Joy in a Child

“A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.” (John 16:21)

What is the value of a human life? I asked AI:

• Moral/ethical: Most moral systems treat each human life as intrinsically valuable and deserving of respect and rights; worth is equal across persons rather than measurable in dollars.
• Emotional/relational: To family and friends a life’s value is unique and immeasurable—it’s defined by memories, relationships, and irreplaceability.
• Social/economic (practical): Societies assign monetary proxies for policy/insurance purposes (statistical value of a life, lost earnings, medical costs) to make decisions, but these are pragmatic estimates, not true measures of worth.
• Legal: Laws protect life through criminal penalties, wrongful-death damages, and human-rights frameworks, reflecting societal recognition of value.
• Spiritual/religious: Many traditions hold life as sacred or as having eternal significance, framing value beyond material or social measures.

Bottom line: philosophically and morally, human life is typically regarded as priceless.

This is one of the best answers AI has ever provided. Of course, people violate this plain truth – stark evidence of our fallen human nature. Abortion is perhaps top among murderous abominations, unmitigated by mendacious and malevolent lies. However, the mass murders by Communist regimes, exceeding hundreds of millions, is also an atrocity only possible by those who have completely rejected God.

The truth can set us free and it is clear and knowable, in spite of our own failures to obey it. As Yeshua (Jesus’ Hebrew name) observed, pain is forgotten in joy. Truth is like light which dispels darkness. Today, life’s value is being recognized and protected after decades of denial and selfish killing. Nations are recognizing that population growth is good and essential for prosperity. Women are waking up to the blessing of motherhood with it’s lasting fulfillment, deep satisfaction, higher purpose and calling. The foundations of righteousness are massive; they are not obscured in complexity or deniable with intellectual argument, they are real, experienced and recorded in history. 

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” (John 3:16-18)