“Christian Transhumanism” Is Now Trending And Growing In Popularity

Wesley J. Smith for First Things – an American religious journal published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life – says that there is now a resurgence of certain groups pushing for merging with the machine. For example, in 2019 the book “Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics,” provides “first-hand testimony to the value of the transhumanist vision perceived by the religious mind.” This book contains opinions from many different professing Christians, and those of religions, answering the criticisms the transhumanism movement has received.

Why do representatives of different religious traditions find the transhumanist vision of the future not only theologically compatible but even inspiring? Transhumanism is a global movement seeking radical human enhancement. The trans in transhumanism marks the transition from the present stage in human evolution into the future, namely, post-human existence. Containing chapters written by adherents to a variety of religious traditions, Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics provides first-hand testimony to the value of the transhumanist vision perceived by the religious mind. In addition, the contributors critique both secular and religious transhumanism in light of realistic science and commitment to social justice.

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But these transhumanists movements claiming to be Christian are nothing new. First Things wrote a report about the rise of the one of these groups in 2012. Citing a report about what these adherents believe, one pastor said:

Theologically, one can find support in the Bible for transhumanism, he said, citing Scriptures that describe a future change or transformation. For example, I John 3:2 states that we “will be like him, for we will see him as he is.”…

In summarizing the theology of posthumanism, Mr. Douglas said Christianity is shaped by the belief that “God is doing something new to us, and that, therefore, we neither can nor need to transform ourselves.” Rather than naive optimism or nihilistic cynicism, Christians ought to practice “prophetic hope,” he said. “Believe in a better future because God is doing something.”

Mark Douglas, Presbyterian pastor/ethicist

Moreover, another group formed in 2014, the “Christian Transhumanist Association” (CTA), has been quite active in advocating for transhumanism to “[participate] with God in the redemption, reconciliation, and renewal of the world.”

‘Transhumanism is a futuristic social movement. Its adherents believe that immortality is attainable in the corporeal world through the wonders of applied technology. The goal is to become “H+,” or more than human. Transhumanist proselytizers include academics like Oxford’s Nick Bostrom, Big Tech gurus like Ray Kurzweil, and popularizers like 2016 presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan. They promise that “the singularity” is coming—the time when a crescendo of scientific advances will make the movement unstoppable and transhumanists will transform themselves into super-beings who can enjoy physical life without end,’ First Things explains about the overall transhumanists beliefs.

First Things explains that this move and acceptance of this “singularity” and acceptance of transhumanism should not come as a surprise, as Western society drifts further and further from God’s word, begetting “hopelessness and [which] breeds nihilism.” But the point of the transhumanism movement is to replace Jesus Christ and his word – which is described as being our only hope (Col 3:4; Psa 130:5) – and offering the new proselytes a twisted view of the new birth and eternal life. “I can live forever, the transhumanist believes fervently, if we just develop the technology soon enough,” First Things adds.

This is why occultic symbols such as the infinity symbol, or “lazy eight,” is used a lot in association with the metaverse and other pushes for mankind to enjoin themselves with the machine. The WinePress has detailed this in other reports.

It should come as no surprise and goes without much explanation, that movements such as this are antithetical to everything the Bible teaches, other than the fact that what the scriptures say about this movement is nothing short of an abomination, and prophesying its destruction.

But, groups like the CTA offer broad and blanket statements for the unsuspecting masses.

We believe that God’s mission involves the transformation and renewal of creation.

We seek growth and progress along every dimension of our humanity.

The Christian Transhumanist Association has stated

Smith further notes, ‘Nor does the CTA website discuss the “means” that transhumanist advocates plan to use to attain this utopian vision—not to mention their ethical implications. For example, some transhumanists hope to repeatedly renew their bodies through breeding clones as sources of organ replacements. Others plan to have their heads cryogenically frozen to allow eventual surgical attachment on a different body or a cyborg. But transhumanists’ greatest passion is to eternally save their minds—as opposed to souls, which is not a transhumanist concept—via uploading into computer programs, a concept known as “digital immortality.” This is hardly what St. Paul meant when he asked, “[O] Death, where is thy sting? [O] Grave, where is thy victory?” (1 Corinthians 15:55 KJB).

But on top of this, some of these “Christian Transhumanists,” have stated:

We must force our evolution in the present day via our reasoning, inventiveness, and especially our scientific technology. In short, we must embrace transhumanism—the radical field of science that aims to turn humans into, for lack of a better word, gods.

Zoltan Istvan, contributing to the Huffington Post in 2016

And for a deeper dive into what those who view themselves as transhumans, and what to have their set of legal rights and liberties, then one must read up on the Transhumanist Bill of Rights and how a transhuman is ‘legally’ defined:

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And while not everyone who says they are a Christian are just itching to become a cyborg and plugged into the grid, they are surely being goaded into accepting it by one means or another. CEO for the alternative social media platform Gab, Andrew Torba, has publicly called for Christians to embrace the metaverse, and use it as an evangelistic tool.

And as vaccine passports, social credit scores, food IDs, carbon calculators, and so on are introduced and forced on the masses; you can expect and not be surprised when the vast majority of professing Christians stand idly by and accept this system – just as those same people ran off to fight the Covid war.

Moreover, with the prospect of the Great Reset and calls for a “New World Order” being thrown in the masses’ faces more readily now, surely most will voluntarily submit to it, as they will “own nothing and be happy;” therefore will do as these “reseters” command them to do.

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Ultimately, it is all building to the climax and arrival of the mark of the beast system:

[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Revelation 13:16-18

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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