How does God’s Sovereignty Providence Miracles and the Matrix fit into the grand scheme of things? Clint Archer’s the Cripplegate article linked to below shows us.
One of this website’s mission statements goes along the line that we wish to promote materials and organizations etc which we feel glorify and edify God, and His Word. The Cripplegate is a place which does all this. We don’t have to agree with every single thing written in these articles. No one will agree in everything.
What is important – especially in these troubling days – is that God’s precious truth in His revealed Word is defended. Archer’s article does this – moreover it is an encouragement. I’ve posted the link to various media forums. Unfortunately nowadays we tend to balk at long articles which make us think and examine. I wonder if we tend to skim and move on.
In consideration of that I’m posting Archer’s article subheadings. Hopefully this will stimulate interest. You don’t have to read it all in one hit. There’s a lot to digest. But It’s worth reading.
Article Subheadings
1) It’s God’s Prerogative to Hack into Life
2) God’s Tools for Hacking into the Matrix of Life
3) Miracles
4) Providence
5) Concurrence
6) Conclusion
The Article
Computers have stealthily infiltrated the fabric of human society like a genial tribe of cannibals moving into the neighborhood. Prophetic doomsday filmmakers play on the unnerving suspicions we all have that one day these indentured electronic appliances could rise up against us. And I’m not talking about a malicious microwave overheating your pasta out of petty spite. The world’s most lethal military arsenals are run by what is essentially a video game consul. Our banks, our public transport, our family pictures, our medical histories, and our social networks are all enmeshed in a digital matrix. As a society we have cavalierly handed over our most intimate details and most valuable assets to an inanimate hive of electrons, with the simple trust that a machine will do what it is told to. And thankfully, that is mostly true. Even when a CPU crashes in a silent hara-kiri protest, we simply reboot with our back-up drive and all our revenant data reappears. We take comfort in knowing that sinister self-aware artificial intelligence is the stuff of science fiction. Computers only do what humans tell them to. But isn’t that just as scary?…keep reading
Maranatha!
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