# QUESTION: Can Christ Be Cloned?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [September 25, 2000, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492 "2000-09-25T18:50:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@kingdomgospel.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingdomgospel.com)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/1 "2000-09-25T18:50:51Z")
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/](http://kingdomgospel.com/)
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/2 "2000-09-25T18:53:17Z")
Spam.
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/3 "2000-09-25T19:07:02Z")
[tracer hat on]
Good heavens, they’re gonna clone Christ from **Spam**?!?
[tracer hat off]
🙂
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### Author:  [@Akatsukami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akatsukami)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/4 "2000-09-25T19:42:38Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/5 "2000-09-25T19:43:44Z")
Yes it can and will be done. However, they are going to mix in some dinosaur DNA and make _Jesusaurus Rex_.
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### Author:  [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/6 "2000-09-25T20:04:30Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/7 "2000-09-25T20:12:46Z")
Forget cloning, I want to see them do a paternity test.
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### Author:  [@barker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barker)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/8 "2000-09-25T20:14:02Z")
Already covered here dopers
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36885](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36885)
Urban legend stuff
Remember the search function.
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/9 "2000-09-25T20:18:40Z")
'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]
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### Author:  [@The\_Beta\_and\_the\_Lambada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Beta_and_the_Lambada)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/10 "2000-09-25T20:46:10Z")
Nope.
See, Jesus was not a man, he, sorry, He, was a God, who became LIKE a man.
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/11 "2000-09-25T20:52:21Z")
He belched in public, left the seat up and wasn’t in touch with his feelings?
Esprix
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### Author:  [@CandyBoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandyBoi)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/12 "2000-09-26T00:19:09Z")
OOOO…BAD IDEA…I don’t think the relgious types would take that well at all…
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/13 "2000-09-26T00:28:33Z")
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…
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### Author:  [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/14 "2000-09-26T00:33:51Z")
He he… Jesasaurus Rex
“Arrrrgh…, convert or force me to bite you in half, chase your children, arrrrrrrrgh…”
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/15 "2000-09-26T02:08:08Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by The Beta and the Lambada \*
> \*\*Nope.
> See, Jesus was not a man, he, sorry, He, was a God, who became LIKE a man. \*\*
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:)
[nitpick]
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:)
[/nitpick]
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### Author:  [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/16 "2000-09-26T02:19:31Z")
Incidentally, _The Miracle Strain_ by Michael Cordy and _The Genesis Code_ by John Case both deal with cloning Christ.
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### Author:  [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/17 "2000-09-26T02:30:53Z")
Man I hope so, [kingdomgospel.com](http://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!
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### Author:  [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/18 "2000-09-26T02:39:35Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/19 "2000-09-26T11:37:59Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-can-christ-be-cloned/34492/20 "2000-09-26T12:24:01Z")
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]
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