Is cloning a sin?

Question

Yes, it's really me. Behold the shiny orange badge.

I apologize for the lunacy of my clone/troll/stalker. He disappeared yesterday but apparantly earlier today when I said I've had sex with an atheist it set him off again.

Answer 1

rofl rachel !
but please dont appologise for them sweetie xxx

Answer 2

Big question. You might throw in developing the Atom Bomb, blood transfusions, transplants, etc.

A good argument could be made for both sides but I am going to say No for three reasons. Two have to do with prophecy as it deals with God's story unfolding in time. The second has to do with the nature of man and what sin really is.

First: Sin is a condition in the nature of the human heart. What people do are offenses, crimes and things wicked. They do these things because they are sinners; but the things or offenses are not so much sin of themselves but symptoms. Murder is a crime. People murder because they are sinners.

The idea that sin and breaking the law are the same thing has been clouded over. People seek forgiveness only for actions; but not for the heart that produced those actions.

Second: I don't think that cloning in God's scheme of things is a sin; but most certainly offenses will come by it and woe to the man that those offense come by.

Man for a number of years has been seriously at work in God's laboratory. Such work has resulted in positive and negative outcomes. One must also consider the motive for the work. There are those who look to creating life and holding power over other people. Some think that cloning a human would prove beyond doubt that we are nothing but animals with no special spirit. Again we are back to the wicked heart and fears that few want to deal with.

Interesting that the first clone was a sheep. In Scripture we have entered an age of gross darkness. Yet, at the same time, God has been cloning Christ in those separated from this world. The advances of science in the physical world all relate to what God is doing in the spiritual.

A unit that is cloned is always slightly older then the unit it was cloned from. If you were cloned next year the 'new you' will not only occupy a different space but will be your elder in time.

That difference, however small, means the clone cannot have the exact experience the original has, or would have had if not present. So both factors of time and chance have been altered and the age factor continues to regress with each cloning. This double difference is not true of twins.

I don't know about sin, but one could project some real chaos if human cloning becomes possible and common.

Answer 3

Well it might not be a sin but for higher animals it seems a bit of a waste. Even with plants the clones lose vigor after a certain number of generations and cloned animals have shown a sad tendency to be weaker and sicker than the creature they were cloned from.

Lucky atheist.

Answer 4

Why, yes, REAL Rachel, it is. You mean this is all about having sex with an atheist?! Imagine if you had done something important with an atheist! As a Christian, I've got to say that some of these people are a little freaky.

Answer 5

Big argument with too many semantics!!!
We could say, "NO" because there are no verses saying..."Thou Shalt not Clone"

We could say, "YES" because it has valid reason to argue for going against nature.

We should just love each other, work everyday to try and help someone and let God answer all the hard questions after judgment.
:)

If cloning ever makes it.
I think it would be a sin not to love a cloned person.

Answer 6

Cloning is not a sin. The following is my argument.

Premise 1: God cannot sin.

Premise 2: Identical twins are the result of natural cloning. This is true.

Premise 3: God is in control of nature.

Premise 4: God clones.

Conclusion: If cloning is a sin, we should condemn natural identical twins. Identical twins are natural clones. Cloning is a natural process. It is not a sin, or else God wouldn't do it already. God cannot sin, God clones people, therefore cloning cannot be a sin.

Answer 7

Yes it is sin.First you call yourself a Christian on your profile.So what is a christian to you.Do you really believe a person who follows Jesus would have sex before marriage.Knowing it was sinning.Yes I realize that everyone is a sinner and ever sin is equal under GOD.But if you keep on sinning on purpose do you really call that true repentance.I am not judging people I am just repeating what is said in the bible.And trying to get truth out so people will realize what they need to do to go to heaven instead of hell. I do this out of LOVE for everyone not for hate because I hate no one just sin including my own.God judges people the same way they judge others.read Matthew7:2.FOR I am not trying to condemned people I am just trying to spread the word like Jesus ask all his followers to do.I forgive all who sin against me as Jesus forgives my sins.JESUS forgives those who truly repent their sins and do their best not to.FOR JESUS IS LOVE AND FORGIVENESS AND THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION.I LOVE YOU ALL.

Answer 8

No, sin is a religious concept, and if you are religious you understand that god made man in his own image, so if god made man we should strive to be like him and make men too.

So any intelligent religious person has to say cloning is not a sin, and any non-religious person doesn't even believe in sin so again the answer is no.

Answer 9

It violates the Yahoo rules, so I suppose that it is a sin to them.

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Go fight your clone. Only by defeating her in a Muai Thai kickboxing match can we truly see which one of you is the evil twin.

Answer 10

Cloning is a mortal sin. It sends you straight to Internet Hell, where the devil and his demons feed on your innards while forcing you to listen to Engelbert Humperdink albums for all eternity.

Or at least it would if *I* ran Yahoo!Answers. :-)

Answer 11

Don't worry; most of us have the sense to know how to tell the difference between the legit and the fake :)