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People are already robotic due to their slavery to human nature.
● Jer 13:23 . . Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.
Writing about this situation; the apostle Paul said:
● Eph 2:1-3 . .You were dead in your transgressions and sins in which you
once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of
the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient. All of us once lived
among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and
the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.
I rather think most people would be much better off as slaves to divine
nature rather than human nature; God has a way to do it.
● Ezek 36:26-27 . . I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit into you:
I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a tender heart;
and I will put My spirit into you. Thus I will cause you to follow My laws and
faithfully to observe My rules.
An "heart of flesh" would normally be regarded in modern Sunday school
classes as a bad thing. Here in Ezekiel, flesh is juxtaposed with stone to
indicate that God is talking about tenderness; which can be defined as
gentleness, kindness, sensitivity, and deep affection; i.e. the warm, softer
emotions.
A heart of stone is cold and dead, like those massive granite monoliths in
Yosemite Valley. They feel not the slightest pity for climbers who lose their
grip and fall. Nope, those big rocks just go on like nothing ever happened;
silent, indifferent, unconcerned, non grieving, non compassionate, and
unsympathetic; i.e. they feel nothing: nothing at all.
Bottom line: Seeing as how love is essential to peace in heaven's society;
then the thoughtless, the callous, and the insensitive would be shut out
forever and ever were it not for Ezek 36:26-27. Plus; in hell they would be
permanent slaves to human nature.
Watch as I deliberately paraphrase the following passages. Though the texts
aren't verbatim quotes from the Bible; the message the paraphrases convey
is spot-on.
"I assure you: unless hard-hearted people are born again, they can never
see the Kingdom of God." (John 3:3)
"Don't be surprised at my statement that the uncivil and the cruel must
undergo a birth performed by the hand of God." (John 3:7)
Note that the birth performed by the hand of God, about which Jesus spoke,
isn't optional; it's a must.
FYI: Robots have artificial intelligence. People on track for heaven will have
Christ's intelligence.
● John 11:25 . . I am the resurrection, and the life
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People are already robotic due to their slavery to human nature.
● Jer 13:23 . . Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.
Writing about this situation; the apostle Paul said:
● Eph 2:1-3 . .You were dead in your transgressions and sins in which you
once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of
the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient. All of us once lived
among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and
the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.
I rather think most people would be much better off as slaves to divine
nature rather than human nature; God has a way to do it.
● Ezek 36:26-27 . . I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit into you:
I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a tender heart;
and I will put My spirit into you. Thus I will cause you to follow My laws and
faithfully to observe My rules.
An "heart of flesh" would normally be regarded in modern Sunday school
classes as a bad thing. Here in Ezekiel, flesh is juxtaposed with stone to
indicate that God is talking about tenderness; which can be defined as
gentleness, kindness, sensitivity, and deep affection; i.e. the warm, softer
emotions.
A heart of stone is cold and dead, like those massive granite monoliths in
Yosemite Valley. They feel not the slightest pity for climbers who lose their
grip and fall. Nope, those big rocks just go on like nothing ever happened;
silent, indifferent, unconcerned, non grieving, non compassionate, and
unsympathetic; i.e. they feel nothing: nothing at all.
Bottom line: Seeing as how love is essential to peace in heaven's society;
then the thoughtless, the callous, and the insensitive would be shut out
forever and ever were it not for Ezek 36:26-27. Plus; in hell they would be
permanent slaves to human nature.
Watch as I deliberately paraphrase the following passages. Though the texts
aren't verbatim quotes from the Bible; the message the paraphrases convey
is spot-on.
"I assure you: unless hard-hearted people are born again, they can never
see the Kingdom of God." (John 3:3)
"Don't be surprised at my statement that the uncivil and the cruel must
undergo a birth performed by the hand of God." (John 3:7)
Note that the birth performed by the hand of God, about which Jesus spoke,
isn't optional; it's a must.
FYI: Robots have artificial intelligence. People on track for heaven will have
Christ's intelligence.
● John 11:25 . . I am the resurrection, and the life
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