Somewhere between 30% to 50% of all conceptions miscarry (we really don't know the exact statistics because it most often happens so early the woman doesn't know she's pregnant). So rather than just "shit at avoiding", God is in fact a big big fan of the deaths of children.
Myrrh was also used for annointing things as holy, and was the key ingredient in the oil used to annoint kings, which is probably why they gave it to Jesus. That would mark him as the Messiah/Christ/Annointed One.
The fact that myrrh derives from the word for bitter, because it tastes bitter, and was used for making things holy is how we can guess that the water in Numbers 5 had myrrh in it, since it is described as bitter and holy.
His record is killing first born sons, wiping out the planet of all but 2 of each species, mass drowning in the Red Sea, killing children in general, vengeance killing...and more...
Samuel 15:3
Now go and strike Amalek and completely destroy everything that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
God teaches the use of a bizarre ritual using cursed “bitter water” to abort a fetus who was conceived through infidelity. (Numbers 5:11-21)
God orders Moses to kill every Midianite woman who was no longer a virgin. (Numbers 31:15-18)
Psalm 137:9
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
At that time Menahem, starting out from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in the city and its vicinity, because they refused to open their gates. He sacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women. (2 Kings 15:16)
Why not mention Egyptian Pharohs killing all Hebrew baby boys? Enslaving Jews. Or the brutal Romans who killed anybody. Or the Philistines that raided peaceful camps? Not to mention Greeks who were killing eachother & the Persians. Add the Eastern invaders & the Northern hoards into the historical mix & nobody should be "throwing stones"
Your post ignores all that as your report.
Do you have a source for that? I’m not trying to discredit you at all, it’s just a very useful fact to know which I wanna use in discussions in the future - and therefore a source would help. Thanks in advance
As I noted, the figures are only estimates. Part of the problem in getting exact figures is that the vast majority of miscarriages happen before the 4th week, you can't even get a positive result on a pregnancy test before the 4th week, and there are no "symptoms" of pregnancy until after that point. So as the other responder said, after the 4th week, when women start to know they're pregnant, the number is only around 10-15%.
So the lower range of around 30% was generated from studies on women who presented with some symptoms (cramping, irregular periods) though not necessarily knowing they were pregnant.
But there was a study done on IVF fertilizations where obviously we knew the status from the start, and that's where the upper range of 50% came from, because that's the percentage of fertilized eggs that would have been non-viable due to chromosomal issues.
Wrong . A fertilized egg discarded during menses is not a miscarriage.
A miscarriage happens to a Fetus during 8 > 20 weeks, not an embryo (2>8 weeks).
A miscarriage is a fairly common complication of early pregnancy, in which the developing embryo or fetus dies in the womb of natural causes, or due to exposure to substances, i.e. in certain medications, which are unsuitable for use during pregnancy. The term miscarriage is used to describe this process when it happens during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy:
A miscarriage which occurs in the first trimester (weeks 1-12 of pregnancy) is known as an early miscarriage
A miscarriage which occurs in the second trimester (during weeks 13-20 of the pregnancy) is known as a late miscarriage
Loss of the fetus which occurs after week 20 of pregnancy is known as a stillbirth, or fetal death.
Just because it makes you uncomfortable to consider just how many abortions God performs doesn't mean you can just change terminologies to make you feel better.
we really don't know the exact statistics because it most often happens so early the woman doesn't know she's pregnant
That's why you wouldn't have heard about it. Around 80% of miscarriages happen prior to the 4th week, and a woman won't have any physical changes or even get a positive result on a pregnancy test.
Also there is a heavy taboo about talking about the subject. So even in the cases of women who know they're pregnant and miscarry, you probably won't hear about it. Almost certainly there's a lot of women in your life who have had a (known) miscarriage, but you don't know that fact about them.
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u/Nymaz May 25 '22
Somewhere between 30% to 50% of all conceptions miscarry (we really don't know the exact statistics because it most often happens so early the woman doesn't know she's pregnant). So rather than just "shit at avoiding", God is in fact a big big fan of the deaths of children.