The Baha'i Studies Listserv Peace, I'm just purely speculating, but I think the potential clones of the prophets and messengers of God would only share the same personality traits, but they would not be the actual 'Manifestation' of God. So, Clone Bab, Clone Muhammad, and Clone Jesus would present us with the 'human' qualities of those prophets, but not the 'divine station' of them, since the Soul that was manifested through them was independent of their physical bodies. God "chose" them, in other words, perhaps at a certain moment or even before they were born. So, the only way that Clone Moses, Clone Isaiah, or Clone Krishna would be a 'Manifestation' of God, is if God "chose" them.
Again, this is just my *complete speculation* since humanity has not yet had to deal with this issue in its fullness. But I think it's a fascinating question. Thanks for bringing it up for us to discuss! On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Hasan Elías <hasanel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > Hi all, > > I know that cloning is relatively new and the bahá'í writings don't > addresses this issue. > > But, do you think that the clone's soul will be akin the soul of the > deceased? > > For example, if some day someone clone any Central Figure or Shoghi > Effendi, what will be the result? > > Sorry for going too far in this issue, but I think it is an important > matter. After all, there are DNA material avaliable and it is possible that > someone (enemies, crazy scientist, etc.) could do this in the future when > cloning will be stable and secure. > > Best, > > Hasan > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-647548-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
