LifeDate Summer 2026 – God Said … And It Was So
by Diane Albers, President of Lutherans For Life
In our world today there seem to be very few absolute truths. I am sure that this is not news to anyone–whether discussions were face-to-face or on social media. As Bible-believing Christians, we do know that there are absolute truths that God reveals to us through His Word in the Scriptures. According to Genesis 1, God is the creator of the heavens and the earth and everything on it, including mankind which He made in His own image and likeness (v. 26).
“Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature” (Genesis 2:7).
The footnote on verse seven in the Concordia Self Study Bible states that the Hebrew for “formed” commonly referred to the work of a potter. God was intimately involved in the creation of mankind, and then He gave man the “breath of life.” From Genesis through Revelation, the Scriptures show the importance and the blessings of the life that God gave to each of us. From the children of Israel fleeing through the Red Sea, to Ruth, to the lepers and the blind man that Jesus healed, to Philip and the Ethiopian, these examples show that the value and importance of life can be seen in the hands that made us.
The importance and value of life can be seen in how much the Father loves us in that He sent His only Son as a human baby to grow up and give His life on the cross to pay for the sins of each of us. Because man was made in God’s image, given the breath of life, and loved so indescribably, every person is worthy of honor and respect.
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law” (Galatians 4:4-5a).
Clearly the child in the womb who is alive from the moment of conception must be protected. God makes it clear that we should not murder; therefore, neither surgical (clinical) nor chemical (abortion pill) abortions are acceptable. It is clear to all, except those who refuse to accept their guilt, that a baby is killed in an abortion. The sins of the mother and the father of having no plan to marry and raise their child, and then to abort the child, can only be redeemed by Christ’s death and resurrection.
“For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous” (Romans 5:19).
People with a disability, Alzheimer’s, cancer, or some other terrible disease, those who are in hospice or who have been conceived at an “inconvenient” time are suffering because of the sin that came from Adam. No matter where they live, how old they are, or what they can do, they are all—as we are—worthy of honor and respect because our God who created us, gave us the breath of life, and reclaimed us through the blood of Jesus says so!
