They are doing it now as a general practice.
2006-12-28 10:41:00 · 19 answers · asked by janesweetjane 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Genetic altering of fruits and vegetables, chemicals, altering DNA of seeds...
Cloning animals, gentically modifying animals...
Do these seem abominations towards nature to you? God's creation? They should.
2006-12-28 10:42:31 · update #1
nothing, the people that wrote the bible didn't know of such things.
They sound like advancement to me. As far as god is concerned, who cares? If you could feed a starving child with a cloned animal, would you prefer to see the child starved to death because you feel cloning is against god's will?
Seriously, who cares what the Bible says about cloning? Why would increasing the world's food supply and therefore feeding people who are starving be something against god? If god doesn't want cloning for this purpose, then he is not very benevolent.
2006-12-28 10:43:30 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Tell me just how serious are you? Like technically?
Because humans have been altering plant and animals back in the caveman's times. The best alteration was in the Jewish OT.
Where they separated sheep by color and breed solid black to keep herds separate.
Maze is a stunted stalk of corn but drought resistant.
You would only have cherry size tomatoes if they didn't select the special plants with big fruit.
As for the DNA they have millions of tons of food that are on the market for years now. Our FDA monitors genetic research.
I think what your looking for is a passage (as I remember) where God gave dominion over earth to man and caution to use good husbandry.
2006-12-28 11:07:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pork is an abomination in the bible so genetically manipulated pork would probably be an abomination as well.
I would guess that adding pig genes to other animals would make the resultant animals unclean as well.
There are probably a whole host of kosher issues if you want to get into it but since I don't keep kosher, the Jewish dietary laws have little relevance for me. Outside of dietary laws, there is no mention of how god feels on this subject.
Go in peace to love and serve the truth
2006-12-28 10:51:23 · answer #3 · answered by Dave P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible says nothing specifically condemning the alteration of foods and animals, most of the arguments against these things are misquoted. It is the interpretation of the bible that holds a low view of genetics in general, not specifically the bible.
2006-12-28 10:45:04 · answer #4 · answered by Optimus Maximus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam became commanded to no longer slaughter any animal for foodstuff; to no longer eat the flesh of any residing creature, no count if animal, fish or chicken. He might desire to eat in basic terms ingredients derived fron plant life. If an animal died on it is very own, in spite of the undeniable fact that, it would desire to be eaten. yet that on no account got here approximately. Later the Dispensation became given and between the 7 trouble-free Commandments binding on gentiles on the instant is "to no longer eat flesh from a residing animal. it relatively is forbidden to minimize off any component of a residing animal and eat it. An animal might desire to be slaughtered in the past being eaten. The nutritional rules (Kosher)given to the Jews at Mount Sinai, i.e. cloven foot, bite its cud, scales, etc.etc. in basic terms be conscious to the chosen human beings and to no longer the human beings of the previous covenant, the gentiles. guy does rule over the earth however the only valid text cloth is the Hebrew, no longer the replaced and falsified translations. Cordially, Daniel Joab Abraham.
2016-11-24 21:14:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does the bible have to offer on supersonic aircraft? Should NASA stop working on jet and rocket propulsion because God didn't create us with jet packs attached to our backs?
What does the bible have to offer about oncology? I don't recall anything in Genesis about chemotherapy or other treatments for cancer, maybe we should stop doing that as well, just to be safe.
If God wants us to stop pursuing some 21st-century technology, is it up to us to figure that out by interpreting a 4000-year-old manuscript? Don't you think God is a little bit more inventive than that?
2006-12-28 10:52:14 · answer #6 · answered by abram.kelly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well you know why this is not in the bible? Because we outgrew that bronze age mentality and way of thinking long ago. I suppose you would prefer the world to starve.
Since followers of Jesus are supposed to be able to do the same miracles as he did maybe you'd like to step up and multiply some fishes and loaves....?
2006-12-28 10:51:47 · answer #7 · answered by Medusa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
G-d created man with a brain. He expected man to use that brain to make a better world-to do our share in taking care of His world. This would mean to find ways to feed, clothe, and house the peoples of the world.
When the Bible was written, mankind had not evolved enough to understand more than what was written. With time, we are learning, and using, the brains that G-d gave to us.
2006-12-28 11:11:29 · answer #8 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that genetic modification is mentioned in the bible.
If it allows people to grow food where it doesn't presently gro and alleviates the effects of famine, then it would have to be a good thing.
2006-12-28 10:45:21 · answer #9 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They did not need to do this back in bible days. Read it. A bit short of bread, poof, magic, 12 loaves feed the starving hordes of Africa. Not enough fish, poof, magic, 12 fish feed everybody hungry in China. And for a real miracle there are enough leftovers for brunch.
2006-12-28 10:48:34 · answer #10 · answered by Barabas 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋