I think this has been mentioned a few times on the Elon Musk posts, but I'll say it another way.
Yes, he's creating innovative products that could lead to our detriment. But look at it from the larger lens of the past 150 years. Every technology created has mostly benefited most people (at least for those it was intended for [thinking medically]). All of these same technologies have been used as weapons against us. Phones, Cellular phones, Smart phones, and smart watches. They've been good in that people have ease of long range communications etc. They have been used for evil by people listening in illegally to obtain dirt, etc. when they ought not to. Pick any line of thought and this is the case. So will this be used for evil? Absolutely. The rate of technology promoting evil has increased as fast as technology itself. Printing presses, pornographic magazines, internet, porn sites, now with smart phones, people have hookup apps or cam girls guys hermaphrodites you name it. The problem exploded with the technology. We are coming, I think, to a tipping point. Evil has increased so fast, God WILL take action. This has been true throughout human history in different ways. My belief is that the drastic action will not be the end of the world, but we will see a sharp change. I pray it's a good outcome for us all. Maybe God placed a team in the right place in the USA, and that team is Q, I don't know. But we are all responsible for our own actions, and it is high time that we act like it. Let's each do what we can. Love our neighbors by teaching them the truth, all truth. If they have a slight variation, we can have some gray area, but if they are not in the gray, but in the black, but willing to listen, take them over the fence to the side of truth.
I'm Presbyterian (PCA, not PCUSA), but I don't [foolishly] believe that only people in my church (or similar churches) are saved, but those who agree with the core tenants of the Christian faith. Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, there are many people bound for heaven, I only named a few. Whereas I may disagree on theological points with many, those conversations ought to happen in love, not in vicious hate. "Come now, let us reason together," says the Lord, "though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow."
I think this has been mentioned a few times on the Elon Musk posts, but I'll say it another way.
Yes, he's creating innovative products that could lead to our detriment. But look at it from the larger lens of the past 150 years. Every technology created has mostly benefited most people (at least for those it was intended for [thinking medically]). All of these same technologies have been used as weapons against us. Phones, Cellular phones, Smart phones, and smart watches. They've been good in that people have ease of long range communications etc. They have been used for evil by people listening in illegally to obtain dirt, etc. when they ought not to. Pick any line of thought and this is the case. So will this be used for evil? Absolutely. The rate of technology promoting evil has increased as fast as technology itself. Printing presses, pornographic magazines, internet, porn sites, now with smart phones, people have hookup apps or cam girls guys hermaphrodites you name it. The problem exploded with the technology. We are coming, I think, to a tipping point. Evil has increased so fast, God WILL take action. This has been true throughout human history in different ways. My belief is that the drastic action will not be the end of the world, but we will see a sharp change. I pray it's a good outcome for us all. Maybe God placed a team in the right place in the USA, and that team is Q, I don't know. But we are all responsible for our own actions, and it is high time that we act like it. Let's each do what we can. Love our neighbors by teaching them the truth, all truth. If they have a slight variation, we can have some gray area, but if they are not in the gray, but in the black, but willing to listen, take them over the fence to the side of truth.
I'm Presbyterian (PCA, not PCUSA), but I don't [foolishly] believe that only people in my church (or similar churches) are saved, but those who agree with the core tenants of the Christian faith. Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, there are many people bound for heaven, I only named a few. Whereas I may disagree on theological points with many, those conversations ought to happen in love, not in vicious hate. "Come now, let us reason together," says the Lord, "though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow."
Well said fren, well said.