Just conveyers of genes... that's it. We don't really exist beyond that. You're merely a conglomeration of cells to transport genetic material from one era to another...
That's all folks!
Is it any wonder that we live at a moment when everything is becoming facile and irrelevant? If the (supposedly 'scientific') philosophy of our day is that we only hold, at best, a merely transitory value, which may or may not become fulfilled in reproduction, then where are we to find any genuine meaning or significance in our time here?
The problem is now becoming acute. Authoritarian regimes, last evidenced in Europe nearly a century ago, have begun to commence programs requiring total compliance to 'scientific' policies if a citizen desires to be deemed a full participant of society. Those who question or who choose otherwise are already daubed as social malcontents - to be shamed and blacklisted by mainstream dictat, or worse. Across the political sphere, then, from policies on abortion, to sexual identity, to medical control, to euthanasia, we are bearing witness to the rise of a panacea of eugenic control of humanity, where individual choice must be continually and entirely conformed to the will of the whole, for the biological 'good' of the species.
The day is fast approaching when any ideology that truly seeks to uphold the inherent value of the individual (beyond that of a selfish materialist 'unit') will be viewed as abominable by the masses and the powers above them. It is therefore absolutely correct that Christians are talking of the coming shut-down of churches (permanently, this time) in their conventional form and the need for new means of connection and worship to become evident, whilst a 'window of opportunity' still exists. It is not a mistake that some of the nations with the most stringent anti-christian regimes in the world (Iran, Afghanistan, China, North Korea) are believed to have some of the largest and most robust Christian communities in the world - persecution often proves to be God's trump card for massively expanding the everlasting kingdom.
We are rightly concerned about the present troubles, and, perhaps, even more troubling, the majority of the church's slowness at waking to this, but we also rejoice, because like those who have held out the truth in days before, we know this will, in the ultimate narrative, bring about an enduring good for our broken world.
We are not accidents. We are 'fearfully and wonderfully made' for a purpose far beyond mere biological survival, for we have been adopted into the life of the One who was, who is, and who is to come. Let us seek to hold fast to encouraging one another in the unassailable value of that truth in the days to come.
(In thanks for the life and ministry of the Reverend Melvin Tinker, who went to be with Christ this week).
2 comments:
I've written lots of poetry, Howard, and sometimes with a prophetic voice. My "End of Politics" (https://allpoetry.com/poem/13887023) came to mind as I read your article. But recently I wrote "'The Benefits Outweigh the Risks'" (https://allpoetry.com/poem/16207010), but it's in the author's note that I get more specific in sync with what you're saying.
I have a theory about DNA, and although I've included that in a poem ("Soul of DNA" - https://allpoetry.com/poem/14968097), I have written some theological thoughts on it in a blog article: "SOUL AWAKE—DNA SLEEPING" (http://pastordavidrn.blogspot.com/2015/11/soul-awakedna-sleeping_4.html). God's purpose for making a body/spirit DNA also has implications for the doctrine of original sin and the physical-spiritual ability for Christ to put our inherited Adamic nature to death on the Cross ("The First Advent: the Incarnation" - https://pastordavidrn.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-first-advent-incarnation_28.html).
I'm glad you are still writing. I'll bookmark your blogsite. In a month or so, I'm publishing my 3rd book on body acceptance, a novel. I think you'd like my little "Preface" to it. Send me an email (pastordavidrn@gmail.com). I'm making up a pre-pub. email to those that might be interested in it.
Who knows... it might not be that long before we greet each other in our spiritual-DNA embodiments while we await their reunion with their new physical ones that are like our Savior's resurrected body. Blessings, my brother!
Many thanks, David. You're clearly keeping busy! Will seek to drop you a line.
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