truth of God no matter what the political backlash is. We have to speak truth to power and not give in to political correctness run amok. I believe the inerrant Bible is the truth of God. One of God’s commandments is you shall not kill and Scripture reveals to us that physical life and spiritual life begin at conception. Not only life, but eternal life! From Scripture we know that at conception a person becomes a living human being both physically and spiritually and therefore abortion is murder, infanticide, and the legalized killing of a helpless child so their body parts can be harvested and sold to the highest bidder like cattle. Destroying a human being that God has made is a sin before God and he commands us not to do it. There’s no way to sugar-coat it what I have to say. There is no justification before God for the killing of an innocent unborn child. It’s not just me saying it, but the Lord, who is the righteous God who will judge us all on the last day for our sins. The Bible says there’s a special place in hell for those who harm children.
Ephesians 2:10 – For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
John 3:36 – (Jesus speaking) – He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.
1 John 5:13 – These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
Nehemiah 9:6 – You alone are the Lord; You have made heaven, with all their host, the earth and everything on it, the seas and all that is in them, and You preserve them all. The host of heaven worships You.
Luke 1:15 – For he (John the Baptist) will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.