Season 2 Podcast 92 Technology

TechnologyBy our understanding of temporal law, technology advances, thus providing a seemingly infinite number and variety of choices. As technology advances, freedom increases because choices increase.  We motorize everything, even toothbrushes.  Whatever we invent, we improve. How far we have come since the earliest sewing machines or the earliest airplanes. Imagine if, like the Wright brothers, you had to ride on the wing of an airplane from N.Y. to L.A. rather than sit in the air-controlled comfort of a super jet.  Most would decline the honor.Technology has advanced our temporal freedom exponentially.  To increase in freedom, we must increase in science and technology. Laws can be organized to advance technology and thus advance freedom of choice. Before technology, man had to rely upon himself or his animals to move him from point A to point B.  We even use horsepower as a unit of measurement to measure the rate at which work is done such as an automobile engine. With modern technology, we may drive a car, board a train, or fly in an airplane.  Rockets take us to outer space.   Think of the computer and how communication has expanded. As technology expands, our choices expand.  Technology, which must obey scientific laws, is one way that freedom has increased. Man uses science to advance technology which brings seemingly infinite variety to our choices in almost every area of our life.  One reason America is considered one of the freest nations in the world is because it is the most technologically advanced country in the world. A nation that does not advance in science will soon fall behind.  Wise education is critical to freedom.Those who argue that we do not have freewill because we are bound by natural laws appear to ignore the fact that all temporal laws have conditions, and in an infinite number of cases we have the power and knowledge to organize those conditions thus predicting the outcome. When Christ said, “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” He was speaking of both temporal law and spiritual law. Both laws have conditions. Science teaches us the conditions of the temporal world; religion teaches us the conditions of the spiritual world. Consider knowledge of the conditions of temporal laws as advancing our freedom; consider knowledge of spiritual laws as advancing our agency. All laws of God, whether temporal or spiritual were organized by God to make freewill possible. We do not yet know how God created laws.  That is why we cannot create laws. But we do know why God created laws.  It is to help us advance in intelligence by exercising freewill, freedom, and agency.Law is the key to freedom, Truth and law are synonyms. When Christ said, “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free,” he could have as easily said, “And she shall know the law and the law shall make you free.”