Really?

“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) “Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb. ‘I, the Lord, am the maker of all things, stretching out the heavens by Myself and spreading out the earth all alone” (Isaiah 44:24).

Hey gang:  While sitting in the dentist office awaiting my turn in the agony and pain chair, I happened to turn to an article in a magazine titled Immortality Engineered By Man with the following humanistic view of what is to come.  How about a ghastly thought for today. 

The article carried the sub title ‘2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal”.  It does not refer to man becoming spirit and certainly did not refer to believers in Christ having the joy of knowing we will be eternally with the Lord. but rather a transformation they refer to as “singularity”. Their premise is a time when computers will become hyper-intelligent and either solve aging, or actually merge with man to transform man into a cyborg or android being. 

What say you think? Has man’s creative and technical know-how advanced to the point where it is just a matter of time and computing power before we have robots that acts and appears 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?

Note:  The Chinese, who have perfected cloning, announced to the world they will clone more than one hundred thousand cows in this year of 2016 and sell the meat across the world.  I would suggest you read the source of the meat you buy in all of super markets. 

As I read this article my thoughts turned to Genesis 11:6-7 where God said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language.  And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.  Come, let Us go down and the confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”  

And now to the world of reality:  Genesis tells us God made us in His own image but He made us/man out of the dust of the ground.  He said that we are dust and to dust we shall return.  So we were born with a physical life that had planned from the day we are landed on this earth that one day we would die.  We also know from our studies in the Word that only God is Spirit and He alone has immortality (1 Tim. 6:16).

A neat little ditty that helps clarify this point that has kicked around the circuit fits nicely here.  A couple intellectual humanist 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 learn 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 a 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 have preceded us.  And O, by the way, I do not expect there will be any android’s, robots, or such there.

Blessings

Gramps