ethical debate aside for the moment, would a full human clone possess a soul?
would they share a soul with their original?
I'm curious to get people's views on this.
2007-10-30 01:31:39 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
as a little extra from Lynn's answer, It could be argued that if we conceive it then god intended us to be able to do it.
so cloning is actually a 'gift from god'?
2007-10-30 01:44:52 · update #1
this question is unanswerable technically. my belief is that every living thing posesses a soul, an individual soul... depending what you believe a soul to be (i.e. energy field, spirit e.t.c.) If you can, read the spiritual works of Edgar Cayce, he pretty much summed it all up with a believable (and logical) explanation of what a soul is and how it comes to place in a human/animal/plant being. a clone is purely flesh and bone in substance, when a child is conceived, it is basically a "combined clone" of the parents, therefore, depending on what your personal beliefs are regarding the soul, there is not alot of difference between us and a clone, the clone is just a creation from one "parent", rather than a combination of both. hope this helps :-)
2007-10-30 01:47:33 · answer #1 · answered by jaskatia 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God made man in his own image. That would make us little clones of God, therefore we posess no soul, and that would make us God's "machines", constructed just for his amusement, and someone to worship him.
On the serious side. Just think of all the times medical science has advanced over the centuries. It was always thought as "meddeling in the affairs of God", IF science would stop at being able to clone parts of the human body, say a new heart or liver, that could be transplanted in a dying patient. That would be a good thing.
As far as developing a human from cloning, the soul or essesance of a personis developed and nutured as that person grows from a embryo to an adult, everything we are is a growing process.
When a infant or child dies, that "essesance" is not developed, they are considered "innocent", but when an adult dies, they are to be judged on their past deeds, that persons soul or essesance is either good or bad or neutral.
Can a clone have a soul? Yes.
2007-10-30 01:53:25 · answer #2 · answered by elder_moon81 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No the Bible says nothing about cloning..But it would be against God.. For Christians, this comes down to God's created order that we marry and produce children through the His ordained means of procreation. Human cloning goes against this and risks the manipulation and murder of another human life. Then there is the question of the soul. Does a clone have a soul, since God created man in completeness... the cloning of full human beings would be wrong since it rebels against God's created order of having a mother and a father, of using the God-ordained procreative means, and it usurps God's sovereign right to be the author of the life in the womb. Science wants clones more for stem cell research..Since when is it acceptable to sacrifice the life of one human for another..?????
2016-05-26 02:05:10 · answer #3 · answered by tamra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
since there is less proof of the existence of a soul than there is for a black hole, um id say clones are nothing more than beings that started out with duplicate genetic material, a clone doesnt have the exact same feelings or thoughts as his host. he is a biologically seperate entity. He will exibit all the same functions at the fundamental level tho, brainwaves, heartbeats, thoughts, and urges.
yet the problem you run into has to do with something imaginary... so while the rest of rational humanity can move on, your stuck with a problem thats of your own creation.
there are tons of examples of clones in nature (genetic material that exists in duplicate from which seperate beings develop). humans did not make them, 'apparently' god made them. so your argument kinda is a little flimsy.
2007-10-30 01:40:07 · answer #4 · answered by AlCapone 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Based on Christian teachings, I would say no that the clone would not possess a soul. The Clone would be a man made creation, a human machine as such, and not a person conceived in the traditional sense.
2007-10-30 01:36:36 · answer #5 · answered by The Oracle of Delphi 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As a human has no soul..... Just a naive belief that one has an over inflated importance in the universe. A clone would be just that.... A clone. No More , no less.
Soul.... Mind, conscience. There is nothing more.
2007-10-30 01:45:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A human being doesn't "possess" a soul. A human being IS a combination of body and soul. If there is no soul, the effect is just the same as if there is no body - no human being.
2007-10-30 01:47:07 · answer #7 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Way, Do you think God would allow this, I don't, God creates the Soul, How could something a Human could make contain a soul, I do not think it would ever be possible to do anyway, I do not think God would let that happen, that is just to freaky for me to think about, as far as the sheep being cloned, animals don't have a souls,
2007-10-30 01:35:00 · answer #8 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
no.. clone is like a fake God's creation. and God did not tell man to make other men. Only God can give souls
2007-10-30 01:34:36 · answer #9 · answered by Johan 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
When we are conceived we are created the way God made us to be. With male and female.
Scientist are not God. God did not create clones. They do not have a soul.
Genesis 1:26-28 (King James Version)
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
2007-10-30 04:03:37 · answer #10 · answered by Old Hickory 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋