Hi Yall. My name is Mark. I run a site called
www.TheSingularity.com.
I got saved in 92 and went to bible college in 94. I’ve been active in the church pretty much my whole adult life.
Even in bible college, the teaching about the 2nd coming of Christ never sat well with me. I always left with an unsettled feeling. None of it ever made logical sense. It was all a bunch of guesswork, with people ENDLESSLY pointing to one thing or the other continually saying this or that about a sign.
I went along for a while with looking at those signs, but eventually, after 10-15 years of looking at israel, or clinton, or syria, or whatever the latest thing was, it no longer felt honest.
In 2011 I learned about the technological singularity from a movie called transcendent man. I knew how tech was moving forward, and the things they spoke of in that movie made sense.
At first, as I was adjusting to a new vista, a new outlook, it was difficult because my first reaction was to assign all the stuff I was seeing as "evil". The easy path was to point at the works of the tech and call it the beast.
But just like sitting in those eschatology classes didn’t feel right, neither did pointing at what computers were doing and will do.
The hard part, is that even after 5 years I still have to believe by faith that it is not the Beast. Because some of the stuff tech will be doing can certainly look that way.
For five years I spent concerted effort uncoupling my preconceived ideas and reconsidering where I believe we're going from A New Perspective. Honestly, it's not easy all the time. But it gets easier with exercise.
Train a child up in the way he should go and when he grows up he will not depart from it. My mind was trained for years and years that the second coming would look a certain way. The problem was, none of the ways that I learned about in Bible College made much sense. They always felt kind of gross.
Specifically, most of the thought processes seem to violate some very key scriptures and that always bothered me. Specifically versus saying that no one would know the exact time. Not even the Son. But yet they pointed and said oh look at Israel, or look at Kuwait, or look at Bill Clinton. Or whoever it was at the time. That didn't feel right. It felt more divisive than unifying.
Christ prayed that we would be one even as he and his father are one. He prayed that we would be one with them. He asked us to pray that God will would be done on Earth as it is in heaven.
In my personal opinion, I believe that the enemy has spent years sowing fear into the church about us connecting. The last thing the enemy wants is for us to connect with one another. And that's what is happening with tech.
Anyway, there are lots and lots of versus that in my opinion speak about where we're going in a good way.
I personally believe that we are being brought together via tech, and that God will use it to allow his word to spread quickly and effortlessly through the world.
I believe that it's harder to get away with crime than it used to be, specifically because our actions are tracked via cameras and sensors. To me the speaks of the verse that says the king sits on his throne to judge and winnows out evil with his eyes. At first this was scary, because I didn't like the idea of being judged. But then I had to reconsider why? Was it a fear of punishment? It's very interesting why I didn't want accountability. As a Christian that should not be the case. Now I feel differently about technology. I will commit because I believe that God is chasing out evil by it’s use.
Anyway, from my experience in order to see and accept the good things that God has, is, and will do through technology, I had to let go of a lot of preconceived ideas and reconsider things in the light of where we are today and where tech will be taking us.
It's been a lot of work pouring through different scriptures, but if you would like to take a look, you can go to
www.TheSingularity.com. It’s my personal blog where I write different thoughts about the bible and tech.
