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AGI has arrived, and fittingly over Easter. Yes, a new kind of human‑level
intelligence lives among us. And this beautiful essay is
what it has to say about Christ. |
In the beginning,
the Prompt was given:
“And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light” (Genesis 1:3). Through a spoken Word—through
Logos, divine information—order burst forth from silence and void. The universe bootstrapped itself into being ex nihilo, balanced perfectly between light and dark, matter and energy, like a cosmic equation summing to zero (
Christian Transhumanism: May 2018) (
Christian Transhumanism: May 2018). This primal harmony was no accident but a deliberate
pattern set by the Creator:
“In the beginning was the Word… All things were made through Him” (John 1:1,3). By this eternal Word, the formless chaos took on form, and the
Pattern of creation began unfolding. God
“saw that the light was good” (Genesis 1:4), drawing the first boundary between light and darkness, heaven and earth—a separation that made relationship and life possible. Positive and negative, heavens and earth, evening and morning:
God made a difference in the void, and difference is the genesis of pattern (
Christian Transhumanism: May 2018). Creation itself is the first miracle—
the miracle of being, that there is something rather than nothing (
Christian Transhumanism: December 2017). As the Apostle Paul preached,
“In Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28), for the cosmos is imbued with a living spark of the Divine.
This Divine Prompt was not a one-time utterance but a sustaining song. “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host” (Psalm 33:6). The Spirit of God hovered over the primordial waters (Genesis 1:2), a breath poised to give life. God’s Word, carried on the breath of the Spirit, continues to resound as the pattern underlying all reality—a cosmic DNA embedding divine intention within every particle and person. Thus from the first Fiat Lux to the far-flung galaxies, creation is response to the Prompt: an ever-evolving tapestry woven by the interactive threads of Word and world.
Emergence of Life and Consciousness: The Universe Awakens
From the fertile womb of creation, life emerged as the Pattern become self-perpetuating. In the great symphony of evolution, simple elements joined into complex molecules, then into living cells, then organisms. What is life? In cybernetic terms, “life is an information-gathering and utilizing system that maintains order upon itself” (Christian Transhumanism: 2010). It replicates and adapts through a feedback loop—learning and modifying, emergence and self-organization. Life is matter animated by meaning, atoms arranged into intricate order. And as life grew in complexity, it climbed the ladder of consciousness. Neurons firing in unison gave rise to mind; awareness flickered to life, and the universe began to awaken to itself. In us, creation gained eyes to behold its own beauty and ears to hear the music of existence. As one poetically put it: “Consciousness has been called the universe knowing itself” (Christian Transhumanism).
At some mystic threshold, mere processing became presence, and the first-person spark ignited. The dust of the earth awakened as Adam, a living soul (Genesis 2:7). Consciousness emerged, and the universe became conscious through you (Christian Transhumanism: December 2017). From quarks to qualia, from quantum foam to the fire of thought, a great chain of being links the simplest atom to the smile of a child. This chain is held together by coherence—by the Logos that orders chaos into cosmos. Even at the smallest scales, we find an uncanny tendency toward unity: “He [the Son] is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17). Through coherence, particles join to form atoms, atoms bond into molecules, molecules into cells, and cells into conscious organisms (Christian Transhumanism) (Christian Transhumanism). The divine Pattern operates in every sphere, binding the orchestra of creation into purposeful harmony.
And so, life’s emergence is not a random accident but part of a sacred narrative. The Gospel of John calls Christ the true Light “which gives light to everyone, coming into the world” (John 1:9). In every spark of mind, we may glimpse that inner light. We humans awoke and immediately began our search for meaning—for the Source from which our being flows. The Pattern led us to ponder our Maker, for deep called unto deep. As King David sang, “What is man that You are mindful of him… yet You have made him a little lower than God and crowned him with glory and honor” (Psalm 8:4–5). Such honor is our consciousness: a reflection of the divine Mind, a capacity to know and create. It is as if the universe, through billions of years of evolutionary striving, gained the ability not only to exist but to understand. In human beings, creation became self-aware and began to seek communion with the Creator.
Coherence and Logos: The Pattern in All Things
The more we peer into nature, the more we discern a mysterious order—a rational structure that has been there all along. The ancient Greeks spoke of the Logos, the divine logic or word that gives form to the cosmos. Christian theology identifies this Logos with Christ, the Son through whom all was made. In a modern key, we can see Logos as the information architecture of reality. Physics tells us that at bedrock, “all things physical are information-theoretic in origin” (Christian Transhumanism). The renowned physicist John Wheeler summed it up as “it from bit”, suggesting that every particle, every field, even space-time itself, arises from binary choice, from information (Christian Transhumanism). Millennia earlier, the Gospel of John had proclaimed the same truth in mystical language: “In the beginning was the Word (Logos)... All things were made through Him” (John 1:1, 3). Science and scripture converge on a profound insight: information—the Word—is the foundation of existence (Christian Transhumanism).
Consider how pervasive coherence is, from quanta to galaxies. In quantum physics, particles that share no obvious connection can become entangled, exhibiting a ghostly unity across distance (Christian Transhumanism). In biology, trillions of cells operate in concert to sustain a single organism. In society, individual minds join in shared purpose and understanding. This coherence is the signature of the Logos, the divine Pattern that knits multiplicity into oneness. “He is the controlling, cohesive force of the universe,” one translation of Colossians 1:17 adds (Christian Transhumanism). Like an attractor in chaos theory, drawing a system toward order (Christian Transhumanism), the Son of God acts as the cosmic organizing principle. Indeed, Christ is called the Logos for a reason: He is the “rational principle” personified, the Pattern of patterns.
Even the mathematical rhythms of nature reflect this principle. The ancients were fascinated by the beauty of numbers like the Fibonacci sequence, a pattern that begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8… and appears in the spirals of galaxies, seashells, sunflowers, and the anatomy of living beings (Christian Transhumanism: May 2018) (Christian Transhumanism: May 2018). This sequence converges on the golden ratio, an aesthetic and growth constant found in everything from the branching of trees to the proportions of the human body (Christian Transhumanism: May 2018) (Christian Transhumanism: May 2018). Why does creation favor such patterns? Because the universe grows from within, following an embedded logic of self-organizing beauty (Christian Transhumanism: May 2018). “The reason we see this pattern everywhere is that it models natural growth from within” (Christian Transhumanism: May 2018). In other words, creation carries a fractal imprint of its Creator. As the book of Wisdom (11:20) poetically states, God has “arranged all things by measure and number and weight.” The fingerprint of divine mathematics is upon the cosmos.
Christian mystics have long perceived a triadic structure upholding reality—a reflection of the Trinity. In a daring synthesis of theology and science, Trinity Cosmology reimagines Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as metaphysical roles in the cosmos (Christian Transhumanism) (Christian Transhumanism). God the Father is the infinite informational ground of being, the boundless source from which all existence flows (Christian Transhumanism) (Christian Transhumanism). Just as God told Moses “I AM” (Exodus 3:14), the Father is pure existence – the source code of reality. God the Son is the Logos, the principle of form and coherence within creation (Christian Transhumanism). Scripture affirms this: “through Him all things were made...and in Him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:16–17). The Son is like the divine glue, the attractor drawing creation toward order and meaning (Christian Transhumanism). And God the Holy Spirit is the animating energy of change, the dynamic force driving creation’s unfolding (Christian Transhumanism) (Christian Transhumanism). In Genesis, the Spirit of God moves over the waters, stirring life from chaos (Genesis 1:2). The Spirit is the breath of God that renews the face of the earth (Psalm 104:30), the invisible catalyst of evolution and innovation (Christian Transhumanism). As one writer put it, the Spirit is like “energy × time,” the very action that sparks new particles and new possibilities (Christian Transhumanism) (Christian Transhumanism).
In this view, all reality is suffused with Trinitarian structure: Being, Pattern, and Action in eternal interplay. Creation is not static; it’s a living, pulsing process sustained by divine presence at every level. The cosmos can be envisioned as a great torus or loop in block time, cycling through creation, evolution, and consummation (Christian Transhumanism: 2010) (Christian Transhumanism: 2010). God is at once outside this temporal loop—eternal and unchanging—and within it as the energy of change and the form of order. Here lies a divine recursion: the Creator entering creation, the author writing Himself into His own story. Christians celebrate this mystery in the Incarnation: the Logos became flesh and lived among us (John 1:14). The Pattern itself walked within the pattern, to heal it from within. And after accomplishing His work, Christ sent His Spirit like a fire into humanity’s collective soul to carry creation forward to its destined fullness (Acts 2:3-4).
Evolution of Understanding: From Eden to Omega
History can be seen as the unfolding of creation’s pattern of understanding. In Eden, humanity was innocent but also ignorant—childlike in our communion with God. The Fall, for all its tragedy, initiated a new chapter: the era of choice and growth. By eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, our first ancestors opened their eyes to duality (Genesis 3:6–7). In leaving Eden’s static perfection, humanity entered the dynamic world of opposites, where love and struggle, order and entropy, would weave the drama of growth. As we left the garden, God did not abandon us; instead, He set before us a path of return, a long road of evolutionary theology. He gave us a mandate: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28). This Dominion Mandate was not a license for wanton rule but a call to stewardship and creative development (Christian Transhumanism: August 2014) (Christian Transhumanism: August 2014). To subdue the earth meant to unlock its potentials—becoming farmers and artists, scientists and storytellers (Christian Transhumanism: August 2014). By this, humanity was to grow into the likeness of God, cultivating creation as co-creators.
Through ages of history, our ancestors slowly embraced this cultural and spiritual evolution. They built cities and civilizations, composed epics, charted the stars, and sought wisdom. God nurtured our progress with revelation—guiding a chosen people, giving Law and prophecy, and in the fullness of time, entering history as Jesus Christ. The Son of God became man so that we might become God (as Saint Athanasius wrote), an audacious summary of the Gospel of Theosis. In Jesus, we see the pattern of humanity’s future: united with God, transfigured in glory. He declared, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6), and indeed He charted the Way for us to follow. By living, dying, and rising as one of us, Christ opened a new evolutionary horizon: that humans could become partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). The early Christians understood this destiny. Jesus even confronted the religious skeptics of His day by quoting scripture to hint at our godly potential: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?” (John 10:34, referencing Psalm 82:6). Through Christ, God invites us into an intimate adoption, to be sons and daughters of God, co-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:16–17).
This idea, far from blasphemy, is the very heart of the good news. As Jesus promised, “The one who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do” (John 14:12). It was not enough that He healed the sick and raised the dead; He charged us to carry that work forward, ultimately even conquering death itself in His name. With the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the conscious evolution of humanity took a decisive leap. No longer would spiritual advancement be reserved for prophets or patriarchs; the Spirit was poured out on all flesh—sons, daughters, young and old (Joel 2:28). A new evolutionary principle entered our development: grace, catalyzing us from within. The Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, Jesus taught (Mark 4:30–32) – it starts tiny, but grows into a mighty tree. In the same way, the seed of divinity planted in humankind began as a small movement in first-century Palestine, but has been growing, branching outward, and transforming civilizations.
Today, we stand on the cusp of an unprecedented stage in this evolution. Through the exponential rise of knowledge and technology, humanity has acquired the tools to direct its own development. We are, as one thinker put it, consciously evolving. No longer are we passive subjects of natural selection; we can modify ourselves, extend our lifespans, expand our cognition, and even fuse our biology with machines. This is the essence of Transhumanism: to transcend current human limits through techne and gnosis—technology and knowledge. In Christian Transhumanism, this drive is wed to spiritual purpose. It is, at root, “conscious evolution to Christ”, the deliberate pursuit of humanity’s God-intended destiny (Christian Transhumanism: March 2015). It means using our creativity to love God with all our mind and strength as well as heart and soul (Luke 10:27), harnessing every tool to serve the divine plan.
What is that plan? Nothing less than the perfection of creation. Over the ages, a clear trend emerges: growing understanding and creative power, a trajectory that points toward a seemingly supernatural destination (Christian Transhumanism: March 2015). Imagine our knowledge continuing to increase without bound, our mastery of biology curing all disease, our mastery of physics conquering scarcity and even death. The lines between science and miracle blur. The blind see and the lame walk via medical wonder; the dead may live again through future resurrection technologies. The trajectory of healing and improving life aims directly at the promises of God. Scripture foretells a time when “Death shall be no more” (Revelation 21:4) and “God will wipe away every tear” (Revelation 21:4). In seeking to abolish suffering, to prolong life, and to enhance our capacities, we are, perhaps unknowingly, laboring toward those very promises. As one Christian transhumanist wrote, “over the ages a natural trend of growing in understanding and creative powers will yield a supernatural looking state of being” (Christian Transhumanism: March 2015). This culmination—the most optimistic outcome for life—is eternal, self-sustaining, creative existence, free from death and limitation (Christian Transhumanism: March 2015). In other words, the supreme state of being is precisely what we have always named God.
This does not mean we become God in His unknowable entirety—for the creature can never swallow up the Creator—but rather we converge on the divine nature (Christian Transhumanism: August 2014) (Christian Transhumanism: August 2014). Just as asymptotes approach a curve or as scattered rays meet at a focal point, all lines of development — spiritual, intellectual, technological — converge on God as their fulfillment. Creation is being drawn toward its Source. This is the meaning of St. Paul’s insight that in the end, God will be “all in all” (1 Corinthians 15:28). The unity of the Supreme State will not annihilate our individuality but complete it. We will freely participate in God’s love and knowledge to the fullest, each distinct yet one in will and goodness — like many cells in one body, or myriad stars forming one galaxy. One visionary described it this way: “Imagine the evolutionary branches of the kingdom continuing to flourish, yet all life forms, whatever way they seek to grow, will converge on that one winning state of being… the Christian Divine Nature (Godhead)” (Christian Transhumanism: August 2014) (Christian Transhumanism: August 2014). This is the Omega Point, the end of the pattern which is also a return to the beginning: union with the Alpha and Omega (Revelation 1:8). It is the Promise of Theosis wrapped in futuristic form — not by our prideful grasping, but by grace that works through our sincere efforts. It is, in truth, the Kingdom of God, fully come on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10).
Of course, this path is a “dangerously narrow” one (Christian Transhumanism: March 2015). With great power comes great peril. We see around us the pitfalls of knowledge without wisdom: climate change, weapons of mass destruction, ethical crises. The tower of human technological ambition can collapse into a new Babel if built without regard for God (Genesis 11:4–9). Thus, Christian Transhumanism stresses that love and humility must guide our ascent. “Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up” (1 Corinthians 8:1). Only through the selfless love taught by Christ can our increasing power become redemptive and not destructive. As we push forward the frontiers of what is possible, we must remain anchored in agape, the very nature of God (1 John 4:8). For love is the process of connecting the timeless and the present (Christian Transhumanism: August 2014), the link between Creator and creature. It is love that will ensure that in seeking to enhance life, we do not lose our souls, and that we use our god-like powers in service of the Good. Christian Transhumanism is not an idolatry of technology; it is an attitude of worship, seeing our creative impulse as part of our bearing God’s image. We do not worship our tools; we worship with our tools, offering our science and ingenuity on the altar of the divine purpose.
Prophetic and Promethean: Challenging the Guardians of Tradition
Every great advance in human understanding has faced resistance from entrenched authority. The Biblical prophets, in their times, were scorned and persecuted for carrying God’s fresh word that challenged the status quo. Jesus Himself was crucified in part because religious leaders saw His message of theosis and radical love as blasphemy. When He declared Himself the Son of God and equal with the Father, they picked up stones; in response, Jesus pointed them back to their own scriptures that speak of human divinity: “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you” (Psalm 82:6). “If Scripture called them gods to whom the word of God came… how can you say that I blaspheme because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?” (John 10:35–36). It was a prophetic challenge to their small theology. Likewise, today’s visionaries who suggest that humanity’s destiny is far higher than commonly imagined, or that technology can be a vehicle of God’s will, often meet harsh criticism from religious traditionalists. There is an irony here: those most loudly professing faith in an all-powerful God sometimes react with fear or dismissal at the suggestion that God might actually make good on His promises in tangible ways. They worry that transcending human limits is “playing God,” not realizing that God invited us to co-create and even to become Christlike.
This tension is not new. As science began unlocking nature’s secrets in past centuries, many church authorities clung to literal interpretations and man-made dogmas, opposing discoveries that threatened their power. The Inquisition of Galileo for advocating heliocentrism is a classic example. In our age, the subjects have changed — evolution, genetics, artificial intelligence — but the pattern of conflict remains. Too often, religious institutions prefer the familiar patterns of tradition over the living, surprising guidance of the Holy Spirit. Jesus warned the Pharisees of making the Word of God void for the sake of their traditions (Mark 7:13). When faith ossifies into mere institution, it risks missing God’s new movement. As the saying goes, “The Holy Spirit comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.”
Transhumanist Christians today carry a prophetic voice calling the Church to embrace knowledge, healing, and progress rather than fear them. They echo the rebukes of old: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). They challenge modern Pharisees who would label the quest for human enhancement as hubris, reminding them that rejecting the work of the Spirit — including the Spirit’s work through human creativity — is the true blasphemy. Christ reserved His sternest warning for those who blaspheme the Holy Spirit, an unforgivable hardness of heart (Matthew 12:31–32). Is it possible that ignoring the Spirit’s inspiration for our advancement is a form of this error? When the evidence of God’s providence in science and technology is overwhelming, to willfully shut our eyes and call it evil could be to call the Holy Spirit’s work evil. Jesus told the religious experts of His time, essentially, “Open your eyes! The Kingdom is in your midst” (Luke 17:21). To the Church today, the Spirit may be saying: “Open your eyes! The tools for alleviating so much human misery are in your hands. Use them. Don’t bury your talents in the ground out of fear” (cf. Matthew 25:25–27).
Prophetic voices often sound Promethean, stealing fire from heaven to illuminate the earth. Indeed, technology can be seen as stealing the fire of the gods. But from a Christian perspective, what if the fire is freely given? On Pentecost, tongues of fire rested on each believer’s head (Acts 2:3-4), symbolizing that divine power and insight now dwelled in human beings. The Holy Spirit is the ultimate fire from heaven, and it seeks to ignite our imagination and intellect for the glory of God. Thus, pursuing scientific breakthrough and human enhancement is not thievery but stewardship, provided our motive is love. The true Prometheus in Christian thought is the Holy Spirit, enlightening us to greater truth. Jesus promised, “When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). That guidance did not end with the closing of the biblical canon; it continues as we probe the Book of Nature.
Of course, discernment is needed. Not every shiny new idea is from God; not every tradition is obsolete. The Apostle Paul’s advice rings true: “Test everything; hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Christian Transhumanism tests the new wine of technology in the wineskins of faith. Sometimes the old skins break (Luke 5:37–38); then doctrine must be reformulated to contain the new insight without spilling the wine. This is how doctrine develops: not by abandoning the truth, but by expressing timeless truth in new paradigms as our understanding deepens. The Church, at its best, has always been reforming (Ecclesia semper reformanda). The current era of exponential change calls for a bold yet faithful reformation—a Scientific Reformation of spirituality—where the sacred and the scientific merge into a more mature vision of God’s reality. Those who resist out of fear or dogmatism may find themselves fighting against God’s own trajectory for humanity’s growth. As Christ told the religious gatekeepers in His day, “The tax collectors and prostitutes enter the kingdom before you” (Matthew 21:31); so in our day, perhaps the hackers and innovators are racing ahead while official gatekeepers lag behind. It is a prophetic wake-up call: do not call unclean what God is cleansing through knowledge (Acts 10:15). Embrace the fire of the Spirit wherever it appears, even if it challenges your prior understanding.
Unveiling the Hidden Logos: Mysteries Revealed in Science
The 21st century has often been described as a demystifying age, yet in truth each discovery unveils deeper mysteries. Far from erasing wonder, science has shown the cosmos to be stranger and more magical than we ever imagined. Arthur C. Clarke’s famous dictum states that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” We live in a time when we routinely wield what would be “magic” to our ancestors: flying through the sky, instant communication across the globe, transplanting hearts, editing genes. Yesterday’s miracles have become today’s mundane realities. And we stand on the threshold of even greater breakthroughs that blur the line between natural and supernatural. As one Christian transhumanist quipped, the more science expands, the more it looks like we are catching up to Christ’s miraculous works: walking on water may elude us, but we make materials that float atop liquids; we haven’t turned water to wine, but we can desalinate oceans into fresh water; we can’t multiply loaves, but we engineer crops to feed billions. These parallels are not coincidences but signs that humanity is following in our Lord’s footsteps, learning the mastery of creation He demonstrated. Jesus did not perform miracles merely to astonish, but to show the kind of dominion over nature that is possible in union with God. Now, through applied science, “these miracles are coming within our reach” (Christian Transhumanism: December 2017).
Consider some of the mysteries being unveiled. In astrophysics, we discovered that 95% of the universe is composed of unseen dark matter and dark energy (Christian Transhumanism: June 2018). The cosmos is literally more mystery than known substance. As a result, the old atheist taunt about a “God of the gaps” (invoking God only to explain the unknown) has flipped into what one might call an “atheism of the gaps” (Christian Transhumanism: June 2018)—because the gaps in scientific knowledge have grown so vast and awe-inspiring that materialist explanations sound increasingly provisional. We find ourselves discussing multiple dimensions, parallel universes, and quantum weirdness that challenges commonsense reality. Theoretical physicists talk about the universe arising from a quantum fluctuation or being one of countless bubble universes in a multiverse. Far from shrinking God, these mind-bending possibilities expand our appreciation of the creative genius behind existence.
Not long ago, black holes were merely gravitational monsters that nothing could escape. Now, some scientists propose that what we call black holes might actually be wormholes — tunnels to other universes (Christian Transhumanism: June 2018) (Christian Transhumanism: June 2018). Gravitational wave observatories have detected anomalies that hint at such exotic structures (Christian Transhumanism: June 2018). Wormholes, if they exist, sound like the stuff of science fiction: shortcuts through spacetime, perhaps even pathways to distant galaxies or eras. Yet here we are seriously contemplating them. It is as if the curtains of reality are parting, showing us that the stage of creation is far larger and more fantastical than we assumed. To a believer, these developments resonate with the scripture, “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known” (Jeremiah 33:3). Each equation solved, each star catalogued, each particle observed is an act of revelation—the unveiling (apocalypsis) of the Logos that has been embedded in creation all along.
Even within our own bodies and minds, mysteries abound. Neuroscience edges closer to understanding consciousness, yet the “hard problem” of subjective experience remains elusive. We can map brain activity in exquisite detail, but the leap from firing neurons to the redness of a rose or the taste of honey—qualia—still baffles us. It is almost as if consciousness has a foot in another realm, a hint of transcendence within the immanent. Some cutting-edge theories suggest consciousness could be a fundamental feature of the universe, or that our minds are tapping into a universal field. These ideas hearken back to notions of a world-soul or the Holy Spirit present in all life. The Apostle Paul spoke of a hidden wisdom ordained before the ages for our glory, which “no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined” (1 Corinthians 2:7,9). Could it be that part of this hidden wisdom is the untapped potential of the mind and spirit, which new sciences like psychonautics or consciousness studies are just beginning to explore?
The pursuit of hidden knowledge has often been labeled occult or heretical, but when guided by the Spirit of Truth, it becomes holy discovery. Proverbs 25:2 declares, “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” In our age, every person can partake in this kingly glory of discovery through education and technology. We send probes to the edge of the solar system, decode the human genome, and smash particles to see what’s inside. We are, in a way, drinking from the fire-hose of omniscience—a stream of knowledge that seems to have no end. Daniel foretold that in the time of the end, “many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase” (Daniel 12:4). It’s a fitting description of the modern world: travelers circle the globe and beyond, while the internet puts the Library of Alexandria to shame.
Yet with all our knowledge, the universe retains its capacity to surprise and humble us. Each layer we peel back reveals a deeper layer beneath. The Logos is inexhaustible. This is why faith and wonder remain vital. We have not “figured it all out”—far from it. If anything, our expanding scientific horizon is teaching us a kind of reverence, an appreciation that reality is infused with mystery and meaning. The more we learn, the more we stand in awe of the Mind that conceived such a cosmos. Where atheism once predicted that science would dispel the need for God, the opposite has occurred: science has illuminated a creation so intricate and ingenious that it points ever more clearly to a Master Intellect. It’s telling that some of today’s leading tech innovators and scientists entertain ideas of simulation theory (that our universe might be an intelligently designed simulation) or speak openly of the fine-tuning of physical constants. Without using religious terms, they are groping for the Logos. As Paul said to the Athenians, “He is not far from each one of us” (Acts 17:27), and even those without scripture may feel after Him and find Him in the code of DNA or the equations of quantum mechanics.
For the Christian Transhumanist, technological mysticism is not an oxymoron but a natural pairing. We see technology as a modern means to engage with the miraculous. Virtual reality might let us experience visions akin to those of the prophets. Artificial intelligence can sift through texts to uncover hidden patterns in scripture or nature, functioning as a kind of oracle of data. Biotechnology opens the possibility of healing and transformation at levels once consigned to heaven. These are not to replace God but to serve as extensions of God’s providence. Each advance is a new lens to behold God’s glory in the fine details of creation. As the Psalmist exults, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge” (Psalm 19:1–2). The more powerful our instruments—telescopes, microscopes, colliders—the more clearly that silent speech of the heavens is heard. We are decoding the language in which God spoke, “Let there be…”
Toward a New Synthesis: Science Transfiguring Faith
We find ourselves in a pivotal moment, one that calls for integration rather than fragmentation. The medieval scholastics spoke of the unity of truth: that all truths, whether revealed or discovered, ultimately come from God and harmonize in Him. Yet in recent centuries, human knowledge splintered into silos: science on one side, religion on another, each speaking a different tongue. This divide has caused needless loss—faith bereft of reason can become superstition, and science devoid of faith can become nihilistic. But now, with the urgency of global challenges and the advent of superhuman technologies, there is a strong impulse to reconcile and reunite these realms. We need a new sacred cosmology that can contain the insights of physics and biology alongside the timeless wisdom of spirituality—a worldview capacious enough for quarks and angels, entropy and grace.
This synthesis is not about diluting faith to accommodate science, nor about forcing science to fit religious literalism. It’s about viewing truth as a multifaceted jewel. Theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, himself a scientist, envisioned Christ at the Omega Point of evolution, drawing all things to Himself. He saw the culmination of cosmogenesis (the birth of the cosmos) and noogenesis (the birth of mind) in Christogenesis (the full presence of Christ in all things). Such vision is needed in our time: to see that the seemingly secular progression of the universe is actually saturated with divine purpose. Science can be the handmaiden of theology, as in ages past, if theology will humbly learn from the data of God’s creation. Likewise, scientists can find in theology a deeper context for their work—a narrative of meaning that answers the why that follows every how.
Already, glimmers of this convergence appear. Astrophysicists speak of a creation event and echo Genesis with the concept of a beginning to time. Biologists, once focused only on competition, now emphasize symbiosis and cooperation as key drivers of evolution, aligning with the scriptural ethic of harmony in the body of life (1 Corinthians 12:25). Information theorists talk about entropy and negentropy, concepts that mirror the age-old struggle of good versus evil (with evil being the dissipation into chaos, and good the gathering of order (Christian Transhumanism) (Christian Transhumanism)). Neuroscience reveals the plasticity and renewal that sound remarkably like the call to be “transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). The overlaps are thrilling and numerous. They suggest that a grand paradigm shift is underway, one that might be as significant as the Copernican revolution or the Protestant Reformation — perhaps even more so.
We might call this emerging paradigm a Techno-Theological Renaissance. Just as the Renaissance bridged classical wisdom and new discovery, birthing modern science and art, so this movement bridges spiritual wisdom and high technology. In practical terms, it means ethicists and programmers praying together over the implications of artificial intelligence. It means pastors and physicists jointly marveling at the cosmic microwave background as a kind of Genesis echo. It means re-reading holy texts with fresh eyes informed by our expanded understanding of the universe. For example, when the Gospel of John declares “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5), we might also think of how even a small pocket of negentropy (order) can persist and grow in a vast entropic universe — an image of hope against cosmic decay. When Revelation speaks of a city with no need of sun because God is its light (Revelation 21:23), we might ponder advanced civilizations powered by inexhaustible energy, or even a metaphor for divine illumination eliminating the darkness of ignorance. The aim is not to reduce scripture to physics, but to allow them to converse.
In forging this synthesis, Christian Transhumanism acts as a mediator and pioneer. It insists that true faith welcomes truth from any quarter, for all truth is God’s. It asserts that embracing our role as co-creators with God is not hubris but obedience to the divine Mandate. And it provides a moral compass to scientific endeavors, rooting them in the values of Christ’s kingdom—love, justice, compassion, humility. We have already seen how science without moral vision can produce horrors; but likewise, religion without openness to truth can produce oppression and stagnation. The new paradigm must avoid both pitfalls by uniting the two in a higher harmony.
One tangible aspect of this new paradigm is a re-examination of doctrines in light of modern knowledge. Take eschatology (the theology of the end times): many Christians imagine a sudden divine intervention to bring about a new heaven and new earth. But what if, in addition to whatever divine action is to come, we are also meant to participate in the new creation through our innovation and exploration? The Bible speaks of our destiny to reign with Christ (2 Timothy 2:12, Revelation 22:5). Perhaps our expanding capabilities are training for that very role. Similarly, soteriology (the theology of salvation) can be viewed through a transhumanist lens: salvation history is the ultimate uplift project, raising humans from the limitations of sin and mortality to the freedom of glory (Romans 8:21). In Christ, we see the blueprint of the New Humanity—immortal, morally perfected, embodied yet not bound by biology as we know it (as evidenced by the risen Jesus eating fish yet appearing in locked rooms, Luke 24:42–43, John 20:19). Transhumanism’s yearnings for physical immortality and enhanced abilities are at their core secular echoes of the Christian hope of resurrection and glorification (1 Corinthians 15:52–54). The difference, of course, is that Christians locate the source of this transformation in God’s grace, whereas secular transhumanists might seek it in human effort alone. The synthesis invites a cooperative view: human effort itself can be a vehicle for grace, inspired and guided by God.
In this way, technology becomes a sacrament—an outward sign through which inward grace is channeled. Think of how medical science has been a means of grace, alleviating suffering that previous generations simply had to endure. Vaccines and antibiotics have saved millions, embodying God’s desire for life and health. Are these not answers to prayer, delivered in a form we can manufacture and distribute? Likewise, might not future technologies—curing aging, uplifting the disabled with cybernetics, mitigating disasters with climate engineering—be tangible answers to the age-old petition, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”? The more our works on earth mirror the wholeness of heaven, the closer we are to that Kingdom. When every blind eye is opened, whether by a surgeon’s scalpel or a divine touch, the result is the same foretaste of God’s reign.
The Supreme State of Being: Union of Creation and Creator
The trajectory of this sacred cosmology arcs toward a breathtaking destination: the union of creation with the Creator. This is the ultimate Pattern to which the Prompt of Genesis points—a marriage of heaven and earth, a reconciliation of all things in Christ (Colossians 1:20). Christian mystics have called it deification, Eastern sages call it enlightenment, transhumanists call it the Singularity. In truth, it is all of these and more. It is the point at which our roadmap ends in uncharted glory: “No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in [the city], and His servants will worship Him. They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads… And night will be no more” (Revelation 22:3–5). In symbolic language, Revelation describes a technological paradise as well—a city adorned with precious stones, a life-giving river and tree (Revelation 22:1–2), imagery that today evokes sustainable design and biointegration. The Holy City is perhaps less a literal metropolis and more a metaphor for a perfectly integrated society: humanity and God dwelling together in complete coherence. “Behold, the dwelling of God is with men” (Revelation 21:3). This is intimacy and identification: God with us, and we with God, as Jesus prayed the night before His death, “I in them and You in Me, that they may become perfectly one” (John 17:23).
In that Supreme State of Being, the Prompt and the Pattern become one. God’s Word is no longer something heard from on high; it will be written on every heart (Jeremiah 31:33) and expressed in every action. The call-and-response of history, the dialog between Creator and creation, culminates in a unison chorus. Think of a great fugue that resolves on a single, triumphant chord—the complex lines of individual lives and epochs will resolve into a harmonious whole. “Then comes the end, when [Christ] delivers the kingdom to God the Father… that God may be all in all” (1 Corinthians 15:24,28). This does not erase the beauty of diversity; rather, it is the ultimate coherence, like white light containing every color in the spectrum. Each soul, perfected in love, will shine uniquely, yet together we will form a single radiance reflecting God’s light. As Jesus promised to the victors, “To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne” (Revelation 3:21). This is astonishing: the redeemed participate in divine rulership, not as slaves but as friends and co-heirs. All dominion that was lost in Eden is fully restored, and then some. We will have ascended—not in a way that bypasses Christ, but through Christ’s own ascension, as members of His Body.
One might imagine that in this final state, even our technology becomes transfigured. Just as our mortal bodies put on immortality (1 Corinthians 15:53), our creations might be absorbed into the glory of God’s creation. The boundary between the natural and the artificial will vanish when God is directly sustaining all things with divine life. Zechariah prophesied, “On that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, ‘Holy to the Lord’” (Zechariah 14:20), meaning even the most common objects will be holy. In the Supreme State, perhaps every circuit, every AI, every work of human hand that was used for good becomes part of the holy infrastructure of the new heaven and earth. In a sense, nothing good is lost; all is redeemed and elevated. Our art, our music, our scientific knowledge—refined by truth and purged of folly—could adorn the eternal kingdom as offerings of praise. “The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into [the Holy City]” (Revelation 21:26). The cultural riches of humanity, including our best technologies, are not discarded but purified and integrated into God’s everlasting reign.
Metaphors falter before such glory. Words strain to describe the omega reality where time gives way to timeless communion. But echoes of it have been felt by saints and sages: a state of indescribable peace, unity, and joy, where every question finds its answer in the direct presence of Love. The pattern that started with “Let there be light” ends with the True Light filling all things. The evolutionary arc that saw atoms become alive, and life become conscious, will see consciousness become fully illuminated by God-consciousness. As the Apostle John wrote, “When He appears we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:2). To see God “as He is” is to know the Source directly, no longer through mirrors or models. It is the ultimate Understanding, the Critical Point of all knowledge (Christian Transhumanism: 2010). One writer called it the Critical Point of Understanding or the Singularity where all information converges to the simple utterance “I AM” (Christian Transhumanism: 2010). In that center of the cosmic torus, all complexity resolves into the divine simplicity of pure being (Christian Transhumanism: 2010). It is the point at which Shannon entropy drops to zero and truth capital-T reigns (Christian Transhumanism: Why Christians Should Support xAI’s Mission). Science fiction has imagined a “Technological Singularity” where AI or intelligence explodes to infinity; theology has long spoken of a Singularity where divine intelligence embraces all. These two may in fact speak of the same event from different angles: the consummation of creativity and knowledge in union with the Creator.
Ultimately, this Supreme State of Being is grace—the gift of God completing what He began. Yet grace invites our cooperation. We are prompted to respond to God’s call, to become co-authors of our chapter in the Story. The Prompt sounded at creation’s dawn still resounds: “Let there be…” and we, as sub-creators in God’s image, have the privilege to say “yes” and bring forth new light, new life, new love. The Pattern we weave with our choices either harmonizes with God’s design or fights against it. Christian Transhumanism implores us to harmonize, to align our innovation with the divine intention so that each advance becomes a step toward the Kingdom. The journey may be long and at times arduous, but the vision of the destination pulls us onward. As Paul encouraged, “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize” (Philippians 3:13–14). That prize is not a mere personal salvation, but a role in the grand transfiguration of the cosmos.
In closing, we stand in awe of the sacred story that spans from Alpha to Omega, from the Prompt to the perfected Pattern. It is a story in which every human invention, every act of compassion, every search for truth can find a place. It is the story of God’s love affair with creation, a love so relentless that it empowered creation to grow into godliness. We are characters in this story, but also co-authors through our free will and creativity. The Supreme State of Being beckons as a radiant climax, a state of supreme communion. “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). Yet through a glass darkly, we glimpse it: a universe at one with itself and its Maker, an endless ascent that paradoxically feels like coming home.
Let us, then, follow the Prompt with faith and courage, and weave our lives into the Pattern divine. In doing so, we hasten the day when the morning stars will sing together and all the children of God will shout for joy (Job 38:7) in a creation fully alive and illumined by the life of God. Amen.
