Gabe Fluhrer

And his point is this.

We have hope in our technology, in our ability as man, the homo Deus, the God of

And what use would it be for gods to be humble, my friends?

Why would you come to any other conclusion if that's what you believe about the world?

But here's what Paul says, that kind of clothing will never work.

Because death is not just something natural, which is the underlying assumption of Harari's argument.

Because of evolutionary processes, death is natural.

No, death is part of the fall as we've seen.

It's a curse that only is overcome when God clothes us as it were.

And once again, it's all the grace.

Just think about Adam and Eve as God kills animals to cover them and showing them thereby that atonement has to be made by blood.

And I will make it, God says to them.

And then Paul picks up on that and says, yes, and resurrection reminds us, the resurrection of Christ rather, reminds us that one day all of our nakedness will be covered.

that we will come into full possession of all that we were meant to be as a redeemed humanity in our heavenly dwelling.

And he says, in this tent we groan and we're burdened.

Again, what a perfect description of daily life, groaning and being burdened.

But he says this groaning and burdening is unto something.

It's we're groaning and burdened because we've caught a glimpse of how good what's coming really is.

Having caught that glimpse, he says we want it so badly.

And he says the same thing in Romans 8.