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Fallen Angels and Transhumanism

 Moreover the Word of YHWH came to me, saying Son of audawm [אָדָם child of humans Genesis 5:1-2] take up a dirge[1] song of grief over the king of Tyrus [now speaking of Lucifer] [2] and say Thus declares Adonay YHWH [You] marked the end [you were] the consummation [consummated God’s angelic creation plan] [3] [You were] full of wisdom and entirely lovely [You have been in] Eden The Garden of God every precious stone was your covering the sardius topaz and the diamond the beryl the onyx and the jasper the sapphire the emerald and the carbuncle and gold the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes was prepared in you[4] in the day that you wast created [You were the] Anointed cherub that covered/guarded/defended and I had appointed [commissioned] you so you were upon The Holy Mountain of 'Elohiym You have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created until iniquity was found in you By the multitude of your merchandise they have filled the midst of you with violence and you have sinned Because of this I will cast you as profane out of The Mountain of 'Elohiym And I will destroy you O covering/guarding cherub from the midst of the stones of fire[5] Your heart was exalted in arrogance because of your beauty You have corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor [But] I will cast you to the ground Isaiah 14:12-20, Luke 10:18, Revelation 12:7-9





[1] Our Creator truly grieved at the fall of Lucifer Satan’s name before his fall –Isaiah 114:12-20, just as he does when his human creation rejects him. The Bible says God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. The biblical definition of death being destruction from God’s presence and power and not annihilation.


[2] אלִֹהים א ת Elohiym Aleph Tav (Elohiym First Last Genesis 1:1/ Revelation 1:11) created everything perfect and good. Translators wrongly combined the את in Genesis 1:1 into one word that is not even a word. Editors of interlinears should have separated the FIRST and LAST letters of the Hebrew alephbet (found in Genesis 1:1) into two separate words, which we [now] know correspond perfectly with the FIRST and LAST letters of the Greek alphabet—ALPHA and OMEGA. These two letters correspond with Revelation 1:11 and with these, we see Jesus the Creator (The ALPHA and OMEGA—the FIRST and the LAST of the Revelation) in Genesis 1:1. In the Beginning ELOHIYM ALEPH TAV created the heavens and the earth 


[3] YHWH Elohiym has shifted from speaking to the natural king of Tyre and is now speaking directly to the figurative King of Tyre who is literally Satan. The English translation of this verse, obscures what the Hebrew text strongly suggests, that Lucifer was a consummation of God’s angelic creation, that Lucifer was the last angel created and was the most powerful and beautiful of all. Jesus reminded us that this is something that God does and not to be surprised or offended by it (the last shall be first and the first last: Matthew 20:1-16, Matthew 12, Mark 10). 

This would explain a mystery ofs why one third of the angelic creation followed Lucifer in his rebellion against The Most High God. The scriptures say that Lucifer was lifted up in the pride of his power and perfection, while the myriads who rebelled with him were very likely corrupted by resentment and envy. There is likely a vying for power among the fallen angelic ranks even today. Offense and envy are not motivations that generally improve or disappear. So, even though most of God’s human creation view Satan as the chief of the Fallen angel army, do we really know that the angels themselves view him the same?


[4] Lucifer was created with the ability to make music without the use of separate instruments. His instruments are part of his person and physical anatomy. 

Yes, angels have a physical anatomy but are not bound by the same laws of physics humans are. One evidence that angels have a physical anatomy (in some ways similar to humans) is found in Genesis chapter six, where we read that angels had sexual relations with human women which resulted in violent hybrid off-spring called nephilim. They were the first transhumans, the beginning of transhumanism. And it is possible that their lifespans would have exceeded even the centuries long lifespans of humans in the days of Noah. Could they have lived forever? That is not known. 
Human/machine merging along with gene edited humans are now possible & who knows where that can lead
 
Nephilim babies developed into larger and more powerful adults than humans Goliath and his brothers were Nephilim .

The nephilim is where myths of Greek Gods and earlier such legends originated. They were real, and they were unredeemable. God became a human to redeem humans. The blood of his cross covers only the repentant and only those who are 100% human, which the nephilim were not. Before the flood, they became so numerous, almost the entire human genome was corrupted. Noah was perfect in his generations—that means the genome of Noah and his immediate family was fully human. They were not angelic hybrids. 

It is the unredeemable spirits of nephilim [and not fallen angels] that are thought to be what we know as demons and what Jesus called devils. Jesus’ teaching about the days prior to his coming being like the days of Noah, is certainly something to think about.



[5] Note that Lucifer’s destruction does not include annihilation. God’s human and angelic creations are created to exist eternally. The only option (and there are options) is where they will exist in Eternity. The Bible says this magnificent angelic creation, Lucifer, will be destroyed from something, and this correlates perfectly with 2 Thessalonians 1:9 that says those who know not God will also be destroyed from something. Like Lucifer, humans can also lose all hope of having access to God’s presence and power.

Intersex People: Conundrum for Complementarianism



Yes, women are different from men, and intersex people are  different from [and alike with] both men and women.


And they are born that way. 


Fact: Intersex people have characteristics of both male and female and can be considered neither and both. 


Fact: God does not make mistakes.

Fact: All people--intersex, female, and male--are created in the image of God, who is neither female nor male, yet portrayed in scripture as both. Does that make God intersex?

   Some of my ideas have been called "quirky." I get that. I have been told I don't think like "normal" people. I get that too. 

"Jocelyn, will you ever be normal?"

"Uh, I don't think so"

   But ever since I stumbled onto information about intersex people and began to educate myself on the subject, the question simply will not go away, "How does intersex impact the male leadership paradigm of complementarianism?"
   Complementarianism holds that men are created to lead and women are created follow and assist the men. In the case of intersex, what if a person physically appears as a women (is born with female characteristics), considers herself a woman, doesn't want to be anything but a woman, yet is chromatically male, and even though she was born with a vagina and develops breasts at puberty...a body scan reveals that instead of a uterus and ovaries, it turns out she has undescended testes instead. 
   What about the male who is chromatically female?  
What the conducter said to me when I had boarded the train with the wrong ticket!


   What a conundrum for complementarians and traditional-role-religionists. Is God's glorious hierarchical design for the sexes turned on its head by the existence of intersex?
Is it the genitalia that determine who's in charge, or is it the chromosomes?
   The Bible says, all people are made in God's image. I'm sure no human can fathom what the entirety of God's image would consist of. Does the image of God include the sexes? The texts of the Hebrew scriptures exclusively refer to the Holy Spirit as female. and in the Greek texts, the Holy Spirit is always referred to in the neutral, as neither female nor male. 
   The scriptures affirm that "In Christ," no one is either male or female, but we are all one. Does that make all Believers spiritually intersex?
   In the case of intersex people, is traditional-role-religion and complementarianism (the two are close but not synonymous) even possible? How could the male reality of an intersex person exercise "headship" over the female reality of that same person? How could the female reality of such an individual submit to the male reality of herself?

 Hmm... 

To clarify, this article deals with biological intersex people.  It does not address trans-humanism, transgenderism, nor LGBT issues but focuses solely on people who were born with characteristics of both sexes --hence, they are not "trans" but biologically born with characteristics of both sexes, so can correctly and biologically lay claim to either sex or both. 
   Intersex people are born as such and should be honored for who and what they are. 
   These are a but a few observations and questions I have on this subject. I am open to outside offers to publish a full and more extensively researched article based on the question of how the biological and scientific reality of intersex people muddies the waters of complementarianism and traditional-role-religion even more than they already are.

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