A group of scientist say they hope
to produce a clone of Christ using
DNA from blood off of holy relics!
Do you think it can be done?
Their website can be accessed at:
http://kingdomgospel.com/
Spam.
[tracer hat on]
Good heavens, they’re gonna clone Christ from Spam?!?
[tracer hat off]
Well, since the Christ has not yet been born (Yoshke haNetzor was perhaps not the least qualified man of his generation, but he was pretty far down the list), the question is moot.
Now, we can ask the question: when the Messiah does come, will he be able to be cloned? I would opine that the answer is essentially, “No”. Whilst his physical body could be, assuming that the technology of the day is up to it, it is unlikely (and, in some cases, unnecessary) that the spiritual and mental qualities that will qualify him to be the Messiah could be.
Yes it can and will be done. However, they are going to mix in some dinosaur DNA and make Jesusaurus Rex.
They need an intact cell NUCLEUS, with the DNA intact to do the cloning. After nearly 2000 years and being kept in less than appropriate conditions, I seriously doubt such material is available.
While they might clone the body, what of his soul or personality? Will that be “Jesus” the Messiah or simply the body of a man who might have been an incarnate god?
Forget cloning, I want to see them do a paternity test.
Already covered here dopers
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36885
Urban legend stuff
Remember the search function.
'Sides, if they use blood off of holy relics, they’re probably going to end up cloning medieval snake-oil/holy-relic salesmen, not J.C. And how will they know if they’ve got Him?
[Edited by Gaudere on 09-25-2000 at 03:20 PM]
Nope.
See, Jesus was not a man, he, sorry, He, was a God, who became LIKE a man.
He belched in public, left the seat up and wasn’t in touch with his feelings?
Esprix
OOOO…BAD IDEA…I don’t think the relgious types would take that well at all…
I think it was said either HERE, or at SNOPES, but I can’t remember:
If you tried to clone Jesus, perhaps you’d end up with the AntiChrist…the one who isn’t pure, and who destroys us…
He he… Jesasaurus Rex
“Arrrrgh…, convert or force me to bite you in half, chase your children, arrrrrrrrgh…”
Says whom?
According to the RCC (if I’m remembering correctly), Jesus is God’s love for us. The Word because flesh and dwelt among us. So Jesus was fully man. He was even all man:)
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BTW, TBATL, you can press backspace and delete the whole "he, sorry, " bit. And you don’t even need nearly as many commas as you have:)
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Incidentally, The Miracle Strain by Michael Cordy and The Genesis Code by John Case both deal with cloning Christ.
Man I hope so, kingdomgospel.com!
Imagine how much money people would pay to see Jesus’ clone in some kick-ass porno! … Why, you’d be as rich as Ozzy Osbourne!
Given Jesus’ rather, um, unique genetic makeup, assuming you could get enough DNA from a relic (most likely from the Cross, which the Church has in her possession)any attempt to clone Him would result in an exact duplicate of the Virgin Mary.
'Course, I’d like to know if any of those Byzantine iconographers were right about what she looked like.
Iampunha, thank you. Not just the RCC but all Western and Eastern Orthodox Christianity holds that belief; the Copts claim Monophysitism but don’t make a production out of it.
Whenever anybody gets to claiming Jesus was other than human, a Christian is obliged to say, “Wrong.” More than, maybe (YDogmaMV); other than, nope.
It’s been done. A sample of blood was taken from the shroud of Turin, and secretly cloned in a British laboratory, and they got… [drum roll] … a sheep! At first, this caused a great stir in the religious community, about having created the literal lamb of God.
Then someone figured out that, since there aint any blood on the Shroud of Turin, see, so the cloning process produced a lamb from the wool of the shroud. Thus another great religious upheaval was nipped in the bud.
Only there aint any wool in the Shroud either, since it’s made of flax.
When they told the lamb about that, it immediately started bleeding from its hands and legs (or hoofs and mouth) and died from being in-flax-ible.
[Edited by CKDextHavn on 09-26-2000 at 07:26 AM]