Determining Values: The Great Commandment

We arrive now at the penultimate look at our Determining Values miniseries, and I hope that it's been interesting and helpful to you as a foundation.  When last we spoke, our discussion was around the choice of an authority; an authority which gives us the guideline for epistemological exploration, or, put another way, who enables us to know that and how what we know is true.  For the Christian, this Authority is Jesus, the Verb, as He was called in the early and medieval church, the I AM, who answers Pontius Pilate's question of "What is truth" with the answer, "I am the Truth, the Way, and the Life."

The entirety of the Law and the Prophets, as stated by Jesus, is found in the Great Commandment:

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

I really don't have a lot to add to this.  As we develop a view of technology that seeks to be biblical, we will have to ask ourselves a number of questions, or, more accurately, we will have to ask God a number of questions.  One of these will surely have to be, "Father, is the way that I am using technology bringing me to a point where I love you with all of my heart, my soul, and my mind?  Is it helping others to do the same?"  This second question is particularly apt for content producers, as they constantly strive to attract attention to their products.  If I allow some skanky photos on my sidebar (or in my own content!), will it drive people to my store/forum/blog/Deviant Art account?  Do I use profanity for humorous or attention-grabbing effect?  Do I talk casually about sacred things, such as sex?  Do I allow cynicism and sarcasm to supplant innocence and biblical meekness?

Admittedly, these are some of my personal issues.  Well, I don't really struggle with trying to attract more readers because according to Google Analytics, I'm wildly (and only) popular with bots in Russia, but I know that I have a language/humor/cynicism problem.  I have an innocence problem that God is working with me to heal.  Frame these questions around your sin issues and arrive at your own applications, and next week we'll take a look at how Jesus extends the obligation of the Great Commandment into the invitation of the Great Commission.