Hi,
If humans one day discover treatments using science to stop the aging process which grants eternal youth, or some other forms of achieving IMMORTALITY ---> what would the theological/religious implications of this be ?
And by "immortality" I mean: VOLUNTARY immortality... that is, immortal/eternal YOUTH (can stay at any age you choose) and can voluntarily choose to die whenever you want
And what if man eventually can mix the chemicals to the point of "Creating life" of any flavor man wants?
And what if man who then was to live forever and can create life - what if man attained over time to the wisdom of God?
What would all of that have as religious implications?
======================================== THE OTHER option
On the OTHER HAND - let's also look at the OTHER alternative.
1. in Matt 4 Satan (who is the fallen Lucifer, who at one time was one of the most intelligent advanced created beings in the entire universe) - challenges Christ to "prove" that He is in fact "God the Son" by doing the work only God can do - turn stone into bread, where bread is a product of components from a living system.
So then
what if Satan's assumption was right - only infinite God could do that - not even Lucifer had that power.
2.
What if the Genesis scale is correct where mankind degenerates over time rather than approaches closer to infinite years of life - man's biology degenerates over time. And eventually even reproduction itself becomes so flawed it threatens the existence of the species.
3. What if
medicine is engaged in a self-limiting gambit where in the end "entropy wins" against all life on Earth. Medicine is finding ways to band aide, patch up , and/or boost a system that is failing but can never get back to even the pre-flood level since the world has lost access to the critical proteins and enzymes within the fruit of the tree of life since it was taken from world. Coming up with short term gains accompanied by long-term unforeseen side-effects where the summation is "loss", a zombie-oid end product with lots of irreversible fatal pathways being engaged.
(Sort of like the planet's biosphere suffering "health destroying effects" put in place to date). -- see all the videos of garbage, plastics etc - dumped into the streams and oceans.
4. What if that loss of access to the tree of life was so critical to eternal life that even Satan and his angels are doomed in that they also lost access to it, and given enough time they themselves would decay and cease to exist.
It means we are stuck in an experiment/system that is winding down - entropy will win ultimately it will in fact win.
The Gospel stops it from simply grinding down to a horrible slow painful-to-watch fizzle, by cutting all that short.
