Playing God or God’s Play?
May 16, 2008“Two great moments in our lives are when we are born and when we discover why we were born. We were created for a reason—a divine purpose. Our lives are not accidents or fate. God has a personal plan for each of us.”
(Follow God,2008) God does not procrastinate. His plans for our lives are from the very beginning. Psalm 139:16 says, “You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book.” God has planned our lives; therefore he has planned for acts such as genetic engineering to take place. For example, if God intended a man to have cancer, and he survived because genetic engineering took out the bad gene, then God had planned for that man to survive. The engineer did not change God’s plan by saving the man. God had planned for the engineers to find a way to save him. By saying genetic engineering is playing God, the applications of medicines would also in theory play the same role. If people consider genetic engineering to take God’s part, then medicines as simple as Ibprofin should also be reflected to “play God.” God put doctors on this Earth to help and heal. Why would genetic engineering not be a part of God’s plan too? Therefore genetic engineering is not playing God but more so planned by him. Although, contradicting God’s plan is Satan’s plan. Satan opposes everything God does, trying to get us to turn on God. Satan could be using concepts like medicine and genetic engineering to wean us away from God’s plan and into his trap. So this makes us wonder, is genetic engineering on God’s side or Satan’s?
Ooooo… nice topic Keri. I am mui impressed. I think that God invented doctors to invent medicine so that we wouldn’t be in so much pain. I also think that everything happens for a reason. If something bad happens to a person, such as your example of a man getting cancer, it is to make that person stronger or for a more important reason down the road.
Keri…i agree partly, but not all the way. I think that genetic engineering is good for cases of illness and serious physical problems. However, I don’t think that we should be allowed to change simple things like hair color and height. I think those parts of us make us who we are and, if those things are taken away, eventually everyone would be the same and have no individuality, which i think is extremely important…
I agree with you. Genetic engineering is not playing the role of God. Genetic engineering, however, is part of God’s plan. He would not give us the ability to create the technology and medicines we use today if he was not okay with us using them. He knows what has and will happen in our lives ,and if he does not want something to happen, then it will not.
Good paper Keri! God knows everything that is going to happen. Genetic engineering is a bad thing because it fixes people, that is part of Gods plan. If God didnt want it to happen it wouldnt be there. Its as simple as that. But I will say on the part of Satan, yes he is trying to pull us away from God everyday so we have to be cautious of that!
RThomas – I agree everything does happen for a reason. God is only making us stronger by giving us obstacles in our life to live through.
Ward- I agree, God planned it to happen. If he wanted this all to stop then he easily would.
Meredith- I agree mer, He gave us the abilities to create such technology. Why would he give us that ability if we did not have his permission to use it? Although, he gives us many choices in our lives to choose from right and wrong,couldn’t this just be another choice to choose from?
Riley- Later in this paper I did talk about how everyone would eventually be fake and made into mutated super humans. So yes I agree with you when you say “individuality is important.”
But then again, the people that are genetically engineered, are they considered made by God? They were not made in the womb like the bible says. Because of this, would these genetically engineered people have a sole? Do they still have the abilities to get into heaven, even if man made them? Although, God made the man that made the genetically altered human, does this mean God still made the genetically altered human?….. This all gets confusing…
Yah keri, i do understand your point, and i hav NO idea what-so-ever what to say about whether the people have souls….my personal opinion(with no research to back it up) is that if someone is genetically engineered then they still have a soul, its in the human system thingy, and no amount of procedures can change that, God intended people to have souls and we can’t change that…but i dont know how “test tube babies” are…because i dont have any idea about that stuff…