Evangelicals Belief that Life Begins and Conception, Right!???

In Christian Century Fred Clark says in 1979 McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal. About the same time evangelicals decided the Bible taught that life begins at conception, where it is said is unclear but that what they said. But that was not always the case.

Many years ago Christianity Today Harold Lindsell and strong supporter of biblical inerrancy wrote an article opposing the Roman Catholic belief that abortion was unbiblical. Writing in Billy Grahams magazine Lindsell wrote, “God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed. The Law plainly exacts: ‘If a man kills any human life he will be put to death’ (Lev. 24.17). But according to Exodus 21.22-24, the destruction of the fetus is not a capital offense…Clearly, then, in contrast to the mother, the fetus is not reckoned as a soul.”

Somewhere between 1968 and 2012 the bible changed its mind, at least according to the evangelicals.