What does the Bible say about cloning?
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The Bible does not directly address cloning, but it teaches that every human life belongs to God, bears his image, and must be treated with reverence rather than as a product or possession. Genesis 1:26-28 grounds human dignity in God’s image and gives humanity a limited, accountable calling to exercise dominion under the Creator. Psalm 100:3 reminds us that “it is he who made us,” while Psalm 139:13-16 praises God’s personal, wise involvement in forming each human life. Christians may therefore evaluate cloning carefully, recognizing medical possibilities while rejecting any practice that commodifies persons, destroys human life, or denies God’s sovereign authorship of life.
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- Psalms 139:13-16
[13] For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. [14] I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. [15] My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth. [16] Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there were none of them.
- Psalms 100:3
Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Genesis 1:26
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 birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Genesis 1:27
God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 1:28
God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
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