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Memento Mori: AI, Transhumanism, and Gnosticism
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From AI recreations of loved ones to a culture redefining life and death, modern society’s resources to deal with life and death fall woefully short of what we need. Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller talk about...
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Michael Horton
Weakness isn't a flaw. It's where hope begins. In A Place for Weakness, Michael Horton shows how the cross and resurrection of Christ don't just explain suffering, they overcome it. This isn't a book about cliches or quick fixes. It's about real hope for real pain. Hope that quiets guilt, silences doubt, and outlasts every storm. Whether you're grieving or walking with someone else through their grief. A Place for Weakness shows how the doing, dying and rising of Christ silences the thunder of the law and gives eternal hope in the face of life's hardest questions. Grab your copy today for a donation of any amount@solomedia.org offers. That's solarmedia.org offers.
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Bob Hiller
We're exhausting ourselves with all kinds of ideas to avoid the reality that we are. We're dying. There's a curse. Yeah, but there's also someone who's reversing the curse is what we're missing because we don't talk about it.
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Walter Strickland
I could get the picture of like in a. In a gigantic mass grave and we're all climbing, scratching, breaking off our fingernails, trying to climb up this impossible wall when God our Lord Jesus Christ is reaching down and say, I'll pull you out.
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Bob Hiller
For all who are weary and heavy laden, I'll give you rest. Yes, trying to do the impossible.
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Michael Horton
Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church. This is White Horse Sin, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology and culture.
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Justin Holcomb
Foreign.
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Bob Hiller
Pop culture seems to be grasping at straws when contemplating death in the afterlife. As our nation's biblical and theological awareness continues to wane, there's an increasing diversity of thought and practice surrounding death. In recent days, we've witnessed sincerely grief stricken people trying to sidestep heartache by even using AI to, to quote, unquote, resurrect their loved ones. This episode of White Horse Sin is the third in a series on death and will focus on several contemporary misconceptions and pastoral matters surrounding death. We're watching the popular views of death drift into rituals and sentimentality and practices that are not only unhelpful, but isolating and emotionally detrimental. So I'm here with the usual suspects at Whitehorse Inn and we're going to dive into these questions. I'm here with Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Justin Holcomb, and I'm Walter Strickland. And so to just kind of get us going, how do you guys think that sentimentality and even nihilism undergird contemporary views on death?
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Mike
Let me give you a story about A sentimental view. And I'm telling you the story because a while ago a friend of mine died who was one of my colleagues. And I was still sad, but very sad. And I was going about my life, went to the gym, someone asked how I was feeling, and I said, I'm sad. And my friend died and teared up a little bit. And people started saying things to me. They said, you know, non Christian platitudes. And I'm not saying that like in a critical way. They said the best they had to offer. And finally I just said, I don't. And I wasn't saying this in a judgy way. I just said I was kind of grasping, I needed to say it for my own hope. I said, I don't know how you handle death without the hope of the resurrection of Jesus.
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Bob Hiller
It wasn't.
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Mike
Again, it wasn't like, I gotta criticize your worldview. I was like grasping for hope. And what came to mind of what I was hearing from people was a few years ago, there's a famous British artist named Damien Hirst who, he had a masterpiece. And it was a diamond encrusted platinum skull of a human skull that was worth at the time $98 million. And the skull had on it 8,601 diamonds kind of around it. And in the center of his forehead was this pink diamond that was worth $8 million alone. And the title of it came from his mother who said, for the love of God, what are you going to do next? And so this piece, for the love of God, by him as a. His explanation's what got me. And he said this about that piece. I hope this work gives people hope, uplifting, takes your breath away. It shows we're not going to live forever. But it also has a feeling of victory over death. That's it. I mean, the victory over death language is there, but it's the feeling of victory over death. I mean, it's so close. Cause there's no victory over death unless you have a savior who has risen. And so what are the sentimental view is a feeling of victory over death. There's a reason the sentimental wants to have a feeling of victory over death. And so that was one where I was just realizing they were giving me the best they had, which is a feeling of victory over death. Like, well, he lives on in your heart. Or I mean, you know, continuing his legacy. And I was like, I get it, but that's a really small story. I need a bigger story than that. So that's, that's one Sentimental view of. Of. Of death.
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Justin Holcomb
One of the things you see. And Justin, you can probably speak more to this because you've done a lot of work on it. But the changing nature of the funeral has gone from God has something to say about this person and their death in his son Jesus, to let's celebrate their life. Let's bring forward one, a lot of pictures and a lot of things that they would have loved. And it just becomes this big.
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Mike
Well, it's.
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Justin Holcomb
It's called a memorial service now and not a funeral because we're remembering them and we're playing to our sentiments in a way that we feel would. Would make them happy, as opposed to staring headlong into the face of our enemy and saying, you're not going to have the last word over this person which comes in Christ. And so hope has been replaced by sentimentality, even in the funeral service and.
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Mike
Even in the church. I mean, that's. That's what's happened is I know some of my friends who are pastors who, when people in their church die, they call the funeral home and they let the funeral home do everything and host the service. And then they show up, they'll read Psalm 23, which is the most popularly read passage in all of scripture for a funeral. Psalm 23. That's a good thing. I wasn't criticizing that. But they don't know what to do with death. And it becomes. And then we end up. So there was a time when funeral sermons were long. It was a larger story in which you were talking about this person dying in this larger story. And now we've lost that larger story, that kind of master. Huge, big story. And so now we start telling the story of the individual life. This is an American rugged individualism. And that's the only story we have to tell. And so we have to tell it with some victory, some. It's a theology of glory, usually whitewash the person's reputation. It's a celebration of life. It's a memorialization. And then. And this is different from grieving like those who have hope. So my. My friend who died, we hosted the funeral for the family. And hundreds of people came and I took my daughters out of school on a Monday, and they said they were kind of surprised, like, dad, you're really careful about not crowbarring your work into our lives. What's going on? Why are you taking us out on a Monday from school for this funeral? And they weren't complaining about it. They loved this man, so they got it. But they saw how determined I was for them to go. And not only out of. He's our friend. You love him. I love him. I said, I want you to see how Christians die. I want you to see. I love the way you said it, Bob. Staring your enemy in the face with having hope and you're. I mean, Jesus is weeping right before he raises Lazarus from the dead. Like, I love seeing those two together. And to be able to sit there and reading out words of hope while you're sobbing because he died too soon. I mean, just that kind of feeling. And they said, I was like, what did you guys see about that? Like, what happened? And they said, that was really int. That was amazing. I mean, that's one of the best apologetics for Christianity is how Christians die. And I said, what did you hear? And they said, we heard hope because of salvation in Jesus Christ. And I thought, good grief, if that's what they heard, then that is an appropriate service.
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Bob Hiller
And Justin, that intensity, I think is good because the intensity of the feelings and the despair and the frustration and the. That death brings about, there's actually an answer for that that's just beyond the cognitive. It just takes all of us. And so it's just such a powerful thing. And so to have a. A deeply emotional and powerful service that points people towards Christ and how he fulfills us in those moments, that's a. That's actually good because I think a lot of times we try to keep things so light and airy, you know, and then tell jokes about the person. Oh, this person loved plaid.
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Mike
Hahaha.
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Bob Hiller
Everyone wear plaid, you know, to the service? No, no. I mean, I'm not picking on you, Bob, because you want to play. That's a good idea.
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Mike
That's a good idea, actually.
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Michael Horton
But.
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Justin Holcomb
But you want to plaid to my funeral.
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Mike
There we go.
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Bob Hiller
But you know, it's just one of those things. This is weird.
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Walter Strickland
Look at people's funeral services, whatever they. First of all, what do they call them? But also, regardless of what they call them, what are they? What goes on at the service? And let me just. I know you guys could all give representations. Liturgical section of our service book is called the Service of Committal Committing the Body to the Earth. And here is. Here are some. But here are some prayers for the dying. Gracious God look upon. And then the name. Look upon sue your child through baptism. May she know your love now and always, the love from which nothing in life or death can ever separate us. And may she be comforted with the promise of eternal life given in the resurrection of your Son, our Savior Jesus, and then commendation at the time of death. Depart, O Christian soul, out of this world. In the name of God, the Father Almighty, who created you, in the name of Jesus Christ, who redeemed you, in the name of the Holy Spirit who sanctifies you, may you rest in the peace of God's eternal kingdom. Into your hands, O merciful Savior, we commend your servant Sue. Acknowledge, we humbly beseech you, a sheep of your own fold, a lamb of your own flock, a sinner of your redeeming. Receive her into the arms of your mercy now into the blessed rest of everlasting peace and into the glorious company of the saints in light. Isn't that what you want to hear when you're on your deathbed? I mean, this is heavy. Death is heavy. And that reaches. That's as heavy as death is.
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Bob Hiller
Yeah. Stared in the face because we can. Because of Christ, and not just look away from it. And then we're fearful of getting waylaid by it because we. We don't know what's coming.
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Walter Strickland
Right.
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Bob Hiller
And I think that's part of the challenge, too.
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Justin Holcomb
There's something even. Even with our liturgy. When you get to the burial itself, I mean, you take a handful of dirt and you put it on this ridiculously priced casket that's all pretty for some ridiculous reason, and you pour dirt all over it in the sign of the cross, and you say, now, my God, the Father, who created this body, God the Son, who redeemed this body, and may God, the Holy Spirit, who sanctified this body and will raise it from the dead, bring it forth at the resurrection.
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Mike
You.
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Justin Holcomb
You have this sense of like, we're saying goodbye and we'll see you again when you rise. This body is coming back. And this is. There's a sense in which it's almost. If it's not true, it's insulting.
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Mike
Right?
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Justin Holcomb
When Jesus. When Jesus stands in front of Lazarus's tomb, if he's not calling out the body from the grave, it's insulting to say, let's roll the stone away, but he knows he's going to do something about it. And when we do funerals, we stand there, the language we will use in preaching and leading the service is in the stead and by the command of Jesus to speak his words over this body, to speak his words over this death. And his words are, you're not going to have the last word. I'm going to take this body back and make it alive. There's so much more hope and confidence and I don't want this to sound trite. It's just a weightier way of speaking. It shows the value of this person to God. This person mattered to God, and so he created, redeemed, sanctified, and will raise this person again.
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Bob Hiller
You know, it's interesting as we look at contemporary culture, there is this desire for resurrection. There is this desire for life ongoing. And we're even seeing people utilize artificial intelligence to try to accomplish this on our own. You know, I mentioned a moment ago, in response to Mike that we. We often are trying to not look death in the face. We're trying to look away from it because of. Of fear of it, because we don't know what to do with it. And so there's an interesting phenomenon going on. I mean, and one of those. One organization or business company that's doing this is called Grief Tech. And what they're trying to do is to utilize AI by getting a lot of the text messages that a parent or a loved one has sent or videos that they've been in, they're sort of compiling their consciousness into a database so you can actually engage. And AI is responding to those inputs of questions in a way that supposedly that person would have responded. And a lot of this is really this desire for people to live on. A lot of this is a desire for resurrection. And we're just grasping at these straws in order to do this. And I think it'd be helpful for us to unpack this technological advance and even how it might even give the illusion of immortality, but doing so in a very cheapened way.
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Walter Strickland
Well, Ray Kurzweil is one of the people I've been. I just finished two chapters concluding my third volume of the series I'm doing on transhumanism. So I've been doing a lot of reading over the last several months on this, and it has been just absolutely stunning how it's kind of a radicalization of fanatical enthusiast Christianity. Ray Kurzweil calls it the Singularity. And the Singularity is near. And then the next book, the Singularity is nearer. And he is an inventor. He is really close to AI research. Here's what he says. Our version 1.0 biological bodies are frail and subject to myriad failure modes, not to mention the cumbersome maintenance rituals they require. Think of almost Gnostic talk about the body, biological body. When human intelligence is something sometimes capable of soaring in its creativity and expressiveness. Much of human thought is derivative, petty and circumscribed. The Singularity will allow us to transcend these limitations of our biological bodies, we will gain power over our fates. We will be able to live as long as we want. We will fully understand human thinking and will vastly extend and expand its reach. Our intelligence will be trillions and trillions of times more powerful than unaided human intelligence. And then Yuval Noah Harari, in his book Homo A Brief History of Tomorrow, says this. Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and our current values, humanity's next targets are likely to be immortality, happiness and divinity. And he notes that Google launched a sub company called Calico whose stated mission is, quote, to solve death.
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Bob Hiller
This is to say the obvious. This is just profoundly unchristian. I mean, I'm trying to get the intensity we talked about a moment ago, as I say that, but, you know, as this is, this is one of the, pastorally speaking, I think one of the tricks of the adversary is to get us to focus on the now, so much so that we are not even ready for what's to come in the future. And I think, I think the devil has done his job not to scare the heck out of us with death, not to, you know, and those kinds of things, but to really just focus us elsewhere. And then all of a sudden, you know, it's just, it sneaks up upon us and it's over. And we. And this opportunity to follow Christ is gone. And so this is, this is, I think Ecclesiastes 7, when it talks about it's better to go to the house of mourning than the house of feasting is helpful. But this very idea, these companies, Ray Kurzweil and others, they're actually trying to have us sidestep that in order to have this illusion of the fact that we can become immortal. And even the quest for immortality is doing the antithesis of what Ecclesiastes 7 is talking about.
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Michael Horton
Prayer is a gift, not a chore, but it's often thought of as a tool or a life hack. So when we get busy and distract ourselves with things online, we feel guilty and simply give up on prayer. That's why pastor and white Horse and co host Bob Hiller wrote this short booklet, the Gift of Prayer. This booklet guides you through why Christians pray, how to pray, and how to deepen your prayer life to experience and enjoy God through this means of grace. Get a copy for you or a friend while supporting the work of Sola with a donation of any amount by visiting solarmedia.org offers. Beating yourself up over a lack of prayer will not make you Love praying, but understanding prayer as the gift that it is just might get your copy today with the gift of any amount@solarmedia.org offers.
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Justin Holcomb
Gilbert Milander is a sort of ethicist philosopher. He writes this about. About this idea, this way of thinking. It's a bit of a long quote, but. But I think it's really helpful, he says, when our goal is simply to ward off death, to stay alive as long as possible, we miss an essential element in our humanity, the trajectory of bodily life that begins in our dependence and moves at the end, once again toward dependence and death. We miss our mortality. Perhaps more important still, we misdirect the longing of buried at the heart of human existence. Our hearts are restless, St. Augustine wrote, until they rest in God. That is what the human heart desires is not simply more years. That offers quality and continuance, which is more of the same when what we desire is qualitatively different. Even were we to master aging and dying, we would not have achieved the heart's desire for the longing for God is not longing for more of the same, more of this life. Were we simply another animal. Our good might lie in warning off death and preserving bodily life. But we are not and it does not standing between the beasts and God. Our being opens us to God. The deepest chasm in our being is our need not for more years, but for God. And I think that's a very helpful way, which you said earlier. Walter is really insightful. This, this whole way of thinking is. Is anti Christian. Why? Because it's anti faith. We're not trusting in God in any of this. We're not listening to his word. We're trying to find life apart from outside of the place where he's promised to give it. And that's in Christ.
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Walter Strickland
Isn't it interesting too that there's a link? I think as you guys are talking, there's a link in Satan's temptation. He says, you will be as gods. His positive claim, you will be as gods. And negatively, you will not surely die. Whatever God told you isn't true. And you know, the more I look into this transhumanism stuff, and it's part of the broader culture, the more it strikes me that those two things really are related. That Adam wanted. He bought that lie. You will be as gods. Which means I can evade the curse, just like they tried to do it. The Tower of Babel will build a tower leading to the heavens so they can't be flooded again.
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Justin Holcomb
Milander says so. Similarly in that article, he says when we aim at becoming more than human. We actually become less human. That what happens is like this completely undermines what it means to be a creature and to be limited, which is a good thing. And you think about this, if people are talking about Walter, that, that, that business where you can like get your, your loved one's voice and put it into a recording and make this AI version of them, they're not human. That voice, that system is not really them. They have no secrets, they have no life apart from the interactions you have in your ears with them. They have no past or future. It's just a high tech recording. It's not them. And so whatever therapy it might give you, you're not actually interacting with another human being. And I don't mean to be cruel with this, but it's so utterly self serving and it views other humans as existing simply for my therapeutic needs. And that's. We can't, there's no place for grief or sorrow or anything. It's very strange.
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Walter Strickland
And it's also treating them as minds.
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Justin Holcomb
Yeah, there's nothing more than minds.
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Walter Strickland
Nothing more. These writers say over and over again, uploading consciousness, the mind, intelligence, it's so Cartesian. It's unbelievable that Descartes is making a comeback. It is. And then they contrast that with our messy, heavy, sluggish bodies. Our brains are called 3 1/2 pounds of meat. So that's the kind of language used to describe the body. This is supposed to be atheism, right? A materialistic world science. And everything is all materialism. This is gnostic. This is gnostic.
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Bob Hiller
And this all circles back to the discussion of anthropology. What is it to be a human? You know, because the reality is that if we're talking about there's a lack of relationship with AI, there's not really a true relationship. There's not the reciprocation of interaction beyond those inputs and outputs. There's not the incarnational reality. I mean the fact that you can mourn and somebody puts their arm around you and like things happen when somebody offers a helpful sort of embrace during times of difficulty and things like that. And so all I have to say, this sort of technological advance that's making us less than human is driving us into isolation. I mean even the founder of Grief Tech, he even says, you know, he's a typical post pandemic millennial who talks to his friends through gaming message boards and social media, et cetera. That's the antithesis of, of, of being a person having real interaction.
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Mike
Yeah.
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Bob Hiller
And I think, I think that the isolation that it's causing, it's. It's like being hungry and chewing gum. You're kind of getting a taste of it, but you're really not eating anything. That's a bad example, probably. That's a.
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Justin Holcomb
Actually, I love that.
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Mike
That's very good. As an example of that. I mean, literally, I was like, how do I start about talking about this? This is an example of being at home and chewing gum and dealing with death without the hope of the resurrection. When I used to teach death and dying before, there was an AI Huge movement about death doing this. This is like blowing my mind. I love this. But the way you would try to live forever in homemade, ritual ways, you would take the cremains. This is one service that groups would offer, and they take the cremains, and then you would put them on a rocket and shoot them out the space. That way you can be like, hey, my loved ones out there. When you look to the stars, you'll always see the stars. You'll see them forever. Or we know diamonds are forever. So you take the cremains and then cram them into, like, a diamond and wear the diamond, because diamonds are forever. You're finding a way to kind of live forever. And now that's taking parts of the body. What's fascinating about this is taking the voice and the AI the disembodied nature of. Makes me think of. And it's the famous. It's the quote from Invictus, William Henley. It's the one that everyone quotes at graduations. And I'm going to just read you the sport. Out of the night that covers me black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. That's not necessarily how you're supposed to read it. A little bit of snark there. Clearly, in the foul clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade and yet the menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. There's a whole bunch of God. Yeah. Yeah. It's amazing. So we have this sentimental, we have this nihilism, but regardless, we're going to find a way to live forever. Even though we're going in these two sentimental or nihilistic directions.
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Walter Strickland
I think actually Epicurus was a lot better than that. You know Epicurus, the ancient philosopher of, well, epicureanism. Imagine this being on a coffee mug today. Don't fear the gods, don't fear death. What's good is easy to get and what's bad is easy to endure.
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Mike
Say it again. So we can make a video of this with the mug being held up and they can actually put the words on it. Please quote that again, Mike.
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Walter Strickland
Don't fear the gods, don't fear death. What's good is easy to get and what's bad is easy to endure. Is that not the sentiment really of our society today? And if you just the problem, Epicurus thought Lucretius after him all the way down to Harari and lots of these other people. At the end of the day, the problem is belief in God. If you believe in God, then you believe in judgment and rewards and punishment and all that, which means that you fear death. You're afraid of death because of that. Now if you get rid of the first premise, you don't fear death anymore, because what is death? The only pain you experience because of death is the pain caused by believing that it is more than just a cessation of consciousness. Just get rid of all that and you won't fear death anymore. You'll just die. That's what transhumanists don't want to do. They don't want to. They're not really nihilists, they're not epicureans. They're Gnostics. This is an interesting quote, last quote I'll give here from John Gray, who I've just really grown in my appreciation for. He's a rabid, anti humanist atheist.
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Justin Holcomb
Sounds delightful.
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Walter Strickland
Yes, but he's a really elegant writer. He takes aim, particular aim in his book Straw Dogs against Transhumanism. He says today's cybernauts are unknowing Gnostics. The flight from the prison of the flesh is the essence of the Gnostic heresy that despite incessant persecution, persisted in Christendom for centuries and which survives to this day in the Mandian community in Syria. For Gnostics, the earth is a prison of souls, ruled perhaps created not by God, but by a demiurge, an evil spirit which enticed humans into the captivity of the flesh by showing them the beauty of the world. A 20th century Gnostic, Carl Jung, stated the central Gnostic myth in precisely these terms. Jesus promised the resurrection of the body, not an afterlife as a disembodied consciousness. The cult of cyberspace Continues the Gnostic flight from the body, from an atheist.
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Justin Holcomb
It's such a weird world where we're going to. I mean, it's such a weird world where we're going to the same arguments as the atheists. I mean, it's bizarre.
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Walter Strickland
Isn'T it?
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Mike
Yeah.
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Walter Strickland
Brave new world.
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Bob Hiller
So an interesting development that I've seen, as well as I've been sort of kicking around the Internet about these things, is that there's now living funerals. If you guys. Have you guys heard of that phenomenon?
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Walter Strickland
Have not.
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Mike
I'm going to have one I want.
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Bob Hiller
Yeah. So it's basically. It's a. It's a memorial service for someone. Someone who's in their final days, but they wanted to be there to be celebrated while.
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Mike
Totally get it. They're still living. Totally get it. I. I love words of affirmation. Then why should I miss out? Because I'm a limited creature. I should be able to hear everything.
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Walter Strickland
The only time my enemies said anything nice about me is what I was.
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Bob Hiller
We're exhausting ourselves with all kinds of ideas to avoid the reality that we are. We're dying. There's a curse.
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Justin Holcomb
Yeah.
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Bob Hiller
But there's also someone who's reversing the curse is what we're missing because we don't talk about it.
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Walter Strickland
Yeah, it's. I could get the picture of, like, in a gigantic mass grave and we're all climbing, scratching, breaking off our fingernails, trying to climb up this impossible wall when God our Lord Jesus Christ is reaching down and say, I'll pull you out.
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Bob Hiller
For all who are weary and heavy laden, I'll give you rest. Yes. Trying to do the impossible.
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Mike
Let's do a whole episode. The next episode is 10 minutes for each of us where we'll just. I'll guess I'll guest of honor Mike. I've known Mike. I've known Mike for a while. So I'll. I'll guest of honor his.
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Justin Holcomb
Okay, but this is great. I'll do Walters. And all I have to bring is grape juice. That's wonderful.
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Bob Hiller
Hey, the Baptist is a cheap date, man. So while this does offer some levity, talking about death, there's a Christian story that offers far more than artificial interactions with our deceased loved ones or just laughs about our different denominational traditions and how we can have living parties for each other. There's a genuine hope of resurrection after death. And as my friend Derek Hicks, he would say that he looks forward to the land of no mo. No more sin, no more death, no more pain. And with the Apostle Paul, every believer raises the question, O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Michael Horton
Weakness isn't a flawless it's where hope begins. In A Place for Weakness, Michael Horton shows how the cross and resurrection of Christ don't just explain suffering, they overcome it. This isn't a book about cliches or quick fixes. It's about real hope for real pain. Hope that quiets guilt, silences doubt and outlasts every storm, whether you're grieving or walking with someone else through their grief. A Place for Weakness shows how the doing, dying and rising of Christ silences the thunder of the law and gives eternal hope in the face of life's hardest questions. Grab your copy today for a donation of any amount@solarmedia.org offers that's solamedia.org offers.