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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Mar 02 2006
Mark Mania Revisited
Once again, I see that a form of technology is being objected to because of its very existence. As I said in a post I wrote last year, it's tempting for any of us to get caught up in a scientific or technological focus concerning the mark of the beast. But if that mark has to do with spiritual issues, the accepting of that mark would seem to me to also have to do with spiritual issues. Choosing to be spiritual involves a conscious choice, unless I missed something. Again—if you can capture me, restrain (or sedate) me, and then put some device into my head (or anywhere in or on my person) and control me with it, that's not a choice I can make. And the Book of Revelation seems to indicate that there is a choice involved in accepting this mark. Of course, a technological device could be used to track those who do carry the device and be used to separate those who do have one from those who do not, but that technology has nothing to do with choosing an alliance with evil over an alliance with a loving Creator.
If all this good-hearted lady is meaning to say is that we are now closer to the Second Coming of Christ than we've ever been before, I'd be surprised if she got any argument at all from most Christians. But it's very tough for me to see how a man-made device that can be used for either good or evil can be described as something evil in and of itself.
posted at: 08:07 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
Once again, I see that a form of technology is being objected to because of its very existence. As I said in a post I wrote last year, it's tempting for any of us to get caught up in a scientific or technological focus concerning the mark of the beast. But if that mark has to do with spiritual issues, the accepting of that mark would seem to me to also have to do with spiritual issues. Choosing to be spiritual involves a conscious choice, unless I missed something. Again—if you can capture me, restrain (or sedate) me, and then put some device into my head (or anywhere in or on my person) and control me with it, that's not a choice I can make. And the Book of Revelation seems to indicate that there is a choice involved in accepting this mark. Of course, a technological device could be used to track those who do carry the device and be used to separate those who do have one from those who do not, but that technology has nothing to do with choosing an alliance with evil over an alliance with a loving Creator.
If all this good-hearted lady is meaning to say is that we are now closer to the Second Coming of Christ than we've ever been before, I'd be surprised if she got any argument at all from most Christians. But it's very tough for me to see how a man-made device that can be used for either good or evil can be described as something evil in and of itself.
posted at: 08:07 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
