The Paradisaical Transformation of the Cosmos

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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What does Hank Hanegraaff mean when he talks about the "Paradisiacal Transformation of the Cosmos?" It is a message with a mandate—a reminder of the energy by which we are able to transform the cosmos. The energy that St. Paul invoked when he spoke of being energized by all His energy which so powerfully energizes me. This is the energy that alone is sufficient to empower the body of Christ in the present clash between sacred and secular. A contrast between the paradisiacal transformation of the Cosmos and the pagan transformational imperative. An imperative largely fueled by the transhumanist myth of progress. A myth commercialized by the quintessential marketing cliché of our day — artificial intelligence.

For further information on the historical nature of this argument please see John Strickland’s Four-Volume Series: Paradise and Utopia: The Rise and Fall of What the West Once Was. https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-the-age-of-paradise-the-age-of-division-the-age-of-utopia-the-age-of-nihilism-4-volumes-on-ages-of-christendom-hup/

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0:00.0	And welcome to another edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast, a podcast committed to bringing
0:28.1	the most interesting, informative, and inspirational people on the planet directly to your
0:34.3	earbuds. As I've mentioned many times on this podcast, we also are committed
0:40.4	to training, to equipping God's people for works of service so that the body of Christ
0:47.7	might be built up and strengthened. So we want to equip people to always be ready to give an
0:54.1	answer or reason for the hope that lies
0:56.3	within them with gentleness and with respect, and that on a myriad of different topics.
1:05.6	I was just in Greece at a conference in which I presented a paper on the paradisical transformation
1:16.1	of the cosmos.
1:18.0	And I've often said on this podcast that contrast is the conduit to clarity.
1:28.5	And so I want to do in this podcast that very thing, make a contrast, a contrast between the paradigical
1:38.9	transformation of the cosmos and a pagan transformational imperative.
1:46.3	By the way, that pagan transformational imperative is largely fueled by the
1:52.9	transhumanist myth of progress, a myth commercialized by the quintessential marketing, cliche, artificial intelligence.
2:06.5	I'll talk about that a little more later on in the podcast.
2:11.0	But again, the theme for this podcast is the paradigical transformation of the cosmos
2:17.3	contrasted with the pagan transformational
2:22.6	imperative.
2:24.5	And let me start by quoting a passage of scripture that comes from the very last book
2:32.3	of the Bible, not only the last book of the Bible, but the last chapter
2:36.8	of the last book of the Bible, in which the angel shows St. John, the quintessential theologian
2:47.5	the river of the water of life, it's as clear as crystal, and it flows from the
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