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When nineteen-year-old Bible College student Joe O’Dell is introduced to Betsy, a beautiful coed who could be the love of his life, he has no idea he is about to learn he is not who he thinks he is.
Joe is abducted to a private, billion-dollar lab where he discovers the unbelievable: he has been cloned from two-thousand-year-old burial lines that may be Jesus Christ’s. Held against his will, Joe watches his “almost” normal life through scenes recorded by a genius who wants to know if his clone is divine or not. Distraught, Joe flees. On his own, the once tender now lost soul welcomes darkness, even sin.
The runaway never forgets Betsy, a light to him, a beacon. He also remember his college roommate who has his own struggle.
When Joe returns to the life he knew, he reconnects with his dad, a church leader who fell apart during his son’s disappearance. Before being called on a special mission to help one special person become a great minister someday, Joe gently touches and teaches everyone around him this truth: God is within each of us.
Jesus Cloned is the tender, heartwarming story of a young man’s journey to learn his identity as he intuitively inspires those around him to embrace the Son of God and His important message.
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Hagenbuch, pastor of the First Congregational-UCC church in Harford since 2008, has spent a lot of time with this message. “I want to reach the widest audiences. And my people? The ones I really empathize with? They’re the ones who have been burnt or bored with religion.This novel gives us all a voice from darkness to light, from hopelessness to help.
“So,” someone asked Hagenbuch upon seeing the cover he built himself, “this twosome here? They’re in this sweet, cuddly pose. Is your novel sci-fi, or a romance?”
It’s both. Jesus Cloned takes modern technology—cloning—and swirls it with the novel’s essence, and JC is about relationships. There’s an eclectic range of characters from an intuitive four-year-old named after a flower to a Queen Bee deacon well into her nineties.
“Think about our Gospels. They center on Jesus’ interactions with all sorts of people, from the broken to the bold, from the lame to those who see His light. John speaks specifically to Jesus’ divinity (as do Matthew, Mark and Luke), but the core of the four seek out and show Jesus where? In relationships.”
Jesus Cloned does the same. Joe, who is the main character, engages in a myriad of relationships. Some are neat and tidy. Others are hot messes.
The science piece is there. It’s used as a vehicle to move the relationships along, particularly in the case of Joe and Betsy’s romance. Dating a guy who is cloned? Think about it. Yes, they’re in love, and their love takes them to unexpected—even confusing—places.
“I mixed science and romance on purpose. I can’t wait for you to see this yourself. This is a refreshing story, a means to reach and teach us all.”