Jesus' DNA was found; do you think there will be clone created in the next century?

Question

Would you predict that a clone of Jesus will be created in the next century? Thus, an identical twin born two millennia apart? Obviously some biological mutations may occur and every experience will be different, but it would be quite an interesting outcome.

Answer 1

Jesus could not have had human DNA since his essence is made up of "whole cloth" that "doesn't hold water." You simply can't clone that silly.

Answer 2

5. The DNA Evidence Is Irrelevant and Untrustworthy.

First, why was DNA testing not done on all the ossuaries in the cave but just on two? If the DNA of three or four of the bone boxes did not match, then this would destroy the whole theory.

Second, in the film, there is a DNA test showing that Mariamne and Jesus’ DNA residues do not match. Based on that one shred of evidence, the researchers claim the couple was married and that this couple must be Jesus and Mary Magdalene. With how many women in Judea would Jesus’ DNA not match? Even women named Mariamne? This proves nothing. It only states the obvious, that the two were not related, nothing more. Even this DNA evidence is scientifically shaky.

Dr. Jim Tabor, a professor involved in the special, answered in an interview, "No one had ever contacted a statistician or a DNA person. There’s a sense in which one reason he did this is that I wasn’t thinking of doing this, and the DNA guy wasn’t thinking about it—it almost needed a single person to say ‘This is what I want to do.’ Then it just began to skyrocket because Cameron came in and it became high profile and that gave us the budget. If we were just talking about one subject, the names, then I think it would be correct that we would not say let’s have a documentary on that—we’d publish first.

The publicity of it all was then picked up by Discovery, but that’s their decision—they’ve taken a lot of heat for it. I don’t want to be critical of that—I’m not paid by them in any way. I and about four other people were brought in as consultants—Shimon Gibson for archaeolgoy, me for history, etc. Nobody was paid—they paid our expenses, but no stipends and we have no stake in the film."8

According to Dr. Witherington, "There is no independent DNA control sample to compare to what was garnered from the bones in this tomb. By this I mean that the most the DNA evidence can show is that several of these folks are inter-related. Big deal. We would need an independent control sample from some member of Jesus’ family to confirm that these were members of Jesus’ family. We do not have that at all. In addition mitochondrial DNA does not reveal genetic coding or XY chromosome make up anyway. They would need nuclear DNA for that in any case. So the DNA stuff is probably thrown in to make this look more like a real scientific fact."

Answer 3

No original DNA to compare whatever DNA was found, so saying they found the Christ's DNA is ludicrous.

Cameron is pandering to the public and his "discovery" will be proven to be just bad science:

- The statistical analysis is not rigorous

- The name "Jesus" was a popular name at that time, appearing in 98 other tombs and on 21 other ossuaries

- There is no historical evidence that Jesus was ever married or had a child

- The earliest followers of Jesus never called him, "Jesus, son of Joseph"

- It's unlikely Joseph, who had died earlier in Galilee, would have been buried in Jerusalem

- The Talipot tomb and ossuaries probably would have belonged to a rich family, which is not a historical match for Jesus

- Fourth-century church historian Eusebius makes quite clear the body of James, brother of Jesus, was buried alone near the temple mount.

- The two Mary ossuaries do not mention anyone from Migdal, but just Mary, a common name

- By all ancient accounts, the tomb of Jesus was empty, making it unlikely that any body was moved, allowed to decay for a year, then be put into an ossuary.

- If Jesus had remained in the tomb, first-century opponents of Christianity would most certainly have found His body and put it on public display.

- Amos Kloner, the first archaeologist to examine the site, said the conclusions cannot be supported by the evidence but it's a way to make money on television. He would have nothing to do with supporting the movie's assertions. "It's nonsense," he said.

- James, the half-brother of Jesus and author of the book of James, the early leader of the church in Jerusalem, was martyred for his faith. Why does James make no mention in his letter that Jesus was not bodily resurrected? When he was about to die why didn't he just recant his beliefs and say, 'Okay, okay! My brother didn't rise from the dead. Here's where we took him. Here's where his bones are. Here's our family tomb. We made the whole thing up?' People will generally not die for a lie when they know it's a lie. Why would James die perpetuating a lie when it would have been so easy to disprove? In fact why would any of the apostles go to their deaths for something they knew to be false?

As I have expected, there has been **no scientific or historical find** that has ever been shown to disprove the authenticity of the bible's history or theology.

Kind of disappointing to see that all it takes is a press conference and a slick TV show for some folks to form life-altering opinions versus taking the time to rationally examine all the issues and dig a little deeper. It is the Macdonald's generation: fast, superficial, and never satisfying.

Answer 4

Let supposed that happens the bible said that his body dissapear because Jesus resurrected in an spiritual body (1 peter 3:18) and yes i know Thomas touched him but that body was materialized as angels in the bible did several times before, if you have the DNA of Jesus you will have a perfect DNA that means no illness, no growing old, everlasting life, but still a human being and that clone will not remember who was he in heaven before caming here.

Answer 5

They never found Jesus body. That is so stupid why would they even say that it is like those Divinchy stuff. It is all from the devil to mislead people. The demons are having a good time confusing people. Revelation says that Jesus is in heaven at the right hand of God. REv 7:10

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Let's use a little logic here. If Jesus was who the Bible says He was, then it wasn't His bones, and therefore not His DNA that was discovered.
If Jesus was not who the Bible says he was, and it was his bones that were discovered; then he would be no more remarkable or significant than any other man who ever lived, so what would be the point of cloning him?

Answer 8

Uh, i have a problem with the first part of your question...

If you believe that that's Jesus's DNA, then i've got a 2000 year old 14th century cloth from Torino, Italy i'd like to sell you.

Answer 9

I wonder if people would think he was the anti-christ or if it was the secound coming. I guess one means the other, so lets go a head and do it and get all the good old christians raptures that way there can be peace on earth for the rest of us.

Answer 10

Jesus' DNA was not found. Just because the Discovery Channel said so it does not mean it is true.