Cloning, Souls, Etc.

[shanstress70]

So, my husband and I are watching a show on Discovery right now about cloning. We started talking about the whole soul thing. What do you guys think about it?

First of all, can we assume that it's possible to clone a human being? Animals have been cloned by now, so I think it's possible to do the same with humans.

If I make a clone of myself, would me and my clone have the same soul? Or would it be a different person with a different soul? Strange to think about...

[BenRaines]

My guess, I don't know, would be that the new lifeform would have it's own soul. Just a guess.

Ben Raines

[Doctor Steuss]

Moses 3:5 seems to state that all things have a "spirit" including animals. So, it would seem that if animals have spirits, then a human clone would have one too. Also, if a child born through artificial insemination has a "soul," why not one "born" through the process of cloning?

Also, an interesting little tidbit I ran across about a week ago (from Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 291)

Says one, "I cannot believe in the salvation of beasts." Any man who would tell you that this could not be, would tell you that the revelations are not true. John heard the words of the beasts giving glory to God, and understood them. God who made the beasts could understand every language spoken by them. The four beasts were four of the most noble animals that had filled the measure of their creation, and had been saved from other worlds, because they were perfect: they were like angels in their sphere. We are not told where they came from, and I do not know; but they were seen and heard by John praising and glorifying God.

[Annabelli]

Didn't the author give Frankenstein a soul?

[CrimsonKairos]

Hey if Hillary Clinton has a soul, then anything can have a soul, even something created by freak-science!

[Doctor Steuss]

Hey if Hillary Clinton has a soul, then anything can have a soul, even something created by freak-science!

LOL

[MadHatter]

Moses 3:5 seems to state that all things have a "spirit" including animals. So, it would seem that if animals have spirits, then a human clone would have one too. Also, if a child born through artificial insemination has a "soul," why not one "born" through the process of cloning?

Also, an interesting little tidbit I ran across about a week ago (from Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 291)

Says one, "I cannot believe in the salvation of beasts." Any man who would tell you that this could not be, would tell you that the revelations are not true. John heard the words of the beasts giving glory to God, and understood them. God who made the beasts could understand every language spoken by them. The four beasts were four of the most noble animals that had filled the measure of their creation, and had been saved from other worlds, because they were perfect: they were like angels in their sphere. We are not told where they came from, and I do not know; but they were seen and heard by John praising and glorifying God.

I believe it was a Quote by Bruce R. McConkie, but one of the apostles gave a talk about how Michael, The Arch Angel, Gathered all the animals from other planets and placed them on the earth. I think this concept may be radical, but all together doesn't seem impossible, God and Christ created them and Adam was told to name them according to the KJV of the Bible, which we know has flaws. I read it in the book "The Plan of Salvation: Understanding our Divine Origin and Destiny, By Matthew B. Brown" It's full of awesome information pulled together form the 4 standard works, and also from the journal of Discourses, and other speeches given by prophets, and apostles.

[Doctor Steuss]

I believe it was a Quote by Bruce R. McConkie, but one of the apostles gave a talk about how Michael, The Arch Angel, Gathered all the animals from other planets and placed them on the earth. I think this concept may be radical, but all together doesn't seem impossible, God and Christ created them and Adam was told to name them according to the KJV of the Bible, which we know has flaws. I read it in the book "The Plan of Salvation: Understanding our Divine Origin and Destiny, By Matthew B. Brown" It's full of awesome information pulled together form the 4 standard works, and also from the journal of Discourses, and other speeches given by prophets, and apostles.

If you can find who made the comment (and/or have time), I'd dig a reference to it. I am aware of one statement made by JFS that Adam may have been transplanted from "another sphere," but I've never heard it proposed that animals were also.