Tuesday, July 10, 2007

What If Moses Had Google?

What if Moses had had Google?
Would he have searched "creative escape routes"?

A problem needs solving right away. For the great Hebrew leader Moses, that translates to his confrontation with the Red Sea as he's going about freeing 600,000 Israelites from Egyptian slavery.

What might have happened if, at the Red Sea, Moses could have Googled "Creative escape routes"? "Negotiating skills"? "Speedy chariots"? "Boats"? "Help"???

There's no question that Moses sought help. But would he have found Google's knowledge base preferable to trusting God to care for him and his mission?

The point is, for all that we can glean thanks to technology, sometimes no amount of knowledge – gathered and sorted at any speed – provides the answer that best meets our need. Sometimes something totally unconventional is required. Something no one has ever seen or heard. Something new.

New to the human mind, that is.

To read more....
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0710/p18s01-hfcs.html?page=2

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