Human beings were created in the image of God, but rebelled against God. God is determined to restore us to fellowship with himself.
August 12, 2008 (Tuesday)
Robots. The idea has been around a long time. Leonardo daVinci had one on his drawing board and toyed with the idea. Movies have been made about robots that were created for the purpose of serving humans. All the plots follow the same general course: robot created, robot serves, robot learns, robot rebels, robot takes over.
The same general idea is in the monster movie, Frankenstein. Dr. Frankenstein, brilliant researcher, goes mad and creates a monster, using the bodies of unknown paupers. He intends to create a super human, with the brain of a genius, but by mistake installs the brain of a criminal. From there the plot is simple: monster lives, monster learns, monster kills, monster is hunted down, monster and his creator are killed. End of story, until the sequel, when somehow it happens again.
I wonder if the basic idea of these stories came from the Bible. After all, our history is very similar. Human beings were created in the image of God, but rebelled against God. God is determined to restore us to fellowship with himself. We are intent on living our own way. For some, the love of God gets through, and they come back to God in obedience. For others, the self has become too strong to overcome, and they go on in life without God.
God does not give up. He keeps on loving us. “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted..” (John 3:16-18a The Message).