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This article is an excerpt from Godvernment: Government as God
The Mutant Game
In recent years, movies and stories about humans evolving into something more have become very popular. The X-Men movies, the TV series The Tomorrow People, and even the popular stories of Harry Potter and the Twilight series are all driven by the notion that even ordinary-seeming people may actually have latent or undiscovered supernatural abilities. In some storylines, the change from ordinary humans to super-humans is driven by science. In others, the change appears to be a random genetic change.
Regardless of the cause, in each story,
all or part of the tension in the storyline is the conflict caused by ushering in
what is effectively a new species, Homo Superioris, to replace Homo sapiens.
It seems that a very wide swath of humanity wants to believe that it can individually and collectively become much more than it appears to be today.
“It is a serious thing to live in a
society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest, most
uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you
saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a
corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.”
CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Interestingly, Lewis, a friend of J.R.R.
Tolkien (author of The Lord of the Rings),
began his ascent to renown as an ardent atheist, intent on proving the belief in
the God of Jesus Christ to be utter nonsense.
The result of his focusing all the powers of his brilliant mind on this issue
was that he became utterly convinced of the reality of God and Christ. His conclusions about the reality of what lurks
beneath our skins arose as a result of his studies of God and Christ.
It would seem that CS Lewis also believed
that someday, Homo Superioris would arise. However, his book The Abolition
of Man makes clear that the emergence of this superior creature can never
come as a result of the genius of humankind, regardless of how many resources and
the power of intellects which are turned to this endeavor.
Lewis also revealed the dark side
of the quest of science (or politics) to create a superior human being, “the
power of Man to make himself what he pleases means—as we have seen—the power of
some men to make other men what they please.”
It is this dark place where “some
men make other men what they please” this will inevitably result in people
turning themselves into amoral monsters as they try to become gods, creators of
the new humanity. Such a quest, surely,
they will reason, justifies any act—any betrayal of the norms of society. Once again, they will be deluded by the
notion that they can achieve some noble and good end through base and ignoble means.
Homo sapiens will only convert into
Homo Superioris by following the teachings of the Homo Superiori who have preceded
them down this path to glory. I here have
referred to them as Homo Superiori, but we know them more commonly as God the Father,
and His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
Do you reject out of hand my conclusion? Pause and give it more thought and study. What do the many books that comprise the Holy
Bible tell us about Christ and His Father?
Jesus said that he only did what he had seen the Father do before him. What did Jesus do?
- He changed the molecular structure of water into wine.
- He walked on water and enabled Peter to do the same.
- He raised the dead (more than one).
- He healed the lame and the sick.
- He foretold the future and revealed the past.
- He came back from the grave as a living creature, consuming food and drink with His bewildered disciples.
- He entered a locked room and appeared in the midst of its occupants, giving them quite a fright in the process.
- He disappeared from before the very eyes of two of his disciples.
Don’t all of those things sound like
something you might see in a Harry Potter,
X-Men, or other super-human-themed movie?
His message from start to finish was
simply this: “Be like me. I am like our Father
in Heaven.” If He wasn’t inviting us to transform
ourselves into Homo Superioris, then someone else was putting words in His mouth.
What is more, He told us what we had
to do to become like Him and the Father.
We have to make morally correct choices, regardless of our circumstances.
Again, in contrast to God’s approach,
which is to change the inner man and he will change his circumstances, the human
worshippers believe you have to change a person’s circumstances to enable the change
of the inner person. Nothing could be more
easily disproved.
Consider the story of Colin Powell,
who rose from a ghetto to become the most powerful military leader in the free world,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the U.S. Then consider his brother, who, raised in the same
circumstances, became an addict, a drug dealer, and a welfare recipient.
For very personal insight, look at the
life of author and businesswoman Star Parker, a self-described “welfare crack ho.”
She was a product of poverty and the government’s “war on poverty,” until she discovered
God. As she drew closer to God, she became
a different woman on the inside and began to make very dramatic changes on the outside.
She changed the course of her life from
one of self-destruction and social parasitism to become an entrepreneur, providing
first for herself and her family, and then creating jobs for others, helping them
to help themselves to change their circumstances.
If you enjoyed this post, you might also enjoy my related article Mutants and Superheroes.
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