As human beings, we all have a physical aspect
to us, our bodies,
and a non-physical aspect that we call a soul.
Our soul animates our body, and it's only
separated from our body when we die.
Both the body and the soul are essential aspects
of what it means to be human.
They're essential to the kind of being that
we are.
Now when I say "essential," I mean it's not
like hair color, or the shape of our nose,
or even whether or not we have all four limbs.
You're still a human being if you have no
hair.
But a body without a soul would no longer
be a human being.
It would be a corpse.
Since both body and soul are essential aspects
of human nature, it makes sense to conclude
both are there the moment we begin to exist
as a new human being.
That moment happens when egg meats the sperm,
and an entirely new, unique, whole human organism
with its own unique DNA fingerprint is created.
From that moment on, that new little human
being will be the same human being for the
rest of her life.
Yes, when she's first conceived, her human
body is very very small.
But the fact that her whole body becomes more
developed over time or that her soul becomes
better able to express itself through that
body over time doesn't change the fact that
both body and soul are essential aspects of
what she is as a human being and are both
there right from the very beginning.
As I said before, a human body without a soul
is a corpse.
But we know that embryonic and fetal human
beings are not corpses.
They're alive.
They're growing and developing.
And whenever we have a live human being that's
growing and developing, we are seeing a soul
in action.
Your baby is a live human being, so your baby
has both a body and a soul.
