"Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
" So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them."
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them."
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be
fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have
dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and
over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26-28 ESV)
I hear it all the time, you can't pick or read any articles that deals with humanity, medical or ethics and not find it mentioned but what is it? The quality of life, is usually the word thrown around. Just imagine you've just had your first baby and the Doctor and Nurses are fussing and you think somethings wrong. Then they bring you your baby and you notice she has downs syndrome. The Nurse, pats you on your shoulder and tells you shes so sorry.
I use this incomplete illustration because I have heard Doctors and Nurses who have said "this child should not have been allowed to be born, what is there quality of life going to be". What they have forgotten is that even this beautiful child is created in the image of God and dismissed because she's not going to be like everyone else. That's OK, because you know everyone else usually isn't so great, that's why the path to Hell is a broad road.
I want to leave on a question because there is a lot more and I want to continue talking about this. The question is: "How do we steer society back to one that celebrates life?"...to be continued...
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