Mark of the Beast Part 12: Apotheosis

Apotheosis (the pinnacle of human development) is the idea that humans are approaching godhood, in the absence of God, through evolution and careful planning. “You will be like gods” in a “tower that reaches unto heaven” is the original serpent babble (Gen. 3:4, 11:4). This fallacious idea is fed to the masses on this wise: “You’ve come so far from primordial ooze, and now you have an iPhone, so that…well, it proves that you will be a like gods someday!” To the “Nimrods” who have influence over this world, and retain faith in Darwinism, they see it as is their responsibility to build a foundation and engineer society in a way in which their “Jacob’s Ladder” is achieved. As atheist Isaac Asimov stresses in his Foundation series, progress doesn’t happen by accident, it requires secret planning and social engineering. Regarding their ladder for building Babel, UNESCO’s founding document describes their goal to “develop an extended or general theory of evolution which can provide necessary intellectual scaffolding for modern humanism…it shows us man as now the sole trustee of further evolutionary progress…” (from UNESCO: It’s Purpose and Philosophy).
As we will see, the idol-pushers combine education and entertainment to establish what amounts to a new opiate religion for the masses designed to shape our destiny. The faith in apotheosis is the basis of science fiction: the creation of a new mythology with symbolic stories to teach the dogma pushed by the priests of scientism. The dogma is one-world utopia, ecstatic technological advancement, and above all, evolution. Once you accept the groundless premise that mankind’s developmental past goes all the way back to ape… and before that fish… and before that slime, then you can naturally extrapolate that man’s future will be amazing. Will he become a supercomputer cyborg? Will he be bodyless? It is no coincidence that seasoned anti-God, one-worlder, social Darwinian author H.G. Wells kicked off the writing of this “neo-biblical” canon 100 years ago with books like Food of the Gods, The Time Machine, Dr. Moreua’s Island, and of course the Orson Welles broadcast War of the Worlds that changed the world forever.
As writer Joseph Laconte explains the origin of apotheosis: “Thanks to Herbert Spencer, a British social theorist, Darwin’s theory was re-interpreted as a doctrine of unremitting progress—and applied to society at large. Every realm of human endeavor, from politics to economics to ethics, fell under its refining influence. Humankind, Spencer wrote, was in a long process of adaptation and self-improvement…’the belief in human perfectibility.’” This “Myth of Progress” is summed up in the words of social Darwinian Francis Galton in the 1910’s: “What nature does blindly, slowly, ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly and kindly. If a twentieth part of the pains were spent in measures for the improvement of the human race that is spent on the breed of horses and cattle, what a galaxy of geniuses we might create! We might introduce prophets and high priests of civilization into the world, as surely as we can propagate idiots by mating cretins. It [eugenics] must be introduced into the national conscience, like a new religion.”
The strong delusion being taught in the universities and insider groups sometimes becomes too much even for those involved in building the new tower of Babel. Such was the case when “Java Script” inventor and Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy wrote the prescient article “Why the future doesn’t need us” in Wired magazine in April 2000. Helpful to anyone wishing to understand the worldview of a globalist social Darwinian, the article covers the author’s struggle between seeing the need for man’s technological evolution on the one hand, and the 50/50 chance of self-destruction on the other hand. Ironically, he uses Theodore Kaczynski’s Unabomber Manifesto to elucidate the ways in which tech could render humans extinct. Is apotheosis worth extinction? He seems to feel guilty for bringing up the question! He quotes his insider friend as if to answer: “I am as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 in a body of silicon, I’ll take it.” He discloses his work with D.A.R.P.A. and skunk works (top secret military/Silicon Valley partnerships) to prove he is “not a Luddite,” but remains uneasy about the current lack of boundaries on the arms race happening in nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and robotics. At least in science fiction there were rules for robots! Of course, he yearns for the alchemical transformation, immortality, social utopia and apotheosis because it is part of the religion he was sold. But he just isn’t sure about the cloning, the chimera super-viruses and self-aware, self-replicating robots. Perhaps it is time for a plan? He suggests limiting privacy, property, and access to information as an acceptable solution. He advocates for an elite break-away civilization to control everything and leave earth if necessary, but feels a slight twinge of guilt: “who accepts the responsibility of the fate of those…who are left behind?”
The sad irony of this “religion” of course is that this alchemical transformation they scheme to create is already available in God’s promises to anyone who will accept! The whole theme of the New Testament is death of the old, rising to new life. “Be metamorphosed” Paul exhorts in Romans 12:2. Ironically, the ancient occult teachings that the elite subscribe to, in which you take gradual steps to gain knowledge, are all available without years of subservience and initiation into a secret society! God wants to freely give believers a “new heart” (Eze. 36:26) and “Put on the new nature.” “He who began a good work will bring it to completion” we are told in Phillipians 1:6 regarding the transformation available. As far as growing in power, Paul talks about tapping directly into the source: “I can do all things in Him who strengthens me.” “We shall be changed” as “This mortal nature must put on immortality.” How could anyone ever hope to “evolve” any higher than that?