“I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.”
(Psalm 139:14)
A recent Time Magazine article is titled, "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal." It doesn't refer to a transformation to spirit life, but a transformation called "singularity." That's when computers become hyper-intelligent and either solve aging, or actually merge with man to transform man into a ‘cyborg’ or ‘android being’.
What do you think? Is it just a matter of time before we have robot’s that act and appear to be human? And will it just take the right circuitry with the high capacity electronics and the most sophisticated software with billions of lines of code to achieve immortality? In other words will the human heart be replaced by a series of batteries?
And now to the world of reality: Genesis tells us God made us in His own image but He made us out of the dust of the ground. He said that we are dust and to dust we shall return. We also know from our studies in the Word that only God is Spirit and He alone has immortality (1 Tim. 6:16).
A couple intellectual humanists approached God and said, “We no longer need You, we can now create life.” God said, “Show me”. The humanist reached down and picked up a hand full of dirt, to which God replied, “Get your own dirt”.
We learned in Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” And we also learn that this gift of eternal life, or real immortality, will happen, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye”.
Soooo, God’s created folks of flesh and blood and soul, keep in mind that Jesus said to the thief on the cross, “Today you shall be with me in paradise”. What joy there is in knowing that one day soon we shall all stand and worship our Lord together with all the saints who preceded us. And, Oh, by the way, I can guarantee there will be no android’s or such there.
Blessings
Gramps
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