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To: circlecity
"Then people would just worship the source of that DNA as an icon. Through history God seems to have strenuously avoided doing things just like that. There's a reason there are no contemporary portraits of Jesus."

I'm not sure you quite understood my point.

I'm a technical man and I just luv learning about the features of our universe that give hints of the divine. One example is the rare earth hypothesis, that validates (can't prove, but validates) that it took a universe as vast as ours, with so many trillions of suns and rocky planets, to have a single one with the right conditions such that God could create life.

Another example is the background microwave radiation that proves there was a big bang. Until the 1950s who would have thought for even a single minute that there would be scientific evidence of the moment of creation?

Back to my point. Jesus was a man, right? Flesh and blood, right? So did he have DNA? If he did, was it DNA from a man and a spirit? Or all from his mother? Or something else entirely?

If his dead face was resting underneath that shroud, perhaps enough cells wore away to leave some DNA.

Would that DNA be truly human or would it be divine? That's my point. And if the DNA that was found, and analyzed, and proved to be some kind of "perfect" DNA, that would most surely be a little clue about just who the man was!

As for worshiping the DNA, well ... I don't know about that. But it can't be much different than worshiping a piece of cloth. By itself, the cloth means nothing to me. But if it contains a hint, or a clue, to the man's whose dead face was resting underneath it, now that is fascinating.

24 posted on 04/01/2018 10:56:23 AM PDT by tom h
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To: tom h

I understood your point exactly. You think it would be real cool if God left tangible, empirical evidence (from the cloth) to substantiate the diety of Christ. Yes, God could have done that in a thousand different ways but so far as we know he didn’t. There’s got to be a reason for that. I believe the reason is that the evidence, or the medium it came from, would end up being worshiped as an icon. Just as happened to the bronze serpent which is why King Hezikiah had it destroyed.


27 posted on 04/01/2018 11:02:12 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: tom h

>>Would that DNA be truly human or would it be divine?<<

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Isn’t DNA associated only with cellular matter? And isn’t matter created? The Divine(uncreated) has no cellular structure as far as I understand.


50 posted on 04/01/2018 1:43:11 PM PDT by 353FMG
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