A well-known Moscow shepherd assessed the decision of the Australian government to allow the artificial production of human embryos
Recently, the Australian government issued the first license allowing scientists to create cloned human embryos to obtain embryonic stem cells. Licensed to in vitro fertilization company Sydney IVF, making Sydney IVF the first company in the world to be licensed by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. The ban on cloning the human embryo was lifted in Australia in December 2006 after a vote in the national parliament. Human cloning for reproductive purposes is prohibited.
Doctor of Theology Archpriest Vladislav Sveshnikovexpressed on this occasion that “Human cloning is morally unacceptable, but, unfortunately, things are heading towards this. And it is possible that it is the artificial reproduction of man by man that will lead in some mysterious way to the possibility of realizing the last enemy of mankind - Antichrist."
“This is, of course, nothing more than a guess, but quite realistic,” suggested Father Vladislav. - After all, it is known that the Antichrist will come from a representative of the tribe of Dan, but nothing is said about his father. I think this is not accidental. What began in this direction twenty years ago were still toys compared to what is being done now. But even then, considering genetic experiments, I warned about this in the article "The work of hell is already being done."
Recall that according to the teachings of the Holy Fathers, the birth of the Antichrist must come from an unclean woman from the tribe of Dan (St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, V, 30, St. Hippolytus of Rome, The Word about Christ and the Antichrist). The most detailed description of this event is found in St. Nil the Myrrh-streaming: “From the unclean prodigal virgin the Antichrist will be born. In this virgin debauchery copulates, she will be the treasury of adultery; every evil of the world, every uncleanness, every iniquity will be embodied in her, that is, in what she conceived from secret fornication, copulate together in the womb of the unclean and with the impoverishment of the world will be revived.
When the world is impoverished by the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, then this one will be revived in the womb of impurity from the most filthy and evil imaginary virgin, the worst of all who ever was, a fruit will be conceived from a secret unnatural fornication, which will be the receptacle of all evil, in contrast to how Christ was perfection of all virtue, and His Most Pure Mother was perfection in wives …"
Since this prophecy does not say who will be the father of the Antichrist, some Church Fathers assumed that the Antichrist, seeking outwardly to imitate Christ in everything, will try to imitate His very birth. So, if Christ was born of the Immaculate Virgin, accordingly, the Antichrist will be born of an imaginary virgin; and since Christ was born without the participation of a human father, but was conceived by the Holy Spirit, so the Antichrist may be born without the participation of an earthly father, but will be conceived by the devil. A similar assumption is contained in the following words of St. Neela: “Hey, evil will be incarnate without any husband's seed. She will be born with a seed, but not by human sowing …"
