What happens when all of our technological predictions converge on the human person? Today we discuss the growing movement of transhumanism. What is it, what are it’s hopes, and can a Christian be a transhumanist?

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Topics:

• Defining Transhumanism

• https://humanityplus.org/philosophy/transhumanist-faq/

• Transhumanism is unnatural

• Wesley Smith’s “New Time Religion”: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/12/new-time-religion

• Bryan Johnson: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2109868-100-million-project-to-make-intelligence-boosting-brain-implant/

• https://www.christopherbenek.com/2015/10/artificial-intelligence-will-one-day-lead-people-to-new-levels-of-holiness/

• Micah Redding, Executive Director of the Christian Transhumanist Association: http://christandpopculture.com/can-transhumanism-lead-us-back-to-orthodoxy/

• https://www.christopherbenek.com/2015/06/the-singularity-christianitys-new-eschatological-hope/

• http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/06/18/during-microsleep-youre-asleep-and-awake-at-the-same-time/#.XQm3-KZlDBI?utm_source=pocket-newtab&utm_source=pocket-newtab

Verses Referenced:

• 1 Corinthians 13:11-13

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