SOCIAL ATOMISATION IS RESHAPING OUR SOCIETIES

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 Social atomisation. Most of us would be hard pressed to define it. Yet it is reshaping our society in ways we barely acknowledge — fragmenting our communities, eroding our connections, and leaving us isolated in the midst of billions.

We have become increasingly ‘separated’ from each other, with fewer and fewer experiences in common to unite us. This is social atomisation, the separation into the smallest unit of society — the atom, the individual. What are people to one another? All too often, they are merely vehicles for pleasure for each other, to be picked up and dropped off when no longer needed.

There has always been a generation gap, but today it seems wider than ever. The baby boomers remember the ‘old order,’ Judaeo-Christian values, the nuclear family and lifelong fulfilling careers. Today’s generation, by contrast, are taught about the colonial plundering of vulnerable peoples by Western powers, and about ‘first nations’ to which they have little personal connection — while entertainment and personal happiness are presented as the primary goals of life.

Aaron Lynn5 catalogues the following six causes of social atomisation:

  1. Urbanisation. Fewer of us now live in small rural communities where everyone knows everyone. Because of our vast desert interior, Australia is one of the most urbanised nations in the world with over 80% of us living in coastal cities.
  2. Open borders. Everyone is free to relocate and settle where they want and are no longer required to assimilate under multicultural policies. In fact, they are encouraged to retain their cultural norms under the banner of respect and tolerance.
  3. Demise of the nuclear family. Under the ‘old order,’ cultural norms were passed down through the family, with mentoring, modelling and the teaching of respect for others and the community. Today, so many can only attest to having experienced bad or absent parents, while doing whatever feels right at the time.
  4. Anonymity. Especially online, through the very real fear of identity theft and the reality of hackers stealing our inheritance, we are drilled into being careful to keep our presence online anonymous, and through fear of paedophiles, we never let our children’s faces figure on the internet.
  5. Anomie. Defined as a lack of community-based moral guidance, ‘anomie’ describes a condition of instability caused by the breakdown of social norms, standards, and values. God no longer exists and in control of His Cosmos. Anomie derives from the Greek anomos (lawless), a state of ‘normlessness’ where society fails to provide clear moral guidance, leading to alienation, anxiety, and a lack of purpose.
  6. Technology. The internet puts knowledge into every hand where we no longer need an intermediary, the librarian or the teacher, with the effect of increasing our self-reliance rather than mutual support. Adding to these internet-driven problems, the smartphone carries our insularity everywhere we go. It is said that there is a correlation between the introduction of 4G (2011 in Australia) with a significant drop in birthrate as ‘coupling’ took a big hit in the Western world.

Increasingly we are no longer aware of the society in which we live and work. It is certainly no longer a homogeneous group with a common knowledge base and mutually understood values. We are consumer units to be satisfied. We must prove our individual integrity for every interaction we have with others. Fear is now the driving force, a result of eroded trust and mutual respect.

What Can We Do?

“With eyes wide open to the mercies of God, I beg you, my brothers, as an act of intelligent worship, to give him your bodies, as a living sacrifice, consecrated to him and acceptable by him. Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.” Romans 12;1-2

Let God remould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good. When you accept God’s offer of salvation through the costly sacrifice of His son on your behalf then God will send the third person of the Trinity to be your helper, counsellor, teacher and comforter to indwell your spirit so you can live the Christian life. He will produce the fruit of the Spirit in your life: love, joy, peace, patience, faithfulness, gentleness, goodness, kindness, and self control. He also provides the nine gifts of the Spirit for ministry: 1 Corinthians 12:8-10

Interpretation of Tongues – translating messages spoken in tongues for understanding

Word of Wisdom – the ability to make decisions and give guidance according to God’s will.

Word of Knowledge – understanding spiritual truths or circumstances.

Faith – extraordinary trust in God that inspires others.

Gifts of Healing – the ability to heal physical, emotional, or spiritual ailments.

Working of Miracles – performing acts that demonstrate God’s power.

Prophecy – declaring God’s message to guide, encourage, or correct.

Discerning of Spirits – recognizing whether something is from God or not.

Speaking in Tongues – communicating in a language unknown to the speaker.

You cannot live the Christian life without the gift of the Holy Spirit which Jesus made possible by His sacrifice. Your spirit was always meant to filled by the Holy Spirit so that you can be the lamp of the Lord. A lamp requires oil to function. It is the Holy Spirit: “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.” Proverbs 20:27

The gifts of the Spirit empower you to build up the church (1 Corinthians 12:12-27), serve others in love and humility (1 Peter 4:10-11), and demonstrate God’s power and guidance in the world (1 Corinthians 12:7-11).

This article is based on an article by Jim Twelves in Daily Declaration, 21 July 2026: The High Cost of Social Atomisation.

ARTIFICIAL WOMBS AND SUPER HUMANS

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The US company, Colossal, has successfully demonstrated the very complex process of germline editing on animals. It has successfully edited DNA to produce the expected traits that result from specific sequences of DNA. This same technology can also be used for humans, to make us stronger, smarter, have denser muscle tissue, have more focus, be void of any unwanted genetic mutations, make us resilient to forms of disease, etc.

He Jiankui, a Chinese scientist, conducted germline editing on embryos from parents who had HIV. He edited the DNA of the embryos to be resistant to HIV in a scientific experiment to see if the offspring could be protected from the disease. And while it appears to have worked, he crossed a line and served three years in prison for it.

So is it that much of a stretch to imagine – now that we have this incredible technology that we know works – that certain governments, using funding from NGOs, in private labs in countries with lax oversight, might be working with this technology? And that they might be trying to make “better, faster, stronger, smarter” scientists, athletes, and soldiers?

Also worth noting is that Colossal has also developed artificial womb technology for incubating and growing the technology, which will almost certainly be spun out into a new company. Of course, there are immediate implications for animal husbandry… but again, is it that much of a stretch to imagine that the end game isn’t artificial wombs for humans? Colossal has already spun out two companies: Form Bio, as a computational biology company, and Breaking, which is using genetic editing to create synthetic substances that can degrade plastics. These technologies that Colossal has been developing under the hood have nothing to do with de-extinction… But they have incredible implications for the future of genetic editing and what’s to come.

All of the above confirm Biblical end-time prophecies, which state that we are in a time of godlessness and lawlessness, just as it was in the days of Noah, before God’s wrath was poured out for the first time on planet earth.

“For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man (Jesus’ second coming). For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.” Matthew 24:37-39

The Coming of the Son of Man
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” Matthew 24:29-31

Only those people who have repented of rejecting God and His commandments and accepted Jesus as their Lord and Saviour will be among the elect and avoid the wrath of God that will be poured out on earth with the prophesied Trumpet and Bowl Judgements (see Revelation 8 for the Seven Trumpet Judgements and Revelation 16 for the Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath).

What will your fate be? Will you be amongst the elect, the faithful, trusting God in all circumstances, or will you be among the many that face the wrath of God.

IN AN INCREASINGLY GODLESS SOCIETY PEOPLE ARE BLINDED TO THE TRUTH

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The Bible tells us, that Satan has “blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the Gospel” (2 Corinthians 4:4), and the extent of this mind control is truly remarkable. The insistence that it is a fact that ‘primitive’ life emerged out of the oceans, by purely natural processes, is breathtaking, given that scientists have absolutely no idea how it could have happened. Evolutionists are hard-pressed to identify more than one or two mutations that appear to have added information to genomes,1 yet they insist that this happened billions and billions of times throughout history, to create all the interconnectedness and complexity of the living world. The dogma of an exceedingly ancient Earth, when current rates of erosion indicate that the continents would have been flattened many times over, were they really millions of years old, is nothing less than self-inflicted blindness.

In an interview on the Andrew Marr Show,3 shortly before becoming the UK Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove stated, “Well, to my mind, you cannot have a school which teaches creationism. And one thing that we will make absolutely clear is that you cannot have schools which are set up which teach people things which are clearly at variance with what we know to be scientific fact.”

Telling children that all their faculties, and all humanity’s achievements, can be attributed to a process of ‘survival of the fittest’ and ‘natural selection’ is surely fraught with danger, and the idea that such a belief system will not lead to the most selfish and violent of societies is folly of the highest order. Moreover, teaching that the different ‘human races’ arose through evolutionary processes will inevitably cause people to ask, “Have some evolved more than others?”—and denying that such a view of humanity will not give rise to a return to state-sponsored racism, is naive in the extreme. God has given people the necessary intellectual ability to think these things through, yet most scientists, educational institutions, and politicians have swallowed these deceptions, lock, stock, and barrel.

The insistence that belief in evolution is necessary for scientific advancement and medical progress is astonishing, given the difficulty scientists have in pointing to technological breakthroughs that arose from evolutionary thinking. As pointed out by Dr. Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School,

“In fact, over the last 100 years, almost all of biology has proceeded independent of evolution, except evolutionary biology itself. Molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, have not taken evolution into account at all” (Peter Dizikes, Missing Links, Boston Globe, 23 October 2005. Accessed, November 4th 2010 at www.boston.com).

Godlessness leads to the suppression of the truth (Romans 1:18) and those who love evil deliberately avoid it (John 3:19,20)

The Bible, when read in a plain and straightforward manner, provides a clear framework for our faith, without which we will flounder. Only by refusing to compromise in our interpretation of Genesis can we provide a coherent message. If we believe the Bible from the very first verse, then when people ask us why there is so much suffering in the world, we have an answer: It was not part of the original creation and came into the world only as a result of man’s sin (disobeying God, his Creator). Evolution explains this death and suffering as a good thing for mankind because it supposedly led to our evolution—not a reminder to us that the Creation is cursed (Romans 8). The evolutionary view thus immunises people from realising their fallen state.

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” Jeremiah 17:9-19

“What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” Mark 7:20-23

When people question us about whether God cares about us in our fallen state, we can tell them that, no sooner had man sinned, God announced His plan of salvation (Genesis 3:15). When they ask us why the sedimentary rocks contain billions of fossils, and billions of tons of coal and other fossil fuels, we can point them to the Noahic Flood (Genesis 6-8). When they ask us where the different ‘human races’ came from, we can point them to the dispersal at Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) and explain that there is only one human race, the one descended from Adam. When they ask us how Christ could die for their sins, we can explain that just as all sinned in Adam, so all may be redeemed in Christ (1 Corinthians 15:21-22). According to Jesus, the greatest commandment is that we should love the Lord our God with all our hearts and with all our souls and with all our minds (Matthew 22:37). How can we do this if we have lingering doubts that we do not get answered? If our commitment is to be total, we must have a reference point, a clear set of beliefs and a certain path to follow. Only the Bible can provide this, through its perfect revelation of God and His ways, and His great and precious promises, which enable us to participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption of the world (2 Peter 1:4). And making the Bible central and preeminent in our thinking will make God central and preeminent.

Taken from the article In an increasingly godless society … truth matters! by Dominic Statham on http://www.creation.com

Sorry! My WIFI was down for three days hence no posts were put up until this one on Tuesday 10/04/2024.

THE FOOL SAYS IN HIS HEART, “THERE IS NO GOD”

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“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”—G.K. Chesterton

“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” Psalm 14:1

“For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” Mark 7:21-23

“When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.“ Proverbs 19:3

As much as atheists pretend otherwise—talking as if ‘reason’ and ‘science’ are exclusively atheistic values— it is actually the rejection of God that requires ‘leaving your brain at the door.’ And the effects of both godly and godless thinking on the world make this abundantly clear to any honest observer.

We must remember that just ten generations from Adam this is what God said about the wickedness of man and He destroyed all but eight people when He poured out His wrath upon the earth with the flood of Noah’s day.

“Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.” Genesis 6:5

The Bible is a true, authentic, historically accurate, reliable, and trustworthy revelation from God. It states that the way to true fulfilment, lasting peace, and joy in life is found in the person, Jesus Christ. N.B. what Jesus said to the apostle Thomas.

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” John 14:6-7

You too, can have a relationship with the co-creator of all that exists.

Many Bible scholars tell us that up to one-third of the Bible is predictive prophecy and all of the prophecies up to date have been accurate so we can expect the many prophecies of Jesus’ second coming will also be accurate.

Jesus tells us that God will pour out His wrath again upon an unrepentant world with the Trumpet and Bowl judgements (Revelation 8 & 16). It is at the trumpet blast when the seventh seal is opened that the rapture of the Saints happens and the Trumpet judgements begin.

Will you be foolish and deny God’s existence and face the coming wrath of God, or will you repent and turn from selfishness and reckless living without God? If you do repent, you need to acknowledge and thank Jesus for His sacrifice on the cross that has paid your debt of sin and guilt in full.

If I can be of help you can contact me on ron@bakb.com.au