By Randy Ballinger
Striving for immortality sometimes results in strange ideas.
As an example, โtranshumanismโ is a philosophical movement that advocates using technology to modify and enhance the human condition, expand human capacities, and extend human life. To its proponents, the desired end is immortality, potentially outside the human body, as oneโs intellect is transferred from the biological brain to a computer.
Immortality is possible, but not by means of artificial engineering or far-fetched faith in technology based on human ego. Instead, it is all about Jesus dying in our place so that we may live forever.
The Lordโs table is proof of our immortality. It reminds us that true and eternal life comes through deathโdeath to self and death to sin. And that is possible only through Jesus Christโs work (and not anything you or I have done). Jesusโ work on our behalf included death on a cross. His death was not quick and painless; it included not only physical torture, but also separation from his heavenly Father, to pay the penalty for our sins.
The apostle Paul encouraged us, โBut our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious bodyโ (Philippians 3:20-21, emphasis mine).
So, then, Jesus is the only source of immortality . . . and his technology is perfect!
Randy Ballinger lives with his wife, Gina Ann, near New Paris, Ohio. He is an elder with the Centerville (Indiana) Christian Church.
Author: Christian Standard
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