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Sin is the deviation from God's intended will for creation. In our contemporary milieu, ideas like the simulation theory, popularized by professor

Nick Bostrom, whose theory suggests that the world is a giant artificial computer simulation, helps us plainly begin to examine sin as being similar to a powerful computer virus. In modern computing, a virus is considered small programs or scripts that can negatively affect the health of your computer. Thus, the sin virus is simply the reversal or decay of our intended state of being both in software or the unseen world as well as the hardware - the visible world. Sin virus = death spiral.

The sin virus like the computer virus requires agency. According the Encyclopedia Britannica, an agent in the realm of computing is called a softbot or software robot, "a computer program that performs various actions continuously and autonomously on behalf of an individual or an organization. For example, an agent may archive various computer files or retrieve electronic messages on a regular schedule. Such simple tasks barely begin to tap the potential uses of agents, however. This is because an intelligent agent can observe the behavior patterns of its users and learn to anticipate their needs or at least their repetitive actions. Such intelligent agents frequently rely on techniques from other fields of artificial intelligence, such as expert systems and neural networks, and aim to achieve complex goals."

The complex goal in the case of the sin virus is death. The sin virus has infected physical creation itself with decay, which the materialist philosophers have concluded, as well as material sciences have theorized, as heat death, includes an eschatology for the ultimate end of existence as we know it. This state of death that we have inherited through the sin virus has been expressed in many ways throughout history, but perhaps the most appropriate is the ouroboros or the serpent eating its own tale - the ancient symbol for the cyclical nature of life and death, a deliberate reminder of who is actually responsible for this error in the fabric of creation.

This nature of being trapped in an enclosed loop perfectly reflects the sin virus, which happens to eerily shadow modern computing and the origins of cybernetic research in the 20th century.

Cybernetics is applied when a system being analyzed and processed incorporates a closed signaling loop. What was originally referred to as a circular causal relationship, any mechanical, physical, biological, cognitive and even social systems possess emerging patterns of enclosed loops that can be quantified, analyzed and thus controlled by manipulating the signals. This helps us understand why advertising is the way it is; they have figured out the method to tap into the human impulse, a part of us that can be easily manipulated by outside, artificial constructs.

There are three common structures used in computer science: selection, sequence and perhaps the most basic yet powerful of the three: loops, which are a sequence of instructions that continually repeats until a certain condition is met.

Hence, we can understand the sin virus in this effect - a circular causal relationship or signaling loop running in the background processing of creation, of repeats until it achieves its desired condition - death. This base layer problem became present in our world through the single decision made by our first parents: Adam and Eve.

Genesis 3:6 says, "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."

God's one commandment to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil so as to maintain the fragile balance of Eden, God's intended state for mankind and creation was rejected and dismantled by way of temptation from an agent - that serpent - Satan.

As Eve saw that the fruit was good for food or for sustenance, which before the fall was everlasting, pleasant to the eye, appealing to the flesh and desired to make one wise, as if an open relationship with The Creator Himself was not enough, she ate and so did Adam.

Through this decision, the sin virus entered into Adam and Eve, corrupting first their bodies but also clouding their souls and disconnecting them from clear access to the Spirit of God. The result would be death,

It also gave legal right for the agents of the divine rebellion to gain influence and control over not only individuals but entire populations.

Romans 5:12 appropriately summarizes, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:"

The implications of this passage are that humans were never supposed to die. Death was never supposed to be part of our existence.

The protocol for restoration: Eden 2.0

The protocol for restoration - the ultimate antivirus or antidote for the sin virus is already at work; it's blue print was laid out in the life, death and most importantly, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Its effects have rippled across all of His creation.

Luke 18:32-33 - For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.

Acts 2:23-24 - Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

The reversal of death in this physical creation, demonstrated by Jesus, was the most important act for the Creator of the universe, because it proclaimed His ultimate control and authorship and thus provide the restoration protocol for His creation. The effect it has on humanity harkens back to a familiar idea from the Bible of setting the captives free.

A community of people who have a right relationship with God will be the only thing that will keep the remnant Church separate from the emerging hive mind world system where man will attempt to build Eden 2.0 and Adam 2.0 with their own hands. But as we will come to see, this pursuit, led by the Antichrist spirit, will result in the abomination of desolation spoken about by the prophet Daniel, Jesus on His Olivet discourse and the book of Revelation, as well as the man of sin who will emerge from system, confirming once again that there is nothing new under the sun.

Folks, make the choice today to accept God's Eden 2.0. Don't look forward to and accept man's counterfeit Eden 2.0, which is the coming AI transhumanist Antichrist beast system that will connect people in the cyber hive earth; it will be a cyber hive mind in a technocratic dystopia nightmare. This is where "science" and technology is leading the world. This is where the world is heading. Don't place your hope in man and the world.

Remove the blindfold and realize that the only real hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:4 says, "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."

Now is the day of salvation. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ today, so that you may be free from the virus, with a new genetic code, enabling you to connect to Heaven for all of eternity.

Remember, we are born into a spiritual war. As Ephesians 6:12 states: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

Mankind is a fallen creature, yet we still consider every living person as a valuable child of God created in His image, unique and loved by the creator of all things.

How are we both fallen and at the same time loved with a perfect love of our Heavenly Father you might ask? It is because we are suspended in a spiritual war that we did not start, but are certainly responsible for entering into. The war that began in the heavenly realm has two distinct sides - one that is not from this world, but of the Kingdom of Heaven in the process of restoring the intended infrastructure of Gods rightful creation, and the other led by the prince of the power of the air, who can appear as an angel of light or the shining one - that old serpent, the dragon, whose personal rebellion and subsequent lie to Eve - the mother of all living, with a complicit Adam brought sin into our world.

Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 5:8 - But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 10:9-10 - That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
We cannot compare the human mind to the workings of a computer.

"Sin" can simply and objectively be defined as an act wilfully harming other people. Unfortunately the concept of "sin" has often been used to control the weaker by making them feel forever anxious and guilty even when they have never "sinned" in any real, objective way..

"Sin" is not a virus, nor caused by one. It results purely from flaws or weaknesses in the individual. None of us is perfet but most of us control our feelings enough not to "sin". We might secretly envy our better-off friends, we might have an irresistable urge to finish a packet of chocolate digestive biscuits in one go, but while such envy or gluttony is petty and don't do us any good they are not intrinsically "sin".

Those urges would only be "sinful" if they lead us to steal our wealthy friend's stock of choccy biccies... but there the "sin" is real, it is theft, because it acts against the biscuits' owner.

So really, a state of human emotions, with "sin" resulting from loss of self-control to the extent of hurting other people.

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By contrast a computer has no emotions. It has no inherent weaknesses. If it breaks down by an electronics fault that is more analogous to physical illness in a person than to any wooly philosophical idea of "sin".

Similarly, a computer virus is not a biological entity. Its analogy is solely in being self-spreading, by holding a routine that makes it send copies of itself from the receiving computer, to others. If it cannot do that, it is not a "virus".

The only physical link between the computer "virus" and biology is the human being who wrote and released it.

If any "sin" can be said to be involved, it is that of the person who wrote the virus, or any other form of attack, such as ransomware, eavesdropping or installing stolen copies of legitimate remote-control programmes for illegitimate purposes.


So "sin" has nothing to do with computers, but computers and their programmes have everything to do with humans because they are made by humans, and humans can "sin" - i.e. can harm fellow-humans. Including via computers that were not even invented for that purpose. That is not the computer's fault, but is people's deliberate choice.


All that high-flown philosophy does not really tell us anything useful because it misses that basic point:

- a computer is not an emotional, thinking being but a cold machine made and used, for good or bad, by people who are emotional, thinking beings.

In fact I was not sure just what point the essay was trying to make - nor if it knew itself. After about three paragraphs I began to think of the Pseuds' Corner column in Private Eye magazine.
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Biblical literalism get us nowhere, for two reasons.

Firstly it suits only those fringe Abrahamic followers with a very narrowly-minded, absolutist belief in that faith's ancient Hebrew roots. It is absurd to anyone else, including all those Christians who sincerely say "Yes, God created the Universe", and regard the Genesis story as simply a man-made parable.

We do not even know who wrote it (Abraham? Moses?), but I wonder... Was it to give a "Year Null" impression to help weld a motley crew of small tribes into a cohesive society, rejecting their own, previous religious beliefs? And with it, also rejecting the very existence of their own ancestors, of course, although that might not have occurred to them a few generations on. History, such as it was to the ancients, was largely by oral tales and no counting of years; handy if you are a priest-king wanting your subjects to think no-one existed prior to them.

Secondly, believing that the entire human race is descended from only Adam and Eve would seem a curious notion anyway. Apart from it leading to self-destructive inbreeding, it says in the beginning just one unmarried couple begat children who begat children... all related to each other, because there were no other progenitor couples. Ah, so perhaps God decided Adam and Eve were married, so at least the first begotten pair were not illegitimate... but their sibling incest? That not a "sin"...?
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Diotrephes LOL!

Unfortunately I do not own a Bible, nor have I studied theology. Consequently what I know about Christianity is from a mixture of sources; but I also know "Christians" as a whole include cover a huge spectrum of interpretations of the same collection of ancient books. So, no I don't know the answers to your two questions.

Art least pay me the respect of not writing blind accusations about being "brainwashed" by Hollywood. I know perfectly well that Hollywood has perpetrated one load of baloney after another, but it makes films to entertain, not educate; and never lets the truth or even original fiction get in its way.

No do I fall for "conmen preachers", whoever they are, or might be.


The OP showed a hypothesis that roughly compares human "sin" (bad behaviour) with a computer virus.

That idea is absurd although a computer "virus" gained that name by digitally aping the real virus' inability to live and act all on its own, and its ability to spread by replicating itself.

There are malefactors who might be said to "sin" in the way they use computers of course; though many of their most serious IT attacks now are not virii but specific attacks on individual systems.

Even more absurd is Bostron's idea that the world is some sort of computer simulation - if so, how and by whom? Has he been taking The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Universe seriously?

I ploughed through the essay but was not convinced by it!
@ArishMell Sin is generally defined as that which separates us from God. Or as Nietzsche put it, transgressions against an imaginary deity, atoned for by the sacrifice of another imaginary deity. It's like the little boy who whistled all the time, and when someone asked him why, he said "because it scares the tigers away."

"But there are no tigers around here"

"Yes, I know, it works really well"
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@LeopoldBloom Very succinctly put!

Yes - it does ask how much the concept of "sin" has been used to "protect" theocratic agencies more than people from each other.
SW-User
I value reason. None of what you said makes any sense to me.
Turtlepower · 36-40, M
Nah it's a giant whale summoned by yu yevon controlled by a dream.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@TommyDeZinna Is murder a sin?
omg what a podge of hodge...
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
Another desperate attempt to try and make Christianity relevant🙄

 
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