Here is your answer, Papewaio
---Gen 1:26-27; And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them..
Gen 2:7; And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life*; and man became a living soul**.
נְשָׁמָה*
Nesamah - breath of life, spirit,
נֶפֶשׁ**
Nepes, nephesh - soul, life, living being.
According to the bible, Adam was unique to all humanity. He was directly created by God. He had no mother (so no, probably no navel), and since being directly created of God was a son of God. There are many sons of God. Angels are sons of God. But not THE Son of God. I am a son of man. As much as some of my friends like to joke that I was created in a lab, no I actually came from my mother and father.
God is the source of life. He breathed into the Adam and he became a living being. It is given then to procreate. The seed of life is found in man. It is implanted in the woman and brings forth new life. This is actually a pretty efficient system, let me tell you. I've never even specifically tried to do this, but my wife and I still have managed to have three reproductions of us. =) All rather cheaply too, in the big scheme of things. Way cheaper than if left to the hands of scientists to get it done.
So mankind is made up of three parts; body, soul(life) and spirit. When the spirit departs the body the life is gone and the body is just a rapidly deteriorating shell.
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So now cloning. I cannot speak to all "cloning", because I don't fully understand what these men are doing now. I can assure you though, whatever is being reported in the news, that is probably what they were doing 5-10 years ago. Since someone mentioned Dolly let's focus on that.
In simple terms somatic cell cloning, they take an egg, empty it out, put their homebrew genetic nucleus into the empty egg and jump-start it into cell division via an electric shock. What's missing in this process? The seed.
So from a christian's point of view what they are doing is against the natural laws of the way things have been organized by God. Seed + egg = new life.
It gets worse though.
There is further concern by many of us who study our bibles, because we see in the scriptures where this experimentation in illegal knowledge is realized. The focus of some of these scientists has also turned to cross species experimentation. They don't realize the fire they play with...or perhaps they do and it's even more worrisome. There is so much more I can say on this, but I doubt you have the ears to hear it.
I would also like to point out that Jesus Christ was not a clone. The promise of His coming was all the way back in Genesis 3. He is the Seed which comes from the woman. She is not the originator of the seed, the Spirit of God overshadowed Mary. God provided the seed Himself, so rather, Jesus Christ is the seed that came out of her.
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