Settled Knowledge?

AI will be a powerful tool for making connections that haven't yet been made. The possibilities for chemistry, weather prediction, engineering, and more are fascinating. All this depends on massive historical data sets. Then, testing AI predictions will add to these data sets. The cycle will continue.

But what about completely new discoveries, those rare finds that open up whole new directions? Is everything knowable already known? What about relational knowing? Knowing God? There's much still to be discovered that machines alone won't find.

Faith Becomes Sight

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. — 1 Timothy 6:12

Paul said, The only thing that counts is faith working through love. Fighting the good fight of faith means redirecting our trust back to God again and again. For that, we're rewarded with a life of stability. But it doesn't mean the fight is easy. Walking by faith can be exhausting sometimes. There is a new level of relief and rest when faith becomes sight.

Qualitatively Speaking

In our culture, we prioritize quantitative over qualitative. We like things to be measurable, definitive, binary. This is what we do with eternal life. Heaven or hell. Starting at the point of physical death and reaching forward. But, Biblically, eternal life is eternal in both directions. It's a river of life with the Triune God that has always been, and always will be, love. It's knowing God. We're invited into that life now. It's an eternal kind of life. A quality of life that just happens to have an immeasurable quantity.