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What if you were sure that you could go on to live forever? Let’s say there was a proven technology allowing anyone with enough money to access this procedure. Cryogenics, as an example. Or maybe a technology where an avatar was created from your DNA with matching software allowing scientist to down-load your memory into a data-base, and then restores it into that Avatar of you.
If this was possible, you would have restarted your existence from that point on—in your avatar—but as you, with all your memory and experiences. Imagining this, we suppose such a technology would also have a data back-up system—perhaps an implanted chip—to collect your latest memory, so if you were to die in an automobile accident, for example, your latest memory up to the time of your death would have been saved.
So, if such a technology existed; how much would you gladly pay to obtain it? Personally, everything that I own. Just tell me when and where to sign up.
We could also imagine that, starting out, such a technology would require us to have certain basic qualifying prerequisites. For example, having a certain level of blood glucose balance in our brains may be necessary; therefore diet and our physical health would possibly play key roles in us qualifying for this program. Could you see yourself willingly making, and then living the necessary life style choices in order to meet this program requirement? I would. And of course many others of us, as well. We can safely determine this by the numbers of us who are presently doing exactly this; eating and exercising in the right ways just to live another five, or; if we are lucky; ten, fifteen, or upwards of twenty more years, maybe.
What if we now draw reference to a very well known story? A story captured in the Bible and shared amongst us, especially at Easter. This is the story of a man, one man only, who was restored to his conscious existence after experiencing death, into an eternal existence. A paranormal phenomenon some say since there is no scientific explanation for it. Yet in today’s world of science, and the technological break-through we expect some day in the future that could herald in the kinds of hypothetical possibilities I have posed; it no longer seems farfetched. Through the modern eye, it seems illogical that an entity who created us in the first place, with all our complex biological attributes, would not be able to restore us from a physical death, if it so chooses.
Here is an even bigger or more provocative question. What kind of technology would such an entity-creator use to restore us? Would it have been the kind of science used in the restoration of Jesus? One we often ascribe to the paranormal because we have no present knowledge that adequately explains it.
Science is fascinating, especially the science of our day. Unlike many, I can’t see an unequivocal opposing or conflicting relationship between religion and science, their supposed antithesis. In fact, science has helped reinforced my faith. We’ll converse more on this subject in the very near future.
Buried deep within the innermost core of every human is an innate desire for life—to live on for as long as we can. And given that there is a chance afforded to us for an everlasting state of existence, then just how lucky are we! Most would willingly pay everything that we own for this incredible opportunity—equaling to billions of dollars for some of us. Wow!!
As mentioned, many are already striving for longer lives, and if we knew how, would strike for the ultimate prize of them all; to live eternally and never having to die.
We believe we were created by a God whose existence is, presently, way beyond our ability to comprehend. And just as in the case of our hypothetical example, we believe that he has provided a way; considering that he already has the science and technology; to keep our memory data banks ‘saved’, to be transferred and our consciousness restarted into any avatar body he chooses. This seems neither impossible nor inconceivable.
Viewed from the predictable science and technological advances humans will make; Eternal Life therefore cannot be considered an improbable idea. Exactly the converse could be true, that the forfeiture of such an opportunity could be the most colossal mistake made by any living entity. In the same way we would have willingly worked to become program-eligible for our hypothetical eternal existence, it is the very same thing that our creator is requiring of us to become eligible for his promise of eternal life.
For this reason alone the Christ said, “For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul—eternal life?†Matt. 16:26. As one who knows what it is to be living in eternal actuality, Christ’s tone suggests that it seemed mind boggling that anyone could risk losing out on this extraordinary opportunity—not even for all there is in the world.
This is the first article in our launch effort to help each other understand how we can attain this ultimate gift which has been granted to us. Imagine: no plastic surgery, no wishful technology—no death.This is the theme focus of our Ministry—what God has blessed us to do as part of the greater effort in the wider Christian community.
We invite you back next week to participate in a journey of spiritual awakening and up-liftment. That together our eyes can be made ‘wise open’, so we can now finish what we had started when we won in that great race to be here, in the first place. What if another sperm had gotten to the egg first? Then it would have been a sister, or a brother, and not us—not that we would be here to know them.
And so the second, ultimate, best thing has already happened to us—we are here and we have life!
Nowon to the grandest prize of them all: “The Gift of God is Eternal Life.â€
If this was possible, you would have restarted your existence from that point on—in your avatar—but as you, with all your memory and experiences. Imagining this, we suppose such a technology would also have a data back-up system—perhaps an implanted chip—to collect your latest memory, so if you were to die in an automobile accident, for example, your latest memory up to the time of your death would have been saved.
So, if such a technology existed; how much would you gladly pay to obtain it? Personally, everything that I own. Just tell me when and where to sign up.
We could also imagine that, starting out, such a technology would require us to have certain basic qualifying prerequisites. For example, having a certain level of blood glucose balance in our brains may be necessary; therefore diet and our physical health would possibly play key roles in us qualifying for this program. Could you see yourself willingly making, and then living the necessary life style choices in order to meet this program requirement? I would. And of course many others of us, as well. We can safely determine this by the numbers of us who are presently doing exactly this; eating and exercising in the right ways just to live another five, or; if we are lucky; ten, fifteen, or upwards of twenty more years, maybe.
What if we now draw reference to a very well known story? A story captured in the Bible and shared amongst us, especially at Easter. This is the story of a man, one man only, who was restored to his conscious existence after experiencing death, into an eternal existence. A paranormal phenomenon some say since there is no scientific explanation for it. Yet in today’s world of science, and the technological break-through we expect some day in the future that could herald in the kinds of hypothetical possibilities I have posed; it no longer seems farfetched. Through the modern eye, it seems illogical that an entity who created us in the first place, with all our complex biological attributes, would not be able to restore us from a physical death, if it so chooses.
Here is an even bigger or more provocative question. What kind of technology would such an entity-creator use to restore us? Would it have been the kind of science used in the restoration of Jesus? One we often ascribe to the paranormal because we have no present knowledge that adequately explains it.
Science is fascinating, especially the science of our day. Unlike many, I can’t see an unequivocal opposing or conflicting relationship between religion and science, their supposed antithesis. In fact, science has helped reinforced my faith. We’ll converse more on this subject in the very near future.
Buried deep within the innermost core of every human is an innate desire for life—to live on for as long as we can. And given that there is a chance afforded to us for an everlasting state of existence, then just how lucky are we! Most would willingly pay everything that we own for this incredible opportunity—equaling to billions of dollars for some of us. Wow!!
As mentioned, many are already striving for longer lives, and if we knew how, would strike for the ultimate prize of them all; to live eternally and never having to die.
We believe we were created by a God whose existence is, presently, way beyond our ability to comprehend. And just as in the case of our hypothetical example, we believe that he has provided a way; considering that he already has the science and technology; to keep our memory data banks ‘saved’, to be transferred and our consciousness restarted into any avatar body he chooses. This seems neither impossible nor inconceivable.
Viewed from the predictable science and technological advances humans will make; Eternal Life therefore cannot be considered an improbable idea. Exactly the converse could be true, that the forfeiture of such an opportunity could be the most colossal mistake made by any living entity. In the same way we would have willingly worked to become program-eligible for our hypothetical eternal existence, it is the very same thing that our creator is requiring of us to become eligible for his promise of eternal life.
For this reason alone the Christ said, “For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul—eternal life?†Matt. 16:26. As one who knows what it is to be living in eternal actuality, Christ’s tone suggests that it seemed mind boggling that anyone could risk losing out on this extraordinary opportunity—not even for all there is in the world.
This is the first article in our launch effort to help each other understand how we can attain this ultimate gift which has been granted to us. Imagine: no plastic surgery, no wishful technology—no death.This is the theme focus of our Ministry—what God has blessed us to do as part of the greater effort in the wider Christian community.
We invite you back next week to participate in a journey of spiritual awakening and up-liftment. That together our eyes can be made ‘wise open’, so we can now finish what we had started when we won in that great race to be here, in the first place. What if another sperm had gotten to the egg first? Then it would have been a sister, or a brother, and not us—not that we would be here to know them.
And so the second, ultimate, best thing has already happened to us—we are here and we have life!
Nowon to the grandest prize of them all: “The Gift of God is Eternal Life.â€