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Explore the Bible Lesson for January 20: Value All Human Life
Matt Capps, associate pastor for adult ministries, Calvary Baptist Church, Winston-Salem
January 04, 2013
2 MIN READ TIME

Explore the Bible Lesson for January 20: Value All Human Life

Explore the Bible Lesson for January 20: Value All Human Life
Matt Capps, associate pastor for adult ministries, Calvary Baptist Church, Winston-Salem
January 04, 2013

Focal Passages: Genesis 1:26-27: Exodus 1:15-17; Psalm 139:13-16; Mark 10:13-16

Orthodox, protestant, evangelical, conservative Christians must value human life, from conception until death. Genesis 1:26-31 informs us that God intimately created humans in His likeness, male and female. We see that humanity is set apart and crowned with authority over the earth and its creatures, a position of honor and responsibility.

Theologian John Hammett rightly argues that creation in the image of God is the basis for human dignity and that killing a human or to even curse one is an affront to and an attack upon the living God.

The utterly depraved and unimaginably horrible actions of the gunman in Newtown, Conn., are close as I write this study.

The emotions are raw and fresh as our country weeps over the unjust slaying of the 20 beautiful children, and the 6 brave adults who lost their lives that day. For we know that all human beings are, as Psalm 139 describes, knitted together in their mother’s womb.

The God of the universe has His loving eyes on every single one of us and always has even when we were “unformed substance,” to use modern language “an embryo.” But we also understand that we live in an entirely broken world.

In horrible events like these we are brought to the precipice of life and forced to look down at our hopeless plight because of sin.

As Christians we run to the cross, where the truly innocent God-man gave his life in our place, for our sin, to make all things new.

And while death is a perpetual reminder of our fragile humanity, we have a greater and eternal hope. That one day Christ will return.

And in that day He will wipe away every tear from our eyes, and death shall be no more (Revelation 21).