Against what this message calls a broader ‘culture of death,’ Scripture grounds human dignity in a single, unchanging truth: every person is made in the image of God, and that image is present from conception, not granted gradually as a child develops. God’s own words to the prophet Jeremiah, ‘before I formed you in the womb I knew you,’ describe an unborn child not as undifferentiated tissue but as someone already known and purposed by God.
The sermon lays out the secular arguments commonly used to justify abortion and answers them, insisting that the question of when life and personhood begin cannot be settled by shifting cultural consensus but only by the authority of God’s own word. What society calls a matter of personal choice, Scripture treats as a matter of the dignity due to every image-bearer of God, born or unborn.