KitKit

my parents are screenwriters & my mom came across some info on a script that is supposedly being made into a movie. it's called "cloning christ". she thought the premise for the movie would be that they found the remains of christ & using the dna found, they cloned him.

such a movie could head in many different directions don't ya think. how interesting would that be? would it prove or disprove everything written in the bible? this idea is pretty thought provoking, so i'm throwing it out there to see what you guys have to say about it.

KitKit

i am going to assume that the movie is based on this book...
http://www.cloningchrist.com/


here's an excerpt:

"Max may hold the fate of Mankind in his hands. If this is the True Cross and Christ was cloned from the remaining blood stains and hair remnants on the cross, would government and religion become obsolete upon His Second Coming? If the blood stains and hair are those of Jesus, then what does this say about the long held belief Christ rose whole and entire upon his resurrection? Where would the battle lines be drawn between the advances in science and the beliefs of religion? What effect would this knowledge have on one's faith and beliefs?"

very interesting indeed!

Rational BAC

From a practical standpoint however----------Would God's DNA show up with Jesus's?

Does God have DNA?

I think, even if you could clone Jesus, you would end up with just Mary's side of it.

Even if God had DNA, (a little ludicrous) I seriously doubt that He would want to be typed that way. So the DNA of Jesus would not show any trace of God.

Tenspace

And what about all the little deformed, unsuccessful Christs? Do you think they'd get JC right in the first try?

Or, "Sorry, we can't clone Jesus because we are soooo behind in cloning technology, thanks to GW Bush and the elimination of new stem cell lines." That would be rich.

Tenspace

lunachick

Sounds pretty interesting. You could take a tale like that on all kinds of twists and turns for good and evil - or even turn the new Jesus clone into a Truman type character, where he is kept in a staged and always-observed biosphere in the name of both religious and scientific study.

I rather like Plucky Purcell stealing the body of Christ from beneath the Vatican in Tom Robbins' "Another Roadside Attraction" better, though. I'm not a big sci-fi fan.

Ojuice5001

But if the resurrection is true, there would be no way to get a sample. This assumes that Jesus's body is still accessible, meaning that he was not resurrected. And if he wasn't resurrected, he probably wasn't the Incarnation of God either.

Mike Rosoft

But if the resurrection is true, there would be no way to get a sample.

Fortunately, we have a quality sample: the Turin Shroud. :-)


Mike Rosoft

lunachick

Sorry, Ojuice5001, but I think the Vatican is hiding something in the cellar.

I'm going in.

KitKit

in the book he finds the supposed cross that christ died on. his idea is to use the blood & hair from the cross to get the dna.

(in my op i said they found the body, but that was a guess on the premise of the story. then i found the link to the book & read about the cross & posted it in the second post. sorry for the confusion. )

GaryP

If someone could find JC's foreskin, there would be an ample supply of DNA;

But in 1983, thieves broke in and stole the 300 year-old jewel-encrusted reliquary and the holy flesh it contained. Presumably they only wanted the case - but what on earth did they do with the foreskin? Is it sitting in someone's basement right now?

Maybe Steven Speilberg should look upon this as a movie idea: Indiana Jones and the Quest for the Holy Foreskin!



http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQ...s_foreskin.htm