I can’t speak for other believers, but as a fellow human on this sin-cursed planet and hosting a mind that’s been sin-tainted, I can say that putting “God in a box” is a very convenient way to exercise the control we like to pretend we have over our circumstances. 

How much better will we be able to praise Yahweh than in Heaven, where we’ll have time, resources, and the ability to write and create and perform more God-glorifying music than ever? 

A reader asked our ministry, “Will people have technology in Heaven?” Technology is a God-given aspect of human capability that enables us to fulfill His command to exercise dominion.

In his 1982 book I Believe in Preaching, John Stott wrote these prophetic words: “It is difficult to imagine the world in the year 2000, by which time versatile microprocessors are likely to be as common as simple calculators are today. [This will lead to] the probable reduction of human contact, as the new electronic network renders personal relationships ever less necessary.”

We will experience rich, fulfilling relationships with others in Heaven and with Christ. So it’s possible that whatever ways we have to communicate on the New Earth will make something like Facebook absolutely trivial and unneeded.

I have always loved science (and science fiction) and artificial intelligence doesn’t scare me, it fascinates me. Still, because of sin, technology can be used for bad as well as for good. With great potential for good comes great potential for evil. 

Randy Alcorn talks about the advent of technology and how technology can be used for evil purposes but is not inherently evil. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

All these questions are addressed in Randy Alcorn's book Heaven (Tyndale, 2004). Most of them have clear, though not comprehensive, biblical answers. The others that don't have clear answers can be intelligently speculated upon, based on what Scripture does tell us.

The video in this blog is an incredible look at how far technology has advanced and is changing, even just within the past year. As you watch it, remember that technology is a part of society or culture, which is the creative accomplishment of God’s image-bearers.