Before we determine if we can kill something, we need to know what "it" is. Is the unborn alive? Is it human? And, is killing wrong?Audio

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TranscriptHello, and welcome to Unapologetic, a podcast about defending, not apologizing for, our Christian convictions. Today we're going to talk about abortion, and one small segment of how we can contend for the life of the unborn. Today we're just going to simply establish, is the unborn something that's alive? And human? All too often, people want to say, "the unborn isn't alive or it's not an actual human." So we need to be able to deal with those objections. (0:33) Abortion involves killing something that is alive. Most people would say. So before we can applaud it or condemn it, we have to know what that something is. Now, some people want to say it's just non-viable tissue mass. It's a potential human being, or maybe it's a human that's not a person. Or it's just a fetus. But if the unborn is just any of those things, then no one needs to give any reason for why it can be disposed of. However, if the unborn is in fact a genuine human being, then there is no possible reason good enough to allow for the institutionalized mass-murder that is occurring today to continue. (1:14) So, as you can see, the issue of abortion really comes down to one question: what is the unborn? Is it alive? Is it human? These are the questions we're going to answer. (1:25) So, is it alive? Well, the unborn is the product of a living sperm joining with a living egg that then creates what, by all accounts, looks to be a living zygote, which is a fertilized egg. Which then grows, by getting bigger, by adding cells to itself. So, how would you get a living cell, a sperm, that combines with a living cell, an egg, that combines to form something that is not alive? That doesn't make any sense. And how would that not-alive thing be adding to itself by taking in nutrients and expelling waste? By any reasonable standard, that's something that's alive. (2:05) Now, if that, for some reason, is not alive, then at what point does a baby become alive? So, at some point, it's going to come out of its mother. It has been birthed and it's considered alive at that point. So when did it gain its "alive" status? When it went 7 inches down the birth canal? See what doesn't make sense is that the baby comes out alive, but it's not alive when it's insider her. What changed? What was growing that whole time? How did two alive cells come together to make something that was dead? None of these questions make any sense, unless the unborn is actually alive!(2:43) So, we've looked at some easy lines of thought, to prove and demonstrate that the unborn is alive and it's just, frankly, silly to say that it's not. So we've established that the unborn is alive, or reestablished, maybe. But we still have to answer the question "what is it, what is it that's alive"? Is that it an actual human being? Well I think we've made this question way too complicated in our society for some reason. I've a good friend named Reagan, who, when he was in college, was in a conversation about abortion with a classmate. And this classmate was saying that the unborn is not a human. And Reagan very good natured guy, said, "it's not a human, well, what is it? Is it a turtle that's growing in there? Are we not sure?" Well, Reagan's reply gets to the silliness of this situation. Because what could possibly be growing in there if it's not human? What do two humans come together and mate to reproduce? Another human. (3:48) With any other species, people have no trouble here. Two dogs come together and make a dog.…