Dr. Couch, I know a Jewish woman who says, by Jewish thinking, the child does not become a "person" until it comes out of the womb. Do you know what they teach?
ANSWER: The liberal Jews are tainted by the world and would hold to the "out of the womb view" because that is a convenient idea to justify abortion. I have a great orthodox Jewish library and what they teach on Psalm 139 is what we would hold to. The Rabbis teach:
God knows us through and through, because He controlled our existence and development from the womb (v. 13). Verse 13 reads: "For you have made my reins (all the internal organs); You have knitted me together in my mother's womb."
Verse 15 is important. "My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret (in the darkness of the womb)." Verse 16, the Rabbis write, refers to the embryo, its development from the start. In the doctrine of predestination, they say, God has a book in which is recorded each person from the embryonic stage, the number of days which would be lived. In God's book all of our parts are written, "when as yet there were none of them" (v. 16b). Among those days is included our lives from the embryo stage until we come to birth.
Since the Lord was so involved in our creation in the womb, how foolish and sinful to say that we can then destroy the child that He is working on just before he comes out of the mother's womb!
Thanks for asking.
Dr. Mal Couch
ANSWER: The liberal Jews are tainted by the world and would hold to the "out of the womb view" because that is a convenient idea to justify abortion. I have a great orthodox Jewish library and what they teach on Psalm 139 is what we would hold to. The Rabbis teach:
God knows us through and through, because He controlled our existence and development from the womb (v. 13). Verse 13 reads: "For you have made my reins (all the internal organs); You have knitted me together in my mother's womb."
Verse 15 is important. "My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret (in the darkness of the womb)." Verse 16, the Rabbis write, refers to the embryo, its development from the start. In the doctrine of predestination, they say, God has a book in which is recorded each person from the embryonic stage, the number of days which would be lived. In God's book all of our parts are written, "when as yet there were none of them" (v. 16b). Among those days is included our lives from the embryo stage until we come to birth.
Since the Lord was so involved in our creation in the womb, how foolish and sinful to say that we can then destroy the child that He is working on just before he comes out of the mother's womb!
Thanks for asking.
Dr. Mal Couch
