ON TRANSHUMANISM - Part 23

 GENETICS 

Throughout this commentary, for that is what it is, I have implied that genetics are the basics for life; for mankind, animalia, and any organism to exist. The entire Bible, in case you missed it, is about the genes of God’s creatures, specifically its human creatures. The following commentary sounds technical, and it is, but it does make sense because it is scriptural and provides a record of chronological events, according to the Word. So, here we go!

“Human” is a construct of philosophers that is a little arrogant because it implies that humans are humane. The noun “human” simply means “man” and in the Hebrew the human species would be simply identified as adam. Hence, Adam is not the man’s name but his species. Actually, “Adam” and “human” are identifiable, and differentiated, from the other kinds genetically. Great detail has been taken in the Book of Genesis to separate the kinds from their kinds, or even the “waters from the waters” (Gen 1:6).

Since mayim is Hebrew for “waters,” it makes one wonder what kind of waters pre-existed the foundation of the Earth. God did that separation on the second “day” of creation. It was the second process in making the species. Since mayim is figuratively “semen,” then God divided the “semen from the semen” as soon as He made the heavenly “seminal fluids” in the first process.

Now for some esoterism: 

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: ⁴ according as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love… (Eph 1:3-4)

 Jesus was made glorious before the foundation of the world (John 17:24). He was the pattern for mankind, specifically for Adam himself. After Jesus was made glorious, then His genetic Identity would be the “seed” for Adam and the name of God would be engraved and encoded on the record with man.

When God chose “us,” as Paul wrote, “before the foundation of the world,” that may have not been specifically us! He chose mankind to be the peculiar creatures, perhaps when God divided the semen from the semen. He would have divided the identity of humans and angelic beings before the foundation of the world, and the validation of that is that angels pre-existed mankind.

Dividing the semen would not be just “election” (Ephes 1:5) but selection. The “Husbandman” — God — was using selective breeding as any animal husbandry breeder would: 

  Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock. Husbandry has a long history, starting with the Neolithic Revolution when animals were first domesticated, from around 13,000 BC onwards, predating farming of the first crops. By the time of early civilisations such as ancient Egypt, cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs were being raised on farms. (Wikipedia 2001)

 Animal husbandry is older than Neolithic; God was the Husbandman before the foundation of the world. “Election,” in scripture, seems not to be individual selective breeding but dividing life according to the domains in which it would live.

The domain of angels is the heavenly realm, and the domain of humans, the earthly realm. God genned each occupant accordingly. You were selected by the Husbandman before the foundation of the world, and angels were not selected for Earth but cast out.

Selected for what? To live in the domain of the world, just as the Identity of Jesus pre-existed the foundation of the world. In fact, the “Word” in scripture is the “Logos” (Greek) and is simply the “Thing” in some contexts (Strong 1890). That “Thing” in the New Testament is the “Holy Spirit;” it is hagios pneuma in the Greek, “a most holy thing.” Thusly, the Word is the “Most Holy Thing — the Breath” (of God).

When God breathed life unto Adam, Adam was imbued with the Most Holy Thing in Existence — God. Since God is Existence, Adam existed, and as God’s Identifier is JHWH, then Adam would have some JHWH in him as well. As it turns out, the human DNA, as said before, contains “God” in its elements — “JHWG.”

As a sinner formed in iniquity, David wrote, “Cast me not away from thy Presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me” (Psalm 51:11).

The “Presence” is Yahweh (JHWH). David clarified how God could do that; by taking the Holy Spirit from him. Apparently, Yahweh is the Genome of God and His sole/soul identity, or the very DNA of God.

One would expect that Adam, made in the image of God, would have JHWH in him, but by now, because of sin, perhaps JHWG is some God in humans. God is without a name, but He did identify Himself — His Presence — as Yahweh and that the carrier of His Genome was by the Holy Spirit (Hebrew; qodes ruah) — the “Sacred Thing – Breath”.

Just what is the “Sacred Thing” in the Breath of God? Life, as God said (Gen 2:7), and life is organic! All organisms have DNA in their chromosomes, even single-cell organisms. God divided the chromosomes of all organisms before the foundation of the world, and selected, as the Husbandman, the human chromosomes as the chosen and peculiar species just as He did with the Hebrews and Christians much later.

The Bible is about life from cover to cover — the ontology (nature) and eschatology (destiny) of living beings. As the “elected” before the foundation of the world, God predetermined the destiny of human beings; some would live forever and some would be forever dying, and since life is all about genetics, God divided man from man by the genome within them; by who and who has not been regenned by God breathing the Holy Spirit into them. Hence, “Marvel not; ye must be born again” (John 3:7), or literally be “engendered from above” (ibid).

Perhaps, if carbon is the mark of the Beast, and if JHWG is the mark of humans, then God will change the “G” in human DNA back to “H” once He regens Christians. (Just food for thought!)

Yod He Waw He (JHWH) has some redundancy in it. “G” in the Hebrew is the letter “gimel” (gamma). Examine the letter gimel — ג. Although the meaning of gimel is a mystery, so is God; in fact, the mystery of God is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Col 1:27). Etymologists suggest that since gimel resembles a man in motion, then perhaps gimel represents life. If God in you is life, that makes sense, and explains why JHWH is “I AM THAT I AM” and perhaps JHWG is “I AM THAT I LIVE.”

God is in you as an “Adam.” Some of God in you was edited somehow. Perhaps the “G” was transposed for the “H” in the tetragrammaton because we are not the “AM” but a living copy of Him.

 Who knows the imagination of God? However, wicked men know how to reimage what He Imagined! With that said, God imaged man with His divine Genome and wicked men would want to change the genome of everyone to suit their needs.

Of course, solving the mystery of God is guesswork, but the Word provides educated guesses. I was not sure what it took to change me until I considered that I cannot change my genome and only Jesus can! I can change my habits, my diet, my spouse, my profession, my hair and skin coloring, and my physical features; but I cannot change my feral nature; I can just control the beast within (Gal 5:23) to some degree. That may be why the doctrine of “works” is so futile because sinners cannot change who they are!

Who are we? Who am I? I am encoded in my DNA, and you are in yours. Your DNA is sort of like a “Book of Life” in that it is everything about your life; from whom you came, and so forth. Jesus implied something when He said in the revelation of John, “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels” (Rev 3:5).

Perhaps He meant that He would not blot out from your identifier (DNA), the JHWG; that even the gimel, representing life would remain intact.

Overcome what to remain alive? The world. What does the world do to you? It changes who you are; it “edits” your DNA.

Why were the Jews not to intermarry? Because the other races were not chosen and peculiar, and their DNA was different. In defiance of God’s decree, the Old Testament is a history of gene-editing beginning with Cain, with Genun, with Japheth and so on. With each edit, God redeemed mankind by correcting the edit as He did for Adam with Seth, Noah for Genun, Shem for Ham, Abraham for Nimrod, and so on until Jesus spilled His blood to correct for all inborn sin — “sins that are past” (Rom 3:25).

Jesus will “confess his name before the Father” as it is written above. What was the name of man? His kind; his species. The name of man, “Adam,” is his kind. Adam was a glorious kind made in the image of God. Jesus will glorify the name of a Christian and point out to the Creator that His Name is in our name!

The root noun in the Hebrew for “glory” is kabad, meaning “weighty” (Strong 1890). Weighty implies the elemental masses in DNA. Those masses with weight on Earth are identified, as written before, as JHWG. “Glorified” would be the imbued with the image of God (JHWG) and “born again would be engendered from above in the same manner, or process — “regeneration.”

Since the genes are a record of who we are and it was recorded in us by God, then sin is possibly a re-recording of our genes. It is taking an old record and recording over it, with not as good a quality, by the way. Born again may be a recording of the genetic code again on a like-new medium — on a restored record. Is that what was meant by this: 

³⁷ And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. ³⁸ But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. (Luke 5:37-38)

 One cannot put a new code on an old record; first the record must be edited and what was there before blotted out. That is what the Tekton, Jesus, does: “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19).

Repent is to desire a change. No longer is the old record desirable but an updated version of you. Repentance is desiring a new name. “Conversion” is the actual editing of the old name that was recorded in the previous record book. You no longer are what you were. However, you did not re-record but Jesus did! Jesus converts through persuasion.

However, the “time of refreshing” is not at conversion, but it comes later. “Refreshing” is the re-imaging of what has been encoded. It seems that your “name” is your genetic code, and the “refreshing” is editing your old code of the old creature and making your code as a new creature (2 Cor 5:17).

Just as God assigned gen and gender in the beginning, in the ending, God does the same. It is God Who wills the change in the recording and Jesus who re-records your past sins now blotted out, your nature, your new flesh, and all the other genetic characteristics.

That old flesh is altered from corruptible to incorruptible at the General Resurrection. The Comforter keeps the Christian safe, but safety is achieved at the time of refreshing — when the flesh is converted from one domain to the next, from Earth to Heaven. The resurrection would be the “refreshing” of the species from an old kind to a new kind. Engendering from above (“born again”) would not be a worldly process but a divine one in the “laboratories” of the Tekton, Jesus.

The conclusion is that when God called our kind “Adam” that He was naming us with a code which identifies man’s flesh blood, and even stores that information in the marrow of the bones. Such a Great Technician He IS!

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