the "omni's"

The omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient draw that our mobile technologies offer us. The first lie, that the deceiver shared in the garden was, are you sure? Who said you couldn’t be God? Who says that you need him? Then again at Babble, humans, through their own innovation and ingenuity, try to build their way up to the presence of God. The fruit offered the knowledge the power, the tower was the desire for being “there” with God, when God clearly separated humanity, because of its sin. In many ways, unlike any other time in human history, we have these very abilities, even in our pockets. The world wide web allows us to engage with whatever we want, wherever we want it. In many ways, we have all the knowledge we will ever need. (I think you could make the argument that we actually are less knowledgeable, but still the access to this information is clearly powerful). With the power of computing, we can make our lives easier. We can save our energy, our power for much more meaningful tasks and things in our day to day lives - like spending even more time glued to our screens. In this way, we move towards omnipotence, something only truly assigned to God, but yet again, with the same old lies he has been saying since the beginning, our access to these devices, slowly beckons us, “do we really need God?”. Finally, with radio communications and visual connection, via phone calls, FaceTime, Skype, Zoom, etc. We are able to be “everywhere all at once”. This is something we take for granted, especially following the Covid Pandemic, which forced many of us, begrudgingly, into various meetings, classroom lectures, even our civil litigations all online. This is a radical new way of communication and “being present”, yet we hardly think of it that way. I think, that’s at least in some part because of the behind the scene work of the deceiver, who has been planting the seed “we can have it all, we can do it all, we can be it all”. Our ability to “be everywhere” reveals this increasingly scary reality that will only become more complicated as AI, Virtual Realities, and other technologies evolve.