Posted by Philoman on January 25, 19101 at 12:58:38:
In Reply to: Re: Christ OS: the Fall posted by Fides, etc. on January 25, 19101 at 08:15:47:
Fe wrote:
: Truth be told: Christ came to save us from our sins. The human race was running down, and it's likely we would have destroyed ourselves by now if he hadn't come.
Several posts have started in on this one, and I've encouraged them to pursue it here.
We do know that most OS's need to be re-booted on occasion because they become unstable after awhile (Unix being an exception: they can run for years without a reboot). Upgrading the OS can solve some of this instability.
But what is the instability? Imperfection, of course. This doesn't correspond to sin, but it's certainly a factor to contend with in the world of OS's, and human beings.
Sin, I think, would correspond to the phenomenon of viruses. Viruses are little programs that interact with the OS precisely to disturb its functioning in some way. Personally, I think people who write them should be tortured for awhile in the afterlife, but that's neither here nor there. Sin is like a virus in that it's not just an imperfection, but a dynamism that distorts what was meant to be. To say that human nature has been corrupted by sin is analogous to saying that an OS has been corrupted by a virus.
Christ OS, then, is both evolutionary upgrade, as we have noted numerous times, and it is a fix for a virus-corrupted race. Jesus eats the sin virus, as it were, and deletes it from the race through his death on the cross. I don't think anti-virus programs are quite so sacrificial, but they do end up deleting infected files if they can't fix them.
Still, I think of Jenn's earlier comment about the impersonal nature of some of this discussion, and wonder if there can be any computer analogy which does justice to the atonement.
Peace,
Philoman