{"id":4455,"date":"2011-08-04T05:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:18:12","slug":"kevin-kellys-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/kevin-kellys-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Kelly&#8217;s faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Some pretty unique ideas, mixed with very traditional creeds](http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/article_print.html?id=93174). As might be expected from one of the world&#8217;s foremost technology philosophers.<\/p>\n<p>> God has given us free will\u2014true free will, not a phantom free will\u2014and he wants us to surprise him. We are here to surprise God&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>> I seek to find those technologies that assist me in my mission to express love and reflect God in the world, and then disregard the rest. But at the same time, I want to maximize the pool of technologies that people can choose from, so that they can find those tools that maximize their options and minimize the rest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>> When we make these virtual worlds in the future\u2014worlds whose virtual beings will have autonomy to commit evil, murder, hurt, and destroy options\u2014it&#8217;s not unthinkable that the game creator would go in to try to fix the world from the inside. That&#8217;s the story of Jesus&#8217; redemption to me. We have an unbounded God who enters this world in the same way that you would go into virtual reality and bind yourself to a limited being and try to redeem the actions of the other beings since they are your creations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Some pretty unique ideas, mixed with very traditional creeds](http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/article_print.html?id=93174). As might be expected from one of the world&#8217;s foremost technology philosophers. > God has given us free will\u2014true free will, not a phantom free will\u2014and he wants us to surprise him. We are here to surprise God&#8230; > I seek to find those technologies that&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/kevin-kellys-faith\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,380,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-simplicity","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-19R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}