(~) CLONING THE SON OF GOD?
Several years ago, several news agencies reported the efforts of a
group to clone Jesus Christ. The goal of this group was best stated in
their own words:
"The Second Coming Project is a not-for-profit organization devoted
to bringing about the Second Coming of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, as
prophesied in the Bible, in time for the 2,000th anniversary of his
birth. Our intention is to clone Jesus....by taking an incorrupt cell
from one of the many Holy Relics of Jesus' blood and body that are
preserved in churches throughout the world, extracting its DNA, and
inserting into an unfertilized human egg....The fertilized egg, now the
zygote of Jesus Christ, will be implanted into the womb of a young
virginal woman (who has volunteered of her own accord), who will then
bring the baby Jesus to term in a second Virgin Birth.
"If all goes according to plan, the birth will take place on December
25, 2001, thus making Anno Domini 2001 into Anno Domini Novi 1, and all
calendrical calculations will begin anew......
"No longer can we rely on hope and prayer, waiting around futilely
for Jesus to return. We have the technology to bring him back right now:
there is no reason, moral, legal or Biblical, not to take advantage of
it." (source: the now defunct http://www.clonejesus.com/)
This group in California claimed to be soliciting contributions to
fund their effort. When I first heard of this, I thought it was a joke.
It HAD to be a joke. And, fortunately, it turned out to be just that.
There are a lot of things which disturbed me about the thought of
taking it seriously. Setting aside for a moment the morality of human
cloning and the questionable authenticity of the "holy relics", there
seems to be an even greater issue at the heart of all this.
Do we really believe that the uniqueness of Jesus Christ was bound up
in his DNA? That what made him special was found in his chromosomes? That
we can "create" God if we just have the right genetic code? I can think
of few things more foolish.
Jesus was indeed human -- every bit as human as we are. But what
made him special, what made him unique, was his Godhood, and that is
something which will never be created in a test tube.
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all
creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that
are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for
Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist." (Col.
1:15-17)
Oh, and by the way, our wait for the return of Jesus Christ is not in
the least bit futile. He is quite capable of returning just as he
promised he would, without our assistance. When I look around at a world
which refuses to acknowledge Christ for who he really was, I pray that it
will be soon.
Have a great day!
Alan Smith
Ninure Saunders aka Rainbow Christian
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