This where it started, when I asked Betty Boop:
1. What is the mode of salvation for, say the stillborn infant, of a member of a tribe that has not yet heard of your religion? Is it damned?
2. What is the mode of salvation for those born mentally deficient? Are they damned?
3. As we know now, mammalian cloning is a reality. If you were cloned with a muscle cell of yours, and brought to life through the application of known science, would this clone have a soul? What is its mode of salvation? How would it affect your very own?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2713145/posts?page=1940#1940
Since God chose to have his communications with man recorded in such a manner - God being God is able to preserve those communications, and that is what the faith is based upon.
Fine - 1 and 2 are easy - since it requires the ability to make a conscience decision to repent and accept Jesus, the stillborn (anywhere in the world) and those mentally impaired are not damned - very easy case to make from the bible.
A clone would be more difficult now wouldn’t it. What is more scary is how clones will be treated (primarily by atheists) than their actual presence in society. Yet there is a form of cloning - twins - that shows that yes, both would be in need of salvation, since both developed into humans. So too, if a complete human was cloned - that person would be equivalent to a twin, a human, still in need of salvation and protection from atheists who would want to treat them as something other than humans.
Fine - 1 and 2 are easy - since it requires the ability to make a conscience decision to repent and accept Jesus, the stillborn (anywhere in the world) and those mentally impaired are not damned - very easy case to make from the bible.
A clone would be more difficult now wouldn’t it. What is more scary is how clones will be treated (primarily by atheists) than their actual presence in society. Yet there is a form of cloning - twins - that shows that yes, both would be in need of salvation, since both developed into humans. So too, if a complete human was cloned - that person would be equivalent to a twin, a human, still in need of salvation and protection from atheists who would want to treat them as something other than humans.