What you identify as is a hot topic today and will continue to be so. What do I identify as? I identify as a child of God, created in the image of God. In this fallen world, I am known as a human being. I was born female and that's the way I live... as a female. Now, some of you may or may not believe in God and that's your choice as a means and end to a destination, your destination.
Today, we are going to discuss transhumanism. What is that? Its not about gender, its not about going to Mars and becoming a Martian. Its not a new age transcendentalism book or glowing crystal either. Its a social movement. One that I would deem reprobate in the social imagination.
Transhumanism is a cultural and intellectual movement that believes we can and should, improve the human condition through the use of advanced technologies. One of the core concepts in transhumanist thinking is life extension: Through genetic engineering, nanotech, cloning and other emerging technologies, eternal life may soon be possible. Likewise, transhuimanists are interested in the ever-increasing number of technologies that can boost our physical, intellectual and psychological capabilities beyond what humans are naturally capable of ~ Anthony Sebstian, "What is Transhumanism, or, What does it mean to be Human?" in ExtremeTech April 1, 2013.
You might be wondering who or what is the head of this movement? Its a growing international consortium of leading academics, law professors, biotethicists, and military advisors. They have combined the use of :genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology which they collectively deem - GRIN. Its nothing to grin about but they sure are grinning.Why?
They, those grinning, have become deluded by pseudo-science and yet elated by it as they contemplate death vs. eternal life. What drives them, what motivates them? The fundamental anxiety... the fear of death of course. The fundamental anxiety as first posited by Alfred Schutz is what drives everyone... even those of the Freudian doctrine which says that sex drives man. Wrong. Its the fear of death that drives people to do what they do... and that includes all sexual activity.
Today, we are in the Hybrid Age, in which the conflux (hybridization) of emerging technologies will give us the tools to radically alter the sociobiological construct of the human species. In the Hybrid Age, men will merge with machines to transcend the limitations of their body. Diseases will be cured by editing defective genes and superhuman abilities will become possible through engineering new ones ~ Timothy Alberino, Birthright: The Coming Posthuman Apocalypse and the Usurpation of Adam's Dominion on Planet Earth; pg. 270, 2020.
The discussion should be... can we improve the human condition through the use of advanced technologies? Nietzschean philosophy is the bedrock of this concept of directed evolution in its 'will to power' ideology. The end goal is to become post-human. Transhumanism is the way... Mmm. I thought Jesus said He was the way, the truth and the life. This bizarre transhumanist theology is plainly antithetical to the gospel of Christ. They are not interested in retaining the image of god ~ T.A. pg. 273: 2020.
In the same book, 'Birthright', the author continues on page 275... the social castes of the future will consist of two groups: the Neo (new humans) and the Nea (neanderthalic). As you can well imagine, it is about the haves and the have nots. The haves are those that have gone along to get along, they have taken the red pill. The question is... at the end of the day will they even remember that they were humans? Those that are the have nots will know. You might think then that the original would( be the wiser (and they will be wiser) but that doesn't mean the winner in this future scenario.
The haves will sense something in the have nots that is disturbing to them, alien to them. And, they will be moved to exterminate them out of fear that have nots actually have something that the haves don't. What is that fear? Its the same fear that we have today, the fear of death. But, this fear serves a purpose. Its purpose was/is to drive us to the Creator not toward recreating ourselves though that was a foreseeable outcome by the Creator.
What will become of either the haves vs. the have nots? That's anyone's educated guess. As for mine... it will be a long battle. It will be a termination. All the have nots will be running from a terminator. It sounds so Hollywood and fatalistic but make no mistake we who are born again must believe and trust in that we having been marked by God will be overlooked but for a certain amount of time.
…And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion. In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them... Revelation 9:3-6.
What will happen after that? Well, that is not just anyone's guess. Its been written and anyone who changes that information will not exist to retell it. *See Revelation 19, 20, 21 and 22
...I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book. He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints... Revelation 22:18-21.
How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else. But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
ReplyDeleteNot all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another. There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another. The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body ~ 1 COR 15:35-44.