How are you able to define what comprises all situations?<br>I can’t define what comprises ALL SITUATIONS. I can think of various situations and ask how the ethic applies to it. That is what I have done here.<br><br>How many souls do you have?<br>I only have one. I think that everybody has one. I am using a valuable tool in understanding an ethic. What I have done is ask a serious of questions that appear to force ridiculous answers. Obviously, you have three choices. Explain how the ethic works in these difficult situations and prove the quality of it. Change the ethic. Or ignore the questions. If you choose to ignore the questions, it does not badly on you or the ethic. It is just your choice.<br><br>On what basis do you know that your answer to the previous question is correct?<br>I can’t know that my answer is perfectly correct. My answer is based on several things, mainly faith, logic and the test of reasonableness. <br><br>To whom does the soul(s) you know as your own belong, and thus owe an account?<br>Ultimately God has control over this, but I would not normally use the term belong because of the image of slavery.<br><br>If God were to determine to cause half of all souls made in His image, yet conceived in sin, to never be born, but to be called to account before they see the light of day, on what grounds will you call Him unjust? <br>I am not.<br><br>I posed these questions because I am torn between two conflicting positions. If a fertilized egg has a soul and deserves all the rights as any other person, then the rule should be applied evenly. All abortions would be outlawed even when it means almost certain death for a pregnant woman. A woman who has been raped should not be allowed a morning after pill. The Christian community should be rallying together to fund research to discover ways of preventing the billions of spontaneous abortions in the world. Because of the huge number involved, this last thing would be just as important as sending missionaries out to the whole world. <br><br>As I understand the ethic, these things should be demanded, but my sense of justice prevents me from advocating such. It bothers me that a woman may be denied the medical care that would save her. It bothers me that a woman might be told that she can’t take a morning after pill after she has been raped. It does not bother me that spontaneous abortions occur, even though I know that the Christian ethic requires me to extend a helping hand to those in need.<br><br>Ultimately, I am looking for a resolution of this conflict that I feel. <br><br>At this point, I ask you to do one thing for me. Tell me where in the Bible it says that a soul is joined to the egg at the moment of fertilization.<br>
