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Originally Posted by pbiwolski
Souls are a bodily shape (Rev. 6), but they are NOT the body. The unborn living baby in the womb is a body (flesh) with life in it, but it is not yet an eternal soul. It is not yet "self-sustaining," that is it is only alive (flesh) as its "host" (mother) is providing its life...
Dr. Ruckman teaches (and so do I) then that when someone aborts a living baby in the womb, they are not murdering a living soul.
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Regardless of what Ruckman teaches, this position is not clear from Scripture. It is at best conjecture. And it is not consistent with other Scripture.
We agree that a person is a tri-partate being -- body, soul, spirit.
David referred to
himself at conception (Ps 51:5). If all three parts were not there, then how was David himself? I just don't buy your reasoning. We know children have a body, soul, and spirit. What business do we have correcting the Bible when it says an unborn baby is a
child or an
infant? It calls the unborn human a child in at least 25 verses and an infant in one. I'll stick with that.