It is troubling to see a man without repentance and faith (by his own words more or less) pontificating on the nature and future of the Christian faith. I suppose my prayer would be for someone like Elon to come to an end of himself (camel through the eye of a needle, by God's grace alone) and in his heart would believe something more along the lines of:
"Unless there is more honesty to confess none of us do what is truly fair and right, we will perish."
But for now, Elon is an unbelieving "cultural Christian" which means he uses his own moral sense to ransack divine revelation for practical principles of civilizational coherence. While tossing away the main plot point and source of divine revelation. This is in line with other cultural/moral Christianities such as from Thomas Jefferson, and many many high ranking politicians and presidents in recent U.S. history. Both parties.
Elon and these kind of cultural Christians are best represented by the Gospel story of the rich young ruler who approached Jesus, addressing Jesus as "Good teacher", and by that the rich young ruler meant Jesus based on only his moral instruction was clearly one of the greatest among moral teachers and could certainly give this young ruler moral wisdom to make him complete.
Jesus doesn't give an INCH of legitimacy to this way of framing his identity. He berates him, "Why do you call me good? There is none good but God alone." This is a perfect answer. Jesus obliterates any notion of competition about who is the best and most wise of human moral teachers, and points him to the only source of Goodness, Truth, and Beauty. This young ruler, which is the same case for Elon and any other "moral" man of power and influence, was in no way prepared to understand Jesus' identity as the eternal Son of God who came in the flesh to fulfill all righteousness on our behalf who cannot meet the standard of goodness.
It is troubling to see a man without repentance and faith (by his own words more or less) pontificating on the nature and future of the Christian faith. I suppose my prayer would be for someone like Elon to come to an end of himself (camel through the eye of a needle, by God's grace alone) and in his heart would believe something more along the lines of:
"Unless there is more honesty to confess none of us do what is truly fair and right, we will perish."
But for now, Elon is an unbelieving "cultural Christian" which means he uses his own moral sense to ransack divine revelation for practical principles of civilizational coherence. While tossing away the main plot point and source of divine revelation. This is in line with other cultural/moral Christianities such as from Thomas Jefferson, and many many high ranking politicians and presidents in recent U.S. history. Both parties.
Elon and these kind of cultural Christians are best represented by the Gospel story of the rich young ruler who approached Jesus, addressing Jesus as "Good teacher", and by that the rich young ruler meant Jesus based on only his moral instruction was clearly one of the greatest among moral teachers and could certainly give this young ruler moral wisdom to make him complete.
Jesus doesn't give an INCH of legitimacy to this way of framing his identity. He berates him, "Why do you call me good? There is none good but God alone." This is a perfect answer. Jesus obliterates any notion of competition about who is the best and most wise of human moral teachers, and points him to the only source of Goodness, Truth, and Beauty. This young ruler, which is the same case for Elon and any other "moral" man of power and influence, was in no way prepared to understand Jesus' identity as the eternal Son of God who came in the flesh to fulfill all righteousness on our behalf who cannot meet the standard of goodness.