ON TRANSHUMANISM - Part 5

 Without delving too deeply in the science of it but gene-editing technology, it is essentially treating the DNA of a person much like memory chips in a computer processor. Of course, the solid-state material cannot be altered in computer memory but what is stored on it can be.

The flesh is much the same way. Although flesh is flesh, the DNA within can now be altered. When the genes are changed, the person can be revised. It remains unknown whether, we hope, that gene-editing can change the flesh, but science believes it can. They believe that mankind’s lifespan can be increased. In other words, biotechnology’s goal is extended or eternal life.

The word, “life,” is of great significance. It is genetics. All life has within the organism genes from which God wove a carbon chain with memories as its “ornaments.” You are a composite of all who came before you. Truly, some of God’s DNA lies residually in the chromosomes, in a sort of genetic ‘sleep.” Conversion to Christianity apparently awakens them enough to make them viable again. In other words, persuaded to be a Christian is an awakening of the genes of God within the depraved person. Scripture hints at that: 

¹³ All things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. ¹⁴ Wherefore He saith, “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” (Ephes 5:13-14)

 Previously, I made the argument that “life” is when God genned (imbued him with gens) Adam. Arising from the dead is more than re-animation. It is awakening the genes. The logic of that is that if “life” is in the genes, then death is genetic as well. God awakens the genes and re-animates the person at the same time, just as Adam was awakened as God imbued him with His Image — His Identifying Glorious Genome!

Reanimation is “resurrection.” Before that, God must engender “life” unto the “sleeping” person again. Just what did Jesus mean by the following words? “They also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished” (1 Cor 15:18). God can restore the flesh. That is not even questionable! He also can awaken anyone from their sleep whether it is apathy or even death. He awakens the genes!

Fallen asleep is death (perishing). Even Christians whose glorious genes have been awakened, through apathy, can have them fall asleep again.

Note that in that last passage “in Christ” is significant. “In” in that phase is a positional discreet relationship between you and the Christ. “Christ” is not who God is called, but “Jesus.” “Christ” is who He IS — the anointed one.

Just what does that mean? In modern rituals, anointing is “to apply oil to as part of a religious ceremony” …” to choose by or as if by divine election” (Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1982).

The “divine oil” seems to have been applied to the surface of the flesh of Jesus to be absorbed within it. He was filled with the Holy Spirit.

John the Baptist said about the Christ, “Thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him” (John 1:33). John saw the Holy Spirit on Jesus, but Luke saw it differently, " Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness…” (Luke 4:1). The anointing of Jesus with the Spirit of God was like an oil, applied to the outside and absorbed into the flesh. The flesh of Jesus was the “cup” (vessel) for the anointing oil, as He said (Mat 26:39).

The anointing of Jesus to Christ was a change in the flesh and countenance of the man, Jesus. It seems that Jesus was engendered from above by God at His baptism, but only Him and nobody else because He was the “Anointed One.”

The point to all that detail is that Jesus was changed from mortality to immortality when He was anointed. His flesh became immortal, not just longsuffering! He was transformed from a mere man to a Divine Being if that is true. His identification was changed from “Jesus” to “Christ” because inside He was a New Creature. That is not to say that they Holy Ghost did not conceive Jesus because He did, but conception was just that.

At His birth, it seems that the Holy Ghost did not remain on Mary nor in Him. John saw it remain on Him at the baptism. Perhaps, God planted His seed in Jesus at the virgin birth and at the baptism of Jesus, it became the “Vine” (Ampelos; John 15:5). Literally, the “vine” is “a vine (as coiling about a support)” (Strong 1890).

Jesus was not a vine in a literal sense but figuratively. He was some thing else! There was something about Him that was coiling about a support. The “Vine” of Jesus compares very well with the double-helix of DNA coiling in upright man! It all points toward the Holy Spirit of God as the Genome of God without the flesh to inhibit it!

Ancient literature describes the soul of man as a full-body image of the person. However, it is not material substance but Spirit.

Chromosomes are the vessels that contain DNA, and they are transparent. For them to be seen requires staining.

It seems probable that just as Luke saw the Holy Ghost “in bodily shape” enter Jesus (Luke 3:22), that the repentant thief saw the Holy Ghost of Jesus leave Him at the crucifixion! How would that man see the Holy Ghost that was normally unseen? The Holy Ghost was perhaps stained by the red blood of Jesus.

Why was Dismus, the thief, persuaded that Jesus was indeed God? He surely saw the Holy Ghost in Jesus! Did He see the stained chromosomes of His Divine DNA? Perhaps so because Jesus “wore” the genes of God. (The flesh was no more than a “coat” that God wore just like the Garment of Adam.)

Inside of Him was the very Genome of God. No wonder Jesus said, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). Jesus was not the flesh of the man but the Existence of God within. The DNA of the man, Jesus, was the Genome of God. Essentially, the Genome of Jesus is the genes of God!

Jesus was not a transhuman, however. He was a supra-human as the Supreme Glorious God. Transhumanism is as much as creating a new being by engendering a natural man with synthetic genes. Synthetic genes replace the natural genes, and some of which remain are the very glorious genes of God. That the Divine Genome of God is the Holy Ghost makes sense because the flesh cannot be blasphemed, but only the Holy Ghost of Jesus (Luke 12:10). Blasphemy of the Holy Ghost may be desecration of the genes.

The flesh was never the Image of God. It was always His Genome — all the genetic “material” of the invisible Existence. The Genome of God would be His Invisible Substance that is considered the Holy Ghost, if that is true.

Was Jesus truly “transfigured” on the mountain — was He changed in form from natural to divine? More so, Jesus was revealed as the “face of God.” Moses, who before was not allowed to see God’s Face, on that mountain saw the Face of God and it was the Divine Face of Jesus!

“(Jesus) was transfigured (metamorphoō) before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light” (Mat 17:2). The form of Jesus remained unchanged; but it was highlighted. It was not a transfiguration in a literal sense, but a “metamorphosis” — “a striking alteration in appearance, character, or circumstances” (ibid). When the Light of the Father shined on Jesus, His Divinity was revealed. All who observed would have been revealed the Genome of God in the flesh of Jesus.

He remained God and He remained man, but it was revealed to all who were there that inside that flesh was God. On that mountain, the “Glory of God” was revealed, not transformed, and it was the very Genome of His Father.

Of course, these hypotheses are dependent on whether the truth is revealed to me or not. It does make sense to me, and these thoughts are not my thoughts, but were given to me as I sit reclined in my chair.

(picture credit: pinterest; "They Beheld God")