Two passages frequently cited by pro-life advocates lack conclusive pro-life evidence. The first is Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Taken literally, this passage would mean God knew Jeremiah in some kind of preexisting state before he was conceived.282 Clearly this passage is saying that before Jeremiah existed, God foreknew that he would be a prophet, not that he knew Jeremiah personally during that time.
