A Person at Conception

Mat 22:37-40 (ESV) And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. (38) This is the great and first commandment. (39) And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (40) On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."

With hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in the United States alone every year, there has never been a time when humanity needed the Gospel of Christ more than it does now. Hitler killed nine million people in about twelve years. Stalin killed twenty million people in about twenty-five years. The United States killed thirty-four million, three-hundred and nine thousand, five-hundred and sixty-six babies between 1973 and 2002.

Jer 17:9 (ESV) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Our massacre of babies is a testament to the depravity of man. We are "desperately sick," rivaling the pagans of old who sacrificed their children on altars to their idols. Today we do the same thing. We sacrifice our children to our own idols - convenience, money, relationships and most of all, ourselves.

The only hope for the human race is Jesus Christ. He alone can change the heart, filling us with Himself and covering our sins with his blood.

2Co 5:14-15 (ESV) For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; (15) and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

Click here to read a paper I wrote about this atrocity that we commit everyday; this sacrafice to the worste idol ever devised by sinful man - Self.