'Foetuses
exposed to garlic in the womb are more likely to prefer garlic in
later life.' Photograph: Steve Allen Travel Photography/Alamy (see
reference below)
Today,
topics include conception, prophecy, the stages of human development,
and the divine new creation.
For the collection of embryonic cells that will exist as the
foundation for a living child, there are many spirit elements and
unseen features that are put in place long before the moments of
birth. The child becomes a focus for concern, desire, relationship,
and self-expression for both parents long before emerging as a new
life. Other features and patterns consistent with human life appear
including appetite; awareness and self-will; the affection, permanent
bond, love, and mutual consciousness of one another between mother
and child; inheritance; instinct; personhood; life possibilities such
as future accomplishments, hopes (expectations); ability to recognize
and respond to signals from the mother for entering the birth canal
and leaving the womb as well as participation in patterns of ethnic
and cultural expression. A
fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and
Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile was shared)
posted the following:
Is
a fetus alive? Is a fetus a life?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: And when eight days were accomplished for the
circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so
named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb. (Luke 2:
21, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Sacred Ministry or Parenting? (05/10/2018); We Begin
Within GOD (02/06/2018); Circumcision of Infant Boys (12/11/2017);
Baptism and “the just” (10/05/2017); Choice, Duty, and
Obligation? (11/17/2016); Of Such Is The Kingdom (09/01/2015); Babies
Given A Second Life? (01/25/2015); About “The Just” (10/29/2014);
Antidotes to the Poisons (10/30/2014); Son of Adam and of GOD?
(06/16/2014); Focus of Believers? (06/17/2014)
Anonymous,
new babies are joined to continuing streams of life and truth that
have preexistence; thus, you may be willing to agree to the
following: Developing Christian believers are challenged to
acknowledge that life exists within a child and its mother long
before the event of the child’s
birth. The child is first conceived and appears as tissue being
multiplied and reproduced that later presents as a separate organism
attached by the umbilical cord to the walls of the mother’s
womb. Because stages of growth for a child are described using
academic, medical, and scientific language to preserve an attitude of
objectivity, new babies tend to be spoken of first as though they are
no more than the content of a test tube, a bacterium, a parasite, a
specimen or a virus. Despite the detection of a regular heartbeat
for the new child, many continue to hold that so long as the child
receives food and oxygen from the maternal host through the cord, the
child may not be accounted as having been born, as having human
integrity, or as having life as an individual.
For
mature Christians, divinity is the origin for all existence and life.
Included are the character, makeup and traits the living display;
potential for animal, human, and divine expression; eternal purpose;
and the array of possibilities that exist for created beings and
living creatures. In the same way divinity has responded to and made
use of the carnal traits and patterns of social inheritance that
exist among men, GOD also uses the living as instruments and vessels
having fresh endowments of inseparable spirit substance from the
makeup of GOD (e.g., faith, holiness, lovingkindness, personhood,
oneness without sameness, wisdom, wrath against sin).
Rather than rely on finite tools of intelligence, logic, carnal
reason and secular knowledge, all believers are
encouraged to consider such unchanging truth and instruction as the
following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
Genesis 25: 21-26, King James Version (KJV): 21 And Isaac
intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was
barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and
Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled together
within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus?
And she went to enquire of the LORD. 23 And the
LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy
womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;
and the one people shall be stronger than the other
people; and the elder shall serve the younger. 24 And when her days
to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were
twins in her womb. 25 And the first came out red, all over like an
hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. 26 And after that came
his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s
heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore
years old when she bare them.
2.
Hebrews 11: 8-16, KJV: 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to
go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance,
obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he
sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country,
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of
the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath
foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 Through faith
also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was
delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him
faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore sprang there even of one,
and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in
multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having
seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced
them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on
the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that
they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that
country from whence they came out, they might have had
opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better
country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed
to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
3.
Jeremiah 1: 4-10, KJV: 4 Then the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying, 5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew
thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee,
and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6 Then said
I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I
am a child. 7 But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am
a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and
whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. 8 Be not afraid of their
faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched
my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I
have put my words in thy mouth. 10 See, I have this day set thee
over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull
down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
4.
Psalms 131: 1-3, KJV: 1 LORD, my heart is not
haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great
matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and
quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is
even as a weaned child. 3 Let Israel hope in the LORD
from henceforth and for ever.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 5. Romans 8: 5-9, KJV: 5 For they that
are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that
are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally
minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life
and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:
for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So
then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not
in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God
dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of his.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it
unto you according to your faith.
Fleming,
Amy. How a child’s food
preferences begin in the womb. The Guardian (US Edition) Tue 8 Apr
2014 06.20 EDT
@https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/apr/08/child-food-preferences-womb-pregnancy-foetus-taste-flavours.
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