Week Forty-Three, 2025

“The person who does what God wants lives forever.” 1 John 2:17

It is a movement gaining social attraction, arising mostly out of Silicon Valley. Transhumanism focuses on using technology to improve physical and cognitive abilities, such as extending lifespan, enhancing intelligence, and improving sensory perception. A key concept is the potential for rapid technological advancement, particularly in AI, to reach a point where it surpasses human intelligence and fundamentally alters society. In plainer language, Transhumanism believes that with proper application, people can live forever.

Really, I don’t disagree—but I see it from a different perspective. There is a cycle of human life, and then Hebrews 9:27 tells us: “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.”

Transhumanism is an escape valve for those who believe that human death is a final event, after which there is nothing. It is a product of the growing secularization of society that has consumed Europe, where Christianity is not one of the top three worldviews—where Marxism, Islam, and environmentalism push ahead. Though this trend is not as deep in America, it is the camel’s nose under the tent of secularism.

It is time for the church to speak up. We will not impact the world by going to church, but by faithfully being the church when we go out into the world. We hear a lot about the separation of church and state, but we need to be more concerned about the separation of the church and the kingdom. I see a nation slowly fading from its “Christian” values and becoming more focused on itself and its own “greatness”—relying more on its own strength and abilities, relying more on its own creations (whether government or corporations, programs or faux stability), and relying less and less on God.

I do not fear death, although I am in no hurry to experience it, because I know that it is not an end. It is, instead, the beginning of a life of forever in the kingdom of God.

If you want immortality, be the church.

Sometimes True Stories

Some people today will argue that science is at odds with God, but history is proving the opposite. As mankind discovers more and more about the Universe, and the existence of mankind, it is becoming more and more obvious that our Universe is so finely tuned that it is impossible for it to be a random event. Once we accept that our Universe is designed, we must ask the obvious question: By whom? This really highlights that true wisdom is not something humans can attain on their own, but is a gift from God. His ways are not our ways, and our understanding is so limited. One definition of a hero is someone who is timeless, powerful, personal, and caring. Someone who has the power to create the Universe is my hero; how about you? —Tony Ferguson

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The three stages of life:

• Wanting stuff.
• Accumulating stuff.
• Getting rid of stuff.

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In Silicon Valley, parents are paying up to $50,000 for new genetic-testing services that include promises to screen embryos for IQ. Professional matchmakers are setting up tech execs with brilliant partners, partly to get brilliant offspring. Tech futurists are urging the intellectually gifted to multiply.

Quotes You Can Use

When Satan appears in your life, preach the Gospel to him. —Albert Mohler

The new dating app for seniors: You match with people who are on the same meds as you. It’s called “Relationscript.”

It is easier to commit our future to God than to commit the present.

The more you recognize your ignorance, the closer you are to learning.

If we don’t see ourselves as God does, it will be hard for us to see who He is.

There are no ordinary people.

Our broken stories provide the perfect time for Jesus to enter our lives.

When your life on earth is over, you can still plan to live forever.

Most people have no understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives.

Obedience is the doorway to divine disclosure.

The most important thing you have ever done is probably not on your calendar.

Jesus calls us to trust Him even when life is tough. Never underestimate the power of a praying church. Christ’s church is unstoppable and secure. Though opposition may rise, those who stand against Jesus will ultimately fall. —Edgar Aponte

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