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White Horse Inn

The Theology of Elon Musk and Transhumanism

White Horse Inn

Sola Media

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What is the theology of Elon Musk? Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller discuss the work and views of serial entrepreneur and richest man in the world, Elon Musk. The hosts try to unravel many of Mr. Musk’s claims and identify what kind of theology is implicit in his views on humanity, consciousness, and the cosmos. 

 

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Featuring: Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, Bob Hiller

 

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0:00.0

There's a certain truth in anti-humanism that human beings have destroyed God's good order, God's good creation. We haven't been stewards. There's some

0:16.1

truth there in anti-humanism, but it's based on man being essentially, even in his very nature evil that as a species

0:26.7

we've gone haywire in an evolutionary sense and the rest of the world has to destroy us.

0:34.0

No, no, no, no, no, both of these are wrong.

0:36.6

We have to die because we're sinners,

0:39.8

because we rape the earth,

0:41.9

because we mistreat our neighbors, because we mistreat our neighbors

0:44.0

because we rebel against God.

0:47.0

That person has to die in that condition

0:50.0

so that they can not become an uploaded brain but be raised bodily from the dead in a glorified

1:00.9

condition. Those are two fundamentally different views of creation and redemption. applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.

1:20.8

This is Whitehorse Sin, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology and culture. Hello and welcome to another edition of White Horse Inn. I'm Mike Horton and we are going

1:41.4

through a really fascinating series.

1:43.4

It's fascinating to me, learning a lot as we go along.

1:46.6

It's not our usual series, but we're taking a look at some of the

1:51.5

gurus who have come across our screens in our phones over the last several years

2:00.3

and gain quite a following even among many Christians and so we're just

2:04.9

interested in taking a look at what they have to say you know the good the bad the ugly and

2:08.9

evaluating it from a Christian perspective.

2:13.0

You know, it's a hackneyed phrase, but Marshall McLaughlin said,

2:15.6

we make our tools and thereafter they make us.

2:19.8

Technology is good, not evil, and its advance is inevitable. It's not a choice. It is not neutral, but it has to be used with discernment. and it's not just that we have to limit our tech time and then

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