metmom: “God giving man dominion over the planet is not a license to engage in immoral pursuits.”
I totally, absolutely agree. Is your opposition to this because you believe it equates to humans and animals mating? Explain.
metmom: “Nobody said technology is evil. A strawman if I ever saw one.”
I wasn’t using that particular point to refute anyone. I was explaining my position on technology. It’s neither evil or good. It’s what man does with it that is evil or good.
I don’t mean any disrespect to you, metmom, but you haven’t provided any scripture whatsoever to show it’s evil to grow replacement human body parts in animals. What’s the point of discussing this from a Christian perspective at all if we can’t back it up with scripture?
I don’t take these sorts of issues lightly, BTW. I believe people need to spend a great deal of time in prayer and study before they embark on anything that might be questionable. If in doubt, it shouldn’t be done:
Galatians 6:4 “Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else,...”
Nevertheless, things aren’t evil just because you or I think they are. We should be prepared to provide an answer to anyone on matters of faith and righteousness—based on scripture. If we state something is evil, it MUST be founded in scripture. Don’t you agree?
We have virtually zero chance of convincing others without scriptural backup. Plus, we violate scripture ourselves when we don’t test doctrine with scripture.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 “Test everything. Hold on to the good. 22Avoid every kind of evil.”
1 John 4:1 “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
Revelation 2:2 “I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.”
Acts 17:11 “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.”
2 Timothy 4:2-4 “2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long suffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”
Acts 18:28 “For he vigorously refuted the Jews in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.”
John 7:24 “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.””
No, because it contaminates animal's and human's DNA. It gets back to what another FReepre pointed out as the reason God sent the Flood.
God made species to reproduce after their own kind. Creating chimeras is treading on dangerous ground, ground we are not wise enough to manage.
I believe that mankind has developed technology that has outpaced his ability to control it and use it wisely, and that is going to lead to trouble.
Just because we CAN do something doesn't mean that we should.
Citizen, where are you going with this?
Surely you wouldn't expect the Word to address such a spiritually contrary endeavor that had yet to show its humanist head at the time?
Jeremiah 17:The Word makes it plain that our health / healing is to come from the sources that the Lord gave us, and that they are sufficient. If we expect to avoid the consequences of doing otherwise through man's clever twisting of life, we are not in any way trusting in the Lord; we are indeed making flesh our power, rather than the Lord.
"[5] Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
[6] For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
[7] Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.