Dr. J. Michael Bennett weighs in

Third in a Series, Reviewing Chapter Two of Pandemonium's Engine

The second essay of Pandemonium's Engine, Nimrod: The First (and Future) Transhuman "Super Soldier," by J. Michael Bennett, PhD, was an odyssey in reading. At 60 pages, it is PE's second longest chapter, and it nearly bowled me over.

Will the Beast of The Revelation be the first "posthuman?" What a funny question. Becoming familiar with HER jargon is disorienting. As I read Dr. Bennett's insights, I felt my head growing from its usual size, sitting on my shoulders, to enlarging to fill a cavernous, musty chapel, stale with the mildew of ancient liturgies; till finally I felt myself inside an immense and empty castle that held too many secrets and whispers. Haunted, it could not be inhabited. But as I left, I felt some wonder and dread over the ways of evil that are normally invisible, yet so gigantic and targeted in their mission —to destroy us!

Dr. Bennett's has been a leader in a government aerospace laboratory and a small business owner. He has been called "Dr. Future" and I enjoyed listening to an interview with him on BlogTalkRadio.

Dr. Bennett is a conservative Christian who advises extreme caution in exploring the realm of the "sciences" relating to the Transhuman movement. You may enjoy visiting his website, https://www.futurequake.com. There you will find a link to a speech he made to a United Nations IIIHS Conference on the Coming Collision of Heaven and Earth. If you take time to listen to this presentation, you will gain respect for Dr. Bennett as a Bible-believing Christian who has fearlessly researched where most dare not tread. Never study the occult if you are not ensconced in the power of the blood of Jesus.

On the web, I found this further background:

He received his Ph.D in engineering in 2003... He served as a leader in a military lab for sixteen years, developing protection technologies and other weird science contraptions. Since 2003, he has operated his own company, which combines technology development and consulting for military, governmental and commercial organizations, with his own in-house development of novel protection technologies. These technologies, invented and patented by Dr. Future, have been a major success in the marketplace, currently protecting police cars, race cars and military vehicles, and soon to include commercial buildings.

His chapter covers many facts that are relatively unknown to the general populace such as Hitler's close occult ties and overarching goals, Nimrod's (the Nimrod of Genesis 10) history in myth and literature, Masonic rituals and much more.

Bennett states that the book of Enoch describes the work of demons in creating the Nephilim and animal-human hybrids in an effort to destroy the ‘seed of the woman.’ Will we gain important insights by reading such works found in the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Our Canon does not include the book of Enoch except by reference in Jude: And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard [speeches] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. (Jude 1:14, 15)

I see a stage set for a battle that will fulfill every prophetic word even as it shatters believing hearts that failed to prepare for the worst. Our journey to fathom transhumanism must pass through wells without water (2 Peter:17) and many disturbances, but we can return and rest in the Atonement and find strength in Jesus’ words: All power is given unto me in heaven and earth. (Mat 28:18).

Mark of the Best? or the Beast?

Second in a Series, Reviewing Chapter One of Pandemonium’s Engine

As mentioned in the previous post, I am re-adding this series to the new version of SistersSite. The book and its warnings are as relevant now as they were six years ago, maybe more so.

Pandemonium’s Engine (PE) comprises 12 articles. The first and longest at about 70 pages is by Thomas Horn, D.D., the book’s coordinator. It is titled Pandemonium and “HER” Children.

Have you heard of the JASONs? Learn more here. They advise the US government on scientific and technology issues. In 2010 they emphasized the need to place high priority on enhanced-human research. That is one example of groups and institutions with a high profile that are encouraging the leap to genetic reengineering and its resultant sidelines.

Aware of these developments, Dr. Horn decided to answer the 2011 American Academy of Religion Call for Papers on aspects of Transhumanism and Religion. His paper, titled “Transhumanism and Conservative Eschatology,” presents “the technologies imagined by transhumanists… followed by critical, ethical and eschatological concerns held by conservative Christian scholars.” (p 4)

Many today believe that mankind is at the precipice of the next step in human evolution, never mind that evolution is only a religion, not a science. That is why studies on the Ethics of Human Enhancement have been undertaken. You can download the report here.

Here are some of the questions raised in that study. See if you can answer them.

  • What is human enhancement?
  • Does human enhancement raise issues of fairness, access, and equity?
  • What kind of societal disruptions might arise from human enhancement?
  • If individuals are enhanced differently, will communication be more difficult or impossible?
  • Will we need to rethink the notion of a “good life”?
  • Should children be enhanced?
  • What are the policy implications of human enhancement?

Here is a paragraph from the Report that helps to explain what Human Enhancement is:

As examples of emerging technologies in the last year or so, a couple imaginative inventions in particular, among many, are closing the gap even more between science fiction and the real world. Scientists have conceptualized an electronic-packed contact lens that may provide the wearer with telescopic and night vision or act as an omnipresent digital monitor to receive and relay information (Parviz, et al., 2008). Another innovation is a touch display designed to be implanted just under the skin that would activate special tattoo ink on one’s arm to form images, such as telephone-number keys to punch or even a video to watch (Mielke, 2008). Together with ever-shrinking computing devices, we appear to be moving closer to cybernetic organisms (or “cyborgs”), that is, where machines are integrated with our bodies or at least with our clothing in the nearer-term. Forget about Pocket PCs, mobile phones, GPS devices, and other portable gadgets; we might soon be able to communicate and access those capabilities without having to carry any external device, thus raising our productivity, efficiency, response time, and other desirable measures—in short, enabling us to even better survive our world.

Perhaps most people would not find that type of embedded technology a problem. However, what about the invention of genetically modified plants that cause second generation seeds to be sterile? That requires genetic reengineering. And what about applying such techniques to humans?

Thomas Horn reports (p. 55) that technology exists today that can reengineer a human being to no longer be purely human. If DNA is introduced by vectors that provide the means of transport and integration for gene alteration,

a human can have hybridized skin cells that glow in the dark, or perhaps form scales rather than hair, claws rather than fingernails…Muscle cells may grow larger and more efficient at using low levels of calcium and oxygen… hybrid ears may now sense a wider range of sounds.
…If so many scientists (funded by government entities) believe in the “promise” of genetic alteration and transgenic “enhancement,” how then can humanity remain human? We cannot. We will not. Perhaps, some have not."

If you believe man was created as a special kind, in the image of God, then Dr. Horn's insight will jar you.

Would you accept a vaccination, let's say, during a pandemic, if it introduced an animal-human strain that would rewrite your DNA so that you would no longer be entirely human, but part beast?

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...and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind ... the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind ...the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1

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Would you let your conscience be your guide?

Does God care if the skin and bone of the dead are passed along to the living for medical uses? Is organ donation OK with God? Should you sign a Living Will?

Did you know that dead organ donors are often anesthetized before their organs are removed? Do you know the current definition of death? The conscience cannot function without facts.

As we ponder the ethics of in vitro fertilization, stem cell research and man-made chimeras, our thoughts trail off. How then should we live? (Ez 33:10)

How should a Christian think about euthanasia by starvation when doctors and the state attorney general all agree it is time to withhold feeding from a brain injured patient? Some things are family matters, but someday it may be our family.

Here is a small book to help you think about whether you want to sign your driver's license, donate a kidney, cremate your loved one, and many other practical questions that may arise in the course of your healthcare decisions or watch over others.

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