The Dynamics of Technology in the context of Religion

The Christian faith was not founded for nothing on blind acceptance of tradition but rather it was found for true life on a tremendous body of real evidence. A literal reading of the biblical record will vividly demonstrate the Christian foundation. In deed, the objective evidence from biblical Christianity can never be presented with sufficient force to compel its acceptance in a mind which is already closed to the possibility of its truin.

To mention one Moses and Elijah among the first and greatest prophets did spectacular events in the far distant past.

Moses is one of the most influential men in human history. He performed miracles and led the Israelites out of Egypt . As he was first and foremost a man of faith, God was real to Moses- so real that David the psalmist said: # He split the sea and brought them through, made the waters stand up like a dam. $ /Psalm 78:13/. The quest historical event regarding success in the splitting of the Red sea was one of the main events of Moses's life.

# And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. $ / Exodus 14:21/.

Moses's writings explain how God could impart power and authority that can make the earth a good place. That means when there was no technology like ships of the contemporary world, he was able to trammel with Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea to the land of their dream. In leading them he used no communication apparatus and means of transportation. The only criteria on to the only things to accomplish miraculous historical event was the words of belief in God. They were honestly and truely the super uttered, relying absolutely on the Almighty. It could be the super Reasoning power.

To further scrutinize technology vis- a –vis religion, we can consider the sayings of Elijah # In the vicinity of the Jordan across from Jericho , Elijah is said to have ascended in to heaven. As he talked there with Elisha, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind in to heaven. $ /2 kg.2:11/.

It is truely a spectacular performance some thousands of years downstream in biblical account before the advent of space shuttle think of the modern, sophisticated, technology which is hard to imagine abstraction designed for space exploration. If these had been the prerequisite it would have been impossible for Elijah to a scent himself to heaven through violation of the law of gravity. Surprisingly enough, there was no space station, engineers, technical advisors and so on. Added to that you can imagin ! The He huge investment cost and lack of accessibility of highly skilled personnel in the whole set up space technology. A man of faith, with uncompromising standard of morality /psalm.97:1/ did great historical events devoid of philosophical abstraction worry of economic calculations. However, can goes on to elaborate his argument that technology has paramount importance. But the line of argument form the biblical point of view is that the current scientific advancement is based on the prominent biblical parishioners of the past which seems factious on developed lands of today. Religion precedes technology.

Men of the 21 st century have lot of knowledge but little understanding on how much religion is far beyond technology and yet to be exploited.

May God Bless us, Amen.