Bible Question: A friend has asked me about becoming an egg donor. I seem to remember that the Bible tells us that we are not to give our children to the heathen, but now I can't find that particular verse in my concordance to back up my understanding that this is a dangerous course of action. Can someone help me with this? There is so much that the Word had to saytht is pertinent,but this is a key verse. thaks, |
Bible Answer: uh-oh, Are your parts just so many commodities to be bought and sold or traded for favors and what may be momentary good will? The college campus newspapers are full of adds offering to buy the eggs of young women. This is the maketing of human procreation. We are not far from from people farming or the selling of the rights to certain parts of our bodies as if we were selling the mineral rights to a piece of property that we own. If your egg (and a man's sperm ) becomes a child after it is fertilized you will be a mother (and the man a) father and you will have a child in the world. This is not quite the intimate setting and bonding envisioned by God in the bible is it? Think long and hard on this. When the begetting of children becomes a techonological act rather than a unitive and procreative act that God meant it to be we have entered the realm of commerce, marketing and government regulation. Sounds a lot like slavery and bondage doesn't it? And this is certainly not the same thing as adoption or giving a child up for adoption due to a personal crisis for the good of the child. One more thought. Think of all the trouble caused by Sara's desire for a son that way so great, she in the only way possible for her time, asked Hagaar to donate her egg, so Abram could fertilize it, so Sara could have a a child. It did not work out as planned did it? See Genesis 16. We are still living with the consequences in the Middle East and the rest of the world because of the conflict between Jews and Arabs and all that flows from that situation. God had another plan for Sara, but she wanted to be in the driver's seat. Who is Sara, the free woman, and who is Hagaar, the slave woman, in your situation, if you go along with your friend's request? Think long and hard. Just because something can be done, does not mean it should be done. Emmaus |