If Human life begins at conception, what happens to the souls of embryoes that are aborted?
Answer Dear Pat, First let me say something a bit different about what Christians call soul. Soul represents that relationship with God which is immortal. It is immortal because, as the New Testament puts the matter, “(God) loves us with an everlasting love.” Unless a person actually rejects God in a definitive way, they never stand outside the circle of his love, and thus, they are never lost. At the same time, while it is a common misunderstanding to think of an immortal soul as something substantial that exists apart from the body, in Biblical thought, it represents the WHOLE person seen from the perspective of God’s everlasting love. Again, we speak of body and soul not because there are two SUBSTANTIAL parts of human beings which can be separated from one another, but because we know that 1) apart from God we do indeed cease to be (we are mortal and subject to death), and 2) in light of God’s love for us which is everlasting, we have a share in eternal life or immortality. We ARE
