# Transhumanist Advent: On Claims

Explore how humanity holds a mutual claim with God—to diminish death and evil—in this Transhumanist Advent meditation on divine responsibility and human progress.

We are either the children or creators of God. Either way, we have a claim on God. As a race, we have matured beyond worship as obeisance to stem violence or cruelty.

[Image: A claim on God becomes a claim on our own responsibility.]

Jesus’s life focused our worship from a scattered scene of offerings and rituals to turn our attention to taking responsibility for death and evil.

Our claim is that God won’t haphazardly rain down death and evil on us. These happen because of humans or nature. And God’s claim on us is that we will make death and evil less likely, less damaging, less frequent, and less permanent; until, with Christ, we vanquish them.

-Ben Blair


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