Does the bible answer any questions regarding the use of fetal stem cells for research.?

Question

If so, please quote me the scripture that refers to refrigerators or the freezing of anything. Otherwise, there is nothing there about using frozen stem cells is there!

Nothing is aborted. These frozen embryos will never become babies!

Answer 1

Nope. "Thou shalt not kill" doesn't do it because you are freezing the healthy stem cells of an already dead fetus and not, in reality, killing anything. In fact, the God I recall from scriptures in the NT and OT killed a whole lot of babies for different reasons and one can only hope he did something reasonable with the bodies for the betterment of mankind (although I doubt it highly). It is like taking scrapings of skin from beneath a fingernail to check for disease. It ain't gonna kill your nail, which is already dead skin anyway.

What few religious people understand is that our world is NOT perfect. Legal or illegal, abortions are going to happen. This is not something the government can regulate because so may people disagree upon whether or not a human being is viable upon conception or as a zygote. Without a brain or nerve cells, a zygote is not yet a human and cannot think or feel pain. Whatever one believes, though, since abortions are going to occur regardless of anyone's big mouth on either side, why not use the fetuses to attempt to save lives and better our chances for survival - let alone possibly cure someone of diseases we have as yet been unable to find a cure for? It's wrong to you? OK. It's happening ANYWAY. Should we therefore just dump all the fetuses into the trash when they can be utilized for humanitarian reasons? Heck, think about it - with stem cell research having a chance to be tested fully and the likelihood of surviving certain diseases increasing, we'll have way more babies and adults in the world who will be or can become Christians! Isn't that what God would want?

Freedom means being pro-choice. Period. I personally could not imagine having an abortion, but I have also never been put into such a circumstance that I might need to. If men could have babies, abortions would become as legal as milk. The Bible says nothing about utilizing healthy cells to research cures for severely debilitating illnesses. Do you go to a doctor when you get sick? Why? Shouldn't you be asking God to fix you? For all of you who say embryonic stem cell research has proven nothing, a. You are wrong and b. If it is a way to cure disease we will only know once we fund it. These researchers are doing much of their work for free because the government has taken away the right of the people to demand funding for what has proven to be a treatment for debilitating disease in many other countries.

*Satellite* - If you believe birth begins at conception, then I take it you don't believe in birth control, correct? Now imagine everyone thought like you and what an effect such a belief would regarding the amount of unwanted, abused, neglected, starving children in the world. And young kids having babies. This is, I repeat, NOT a perfect world. Not everyone is going to wait until they are married. Without any means of birth control, the amount of unwanted and childhood pregnancies will become astronomical - although they are happening less now than they ever have been.What do you propose people do then? I'm not talking about killing a child. I am speaking of when that child has a brain and cells which form the makeup of a viable human being. If you DO believe in birth control, then I don't see how to you it isn't much the same as an abortion, unless you are just using condoms (which, Biblically, prevent life from being conceived and are therefore a sin as well).

Answer 2

Hi gtw;

There are many things that aren't directly addressed in the Bible, since the technology wasn't available at the time of the writing; but the Biblical principles are very much as valid today as they ever were.
If, in fact, it's true that they could use umbilical cords of newborns for the stem cell research and not have to abort babies to "further" medical science (which is really one step forward, 10 steps back if you have to sacrifice an innocent to do so), then I don't see where a Biblical principle is broken in doing so.

Answer 3

Wow.

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I am still searching. I can't find an analogy.

The cloning of Eve from Adam's rib is as close as I can find. But, of course that didn't involve any sperms and eggs getting together and then being used for healing someone.

The instruction to not spill your sperm on the ground comes to mind. But of course, that was case specific. it had nothing to do with "you know what". I think it related to marrying your dead brother's wife.

Hum? Are not most things in the Bible rather case specific, and then we (grossly and sometime cruelly) generalize them to apply in every situation of our lives. For example, have you sold all your property lately and given the proceeds to the poor people?

Is your picture in a corn field? That corn field may answer your question. The Bible says that we can learn about God by observing what God has created. (Remember Jesus and the ants, and the lillies in the field, and the sparrow)

Your corn field may be the clue. How do you plant corn? How do you tend to corn? Have you ever transplanted corn? When did you consider a sprout as a baby cob of corn? What harm were you doing?

Answer 4

Embryonic stem cell research is a fairly new technology, to expect to have an explicit reference to it in the Bible is unreal. Do you really want to know what the Bible has to say about it's moral value, the value of a human life, or are you trying a-shot-in- the-dark way to discredit the Bible?

Answer 5

According to the Bible (and in my humble opinion, common sense), human life begins at conception (when the egg and sperm fertilize, creating a new living and growing organism). See Psalm 139:13-16 and Jeremiah 1:4-5.

Because of this belief that life begins at conception, experimenting on stem cells is tantamount to experimenting on living human beings.

Whether you believe the Bible or not, it is intellectually irresponsible to claim that because the Bible does not specifically mention stem cell research that it's principles about life do not apply. For example, just because it doesn't mention robbery at gunpoint doesn't mean that it is silent on that particular issue, too.

Answer 6

Personally I don't see how doing research on embryonic stem cells is any different from cutting off a piece of skin and experimenting on it.

But I'm just an atheist.

Answer 7

The Bible explains how children are torn to bits with God help.
I am sure it has nothing against using fetal stem cells for research...

Answer 8

Make certain whilst you to find them that your opinion is reliant upon the existence of a Christian god. I believe you'll find copy in general includes one man and one girl, although. And Kenshin's correct, you have got thoroughly stressed IVF and embryonic stem cellphone study. Maybe you will have to base your essay on just a little of talents before announcing its flawed?

Answer 9

God flooded the Earth in the days of noah killing all those unborn babies. I don't think God has a problem with stem cell research.

Answer 10

You are right, I have not seen any information that pertains to stem cell research. I'm with you, and I think its past time...lets get on with the research. We have the scientific abiltiy to possibly assist humanity, what are we waiting for?!!