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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold
I've wondered about a wealthy man who wills everything he owns to his "firstborn." He has both a girlfriend and a wife. Let's say he has sex with the girlfriend on the tenth of the month. Two nights later, on the 12th, he has sex with his wife.
Then, the wife gives birth before the girlfriend. Obviously, the girlfriend's child should get all the inheritance. The girlfriend's child became a human the night of intimacy. The wife's child might abandon Biblical rules and claim to be born first. We are coming to a time when couples will need to keep a long on their private business.
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Let's not go overboard. The fetus is still a bastard, and we're not going to let a bastard inherit. It would be a different story, of course, if the man and his girlfriend had entered into a proper contract of concubinage. In that case, yes, the fetus would have owned the 11-year old.
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Hebrews 12:8