The Chicken or the Egg

Sitting at my computer, I find myself mulling over some of the more recent words I have heard preached via the radio. I enjoy listening to the preachers as I drive around town.

It tends to cause me to slow down and think. While I am listening and driving and thinking, I am also examining my inner self and responses to the message as a Christian.

Being a Christian is not easy. Jesus never promised me an easy life.

He did give me the Bible to study and preachers to listen too as I drive. What the preachers say, I sometimes will take or leave.

It depends on how much Biblical truth I find in their words. I realize that this is a judgment call.

We are all prone to judgment calls. This is what I believe is having a discerning spirit.

One broadcast had a speaker who talked about how secular music was filled with satanic messages. I have no doubt that this does exist as I spent a quarter of a century in the music industry.

It is filled with persons trying to live up to that type of life style. One of his statements was that secular music could lead to premarital and extramarital sex, which leads to abortion.

It has long been agreed upon that abortion is not a Christian act. This is something that I do not wish to argue about.

However it has caused me to think about a Biblical truth that I have discovered and wish to explore further. How many times have you heard the standard science question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”

God’s word is the undisputed truth. Then the answer is given to us in Genesis 1:20, which reads in part, “…and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the Sky.”

There is not one mention on an egg.

Here is another Biblical truth. It deals directly with answering when life begins, “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7)

Fetuses do not breathe air, but rather absorb oxygen through the mother’s placenta. Therefore, I humbly submit to you that life does not start until breath is formed in the nostrils of the baby.

There is not one mention of a fetus.

And no — I am not for abortion. Rather I want to shift the argument to the heart of the matter.

Our true responsibility is to be open to the woman whatever her decision maybe, because as Jesus said in Matthew 7:1, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.”