Replacing God: The Strength Within

It always interests me that those of secular society. Humanists and the like hate the very idea of a moral and powerful creator God. It seems to fan the flames of internal rebellion in their somewhat hardened hearts. They rail at the very idea of a divinely guided creation and simply can’t understand how anyone could challenge the concept of evolution over millions or billions of years powered by competition and survival of the fittest. 

 

Yet, it always intrigues me as a reader of science fiction how these people never miss a chance to attack God, religion and Christians. Usually in that order but are only too happy to envisage humanity, ancient aliens and the like that have through science obtained virtually super natural powers. God like abilities which can create new creatures, such as, robots that are virtually indestructible and have quantum computer artificial intelligence. Then, there are the actual quantum AI computers powerful enough to benevolently control planets and empires. While building enormously powerful space ships the size of moons also controlled by the same types of computer. Not to mention encasing Sun’s in Dyson Spheres and shifting planets to other solar systems. Developing nano technology that can heal, repair and even engineer all manner of other technology. All, nothing short of miraculous and definitely God like. 

Yet humanists will not brook the idea of Jehovah God doing the same things in relation to Earth and the universe we live in this actual reality? But the fact that they can imagine themselves as Gods is pertinent from a Christian perspective. In the book of Genesis at chapter three we read starting at verse 4 The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die! 5 For God knows that in the day you eat from it (the tree of knowledge), your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Satan has encouraged mankind to attain to Godhood from the very beginning in the Garden of Eden. The devil has always used perspective to deceive mankind and convince them of his various lies starting with what he said to Eve in the Garden. 

In our time, the New Age Movement has strongly evangelized among non-Christians and liberal Christianity alike. That they need to forsake Jehovah and look inward to find enlightenment. In that way they can rise to be Gods themselves. There is much of this concept modeled in modern science fiction as characters there, use technology to raise their cognitive abilities and to become as God’s. This is not all there is to this idea because as they attain God like intelligence, they also reject morality believing that their knowledge is superior and they are now beyond mere humanity. 

 

Because there is no morality then if millions die as a result of the heinous things they create. Wars, plagues and misbegotten nano technology for instance and it eventually turns out that aids and Covid 19 are human creations? I’m not saying that they are but, if they were? Then that would be an example of the type of Godless immorality at the hands of supposedly superior elites and exactly what I am talking about here. 

In conclusion, I would simply ask that if we can conceive of mankind eventually rising in technological capability and capacity to perform and achieve the miraculous. Then why can’t we accept that there is a God called Jehovah who already has that technological capability and capacity to have designed and created not only Earth but the very heavens themselves. As the bible says in Psalm nineteen verse one “...The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork.”