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Most people assume the radical reshaping of human nature is still a distant, science-fiction scenario. It is not. The ideology driving some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley is already producing real-world experiments that challenge the most basic convictions Christians hold about human dignity, the sanctity of life, and the sovereignty of God over creation. One of those experiments made headlines this week, and it deserves serious attention.\n<\/p>\n
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From the Federalist:\n<\/p>\n
Bryan Johnson, the Silicon Valley tycoon who believes he can reverse the aging process through technology \u2014 and is experimenting on himself, in a very public way, to prove it \u2014 announced this week that he has cloned himself for the purpose of growing replacement organs and harvesting blood.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI just cloned myself\u2026 as a newborn,\u201d Johnson wrote on X. \u201cThis baby-bryan lives in a petri dish for now. This may be scary to some people \u2026 a dystopian future. But, for others, they will see it as the inevitable future of health.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
While Johnson might not have a full-grown body double he\u2019s keeping in a lab somewhere, what he\u2019s done looks forward to a future where that might be possible \u2014 indeed, is likely inevitable (note that he says his clone is in a petri dish \u201cfor now\u201d). Johnson had his blood drawn, cells extracted, and then reprogrammed as stem cells. With these cells, he can in theory grow spare body parts, organs for transplantation, inject \u201cyoung cells,\u201d and, as Johnson puts it, \u201cbecome my own blood boy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson is not an isolated eccentric. He is a prominent figure in the transhumanist movement, a growing ideology among tech elites that seeks to use technology to overcome human limitations \u2014 including death itself. He often appears in public wearing a \u201cdon\u2019t die\u201d T-shirt and has handed over nearly every personal decision to specially designed artificial intelligence systems that dictate what he eats, when he sleeps, and how he lives. Earlier in his experiment, he injected himself with the blood plasma of his 18-year-old son in hopes of reversing his own aging. He abandoned that practice only after it failed to produce results. TIME Magazine profiled him favorably several years ago, and he has since become one of the most visible faces of a movement that openly treats AI as a kind of deity \u2014 a source of power and prolonged life in exchange for total submission.\n<\/p>\n
The broader transhumanist agenda does not stop with one man\u2019s self-experimentation. The same technological trajectory that produces Johnson\u2019s cloning project also drives the development of artificial wombs, human-animal chimeras, and lab-grown clones intended for organ harvesting. These are not hypothetical future scenarios. They are emerging realities, and they are being normalized under the language of health care and scientific progress \u2014 the same framing used to mainstream abortion, IVF, and euthanasia.\n<\/p>\n
Genesis 1:27 declares that human beings are made in the image of God, and Psalm 139:13-14 affirms that God himself knits each person together in the womb. The transhumanist project is, at its core, a rejection of those truths \u2014 a declaration that human beings can and should remake themselves in their own image, using whatever means technology makes available, including the creation and destruction of human life for spare parts. Christians must be clear-eyed about what is happening and resist the temptation to treat these developments as merely interesting or inevitable. They are a direct assault on the dignity of every human being and a form of idolatry that Scripture has always condemned.\n<\/p>\n
How are you praying about the rise of transhumanism and the protection of human dignity? Share your prayers and scriptures in the comments below.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n (Excerpt from the Federalist. Photo Credit: cottonbro studio \/ pexels)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most people assume the radical reshaping of human nature is still a distant, science-fiction scenario. It is not. The ideology driving some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley is already producing real-world experiments that challenge the most basic convictions Christians hold about human dignity, the sanctity of life, and the sovereignty of God<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4372,10260,182,1819,10259,1768,10261,1139],"class_list":["post-30804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prayer","tag-dignity","tag-dish","tag-god","tag-human","tag-petri","tag-playing","tag-transhumanist","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}