The Bible says,
4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Jeremiah 1.4-5
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
A very interesting verse there because it tells you something about ‘the baby in the womb’. It tells you that God could actually know a baby in a womb. So, before you were born, while you were still in your mother’s womb, God knew who you were.
Invasive experiments in rat and lamb pups and observational studies using ultrasound and electrical recordings in humans show that the third-trimester fetus is almost always in one of two sleep states. Called active and quiet sleep, these states can be distinguished using electroencephalography. Their different EEG signatures go hand in hand with distinct behaviors: breathing, swallowing, licking, and moving the eyes but no large-scale body movements in active sleep; no breathing, no eye movements and tonic muscle activity in quiet sleep. These stages correspond to rapid-eye-movement (REM) and slow-wave sleep common to all mammals. In late gestation the fetus is in one of these two sleep states 95 percent of the time, separated by brief transitions. … One complication ensues. When people awaken during REM sleep, they often report vivid dreams with extensive narratives. Although consciousness during dreams is not the same as during wakefulness—most noticeably insight and self-reflection are absent—dreams are consciously experienced and felt. So does the fetus dream when in REM sleep? This is
When Does Consciousness Arise in Human Babies? | Scientific American
not known. But what would it dream of?
What does that tell you about the baby in the womb. It tells you that the baby in the womb is already a person, a person whom God can relate to.
We find in the Book of Luke that John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother’s womb. So, the Holy Spirit came into him while he was in his mother’s womb.
13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. 15 For he 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. 16 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” Luke 1.13-17
You also find that, when Mary came into the room where Elizabeth was with John the Baptist, when Mary came in with Jesus in her own womb (Jesus had just been conceived) it says that John the Baptist leapt for joy in his mother’s womb as he sensed the presence of Jesus in the womb of Mary.
34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
35 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 to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. 37 For with God nothing will be impossible.”
38 Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
39 Now Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah, 40 and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. 41 And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. 45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfilment of those things which were told her from the Lord.” Luke 1.34-45
That tells you that, even at the moment of conception, when Jesus, when He was so small you couldn’t have seen Him, He was already God, and He was already the Holy Spirit, and God was with Him in the womb.
That tells you something very important about the subject which is on many of our hearts: the subject of abortion.
The abortionist will tell you that the baby in the womb is just a fetus and it only becomes a person when it’s born.
As far as God’s concerned, that’s not true. God says that the baby is already a person in the womb of its mother.
We read in Psalm 139 verse 13,
13 For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skilfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them. Psalm 139.13-16
So, you have a number of scriptures there which tell you that the baby in the womb is already a person which God has made. Male and female have to come together in the marvelous way in which God conceived children to be born into the world. And, if you ever think about it, the fact is that reproduction is a sign of God’s work in creation. You have to have a male, you have to have a female, they both have to have different bodies, but they have to have bodies which have come together. And, as they come together, they’re going to conceive a child which will become a new person.
How could that have come by millions of years of evolution? It’s not possible. If it didn’t work the first time, there would not have been ‘millions of years’ to evolve. It had to work the first time as we read in Genesis.
God put within the body as it was made the ability of every creature to reproduce after its own kind. This is, to my mind, one of the big evidences of creation not evolution.
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the Lord.” 2 Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. Genesis 4.1-2
And, of course, if you do take the evolution view, then you could say that the unborn baby is just a thing which you can dispose of if it’s inconvenient. In fact, some are saying you can dispose of it even up to the just before conception which is kind of weird because that means you can kill your baby in your womb if it has one week to go before it is born, and that not okay if you kill it one week after it is born because that’s murder.
Well, as far as God is concerned, it’s murder both ways and you shouldn’t do it.