Well, a cloned body is basically a baby, isn't it? Perhaps the nearest parallel might be with identical twins.
In my opinion, a body is not viable unless it has a soul. If the body lives, it has a soul, if it dies, the soul has left/ not entered.
From the perspective of a soul, the issues would presumably be the same type as any other, what sort of life would it be, for example it might face being scrutinised by doctors, scientists, the media, in addition to any other challenges,
Trying to keep within rules of forum answering this question will break the rules. I'll message you whyIt’s my conviction that a soul doesn’t limit itself to inhabit organic vessels.
Just saying, as it transcends human reincarnation and thusfore not being part of the content of this forum, I’ll leave it here.
But just the thought that there might be a difference in souls of bodies that resulted from different reproduction methods is so weird. How did this come to your mind, Brisky? A body is just a body.
They already starting to think down these lines, you can or rather your parents can freeze stem cells from the umbilical cord. For your future nowThere was a story, serialised on BBC Radio recently, called "Jefferson 37" by Jenny Stephens. The idea was that the wealthy could create duplicate bodies in order to harvest spare parts if and when they might become necessary. A rather disturbing tale.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jwfl
In order to live to the age of 200, as a very very old person.Why would we do so much work as we can get a new body for free?![]()
Maybe the story was cloned.
I have to believe that Louise Brown and any other cloned people do indeed have spirits.Just a thought, if a human was cloned would they have a soul or would it be an empty vessel until a soul goes into the body. That leads me to a 2nd question would a soul go into a cloned body?