Ramblings from Retirement - No Starfleet Future Awaits Humanity

Ramblings from Retirement - No Starfleet Future Awaits Humanity
By Pastor (Retired) Lee Hemen
March 28, 2022

I’ve been watching the latest installments of “Picard” on Paramount+ and have just gotten a huge dose of Hollyweird’s notion of what it thinks of the world at large and mankind in general. Picard and his crewmates have to go back in time to the year 2024 to fix the timeline. While there Picard meets up with the character Guinan, an alien being that lives a long time and is affected by time. Anyway, she is saddened by what she is witnessing here on earth and is getting ready to bug out when Picard enlists her help. She sees humanity’s hatred, pettiness, and greed but nowhere is the real reason given: Mainly mankind’s sinful nature.

The Apostle Paul related that the only fix for mankind’s problem of sin was the righteousness found in Jesus Christ. He writes, “This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (Romans 3:22-23 NIV84)” Paul knew that mankind’s problem was their sin nature, something atheistic Hollyweird refuses to acknowledge. They, like many in our world do today, think that if we just learn to be kind enough, nicer, or more empathetic then all of our problems will just disappear. What they fail to see, are blinded to, is the fact that their own sinfulness is the problem. Kind, nice, empathetic people are still at their core sinners. All have sinned and all are sinners. We are sinners by our own nature and by our own choice. We are all born in sin and we chose to sin. This is why Paul would later declare, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NIV84)”

If you desire a world of peace, niceness, and empathy then you need a world that trust in Jesus Christ and not in humanity. Jesus told his followers, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. (John 14:1 NIV84)” In fact he bluntly tells those who refused to believe in him: “I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins. (John 8:24 NIV84)”

Human transformation does not come from us willing it to be so but rather through our faith and trust in the One who can do it, Jesus. There is no future where mankind will ever be nice enough, kind enough, or empathetic enough to solve its sin problem, only Jesus can. There is no Starfleet future waiting for us but only more of humanity’s sinfulness until we are willing to submit to Jesus who can solve our sin problem.
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