June 2012
3 posts
Finding Jesus in Isaiah
In order to understand who Jesus is, we must understand what He came to do. For this, we can best look to the Servant Songs of Isaiah, for it is with these that He inaugurated His ministry and it is these that were used by the Gospel writers to describe Him in His death.
From the Servant Songs, we can see at least seven reasons for Jesus’ coming:
He came to raise up and comfort the poor...
Should Everybody Learn to Code?
The rise of Scratch (a next-gen Logo, from what I can tell), Codecademy, and Google’s App Inventor has everyone talking about learning to code, including, apparently, the Mayor of New York City.
Jeff Atwood, creator of Stack Exchange, thinks this a horrible idea.
In the case of the mayor, and other adults with non-coding-related jobs, he has a valid point. No one who has a good job already...
Reading transhumanist literature (Tipler, Kurtzweil) and fiction (Accelerando) tonight and thinking: To be human is to embrace finitude. The desire for all knowledge, all pleasure, and all power must be denied us until we are one with our Creator, renewed in righteousness.
Unless one envisions a society characterized by widespread repentance all moral science fiction must be dystopian, since...
