Christian Voter part 3: Embryonic Stem Cell Research

I now come to the seven issues to which there is only 1 legitimate position for a Christian voter. To take the opposite position (through activism, or by placing your vote), would be indicative of a corrupted conscience or a disingenuous spirit of compromising moral truth for the spirit of the age.

ISSUE #2 Embryonic Stem Cell Research:

What: embryonic stem cell research- the conducting of medical/scientific research on human embryos for the purpose of extracting stem cells which results in the destruction (death) of the embryo.

Other names: Human pluripotent stem cell research, stem cell research,

Sticking to the specifics of embryionic stem cell research, it is wrong simply because life begins at conception. Conception is that point in time when the human cells which mature into an adult human begin to grow (divide). That is life. The destruction or cessation of this process ends this life. It is a human life. Purposefully ending an innocent human life is a moral evil.

Pretty simple really.

Now, the discussion by proponents of embryonic stem cell research will follow along the lines of all sorts of great benefits that can result from this research. the problem with that is this... you can't do evil to bring about good. The ends don't justify the means. That is not a Christian philosophy, it is a 19th century humanistic philosophy from such secular and anti-christian thinkers as Bacon, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Bentham, John Stuart Mill... et al.

If you want to read good Christian philosophy and thinking look here, here, and here!

Some of these are long and pretty deep, but if you can't even make the sacrifice of time necessary to study the question of
1): when human life begins.
2): if you can do an "evil" to bring about a "good"...

then perhaps your lack of sincerity in action regarding your dedication to learn where the thoughts that are contrary to; abortion, human cloning, human stem cell research, etc... will be proof of what you sincerely believe in your heart and how you don't act in concert with your knowledge of right and wrong.