{"id":1718,"date":"2006-01-02T13:25:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2017-09-06T22:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:47:53","slug":"beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2006\/01\/beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p> Solomon captures the aporia of beginnings in Ecclesiastes 3:15: \u201cThat which is has been already, and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.\u201d  This not only restates \u201cthere is nothing new under the sun\u201d but also suggests that the search for an origin \u201cuncorrupted\u201d by a surplus is elusive, shrouded in the mist. <\/p>\n<p> A human life begins when sperm unites with egg.  But  <em> this <\/em>  human life would not begun unless the man whose sperm it is met the woman who contributes the egg.  So even the beginning of a human life is not  <em> the <\/em>  beginning.  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