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    Image of God

    But children can be so different from their parents! surely there are parts of us that aren't God-like (e.g. jealousy) - how can we know which bits are God-like and which bits aren't?
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    Image of God

    thank you so much! Squint, do you think that image/spirit/love is something that is added to our physical bodies or encoded within our natural existence (or something completely different!)? If scientists were to alter an embryo's DNA in a way that would not happen 'naturally' (e.g. add in...
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    Image of God

    Hello! I have often heard the idea from Genesis that we are made in "God's image" used in bioethical debates and I've even used it myself. But when I think about it I realise that I really don't know what it means - I don't even know what it means to the other people I've heard talking about...
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    xenotransplants

    Thanks for the link, Visionary. It's brilliant to see alternatives that more people can be comfortable with. but if this alternative wasn't available, would you see it as ethically more sound to let a diabetic child die than use insulin from genetically modified bacteria? and i don't see how...
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    xenotransplants

    as i understand it, the main genetic modification required would be to: a.) remove genes coding for certain cell surface proteins that human blood attacks (a bit like it attacks blood transfusion from someone of a different blood type) b.) insert human genes for a cell surface protein that we...
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    xenotransplants

    Xenotransplants are organ or tissue transplants from non-human species to humans (or any species to a different species). There is currently a massive need for donated human organs with thousands waiting on transplant lists. Xenotransplants are one suggested way of meeting this demand. There are...
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    Adam and Eve: historic truth or illustration?

    Thanks for your reply, Idea. What about the whole serpent and eating the fruit and all of that? I believe in evolution but even with that there must have been a first man and a first woman (scientists have found from studying genetics that we are all descendents of a single female ancestor) so...
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    Adam and Eve: historic truth or illustration?

    Hello, I just thought it would be interesting to do a poll to see how people interpret Adam and Eve. I knew a girl who believed that people who don't believe in the Adam and Eve story literally aren't real Christians - does anyone here share that view? Isla
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    the Trinity

    can anyone help me find Biblical evidence for the Trinity? thanks isla
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    why do christians believe Jesus is the Son of God?

    Jesus didn't call himself the "Son of God" did he? and he never spoke of the Trinity. So why do we believe in these essential concepts? isla
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    Creationalism v evolution - does it matter?

    Hello, I think I probably posted this thread on the wrong forum as I was intending to debate about the importance (or lack of importance) of the answer to the evolution/creationalism debate to christians rather than to society as a whole and the vast majority of people who have posted their...
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    Creationalism v evolution - does it matter?

    Hello, I am Christian who believes in evolution and I enjoys debating this matter. However I don't believe it really matters which camp (creationalists or evolutionists) is right so long as we all come to the same important conclusions - that God created everything, sent his son to earth, his...
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    If Jesus came back to life, evolution must have died

    What annoys me about the creationism v evolution debate is that so many arguments completely misunderstand what evolution is actually about. I think Gottservant showed this well. I think the conflict between the two viewpoints is over how humans came to be (plus some other details)...
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    On evolution

    aiki said, "Likewise, the Evolutionist comes with his/her own set of presuppositions and beliefs. Often (tho' not always) this includes an atheistic viewpoint, or a belief that God is completely separate from science." but surely God is separate from science just as a baker is separate from his...
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    On evolution

    I agree with ebia with most of this but I'd just like to make a couple of points: 1. genesis was written by humans who had no understanding of science in the way we do now, they could not have researched evolution as we do now. HOWEVER, the order that God created earth in in Genesis is pretty...
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