By Chris Bouter, MA
I am not discussing here whether cloning is evil. [I think it isa dangerous attempt to play God]. What I want to say here isthat also cloned humans are unique like anybody else. We are notmaterial machines without a ghost. God gave us the breath oflife. Also it says in the Holy Bible that God is forming(present participle) our spirits within us (Zech. 12.1). {Forthe theologians among us: the human being is born neither inaccordance with an Aristotelian Thomistic 'creationism' [theidea that God creates the spirit apart from the body and somehow'puts' it into it (as it were through a 'backdoor'; Aristotle:thurathen)], nor according to a traducionism à la Tertullian andthe Apollinarians [the idea that essentially in Adam all humanswere contained]. There must be a very intertwined work betweenboth the breath of life given to Adam and the genetic materialon the one hand and the life of a human spirit as it developsover the course of a lifetime through the workings of God}.Cloning is not as unique as some probably think. God has beenmaking clones from the beginning of time. For identical twinsare more or less clones of each other. The only difference isthat an artificial clone is younger than her twinsister, (who isalso her 'mother'; except in the case of a male clone).
God forms our spirits within us in interaction with us. We areresponsible on the one hand and God is gracious on the other.This holds also true for a cloned human. The Bible exhorts us'to work out our salvation with fear and trembling; for (!) Godis the One that is working both the willing and the working.'And elsewhere it says that although we do not know what weshould pray, the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with unfathomablesighings.
Scientists will never be able to clone a male from a female. Thezygot (cell that makes us either male or female) that determineswhether a person is female, consists of two x gametes (a gameteis a cell that comes from either the mother or the father tocombine with the gamete from the other parent). A male zygothowever consists of an x and a y gamete to become the uniquediploid of malehood (read: male chromosome).
Women only carry double x chromosomes and men have chromosomesthat consist both of the y and the x gametes. So that means thatfrom women only can come women and from men (in combination withwomen) both men and women.
In the book of Job the question is asked whether anything cleancan come from the unclean. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was justas fallen as anybody else. Yet the Holy Spirit could make a'holy thing' and that male! {Never call Mary the mother of God.'All generations will call me blessed' she said, but do not gobeyond that. To call her the mother of God actually implies thatshe supplants God's unique divinity. It makes her more . . .Women would do good to think of the pious Jewish virgins thatwere wondering whether she or she would become the mother of theMessiah.}
This all makes the miracle of the virgin birth only an evengreater wonder. No matter to what height mad scientists willclimb, we follow Jesus Christ.
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