Death and Nanorobots

"And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment" (1 Corinthians 9:27)

According to experts, beloved, the field of nanotechnology is booming! In fact, I saw on my favorite news channel just this morning the following headlines proudly displayed:

IMMORTALITY: Breakthrough in Genetics Defeats Death

The report went on to claim that the introduction of a new level of nanorobots into the human body can so affect genetics that physical death is virtually eliminated. Certainly such news as this will grab the attention of every human being worldwide!

But what about what the Apostle Paul wrote to the saints in the city of Corinth so many years ago? Did God not say to us through him that it has been divinely appointed for us to each "die once," to taste of the separation of the soul from the body? Has the ingenuity of man, then, overridden the authority and power of the Creator?

Medical technology has proven to be overall a tremendous blessing to mankind, beloved, even enabling us to enjoy a longer lifespan because of freedom from the diseases that have historically shortened it. But to lay claim to actually having defeated death? Now that, as they say, is "a horse of a different color"!

I think that we all know full well that God's judgment that each man shall taste of death is completely safe from any army of tiny robots that may or may not ever be introduced into the human body. But is that the end of it, then, for us? Is death always to win in the end? Is there no power that can ever conquer the ultimate enemy of man?

The good news is that, not only is there such a hope for us, but that we need not wait for genetic scientists to engineer and perfect it on our behalf. Such power is readily available to us and has been ever since Jesus Christ in love went to the cross and paid that ultimate price for your sins and mine.

"But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, 'Death is swallowed up in victory. 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" (1 Corinthians 15:54-57)

Nanorobotics? NO! But the victory of Jesus Christ over sin and death and hell? YES! Death has been conquered, beloved, not by the ingenuity of man but rather by the grace and mercy of God in the person of Jesus Christ. Because He lives we shall live also!

Ron