FaithTech is described as “a global community focused on stewarding our tech skills to glorify God together”.
I have to confess, my first response to the invite was deep wariness, or simply straight No.
Tech creep can, so far as I’m involved, cease proper there. It’s not mandatory, and is way extra more likely to be counter productive than anything.
Faith is a phenomena, a thriller, a present from God that allows a person to have a residing and precise relationship with God. Technology has nothing to do with it in any respect.
Any try to exchange the genuine course of with something synthetic is by definition the alternative of Godliness, holiness, faithfulness, and actuality. So FaithTech will get my alarm bells ringing, particularly as my private journey has taken me absolutely into and thru the valleys of economic expertise, and I nonetheless have a residual tendency in direction of commercialisation of that which must be saved pure and unadulterated. No one can serve two masters.
One can not serve God and money, nor God and expertise.
I’ve been a tech journalist and entrepreneur for a lot of years, and the veneer has lengthy since worn away to disclose the repackaged concepts coming spherical in cycles, the kids getting into the sector are blinded by the probabilities, and by no means appear to noticeably ask if the route they’re driving is resulting in paradise or dystopia.
They’re simply excited to be driving. Like any child behind the wheel for the primary time. Veterans of the sport know higher.
Yet there’s a place for expertise within the communication of fact. I’m penning this on a pc. I take heed to audio books of AW Tozer, one of many nice males of God from the final century, and I watch TheChosen.television on-line. Technology can ship the phrases and pictures that assist religion to flourish, simply as expertise can ship worry and anger.
Technology can not ship religion itself although. It can ship each emotion, however religion isn’t an emotion. Faith is a real thriller, and maybe the best reward {that a} person can obtain. Not even the Bible explains what religion really is, it provides multitudes of accounts of individuals with religion, and acts performed in religion, however what religion really is, is a thriller. It is one thing of God in man. It’s not of this world.
So to attempt to bolt tech onto it, nicely that’s a really human factor to do. We have healthtech, fintech, deeptech, and an array of subsects of expertise, all of that are being overshadowed by Ai, and shortly we could have well beingAi, financeAi, and so forth, and but none of it has something in any respect to do with religion.
Having mentioned that, there are some Christians concerned in tech, and maybe FaithTech is extra about these folks and the way they’ll reside in such an surroundings.
I typically marvel how technologists can deny the existence of a creator God. It’s like believing a vastly complicated pc simulation simply got here into being, with none programmer. There’s an observable intelligence embedded inside materials actuality, creating methods that create every thing else, there’s an intention, a design, it’s so apparent that I ponder how they can not see it. Then I keep in mind. It’s as a result of they haven’t the reward of religion. So they can not see the issues of God.
And I additionally marvel, does our expertise do extra to blind, than enlighten?
Bird Lovegod is a business marketing consultant and Christian commentator
