Hackproof Your Mind
I want to share with you this stunning statement from Yuval Noah Harai of the World Economic Forum. His mix of arrogance (regarding using technology to control others) and ignorance (of the reality and supremacy of God) is hard to fathom.
His quote is in reference to the capabilities of new technology to now hack humans.
“We have reached the point when we can hack not just computers; we can hack human beings and other organisms…Humans are now hackable animals. The whole idea that humans have this soul or spirit and they have free will and nobody knows what’s happening inside me so whatever I choose, whether in the election or the supermarket, this is my free will—that’s over.”
Again, it’s a statement of ultimate arrogance and ignorance. He doesn’t see humans as having free will or a soul. In his eyes, we are animals that can be hacked and controlled. It is the Tree of Knowledge being played out all over again. With the desire to play god and control through power and knowledge.
Except it will never work. God isn’t terrified at these plans. He laughs at them: What fools the nations are to rage against the Lord! How strange that men should try to outwit God!…But God in heaven merely laughs! He is amused by all their puny plans. (Psalm 2:1, 4 TLB)
Rest in this. As believers, we have the mind of Christ. And the mind of Christ cannot be hacked by human technology.
I’ll give Paul the last word (I’ve bolded certain words for emphasis)…
But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. (1 Corinthians 2:10-12, NLT)
Paul concludes the thought in this way: Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. For, “Who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?” But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:15-16 NLT)
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