Randy Alcorn

On Thursday May 7, 1992, I joined about 500 other citizens and taxpayers to pray on the lawn at City Hall in the city of Gresham, Oregon. It was the national day of prayer, declared so by our president. Organizers had gone through the right hoops, and the mayor of Gresham had granted permission for us to be there. But the gathering began not with a prayer or song of worship, but a statement read by a police lieutenant culminating in, "You are commanded to leave." What a way to start a prayer meeting!

I’ll cut and paste two portions from the book below. If you only want section specifically on breathing, go to 6f below.     As to Scripture and beginning of life, I follow with excerpt from Appendix B: Abortion in the Bible and Church History. The portion concerning Jesus and John the Baptist in Luke 1 is especially revealing I think.

Science confirms exactly what Scripture demonstrates, that there is a point at which human life does not exist and then is suddenly created by God. In Science this is known as the point of conception.

“The babies [Jacob and Esau] jostled each other within her [Rebekah].” (Genesis 25:22)

In 2 Corinthians 12 Paul calls the third heaven “paradise.” When Jesus (before his resurrection), refers to where the thief on the cross would go, he calls it paradise.

Because the price of sin is not just death, but eternal death. No human being can transcend what is eternal, except Christ.

Mortal means you can die.

In keeping with our finite natures, we’ll experience process in heaven. We will continually learn more of God.

Scripture opens the door to the answer to this question through its teaching that God has a special love for children.