TRADUCIANISM
Discussing about the
existence of evil in the universe, and why God allows it, sometimes comes to our
minds why would a benevolent God create a spirit for a child, conceived
intentionally by evil parents to be sold or use in human sacrifices, like it
actually happens in some parts of the world.
It is definitely
shocking and repugnant to imagine that a God, who knows everything, would agree
to concede a child to be born knowingly that it has been conceived with no love
and for immediate evil purposes. Not even the old explanation that God allows
freedom of choice to humans, suffices to calm our disgust, when even human laws
would deny giving a car to someone who they know, will use it immediately to run
over people or to be used in a terrorist activity.
However, there is
nothing that expressly says in Scripture that God creates every single spirit
that comes into a human embryo.
God created Adam’s
spirit. He made his body out of physical matter and then blew ‘Nismat-Hayyim’ (נִשְׁמַ֣ת חַיִּ֑ים), or ‘Breath
of Life’ (Genesis 2:7) in him; but when He created Eve, we are told that she
was made from Adam’s body, denoting that Eve did not undergo a similar process
as Adam did, but was born from an already existing human substance; and so it
is with the rest of us, through sexual reproduction.
That God gave humanity the capability of reproduction,
and this power is under our control, since we can choose to have or not to have
intercourse, or even use artificial methods to avoid conception; it is clear
that this power was given totally to our control and discretion. The power to
procreate was given to humanity in Adam and Eve, and from them we inherit our
human nature and our capabilities.
And since we procreate similar beings according to our
kind, it is only safe to deduct that even the birth of spirits is included in
this faculty.
God gave humanity the capability to reproduce other
human beings, not human bodies. When babies come out of their mother’s wombs,
they come a full human being, in the process of growing and maturing, but
essentially, we are all born alive and full human beings, not in waiting.
It seems to be that in this capability the spirit
forms itself as soon as the embryo is born (Luke 1:15). If this is correct,
then the responsibility is even greater than if God would fabricate every
spirit every time there is a conception on Earth. It would be up to us to
carefully take care of this capability, knowing that in us resides the capability
to confer life.
That would explain why the consequences of the sin of
Adam are inherited, and why some of us can chose to conceive human lives, for
evil purposes. This is called
Traducianism.
But however it is, we know that human life can only be
reproduced from us, not from any where else, not even in clonation, or in-vitro;
so our responsibility is great before God, the ultimate author and sustainer of
life, and we will answer for it at the Judgement Day.
Omar Flores.
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