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Pastor Harry Hardwick's beautiful sermon, "National Miscarriage Mourning Month" caused me to reflect on the improper dates we now use to record the beginning of our lives.
Landover Baptist made national headlines some years ago when it proclaimed that we should stop using the term "birthday" and use instead the term "conceptionday". This is, of course, because life begins at conception, not nine months later. The Catholic Church is very dishonest about this. "Oh" Catholics say, "Life begins at conception, then it begins again at birth." WHICH IS IT?
Use of "birthday" is an entirely arbitrary choice. If the day a child drops out of its mother qualifies, then any number of other days could as well. How about the day a child stops using his mother's milk? Or, let's use the day a child first rides his bike without training wheels. Put them all on a wall. Throw a dart. God begins our lives on conceptionday. Period.
The "sticky wicket" of conceptionday is the legal part. Our birthday is established by the signature of a person licensed by government to attest that he/she was present the day we were born. To establish conceptionday, legally, we need a similar system.
There is a simple way to do that. It would be to have a licenced person present whenever conception takes place. That person would verify that Conception Related Activity (CRA) had taken place. The Conceptionday Certificate would be signed and that day celebrated each year thereafter.
"Who," you might ask, "Will be this person in my bedroom, car or tent?" I believe this represents a great opportunity for Landover Baptist Church. Landover could train, license and dispatch its members all over the United States as Certified Conceptionday Clerks. We could serve Jesus by observing CRA, then, recording the times and dates of conception.
Thank you.
Landover Baptist made national headlines some years ago when it proclaimed that we should stop using the term "birthday" and use instead the term "conceptionday". This is, of course, because life begins at conception, not nine months later. The Catholic Church is very dishonest about this. "Oh" Catholics say, "Life begins at conception, then it begins again at birth." WHICH IS IT?
Use of "birthday" is an entirely arbitrary choice. If the day a child drops out of its mother qualifies, then any number of other days could as well. How about the day a child stops using his mother's milk? Or, let's use the day a child first rides his bike without training wheels. Put them all on a wall. Throw a dart. God begins our lives on conceptionday. Period.
The "sticky wicket" of conceptionday is the legal part. Our birthday is established by the signature of a person licensed by government to attest that he/she was present the day we were born. To establish conceptionday, legally, we need a similar system.
There is a simple way to do that. It would be to have a licenced person present whenever conception takes place. That person would verify that Conception Related Activity (CRA) had taken place. The Conceptionday Certificate would be signed and that day celebrated each year thereafter.
"Who," you might ask, "Will be this person in my bedroom, car or tent?" I believe this represents a great opportunity for Landover Baptist Church. Landover could train, license and dispatch its members all over the United States as Certified Conceptionday Clerks. We could serve Jesus by observing CRA, then, recording the times and dates of conception.
Thank you.
once during the right time.
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