What Do You Think? Wednesday

In the garden he lurked, slithering through seeds of doubt to plant some right in Eve’s heart. She watered the seed and ate the no-no fruit, looking forward to being just like God. And she gave it to Adam and he ate it too, and they realized just how human they were.

This story continues, in our lives as we seek to replace God with demonic notions and human emotions that lead us out of our creature place. We tend to forget, or have yet to believe, that there is only one who died, conquered death and the grave and gave us eternal life through belief in Him—Jesus Christ. Some get it twisted and insist they have a better way:

“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.” – John Cheever

“The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.” – Vaclav Havel

“The Singularity is an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today—the dawning of a new civilization that will enable us to transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity.”—Ray Kurzweil

Now Kurzweil and others believe in a high-tech eternal life that only a few will achieve: “The Promise of the Rapture for the High-Tech Elite.” I wonder what they will say when they too realize just how human they are. What do you think about this? In what ways have you insisted that you have a better way than God?

Copyright 2011 by Rhonda J. Smith