Month: April 2023
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In Spirit and in Truth
We’ve been talking about culture, religion, technology, and our picture of God, and getting closer and closer to some concluding ideas. We’ve noted that culture, religion, and technology are highly charged subjects, not easily understood and not universally accepted. It takes many passes sometimes to get our minds around these new ideas and concepts and…
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Technology, Culture, Change, and Knowing God 3
I believe we are at a critical turning point in history. When the record of this time is written it will be told that these years, this time—our time—produced changes in culture and life more momentous than anything we’ve seen in the history of mankind. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots stand to change everything in…
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Technology, Culture, Change, and Knowing God 2
How do culture and religion influence one another? Nothing shapes us more than where we were raised and socialized. What we wear, what language we speak, what we eat, what sports we follow, what relationships we have with our family, how we picture God, which holy books we read, how we practice our religion,… all…
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Technology, Culture, Change, and Knowing God
Culture is the set of values, beliefs, ideas, customs, manual skills, arts, and traditions of a people cast along to succeeding generations. Churches and families have cultures just as whole societies do. These cultures exert a major influence on how and what we worship. Can—or should—culture and God be separated? Despite their great cultural differences,…
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Technology and Our Relationship with God
We’ve been talking about how to know God, how to know the truth about God and, for the past couple of weeks, what might be the roles (if any) of technology, including artificial intelligence. in knowing God? We carry in our pockets the greatest tool of free expression ever invented: the cell phone, which puts…