Digital Explosion and Christian view

[Stanley Samuel]

Dear All:

Our life is filled with all kinds of technology from TV's, ipods, cell phones, laptops, boom boxes (all types) and you name it we have it. Have you realized technology's impact on our life?  Have you considered the Christian viewpoint on this. 

Last week I read a powerful book about Technology and Christian view point. (The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion Hardcover by Tim Challies ). Here are the key ideas from the book.  

Thinking about technology in a distinctly Christian way means we consider these 3 key ideas:

1. Technology is a good, God-given gift. Created in God's image, we have a mandate and desire to create technology. Technology is the creative activity of using tools to shape God's creation for practical purposes.
   
2. Like everything else in creation, technology is subject to the curse. Though intended as a means of honoring God, our technologies often become idols and compound our sinful rebellion against our Creator.
   
3. It is the human application of technology that helps us determine if it is being used to honor God or further human sin. Discerning the intended use of a technology, examining our own use of it, and reflecting on these purposes in light of Scripture disciplines our technological discernment.
   

When we hold these together-when we understand our mandate, remember the consequence of the fall, and recognize the power of our own sinful desires in our use of technology (just like anything else in our life)- we are able to think about our technologies in a distinctly Christian way.

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With love and Prayers
Stanley Samuel

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