IT in the Bible?

ChatGPT identified the following 6 Bible verses as relevant to Information Technology:

Communication Systems

·        Gen 11:1-9 The Tower of Babel

·        Exodus 31:18 “When the Lord had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the commandments, the stone tablets inscribed by God’s own finger.”

·        Revelation 20:12 “I saw the dead, the great and the lowly, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened.  Then another scroll was opened, the book of life.  The dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the scrolls.”

Knowledge and Wisdom Transmission

·        Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge”

Networks and Spread of Information

·        Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, thought Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Omniscience and Divine Surveillance

·        Psalm 139:2-4 “you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar.  My travels and my rest you mark; with all my ways you are familiar.”

Not a bad list, although I would also add:

·        Gen 2:16-17 “The Lord God gave man this order: ‘You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and bad.  From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.’”

·        John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Some good substance to ponder and meditate on…