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Volume 26, Issue 2
How Can You Be Sure You Will Live With Jesus Forever?
By Carey Kinsolving May 2025 “Jesus is on top of my ship. We are going to go to heaven,” says John, 5.
Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.” (John 5:24).
that eternal life was a gift to be received and not a reward to be earned, I believed in Christ and passed from spiritual death into the realm of eternal life. Goodbye forever to zombie land!
First, notice that the one who believes in Christ “has ever-
I said goodbye forever to zombie land (spir- itual death) because the life of God that I re- ceived is “eternal life.” To say you can lose eternal life is a contradiction. If you can lose something that’s “eternal,” then it’s not eter- nal. God would never call something eternal if it could be lost.
Yes, Jesus is the captain of our salvation. Apart from Him, we are ships in a storm headed for the rocks. A famous Spanish captain searched for the “Fountain of Youth” in Florida. Ponce de Leon never found it, but there is much folklore about where he looked. When I visited an ancient Inca site on Lake Titicaca in Bolivia at an elevation of more than 12,000 feet, the archaeologist travel- ing with us claimed that Ponce de Leon once traveled to the site in search of the Fountain of Youth.
“If you believe, He will always be with you. He will never leave you,” says Bert, 8.
You can do many things by making a deci- sion. Undoing a birth is not one of them. You can no more undo your spiritual birth by deny- ing Christ than you can undo your physical birth by denying your parents (John 3:1-18).
Laugh if you will at the quest of Ponce de Leon, but at least he was looking. Even if you live past
Think about this: The idea of losing eternal life questions God’s integrity. God always keeps His promises. Jesus prom- ised eternal life all who believe in Him as their Savior. Memorize this truth: “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.” (John 10:28). Ask this question: Are you confident that you’ll live with God forever? KidsTalkAboutGod.org
100, like my grandmother at 106, life is ever so short com- pared to forever. Do you think anyone living 200 years from now will even remember that you existed?
lasting life.” Eternal life is a present possession. Most think everlasting life is a future state. Not so. It begins at the instant of faith in Christ alone. Please note, it’s not believing in Jesus Christ plus something else. When Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, he said, “It is finished,” (John 19:30). He wasn’t kidding. Second, the one who believes in Jesus “has passed from death into life.” For the first 17 years of my brief journey on planet Earth, I existed as a spiritual zombie. I had physical life, but I was spiritually dead. When I heard for the first time
If you like conciseness, you’ll probably like what Emiliano, 9, wrote: “Christ has everlasting life.”
Emiliano, have you been reading John 3:16 and John 5:24? Both say that the way to receive eternal life is to believe in Christ. Let’s look at the latter, where Jesus said: “Most as- suredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in
Transhumanism & AI... (Continued From Page 15)
The transhumanist view is nothing more than dressed-up scientific naturalism. For those of you who understand the belief system that supports scientific naturalism, this makes perfect sense. There is no Cre- ator and there is no need for such an antiquated idea. Since there is no Creator, the idea of a Savior is also unnecessary. What follows from those two beliefs? What follows is that no Creator and no Savior means it is up to us to save ourselves. We can only save ourselves if we all come together in peace and devote our resources to figuring out solutions to our most pressing problems. This philosophy is variously described under the monikers of scientism — a religion based on a philos- ophy that only science presents truth — and secular humanism, which posits that humanity is capable of morality, self-fulfillment, and self-actualization without belief in a Creator God. Today, we find the cult of re- ligious transhumanism dominating scientism and sec- ular humanism. This new religious cult has risen rapidly. They are forcing their vision of a utopia upon the entire earth. Their agenda is talked about everywhere that leaders of the most powerful nations meet. For example, at a recent G20 meeting of world leaders in Bali, Indonesia, the most pressing issues discussed were climate change, pollution, energy, poverty, famine, and war. Those are important issues to be sure, but it must be pointed out that the leaders gathered for the latest G20 meeting know very well that climate change is not manmade; pollution is man-made, and yet we witness the chemical geo-engineering of our atmosphere daily; energy should never be a concern as we have the technology to supply all the energy the earth needs very economically; and, the most powerful nations of the earth can, but refuse, to provide nations we define as “third-world,” with the ability to grow their own food and thus provide for their people the basic human need to eat. In a nutshell, the global leadership which
tensive step-by-step directions on how to handle emerging innovations, we cannot miss that it pops the balloon of any messianic expectation outside of the person of Jesus Christ. For the believer, it is not sim- ply that Jesus is the exclusive way to God…it is that every other messiah fails and fails utterly. The ultimate response to any technocratic claim to authority is the lordly kingship of the Son of God…The Christian… cannot fail to exercise shrewd watchfulness when it comes to (technology).” When I first became aware of transhumanism, I re- member remarking that this is an attempt to escape the judgment of God. After nearly twenty years, I still believe that to be true. Reading through all the litera- ture of the transhumanists and now those developing Artificial Intelligence as the greatest aid to human health and well-being, leaves me with the same im- pression. People are trying to throw off what they per- ceive to be the shackles of God and thereby escape what they believe to be a future day of reckoning. “In his 2017 bestselling book, “Homo Deus,” Harari said: “When biotechnology, nanotechnology and the other fruits of science ripen, Homo sapiens will attain divine powers and come full circle back to the biblical Tree of Knowledge…Scientists will upgrade us into gods.” In an excerpt of Chapter 7 of his book “Dark Aeon,” Joe Allen states that: “This human ‘upgrade’ is exactly what Elon Musk proposes. ‘If we have digital superin- telligence that’s just much smarter than any human, at a species level, how do we mitigate that risk?’ Musk asked at his 2022 Neuralink Show-and-Tell. ‘And then even in a benign scenario, where the AI is very benev- olent, then how do we even go along for the ride?’ The solution he suggests is to create a ‘whole brain inter- face,’ a ‘generalized input/output device’ that ‘literally could interface with every aspect of your brain.’”
Harari, Musk, and others mentioned in this article, see death as something they will overcome through technology and artificial intelligence. Those captivated by what they believe to be a limitless future through Transhumanism and Artificial Intelligence miss the larger inescapable truth — death is not a physiological problem alleviated by proper information provided by a new operating system, or augmentation of the human body by machines. Death is a theological prob- lem caused by sin. Whereas Transhumanists and Ar- tificial Intelligence are lifted up as a means of escape, Christians point instead to our own coming resurrec- tion. The problem of death has already been answered in Jesus Christ. The late philosopher Walker Percy rightly observed the following: “(We) live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” This predicament is a self-inflicted wound that will be fatal for those who reject Jesus Christ. When the knowledge of or belief in a transcendent Creator dies, so too does the hope of a redemption by the only One who is capable of redeeming us. When hope in a transcendent God dies so to does any thought of mercy, compassion, and agape love. Absent those traits that a transcendent God gives, the fate of mankind is nothing but dystopian and forlorn. My prayer is that Christians will meet the technology of our day with wisdom, critiquing and evaluating all aspects of it. Some will be beneficial, other aspects will not. We must know the difference. Dr. Mike Spaulding
meets at these types of summits are the ones creating these problems so that they can offer their solutions to continually enslave us all. Did you see the one dec- laration that received the most press coverage from the G20 summit? The issue that the world’s leaders all declared must take place was a global vaccine passport. The fake COVID narrative has given way to a much larger plan of enslavement hidden behind an- other “peace and safety” mantra. Then we have the acceleration of AI. Artificial Intel- ligence and transhumanism are perfect matches in the minds of most globalists. Their plan is to integrate the human mind, body, and soul into a new super-hybrid. Humanity 2.0 is the goal. Can you see that all of this taken together is a religion? This kind of slavish devotion is a prime characteristic of a cult. The nature of this particular cult I’m describing is that it is devoted to technology and technocracy, the elevation of science and so-called scientific experts. Technocrats such as Klaus Schwab, Yuval Harari, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and many others form a type of high priesthood. If you’ve ever wondered how the one world religious system will arise in the last days before Christ’s return, I suggest to you that we are witnessing its rise right now. Dr. Owen Stachan, Professor of Christian Theology at Grace Bible Theological Seminary, in his book, “Reenchanting Humanity: A Theology of Mankind” of- fers readers a reorientation of their thinking in this com- plex and sometimes confusing space. He writes that: “A proper theology of technology neither unreservedly cheers nor unequivocally denounces it…both by ex- plicit teaching and by inference, the Bible urges cau- tion in this realm. More than this, our Christocentric Scripture punctures the fundamental delusion of many modern technologists. We cannot live forever outside of God. Though the New Testament does not offer ex-
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