Should Christians Work Toward Genetic Engineering?

Some Speculations

Garden of Eden, by Zac Kinkade

This is all speculation, so if anyone has anything concrete against it, please add it in the comments. I don’t want anyone taking this super seriously. However, I noticed one thing that I just thought was interesting, which is the identification of Satan as Lucifer plus the whole story of the fall of Adam in the Bible. The fall of Adam and Eve seems to largely be because they had sex, and there are a lot of different discussions of that in terms of Near Eastern metaphors such as “to know” for intercourse and “fruit” as genitals etc. (some of which can even be seen in the Bible, such as “to know man” and “knew his wife” etc. and the similarities to the fall of Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh.) Then we have the equation of Lucifer with Satan which seems really old. While John Calvin and Martin Luther disagreed with it, probably because parts of the New Testament also try to describe Jesus as Lucifer, John Calvin was a Calvinist and Martin Luther encouraged people to pogrom Jews, I wouldn’t take every single thing they say super seriously. Don’t both Calvinism and Lutheranism say that humanity sins every day anyway? I don’t think either of them would be exceptions to their own rule.

Lucifer is generally equated with Venus, which is the root word for venereal and considered the erotic planet. It’s also the planet right before Earth in the solar system, and even the ancients with their whole astrological system making the Moon and Sun planets still knew that and had comments on it (also Venus is very full of fire and brimstone, wonder if that’s where Hell is supposed to be, though Hell is probably on another plane of existence or whatever whether its location has anything to do with the planet Venus or not.) So was Satan or Lucifer just supposed to be the being that made humans have sex and that’s how they fell? If Lucifer was just the being that made humans have sex, then contrary to the sort of Theosophical view that Lucifer raised humans above their status as animals which a lot of Christians seem to sort of take for granted even if they often invert it, but not all even do that seeing as there’s the whole “happy Fall” doctrine, Lucifer would literally have turned humans into animals by making them have sex when they weren’t supposed to. Another connection besides the name of Venus is just that the “morning star” which is also the “evening star” is generally just associated with night, since it basically appears at dawn and dusk only even if all the planets are kind of too dim to be seen with the naked eye.

On that note, Eden would probably also be on a different plane of existence, which would explain the discrepancies between 1 Genesis and 2 Genesis among other things like how human history only started 6,000 years ago basically which is actually historically accurate, in addition to 1 Genesis being historically accurate as long as you don’t interpret “days of Creation” as literally 24 hours. When Adam and Eve fell that’s probably when they got moved to the plane of existence the planet Earth is on. I mean it makes total literal sense that way, but it’s also speculative in addition to sounding weird and more like something that belongs in a Michael Moorcock novel or a Tolkien novel with the whole music of the Ainur thing than what you normally hear at church.

Even a lot of early Church fathers like Augustine basically said that the original sin was sex and that original sin is an STD since it’s passed down by people having sex. So in light of that, should Christians be striving to create babies through genetic engineering instead of sex? That seems like it would get rid of original sin once and for all. Plus humanity would be like the angels in Heaven, who are neither married nor given in marriage, if humanity didn’t have to have sex to make babies. This is all really speculative, please don’t take it super seriously like it’s the gospel truth, I’m not taking it super seriously which is exactly why I’m asking other people for their thoughts. Luckily I don’t restrict comments at all ever so please leave some and if anyone has any really good commentaries and sources I might edit them in! Thanks!

Also, if Adam and also kind of Eve are Enkidu and Lucifer is a Babylonian king who was opposed to them, is Lucifer actually like Gilgamesh? Have people been making the wrong equivalencies all along? Now I really need to sit down and read the Epic of Gilgamesh.