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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: vacindak Ordered by Date |
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1 | Clones | Genesis | vacindak | 12835 | ||
The answer is very simple. Identical twins are for all intents and purposes clones. And you can't tell me that one has a soul and the other doesn't. As for "if he hasn't already", that's doubtful. The government has no realistic reason to do so, educational institutions don't either, and no one else has the means. Besides most of the 50 states have legislation of some kind prohibiting full human cloning. Some even go so far as to prohibit organ cloning as I recall. Honestly, I personally have no real moral or ethical problems with cloning. I just fail to see how anything other than organ cloning could have any possible legitimate use. Also, please note that science doesn't currently have any way to accelerate the aging of a clone. So any clone that is created will have to go through childhood. So there won't really be any of this silly situations that people keep coming up with like "My clone assasinated the president and I got framed." And stuff like people saw in The Sixth Day is so far out that you should be smacking yourself if you belived any of it. However, I totally agree with There - Cloning is not what God intended. The real dilema is that that clone will be raised differently from everyone around him. It is doubtful that a clone would be treated as human because of our prejudices. Beyond that, he/she wouldn't be likely to be a part of anything that could be termed a functional godly family unit. That presents a much more dangerous situation than anything that paranoid people can come up with. That in and of itself is a good enough reason to never fully clone a human. |
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2 | Why Jesus prays to his Father | John 10:29 | vacindak | 11186 | ||
It is late at night, so I will attempt to answer some of your questions, though I may not be able to answer all. "About the cleansing thru Jesus, are you saying the Father does not love us enough or we are not important enough to pray to him directly that we need to pray to Jesus first? And more importantly did not Jesus set an example for us to Pray to the Father?" This is an excellent question. I believe that God is holy and pure and we are not. As a result, our sin presents a barrier to direct intimate communication with God the Father. But because God loves us more than we can fully comprehend, he sent his Son, Jesus to pay the penalty for those sins. But because he respects us as human beings, and because he gave us free will, we aren't forced to accept that free gift of Jesus Christ's death on the cross. It's available, but we aren't forced to take it. If, however, you do accept that gift, Christ's death is sufficient to bring down that barrier and enable direct communication with God the Father. That's why Jesus said "No man cometh unto the Father but by me." Because Jesus was sinless and perfect, he NEVER HAD that barrier so he was able to directly communicate with God in prayer. And before Jesus's death, people were able to communicate with the Father because they trusted in the coming of the Messiah and that he would take away their sins and enable that communication and that faith was enough to ensure not only direct communication with God but also gain entrance to heaven. Hopefully that answers the first question. "If Jesus is God, that means the Father is God of God, correct? How can God have a God? This bewilders me!" I admit, it is confusing even to me sometimes. The concept of the Trinity can become mind-boggling at times but I am convinced it is the Truth. When Jesus came down to Earth as God in the form of a man, he was like us in every way, but without sin. That means he had free will, just like us. But as God, he was incapable of sin. So that means that as a man, he could cry out to his God, just like we can. But I have to point out, that in the verse you used as an example, he is still maintaining his status as a diety when he says "I ascend to My Father and your Father". When you look at the intent of what he is saying, he is making the statement something that Mary can relate to. He is showing a similarity - Both are human and both worship and serve the same God. While Jesus was still God (the Son), he served God (the Father). In order to make it a bit easier to understand I'll make an analogy. My body serves my mind. My body does what my mind tells it to. But my mind is still part of me, just like my body is part of me. It's the same way with the Trinity. Jesus served the Father even though he was God. Hopefully that helps a bit to make that a wee bit clearer. "But does not the Bible teach that the Earth is 10,000 years old? The secular world deny this claim, claiming the earth is billions of years old? The Quran makes no such claim about this young Earth." You're right, the Quran doesn't teach that the Earth is very young. But many people who wish to discredit the Bible make the assumption that the Bible teaches that the Earth is only 10,000 or so years old. This is not the case. The Bible does not say that the Earth was actually created during the seven days of creation. It says that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." It does NOT say WHEN specifically other than 'In the beginning'. So no, the Bible does not make the claim that the Earth is 10,000 years old. However, it does make the claim that mankind is about 10,000 years old. As for man being created out of water and the planets being round, I fail to see how that proves the truth of the Quran or the failing of the Bible. The Bible doesn't really say one way or the other about the shape of the planets, probably because at the time, people didn't need to know that the world was round. No one was trying at the time to go around the globe in a boat. So there isn't any reason for God to have revealed that. But any intellegent sailor on a very large lake or the ocean could have figured out that the Earth is round by watching the bottom of the boat disappear first until only the mast was visible. As for man being made of water, as opposed to dust, most of the elements and minerals that compose the body can be found in common dirt. And that dirt could quite possibly have been wet, especially because of the fact that the Garden of Eden was fed by four rivers. But this is beside the point. The main focus of the Bible is Christ's death on the cross, his resurrection, and his payment for our sins, not how the world was created. That's why there are four separate books of the Bible about Jesus and his life and death but only a short section at the beginning of one book on the creation. |
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