Is it OK to eat your baby's clone?

This one is not about parent child communication; this is a current event…

I was struck by the introductory comment on today’s short message called “Just Thinking” by Ravi Zacharias. He started out with this introductory comment:

Science can not tell you if it is right or wrong to eat your own baby’s clone, but it can tell you that’s what you are doing, and then can tell for yourself if you think it is right or wrong.

With an introduction like that, I had to listen. The fuller extent of the story goes on to explain that a chef cooked a human placenta and fed it to people. One person pointed out that this act is an act of cannibalism. Another pointed out that it is the clone of the baby that grew within it.

So, it is right or wrong to eat your own baby’s clone?

Post-modernism has a death-grip on this world. To understand post-modernism, we must go back to modernism. Francis Schaeffer was a prolific author on these two trends. Modernism happened when society as a whole cast off the idea that we can come to truth only by revelation. It believed that truth could be found in the pursuit of knowledge; searching high and low until discovered. Many people wrote what they believed were truths (all contradicting God, of course), but many others intellectually refuted the writings. After a while of this, people came to the thought that indeed, there is no truth; in such a world, people make up their own truths. This is where we are today. Everything is right if it is right for you. Of course, since sin is prevalent in us, what is perceived as right to us is what we desire to do. As our nature, we seek our pleasures and justify them when we get there.

The reality of the matter is that there are absolutes in this world and they extend far beyond a simple thought that only taboos are taboo. In reality, the definition of truth is that which has fidelity to the standard. In a world created by God, the standard is God. John 14:6 says “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” In John 3, Christ says that He is the light. It is REALITY. He explains it in full detail in John 3:19-21:

¹⁹"This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. ²⁰"For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. ²¹"But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God."

And this is why people get so offended with the truth claim of Jesus Christ.

Science tells us that we need to decide what is right or wrong based on the facts, God, however, decrees what is right or wrong. You will be tired, worn, and weary as long as you resist the will of God. If you are doing things that bother you, listen to that voice. It is the convicting voice of the Holy Spirit. The scripture reads in 1 Corinthians chapter 6:

⁹Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, ¹⁰nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

But there is also hope to be cleansed, as the next verse reads:

¹¹Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

In conclusion, first, it is wrong to eat your own baby’s clone. Listen to Ravi’s message, he is a very intellectual Christian who can answer a lot of questions; he is one of the regular apologists for the Christian faith that I listen to. The website is: www.rzim.org. Next, if you have not placed faith in Jesus Christ, repented of your sins, and begun the long journey of obedience to the word of God, I encourage you to do so. Please contact me if you would like any further assistance.