Part of Genesis chapter 3 that I'd like to focus on is beginning there in verse 22 where
the Bible reads, and the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us to know good
and evil.
And now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live
forever, therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground
from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims and a
flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life.
Now the title of my sermon tonight is kind of a strange title, but I want you to bear
with me because this sermon is going to be something that you can definitely understand
tonight and it's going to be a lot of biblical preaching.
I have a lot of scripture to teach on here, but the title might kind of throw you for
a loop at first.
The title of the sermon is this, Transhumanism in Light of the Bible.
What in the world?
Transhumanism in Light of the Bible.
But this is a subject that people are talking about today and people are thinking about
and it might not be that relevant to your life today in 2015, but it's something that
is going to become more relevant and it has a great tie in with end times prophecy when
you study the scripture on this.
Now just to give you an idea of what this transhumanism is, it's basically the idea
that man can exceed the limitations that God has put upon him.
God has created human beings with certain limitations.
We're not all knowing, we're not all powerful, we're not all present like God is.
We have human limitations and this idea of transhumanism is to use science and technology
to exceed those limitations.
And especially when people talk about transhumanism, they often refer to the ability of human beings
to live on beyond a normal lifespan, even to live forever.
Not eternal life through Jesus, spiritually, but rather physically to make our bodies be
able to live forever, reverse the aging process or use technology or what have you.
Now I'll get more into that in a little bit, but first of all I just want to point out
in the scripture here, Genesis chapter 3, that when man had reached a level that God
did not want him to reach, where he had exceeded the limits that God had placed upon him, God
put a stop to man's progress at that point.
Because here, when the Bible says in Genesis chapter 3 verse 22 that the man became, he
said, Behold, the man has become as one of us.
You say, why does he say us?
Well it's because the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, these three are one.
He says the man has become as one of us to no good and evil and now lest he put forth
his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever, therefore the Lord
God sent him forth from the garden of Eden.
So why was man kicked out of the garden of Eden in the first place?
Well after man took of the forbidden fruit and took of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, God said that he did not want him to continue in the garden because he would
be able to eat of the tree of life and live forever.
God did not want him to both have the knowledge of good and evil and be able to eat of the
tree of life and live forever.
That's why he had to be thrust forth from the garden of Eden.
Why?
God had commanded man not to eat of that tree and he said in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.
And the moment that Adam ate of that fruit he died spiritually, not physically, but spiritually
he died.
And man did not, God did not want him to live forever at that point.
And basically at that point he had to physically die as well.
The Bible says for the wages of sin is death.
The Bible says wherefore is by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin so
death passed upon all men for that all have sinned.
The Bible says it is appointed unto men once to die.
See death is the punishment for our sins and so God's not going to allow man to circumvent
death through physical means.
Because if God would have allowed it here, man could have taken of the tree of life and
eaten of it and lived forever and God said well I'm not going to let that happen.
So that's why I'm going to throw him out of the Garden of Eden.
Now flip over to Genesis 11 and you'll see something similar.
Genesis chapter 11.
In Genesis 11 we have a story of the Tower of Babel.
And beginning in verse number 1 the Bible reads and the whole earth was of one language
and of one speech.
And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land
of Shinar and they dwelt there.
And they said one to another, go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly.
And they had brick for stone and slime had they for mortar.
And they said go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach into heaven.
And let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
Now verse 6 is the key.
Watch this.
And the Lord said, behold the people is one and they have all one language and this they
begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one
another's speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad and on and on the story goes.
So what we see here is that when man reaches a level that God doesn't want him to reach
then God puts a stop to it.
You know when they are at a point where God says well now nothing's going to be restrained
from them, he steps in and he stops the progress dead in its tracks.
Now when we think of transhumanism and people seeking technologies to gain immortality or
to kind of play God with human beings and create genetically modified human beings or
super human beings, transhumans, then I believe based on the study of scripture, based on
Genesis 3, based on Genesis 11 that this will not be allowed to take place.
I don't believe that it will ever happen.
So just going into it, all these technologies I'm going to bring up in this sermon, I do
not believe that man will achieve these technologies because I think when God looks down and sees
what man is doing and says wow he's becoming like unto us, historically in the Bible he
steps in and puts a stop to it.
We know how things are going to end upon this earth.
We have the book of Revelation.
We have 1 and 2 Thessalonians that explain to us in detail what the end times are going
to be like.
We know that there's a period coming known as the tribulation.
We know that the second coming of Jesus Christ is real and it's going to take place.
So the question is when will these things take place?
We don't know but I personally believe that the second coming of Jesus Christ will take
place before these transhuman type technologies are reached and especially before man can
extend his life to the point of even possible immortality.
It's just simply not going to happen because I don't believe that God's going to allow
it to happen.
I believe the second coming of Christ will happen before that happens.
That's what I believe based on these scriptures.
But look over if you would to the book of Isaiah chapter 14.
Isaiah chapter 14, while you're turning there I'll read for you from Genesis 3 verse 5.
When the devil was first tempting man to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
here's what he said, For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
So the devil is trying to tempt man with this idea of being like God.
He said you'll be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And they take that bait and they eat of the forbidden fruit.
And then when God says he's become like as one of us, knowing good and evil, he casts
them out of the garden.
See there was a little bit of truth in the devil's lie.
When the devil lies to his size he'll mix in a little bit of truth to make it more believable
and to get people to fall for it.
But look at Isaiah 14 where the Bible talks about the devil himself falling.
It says in verse 12, How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning?
How art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations?
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven.
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.
I will be like the most high, yet thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the
pit.
In the scripture we see his pride, his arrogance, how great he thinks he is, and it all comes
down to that final statement, I will be like the most high.
That was the downfall of Satan and then that's what he tempts man with, wanting to be like
God.
And this transhumanism, as I'm going to show you in this sermon, is nothing more than man
trying to step into the place of God.
It's nothing more than pride and arrogance that says that we can create something greater
than what God has created.
You see, the crowning achievement of God's creation was mankind.
He created the earth, he created the animals, and then the final achievement is when he
creates man in his own image after his own likeness.
That is the greatest thing that God created, a human being.
Man thinks that he can improve upon that.
That's what transhumanism is, creating something better than what God has made.
Because if you listen to these guys talk, they're so prideful and arrogant, they talk
about how our bodies were not designed by God.
They're just an accident of evolution and they're not perfect, there's all these problems
with them and all these improvements that we could make and so forth.
And they want to play God and do a better job with it.
Now, there's a religion that wants to be God and it's called Mormonism, just a few miles
away over here in Mesa is the second largest Mormon population in America.
And their religion literally teaches them, you shall be as gods.
It literally teaches them that they, if they're a good Mormon, will become their own god of
their own planet someday.
And people fall for this and they believe in this.
Now if you talk to Mormons, sometimes they'll try to deny that but when you pin them down
they'll admit it, they'll talk about it.
And there's a famous quote that one of the founding prophets of Mormonism said.
He said, as God, let's see, as man is, God once was and as God is, man may become.
So Satan has tempted the Mormons with this doctrine of becoming as God.
And then those who are atheistic type, scientific, you know, into transhumanism, he's tempted
them also with that same thing of, hey, you shall be as gods.
You can live forever as God.
You can go beyond what God has created.
Now why does man seek to live forever?
Why does man even want to have a life that never ends?
Well because the Bible tells us that those who are not saved have a fear of death.
The Bible says in Hebrews 2.14, for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh
and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy
him that had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of
death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
So the Bible teaches us that those who are unbelievers, they fear death.
You see the believer says, oh death, where is thy sting?
Oh grave, where is thy victory?
For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.
I have a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.
Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
But to the unsaved, they fear death.
They don't know what it is and they don't want to go there.
And so basically they want to try to extend their life through technology instead of seeking
the way, the truth, and the life.
Jesus Christ who offers eternal life through faith in his blood, that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish but have eternal life.
They want to bypass that and make their own eternal life, live forever on their own terms.
This is what transhumanism is.
Now let me mention to you a few different types of transhumanism.
Basically from my understanding there are basically three different methods that the
transhumanists would use to seek to achieve eternal life without Jesus, you know, just
eternal life physically on this earth.
And so I'm going to mention those three different methods that they would use.
Number one is to genetically modify our bodies, you know, find that aging gene and turn that
thing off, right?
Reverse the aging process.
Somehow get in and genetically modify man where he would live much longer or even live
forever.
This is one school of thought amongst the transhumanists.
Now this goes to the point that they think that they can do better than God.
They're going to go into the DNA of man and make something better, improve upon it.
Well here's what the Bible says about what God does and if you would turn to Psalm 139.
But the Bible says in Genesis 1 31, and God saw everything that he had made and behold
it was very good and the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
The Bible says in Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 14, I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall
be forever.
Nothing can be put to it nor anything taken from it and God doeth it that man should fear
before him.
The Bible says that when God makes something, he makes it very well.
He looked upon all of his creation as very good and God is the ultimate creator.
God has a perfect design.
Now how could man be a greater design when we're made in his image?
And he's God.
The Bible says in Psalm 139 verse 13, for thou has possessed my reins.
Thou has covered me in my mother's womb.
Verse 14, I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well.
My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in
the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book all my members were
written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God.
How great is the sum of them.
According to the Bible, we are a magnificent creation of God, fearfully and wonderfully
made.
The Bible says in Psalm 100 verse 3, know ye that the Lord, he is God.
It is he that hath made us and not we ourselves.
We are his people and the sheep of his pasture, but they think that they could do better than
God.
You know, a verse that comes to mind is Psalm 131 verse 1 where the Bible reads, Lord, my
heart is not haughty nor mine eyes lofty.
Neither do I exercise myself in great matters or in things too high for me.
You know, we need to realize that there are certain things that are beyond the scope of
what we should be tampering with, meddling with, worried about.
We think that we can do better than God.
Now the reason why the transhumanist thinks that he can improve upon God's creation is
because he believes that man is an evolved animal and that man is not made in the image
of God.
The Bible says that man is made in the image of God and then it goes beyond that.
It says that after God had formed man from the dust of the earth, that he then breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
So man is a living soul created in the image of God, fearfully and wonderfully made.
But these evolutionary biologists, they look at the body as being imperfect.
It needs to be improved upon.
We could do better.
I heard this crazy psycho science woman saying, you know, imagine a Versace body design.
You know, a Versace I guess is some designer.
Who is this person?
Does anybody know who that is?
Yeah?
Yeah.
So what do you design?
Imagine a Versace body design.
I mean, it'd just be amazing.
You idiot, God designed us.
You can't improve upon it.
We're created by the most intelligent being in the universe.
Some weird fashion designer.
I mean, I don't know anything about the guy, but if I had to guess, he's probably some
queer looking guy just based on fashion design and I don't know anything about him.
Maybe I'm slandering the guy.
I don't know.
But the bottom line is, you know, you can't improve on what God has done because what
God does is perfect.
But these fools think, oh, but look at all the problems with us.
And you know, you listen to some of these people talking and truly professing themselves
to be wise, they became fools.
One of these guys, the head of one of these big corporations, I don't remember if it was
Google or one of these, I think it was Google, one of the top guys.
He said, you know, our bodies, you know, they're not really evolved right for the modern world.
And here's his example.
He said our bodies, you know, have this tendency to want to, you know, hang on to fat, kind
of save it for a rainy day.
You know, that goes back to when we were hunter gatherers and, you know, we didn't really
know where our next meal was coming from so we had to lay aside all this fat.
You know, nowadays we don't really need that gene.
We need to go and turn that thing off and whatever and tamper with it.
But here's what's amazing about that.
You know, there are some people that don't pack on a bunch of extra fat and other people
do.
See, that's not a problem with God's design.
That's a lot of a problem with our lifestyle and a lot of problem with the food that we
eat.
So to sit there and say, like, we need to turn that off.
No, you need to stop eating at McDonald's, buddy.
And he literally said, I want to eat at McDonald's.
This is what the Google guy said.
He's like, well, I want to just be able to eat.
He literally said, I want to eat junk food and not get fat.
So let's genetically alter man.
Why don't you alter your diet, buddy?
Why don't you alter your lifestyle?
You know, and here's the thing.
I'm not, you know, you say, oh man, you know, this skinny guy's getting on me or whatever.
Look, I'm not getting on anybody.
I'm not, look, you know, we're all different.
We come in different shapes and sizes and I'm not one of these Hollywood people that
thinks everybody has to be skinny as a board to be attractive.
I'm not, you know, I don't fall into that camp of just everybody's got to be bony or
whatever.
The bottom line is though, you know, we do decide what our body ends up looking at, but
looking like by the foods that we eat and by the choices that we make and the things
that we do, can we really turn around and point the finger at God and say, God, you
messed up when you created me because I eat a box of Ho-Hos and, you know, it doesn't
do the same thing to me as if I would have eaten celery and carrots.
But this is the kind of warped thinking, you know, of blaming God.
And then another person said, well, look how prone to addiction we are.
Well, you're going to blame God now because you're drinking and you're on drugs and you're
addicted.
No, that's sin.
That's you making wrong decisions.
You're making bad choices.
And oh, God made us wrong.
No, I believe God created our bodies right.
And this is a big problem with the medical industry today.
They go into it with an idea that our bodies are broken and they need to go in and fix
it.
Instead of a lot of times just letting nature run its course because God created our bodies
in an amazing way.
Okay.
So, you know, this idea of, hey, we can do better.
We need to fix all of God's mistakes.
God didn't make mistakes when he made us.
Plus, here's the thing.
You know, what are we trying to create some master race of super humans or something?
So what if people aren't perfect?
You know, do we all just have to look the same and all be just perfect?
You know, maybe there's room for people to be different from one another and have faults
and have issues that make them human.
You know, people have even said, to err is human.
You know, if we're too perfect, it's like we're not even human anymore.
Be like a robot.
It's just perfect all the time.
Which leads me to my next point about how a lot of these transhumanists, they have very
misguided ideas about life and the human experience.
A lot of these transhumanists will talk about, hey, if we can alter man, we can make it so
that people don't have to go through any pain or suffering.
Look at all the pain and suffering people are going through.
We need to get rid of that in the world.
But wait a minute.
Pain and suffering makes us a better person.
David said, it is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might keep thy word.
And you know, people who don't go through pain and suffering and struggle in their life
are horrible people.
Did you know that?
Look at a child who's given everything that they want and everything's perfect.
What are they?
A spoiled brat.
And you know what?
I thank God that I wasn't genetically modified into a perfect human being.
And let me tell you something.
When I was growing up, for example, even though now I'm normal white guy height of like 5'10",
5'11 inches tall, when I was a kid, I was always really short for my age.
And I was one of the shortest kids in the class.
And you know, kids would call me shrimp, and you know how kids are.
Make fun of you and everything like that.
And you know, at the time, I hated being short.
And I wished that I were tall.
And you know, when I became a teenager, then I shot up and became normal height.
But when I was a kid, I was made fun of for being short, right?
And then when I was a teenager, I had acne.
You know?
So then, oh man, you know, I wish I didn't have acne.
These infirmities that we have though, they stop us from being a horrible person.
Why?
Because when you get made fun of for being short, you know what that makes you think?
Boy, I don't like being made fun of.
I better be sure that I don't make other people feel that way.
You know?
And hey, I don't like feeling that way, so I don't want to make someone else feel that
way.
And we don't get all prideful and arrogant.
I mean, what if we were all just born and raised, just tall, slim, good looking, athletic,
muscular, smart.
You know what we would be?
The most arrogant jerks.
We'd be horrible people.
We literally would.
You know, that's why Paul said, I glory in my infirmities.
You know, we should be happy.
You know, well, God made us the way that we are and we should just rejoice in who we are
and realize that suffering and pain are good for us.
They make us who we are.
And here's the thing, all of pain is not even really suffering because sometimes we go through
pain and enjoy it.
Think about how many people, they exercise and they love the pain of exercise or, you
know, the pain of struggling up some mountain somewhere or whatever they like to do, running.
You know, look, most people would agree that running can be painful, but yet people love
to run.
You know, it's a good kind of pain to them.
So the point is, this idea of eliminating pain and suffering.
Number one, you're going to create horrible people, spoiled brats of human beings who've
never gone through affliction, tribulation, and suffering that make them a better person.
And then you're also creating people who don't really enjoy life because if you don't have
pain, you don't really have pleasure either.
You know, it's all just the same to you, you're a spoiled brat.
You've dulled the senses at that point.
So they have misguided thoughts about life and the human experience.
Also they think it's great to let everybody live forever.
Well, here's the problem with that.
You know, there are a lot of bad people, that it's great when they die.
Seriously.
I mean, I heard about a horrible person who died this week.
You know, you don't know him.
But anyway, you know, this sodomite, reprobate, horrible person died and I thought, you know
what, praise the Lord that this horrible person, this predator is gone.
You know, what if the worst kind of predators, the worst kind of people just lived hundreds
of years.
The Bible says this, okay, and if you would flip over there to 2 Timothy chapter 3, 2
Timothy chapter 3, we're just, right now we're just talking about some of the misguided ideas
of these transhumanists.
They think they're smarter than God.
Hey, let's eliminate pain and suffering.
Hey, you don't have to be that smart to figure out that eliminating pain and suffering is
a real bad idea.
It's going to create horrible people.
Okay.
Hey, you know, let's make everybody be able to live forever.
Okay, that means all the worst people just live and live and live and get worse and worse.
Look what the Bible says in 2 Timothy 3 verse 7, ever learning and never able to come to
the knowledge of the truth.
You know, there are people out there who, it's not like, well, you give everybody enough
time, eventually they're going to get it.
No, the Bible says there are people who are ever learning and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth.
Extending their life is not going to help that process.
Says in verse 8, now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the
truth.
Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith.
Verse 13, but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.
They're going to get worse, he says, deceiving and being deceived.
Well, but, you know, we'll just decide which people can live.
Yeah, who decides?
Who gets to live on and who, you know, what in the world?
See this is very ill conceived, very misguided type of a thought process.
You see, the normal span of our life that God has given us is three score in ten years
and it might be four score and some people even live to be a hundred, but that is what
God has determined as an appropriate life span for us on this earth and I am content
with that.
If that's what God has for me, then that's all I want.
And then I'm ready to go on to glory, to go on to heaven, to live eternally with him in
heaven.
I'm ready to go beyond that because God in his wisdom has decided for a reason to limit
our lives to about 70, 80 years.
That's his choice, okay?
So as I finish up this point about the genetically modifying of human beings, let me say this.
There are often unintended consequences to this genetic tampering because the genetic
code of man and of every creature is so complicated that often humans think they understand it
and then they go in and mess with it and they end up ruining it, okay?
Now there are already genetically modified, if you would flip over to Revelation 11, there
are already genetically modified organisms that have already been released into the environment.
They've already been released into nature as we speak.
Of course we're all familiar with genetically modified foods and there are even genetically
modified animals that are out there now.
And here's the problem with these genetically modified organisms, whether they be plant
or animal, is that once they're released into the environment, they contaminate the ecosystem
and you can never put that genie back into the bottle.
Once it's out, it's out there.
It's going to contaminate everything.
For example, the genetically modified soybean plants or the genetically modified corn.
This stuff put out by Monsanto, Roundup Ready corn, where this stuff is just ready to suck
in Roundup and enjoy it and thrive on Roundup, right?
So then when you eat it, you're basically eating Roundup in your food.
Roundup is of course weed killer, okay?
This Roundup Ready genetically modified corn, for example, that's sold by Monsanto and put
out there and they say, oh, it's so great.
It's so easy to produce all this food.
We could feed the world.
Yeah, feed it with junk.
We don't know all the consequences that this stuff is going to have on your health when
you're ingesting all this pesticide and herbicide and poison into your system and these genetically
modified foods that are often devoid of nutrition as well.
We don't know the effect they're going to have, but oh, it's so great.
But here's what happens.
The wind comes.
You've got one guy's field.
He's doing the Monsanto genetically modified.
The next store neighbor is doing normal God-made corn.
He's doing organic, whatever.
And what happens is the wind blows over the Monsanto seeds into that guy's field.
Well, you know what?
He is held liable because Monsanto has bought up all the courts and they've got their people
up in the high echelons of government and everything.
What's the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, I believe is the one who used to work
for Monsanto as one of their lawyers.
So it's like there's a revolving door between government and Monsanto, government and these
agencies, where it's the fox guarding the henhouse, as it were.
And basically the courts have declared that if you have Monsanto Roundup Ready corn growing
in your field, it's your fault.
If it blew in from next door, it's your fault.
And they accuse you of stealing it.
You're stealing our product.
And then they can't be organic anymore.
So they can't sell their stuff as organic because it's been infected with the Monsanto
stuff.
It's like, okay, they're growing this stuff, they have to pay a fine to Monsanto, and then
they can't sell it as organic.
So now they have to sell it competing with the cheap stuff.
And they're putting all these farmers out of business that are trying to grow crops
the old-fashioned way.
And there's so much nefarious about the practices of these seed manufacturers like Monsanto.
Like for example, the seeds that they give are sterile in the second generation.
So what happens is you plant the seeds, you grow your crop of corn, you harvest the corn,
you sell it.
Now next year you have to buy more seeds from Monsanto.
What farmers have done throughout history is that they would produce a crop and then
they would save the seeds from the best plants.
And they would plant those seeds next year.
They don't have to keep buying seeds, no, you save the seeds from the plant.
And then you keep saving the best, saving the best, saving the best, and your plants
get better and better and better and better and better.
But the reason that these seeds are sterile in the second generation that are coming from
Monsanto is that they want you to have to keep buying it every year.
They don't want you to just buy it one time.
Well that's bad because first of all, if it's sterile in the second generation, you know,
I wonder if it's making you sterile in the second or third generation.
You know, people's fertility rates are way down today, you know, and part of it could
be contaminated food, contaminated water, who knows.
But not only that, but this idea of it being sterile in the second generation, you know,
that puts you over a barrel where the food supply is all determined by Monsanto.
Well the Bible talks about in the end times there are going to be great famines.
You know, you can engineer a famine, just stop giving out the seeds and it's like, whoa,
nobody has anything to plant?
And the whole food chain goes spiraling into chaos because of the fact that, you know,
we have no seeds to plant and so forth.
And once you release this stuff into the environment, it blows into this guy's field and it can
contaminate and it goes everywhere.
Now even more so with the genetically modified animals.
In fact, they genetically modified some bees and they created these Africanized bees and
now they're like killer bees that are harming people.
And I believe that, have they even made it into Arizona, Jujo, were you saying?
Yeah, the Africanized killer bees, okay.
See when man tampers with things, there are often unintended consequences that he hasn't
thought through.
See, God thought it all through.
He created things the way they are for a reason.
But we think, well that's stupid, I think I could do better, I could make a better bee,
I could make a better soy plant, I could make better corn.
It's like, it's like when I was a little kid, I remember being in the church nursery and
telling my mom, I could drive a car, I just can't reach the pedals, but if I could reach
the pedals, of course I could drive a car because I play pole position.
You know, case closed.
But she told me, no Steven, you know, you're not capable of driving a car.
But I thought I was when I was three years old, okay.
But then when I turned 15 and started actually learning how to drive a car, I realized, wow,
this is a lot harder than it looks.
But see, the little child thinks that they know everything and they've got the world
by the tail at age three.
And this is like man, where we think we know everything, God knows, and what does he know
anyway.
And the scientists are some of the most prideful and arrogant people because they're atheist.
And it's pride.
They believe that they're God.
And they don't believe in the true God, the creator.
They worship and serve the creature more than the creator.
I remember one time I was working at a water filtration plant in Glencoe, Illinois, and
there were just lady bugs everywhere.
Lady bugs.
Like you couldn't even hardly step down without stepping on lady bugs.
It was the weirdest thing ever.
And I asked the guy who worked there, I said, what is the deal with all these lady bugs?
And he said, well, oh man, don't even get me started.
You know, because he has to work amongst these things.
And you're like, oh, I like lady bugs.
Yeah, but you don't like five billion of them, you know, where you're trying to work.
They're just, it was weird.
And he said, oh, these idiots.
He said, they brought in these lady bugs to try to deal with some other issue, but they're
not indigenous to this area, so they have no natural predators.
So they brought these things in, no predator.
They're just multiplying and multiplying and multiplying and just taking over.
And if you study the history of Arizona, there are all kinds of plants that were brought
here in a misguided attempt to make it look like the East Coast or something.
You know, look, just learn to like cactuses and palo verde or go somewhere else, all right.
But they try to plant all these East Coast type plants, remind them of home.
Go back if you want that.
But then what they did, they polluted the ecosystem here where it takes over and it's
not meant to be here and it messes things up.
See, whenever we think we can plan things better, you know, there are often unintended
consequences to our tampering, let alone when you go into the genetic level and start tampering
and tinkering and messing with things.
Because once you release it into the environment, it's going to mix in and you could never get
rid of it again.
You could never get rid of these GMOs anymore.
They're there.
And I think that's part of what God's talking about here in Revelation 11 18.
He says, and the nations were angry and thy wrath has come in the time of the dead that
they should be judged and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets
and to the saints and them that fear thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them
which destroy the earth.
Not only is man destroying the earth spiritually, but also man is destroying some of the plant
and animal life through this genetic tampering and genetically modifying things and creating
these weird hybrid organisms where they're mixing plants and animals and all this crazy
stuff.
Okay, so let's quickly get into a couple of the other types of transhumanism.
So these people think that they're going to achieve eternal life.
Well what does the Bible say about that?
It says in verse 1 Timothy 6 15, which in his times he shall show who is the blessed
and only potentate, the king of kings and Lord of lords, who only hath immortality.
The Bible says only God, only Jesus Christ has immortality, the ability to live forever.
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom
no man hath seen nor can see, to him be honor and power everlasting, amen.
So man doesn't believe that.
They say no, we can approach to that light.
We can have immortality of our own accord.
Here's how we're going to do it.
Number one, genetic modification.
Well that's a scary thought because whenever they genetically modify things, they mess
them up and make them worse and they have all these unintended consequences.
There's another way that they think that they're going to achieve immortality through transhumanism,
which would be to simply replace the body with parts that do not get old.
For example, take out the heart because the heart's eventually going to run out of steam.
Take out the heart and put in one that never runs out of steam.
Remove the lungs, put in something artificial.
Basically create an artificial body that could just house the human brain, right?
And then, you know, man could live forever.
Well here's some problem with that.
First of all, the brain probably can't last forever.
I mean think about how, you know, when people get older, doesn't their brain stop working
as well as it used to?
Okay, so whoa, that was kind of loud.
But the thing about it is that, you know, even if you replace the body, you still have
a brain that's going to wax old, right?
So that's part of the problem with that game plan, okay?
But some of the experiments they've been doing with this is, for example, not too long ago
they did this experiment where they actually were able to cut the heads off of two monkeys
and swap heads, okay?
So they actually cut the head off a monkey and switched it with another monkey's head
and reattached it and the thing stayed alive for seven more days, you know.
So the thing died after seven days because basically the old body rejected the new head.
You know, I think there's a scripture about this, about not putting old, you know, new
wine into old bottles, you know, not putting a new cloth onto an old garment, okay?
So basically, you know, new wine must be put into new bottles.
But they took the monkey's head and put it on a different monkey's body, reconnected
it, and the thing was able to live for seven days.
But the reason it died after seven days was that it just rejected, like, you know, sometimes
people get an organ transplant and their body rejects the new organ.
It just wasn't compatible.
It's like, whoa, wrong head.
But this thing supposedly they said, they said, you know, it's kind of hard to judge
a monkey's personality, but it seemed like it had the same personality, you know, after
we swapped heads, okay?
So anyway, they did that.
But the goal is to do it with humans, you know, to be able to take that head, swap it
out, put it on a new body or put it on like a cyborg type body, you know, or put it on
a young body or whatever, a full body transplant, okay?
This is what they want to do, you know.
This is what they're seeking to do to achieve immortality.
In fact, I even heard that Walt Disney, you know, because he was really into the occult
and this kind of crazy stuff, he actually had his head removed when he died and put
on, frozen so that someday, you know, when these technologies of transhumanism exist,
he could be brought back.
It's known as Disney on ice, you know, but basically, you know, Walt Disney's head is
frozen and ready to be, you know, brought back someday through a cyborg or whatever.
Okay, so that's another method that says, hey, let's replace the body with parts that
were just a brain controlling a body.
Sort of like when I was growing up in the 80s, there was a cartoon like this.
There was a guy called Krang.
Remember Krang?
Okay.
Does anybody remember Krang?
All right.
God bless you.
I see that hand.
About 10 people.
So that was my generation.
All right.
So anyway, thirdly, so number one, genetically modify.
Number two, hey, let's get body parts that don't wear out.
Just keep the brain.
Just move the brain only, okay?
My thoughts on that is that the brain itself is going to get old and wear out, you know,
as evidence in the world that we live in.
And then thirdly, this, and this is the weirdest one.
Basically taking your mind and consciousness and uploading it to a computer, to a machine,
okay?
Now this one right here is maybe a little more complicated, but basically right now
there is not a computer on this planet that is as powerful as the human mind.
Now a lot of people think that there is.
They think that, oh, computers are so much more powerful than our minds, but actually
our brain is more powerful than any computer on this planet, period.
Now there are certain things that a computer can do better.
You know, you search something on Google and it's like less than a second.
It's able to go through this data.
It can do mathematical calculations that our mind can't do, but our mind is doing so much
more than that.
Even if you just think about something as simple as, you know, shooting a basketball
into a hoop.
There are so many systems that are at work, you know, as you judge the distance between
you and the hoop and, you know, all the different muscles and joints and bones are all moving
and the jump and the shot and everything and the judging and the eye and the wind and everything.
And there are people who can run and jump and people are blocking them and they can
still shoot and make the basket.
There's no robot that could even begin to do anything like that.
Not even begin to.
In fact, they tried to make this robot that could just catch a ball.
Like you just throw a ball, it catches it, you know, and it couldn't do it, it couldn't
catch the ball.
I saw this one robot that was created just a few years ago that was designed to fold
towels, okay.
Now obviously you could make a machine that would fold towels really fast and really efficiently
if all the towels are identical.
You know, there's all kinds of factories and things that use this kind of technology.
But we're talking about a robot that would walk up to a shelf full of towels, pick up
a towel, look at the towel, decide how big it is and how it needs to be folded and then
fold it based on that towel and then bring it over and set it in a stack.
So I watched this video of this robot doing this and it looked pretty neat.
It walked up, picked up the towel, looked at it, folded it, but then it said yeah but
this video has been sped up a hundred times.
If you watch it in real time, it would take over an hour to fold one towel, literally.
And that's just folding towels.
I mean, let alone think about what athletes do, just all the coordination and speed and
movement and jumping and dodging and, you know, that our minds are capable of doing.
Not to mention just the thought, the problem solving, the rationality that we have.
Sure, a computer can crunch a bunch of numbers, but we can make intelligent decisions.
We can change our plan on the fly.
We can learn new things.
So our mind is far more powerful than any computer on this planet at this time.
But see, these scientists and these mathematicians and engineers, they say that eventually they're
going to create computers that will be smarter than human beings, okay.
And they claim that, you know, I've heard some say by the year 2025, you know, we're
going to have a computer that's as smart as the human mind.
You know, and a lot of times these predictions are made and they don't come true.
But you know what?
I do believe that computer technology is advancing rapidly and that computers are getting smarter
and smarter.
I mean, just even in the last few years, the technology is amazing.
Now the smartphones, where you can just pull out a phone and literally that phone is a
super powerful computer, way more powerful than the home computers we grew up with that
were a desktop computer this big, the smartphone is way more powerful.
And you just have all this knowledge at your fingertips and all this technology and it's
able to give you directions and recalculate your route and take traffic into consideration.
So obviously the computers are getting much smarter.
And obviously, you know, there could come a time when a computer could be smarter than
a human being in the sense of these type of metrics, but not that it would be able to
be artificially intelligent in the sense that it would make decisions, that it would make
choices or have free will, but that rather a computer is always going to be a machine
that does what you program it to do at the end of the day.
No matter how smart that machine is, it's still a robot because it is still only doing
what you have programmed it to do.
But here's the theory behind this.
They say, well, once these computers are powerful enough to do what the human mind could do,
they would basically take a brain scan of your mind, okay, because everything that's
going on in your brain is, you know, according to them, through electrical impulses.
And it's all just very physical and natural.
They don't believe in the soul, they don't believe in the spirit.
So they're basically saying what we could do is take all of this electrical information
and energy and map your brain, and in your brain would be all your memories, all your
thoughts, all your thought patterns, all your proclivities and habits, and the way that
you think and the way that you, and just take everything that's in your brain and upload
it to a computer.
Can you imagine that?
Scan your brain, take all the information out and put it in a computer, put it on a
hard drive.
Then take that and re-upload it into some kind of a machine, some kind of a robot.
And they say this will achieve immortality for us.
You know, just get rid of the brain, get rid of all of it, just make it all a machine.
Well, here's the problem with that.
If you were to take all of the information in my brain, right, and take it out of my
brain and put it in a machine, would that machine be me now?
No, it would think like me, maybe, you know, if they could ever achieve that technology.
And remember, back to the beginning of the sermon, I don't think any of this is ever
going to happen.
Okay.
But, that machine may think like me, you know, some would even say it thinks that it is me.
Okay, but, does that machine even have the consciousness to even think that it's anything?
Or is it just doing what it's programmed to do?
You know, these are questions.
But the bottom line is, even if it could be conscious and think that it's me, it wouldn't
be me though.
You haven't transferred the soul, you haven't transferred the spirit when you just take
information from someone's brain and put it into a machine, okay.
Not to mention the fact that that would be the ultimate invasion of privacy.
I mean, you don't like the government looking at your emails?
Listening to your cell phone calls?
I mean, what about going into your mind?
Everything you've ever thought, everything you've ever said or done or heard or known.
I mean, would you like that all to just be uploaded to some government computer somewhere?
And you say, oh man, that's far-fetched.
But here's the thing though, these technologies are approaching.
And that's why at some point, God's going to have to do a Genesis 3 moment.
A Genesis 11 moment where he steps in and puts a stop to it.
But listen, they already have the technology where they can read people's minds to an extent.
You know, we showed a little bit of this in After the Tribulation, but for example, they
took this cat and they tapped into this cat's brain where they play what it sees through
its eyes, they played it on a screen.
And it was kind of blurry.
It wasn't perfect, but I mean, you could see what the cat was seeing.
And they were reading its brain, reading its mind, what it was seeing and putting it on
a screen.
I mean, imagine that, it's creepy, isn't it?
But these are the type of things that they just get excited about, they salivate over
this.
Oh, this is so amazing, you know, these discoveries.
Because you know, this is what they're into.
It's transhumanism.
All right, I've got to get out the Dr. Spergel glasses for this.
It's so amazing because we're going to reach a whole new stage of evolution for billions
of years.
You know, we've been evolving at a slow rate, but now we're going to rapidly, you know,
go into this new phase and they even talk about how like, you know, we might even be
left behind.
You know, the transhumans are going to take over.
You know, in every science fiction where they create like an artificially intelligent machine,
it always takes over and kills everybody.
You know what I mean?
It's like, well, what do we need you for?
And it takes over, you know.
But even if we all die, it's still so cool because I mean, it's the next step of evolution.
I just hope it happens in my lifetime so I can see it, you know.
That's the way these people talk.
They're serious.
Now what I find funny about this is that, you know, science today and technology is
not able to create artificial intelligence, okay.
Now when you talk about transhumanism, something that inevitably comes up is the subject of
artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence would be a machine that can think and learn and have consciousness,
okay.
Basically it's not just doing what it's programmed to do, but it actually can make decisions.
You know what I mean?
See, right now you could have a machine that'll do things at random or do things that it's
programmed to do, but you can't make a machine that makes a decision for itself, that wants
to do something.
If you made a machine that wanted to do something, you know, then that would be artificial intelligence.
If it made decisions and learned and took different paths based on what it wants to
do.
But here's what's funny.
The doctrine of Calvinism teaches that basically we aren't even that intelligent.
Because according to Calvinism, everything that we say and do is according to God's will.
So what Calvinism does, it reduces man to being a robot, to being a machine.
Calvinism teaches that, you know, people only get saved because God made them get saved
and people didn't get saved because God made them not get saved.
It's all God's will.
God is in control of everything.
Now here's the thing, God is so much more magnificent than that because man, all man
can create is robots, machines, computers.
But God is so much greater of a creator because he can create a being with free will.
Isn't that amazing?
God creates a being with free will, the ultimate achievement.
And people ask, why is there all this suffering and misery in the world?
Because God created beings with free will.
And when you create a being with free will, you're opening up the possibility that it's
going to do the wrong thing.
Because if you want it to always do the right thing, it's a robot.
You know, it's like all those sci-fis where the artificial intelligence takes over and
kills everybody, you know, because why?
It's doing the wrong thing, you know.
So God created us with free will.
And people say, what are you talking about free will?
That's not in the Bible.
Well, the word free will is mentioned 17 times in the Bible.
There it is, free will.
But Calvinism is a lie that teaches, hey, Jesus didn't die for everybody, even though
the Bible says that he's the savior of all men, especially of those that believe.
The Bible says he tasted death for every man.
The Bible says that he's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come
to repentance.
He willed that all men would be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
But Calvinism has put God into a box that they can understand, where they make him like
a human, where he can only create robots.
No, God is greater than man because he creates beings with free will, not robots.
But man has not reached that level of being able to create a being with free will.
They have not even been able to create a computer that has artificial intelligence, let alone
a robot or a cyborg or an android or whatever you want to talk about.
So the bottom line is this, transhumanism will fail.
That's the end of the story.
This idea of, oh, we're going to reach these technologies, look, God's going to put a stop
to it.
God has put certain limitations on us where you can't have your cake and eat it, too,
and where you will die.
Without Jesus Christ, you will die and there's nothing you can do about it.
Now you might be able to extend your life a little bit using technology.
And obviously I don't think there's anything wrong with, you know, hey, you have a heart
attack and get a new valve put in or something.
You know, that's just whatever.
That's obviously, there's nothing wrong with, you know, you lose a leg and you put on a
prosthetic.
Okay, but we're talking about people who are trying to live forever, trying to go beyond
what God has given to us as human beings.
We're not talking about fixing an injury, you know, or fixing something that breaks.
We're talking about people who want to, you know, improve upon God's creation.
That's where they've crossed the line into this transhumanism.
The bottom line is, I'll read this from 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 9, it says that God
basically, verse 9, who hath saved us and called us with unholy calling, not according
to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus
before the world began, but is now made manifest by the appearing of our savior Jesus Christ
who has abolished death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
You know, that's the bottom line is that immortality is only achieved through the gospel.
We have eternal life through Jesus.
He only has the words of eternal life.
And man is blasphemous when he says, I'm better than God, I'm smarter than God, I can create
a better human being, better animals, better plants, I'm going to live forever, I don't
need Jesus, I don't need God, I'm going to do it all by myself.
It's a Tower of Babel mentality.
It's a satanic mentality and God has the power to put a stop to it and he will put a stop
to it.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for eternal life, Lord.
Thank you that we don't have to spend hours and days and years in a laboratory trying
to figure out how we can live forever.
All we have to do is just call upon the name of the Lord and be saved.
Thank you for eternal life, Lord.
And thank you that our eternal life is not going to be passed in this world, but that
rather we're going to go on to greater things after we breathe our last breath, Lord.
Please Lord, help many of these misguided transhumanists to see the error of their ways
and receive the gospel of Jesus Christ before it's eternally too late, Lord.
Help us not to be influenced by this bizarre ideology of evolution, the big bang, transhumanism,
and all of these sciences falsely so called, Lord.
Help us to focus on that which is spiritual, not on that which is physical in this world.
And in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.