Just because the Bible doesn’t use our current terminology, doesn’t mean our present-day issues aren’t addressed in the Bible. Actually, the Bible addresses every issue that’s up for debate today—if you read it, you’ll find answers to everything through its context and plot.
In Genesis 3:15, after the serpent deceives Adam and Eve into their sin, God says to the serpent: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” This is the Bible’s first utterance of Jesus Christ, the promised seed, who would go on to die for the sins of the world. Spiritual warfare comes from the battle between the lineage of the Messiah was proclaimed to be the physical offspring of Eve (through the line of Seth) and the metaphorical offspring of the serpent (those who are corrupted by the devil). The enemy attempts to eradicate the lineage of Christ at multiple points (through infanticide by pharaoh and Herod).
Christ, through His incarnation into human flesh, vindicates and verifies the sanctity of human life at every stage from conception to natural death. God could have sent His Son into the world in any manner, shape, or form but He chose His entrance through natural birth. He was born in the lowliest of places to a woman who had little to nothing physically but was spiritually rich. From conception, we know that life is sacred and set apart because God has said so through His Son who lived through every phase of that process. God ordains the sanctity of life in this way and the conception of it. Psalm 127:3 tells us that children are a blessing from the Lord. The genealogy of Abraham alone attests to the God-given purpose of each human being as does the many promised and foretold children who prepared the way for the Lord.
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