Thought I would ask this again since I did not get a good answer from a Christian. See the ABC News item below. This woman started as two separate embryos that later fused in the womb into one. She has two different sets of DNA in her cells. Some cells have the set from one twin, some from the other.
Let's be clear. Two entirely separate embryos in the womb with presumably 2 souls. The two embryos combine into one embryo. Neither embryo dies because the cells from both are still in the combined embryo.
How many souls are there?
Seems like four possibilities to me:
1) Zero (correct answer by the way)
2) Two
3) One (Because one of the embryo souls "dies" when they combine and the other is left)
4) One (Because both embryo souls "die" and god creates a new one. So three total souls are involved)
If you pick 3 or 4, please explain in detail how this would work.
Look here for the story from ABC:
http://abcnews.go.com/primetime/story?id...
2007-01-08 05:19:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Every time I ask this, I get one of two responses from Christians:
1) Only god knows
2) There is one soul (but no explanation of how this is possible or what happened to the other soul)
2007-01-08 05:34:10 · update #1
This is the correct link:
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2315693&page=1
2007-01-08 05:57:33 · update #2
Your ABC news link doesn't work.
Anyway, even if the woman is a mosaic, a combination of cells with different genomes, but she seems to be one person, i guess she is one soul.
If it was something like conjoined twins, then i guess each twin is a separate soul.
A soul, by the way, when used to refer to a discrete entity in the Bible, refers to a whole person, there is no such thing as a soul as a separate entity from the body in the Bible. "Soul" is used to refer to the emotional or mental aspect of a person but there it refers to an aspect of a person and not a separate entity.
2007-01-08 05:55:05 · answer #1 · answered by Beng T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lord works in mysterious approaches, and we should not be misled with the aid of our limited minds. We see a paradox, yet for the Lord there's no paradox. Quantum physicists word issues in a superposition of states interior the laboratory, and the fused embryo appears like such an occasion. it would desire to temporarily exist in a superposition of states |0> + |a million> + |2> + |3> as you have defined. If we tried to degree the form of souls the subsequent toddler has, we could discover it having everywhere from 0 to 3 souls. whether, the Lord having all-powerful powers, even quantum risk isn't previous his administration. simply by fact this is mandatory for the toddler to have precisely a million and easily a million soul for purposes of being under pressure with sin at beginning and salvation thereby afterwards simply by very own and singular duty, the Lord forces the consequence of |a million>, and the ambiguity is resolved. The Lord has his very own bookkeeping on souls.
2016-10-30 08:36:16 · answer #2 · answered by andry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That there is no freaks in God creation. He says that all men are created in his image. But satan through man has tryed to duplicate his creation and thus wound up with such a thing. God who is all knowing will make all things known, But I am quite sure that this did not happen at his hand..
2007-01-08 05:36:34 · answer #3 · answered by Tim and Karen J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, interesting question. And I hate to sound cliche, but my honest opinion is that no one really knows but God himself... : )
2007-01-08 05:23:02 · answer #4 · answered by Melody 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋