Immortal Humans?

The Bible is clear that it is appointed once for every man to die.  The only exception would be those who never die because they are alive when the rapture of the church happens.  Also there were two men who never died in the OT, Enoch and Elijah.  For this reason I believe they are going to be the two witnesses mentioned in Revelation...but I digress.

So of course the godless hope to find a way to live forever.  They do this because they have no hope for an afterlife so they are trying to figure out a way to download the information on their brains into a computer so that they can live forever.  Or they are trying to play with the chemical makeup of our bodies to try and reverse age themselves so they can live a long, long time but still look and feel much younger.

Notice how the headline paragraph says this research is "funded by the elites".  And do you suppose those elites are FOR Christ or AGAINST Christ?

Funded by elites, researchers believe they’re closer than ever to tweaking the human body so we can live forever (or quite a bit longer)

“There’s millions of people now who won’t see death if they choose,” said James Strole, the director of the Coalition of Radical Life Extension, an organization which brings together scientists and enthusiasts interested in “physical immortality”.

At present our bodies are built to last – “if you took perfect care of your body” – 125 years, according to Strole. The problem is that if someone did live to be 125, they are unlikely to remain spry into their final decades.

“Who wants to live in some decrepit state?” Strole said.

“We’ve increased lifespans a lot, but we haven’t improved quality of lifespan.”

That’s where what enthusiasts called “super longevity” comes in. A number of billionaires have pumped money into research that aims to keep people fighting fit as they age. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have pumped millions into Calico, a secretive health venture which aims to “solve death”. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the billionaire Peter Thiel are backers of Unity Biotechnology, which hopes to combat the effects of aging.

The idea of never dying might sound like something from science fiction, but the experimental techniques are far removed from a brain in a jar, a body in a freezer or a heart wired up to a car battery.

Sierra Sciences is another company racing to cheat death. Its focus is on treatments that can lengthen telomeres – the “caps” at the end of each strand of DNA. Telomeres get shorter each time a cell copies itself. Because our cells copy themselves throughout our lives, the telomeres eventually get very short, and our cells cannot regenerate: we get old.

“If you can get the telomeres back to the normal state they were at when you were born, that could reduce your biological age back to 25,” Strole said.

“You wouldn’t be reversed back to a baby. You stop where maturity begins and ends.”

Among Sierra Sciences competitors is BioViva, whose CEO, Elizabeth Parrish, is so committed to the cause that she became one of the first humans to undergo telomere therapy in 2015. Writing in 2018, she claimed a measurement of her telomeres showed they had “grown younger” by roughly 30 years since she received the treatment – her body was reverse-aging.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/22/silicon-valley-immortality-blood-infusion-gene-therapy

Did you notice where they said "our bodies are built to last"?  Now read Genesis 5 and remember that the first humans WERE built to last.  Adam, Noah and others lived over 900 years.  But the problem of sin in human beings will NEVER be solved until Jesus returns.  And God was clear when he said that death will enter the world when man sins.  And it didn't take long for man to sin which caused death and started to shorten all of our lifespans. 

The elites may want to solve the problem of death but they never will.  Because they can NEVER solve the problem of sin and how it is embedded in human nature.

"All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."

All means all.