Life and breath

Sorry Grammy, I learned that low shot from a couple of fundy's here on the board. They hit me with it, so I figured it was ok to use on any body else. I guess I shouldn't have assumed the methods some right wings debate on this board would be "Christian Like", my mistake.

[ October 02, 2002, 04:52 PM: Message edited by: post-it ]

 

Incipient Life? Is this something new or something you made up. If scripture says life starts at first breath, then inceipient life would the the muscles moving to ready the body for the first breath and life. To say it was at conception wouldn't be inceipient life, it would be inceipient development of a fetus. Otherwise, we could say inceipient life was the gleam in Daddy's eye.

 

"If scripture says" is the key phrase. Scripture does not say. You listed your proof texts once. If I remember correctly, each of them either denoted the existence of life within a writer, the end of life, or the creation of Adam. The first two which are normative have nothing to do with when life begins. The last one is unarguably a special case. No one since Adam and Eve were created as full grown adults. Your argument about breath is based on what you wish scripture said, not what it says.

...but let's try this one more time. You hinge everything on the ability to inhale and exhale. But how many people die with this ability? Most of them! A heart attack victim may have perfectly healthy lungs but be dead none the less. Use your imagination for many other examples.

Also, if a person was dropped into a pure Nitrogen environment, it would not be the the inability to inhale and exhale that killed them... but it would be the inability to breath. So what is the breath of life? Any gas that is breathed in or must it be oxygen? If oxygen then the mechanism for obtaining the oxygen is NOT the breath of life. The oxygen is. Therefore, any creature that has a mechanism for taking oxygen from its environment to sustain itself possesses the "breath of life" by definition.