Technology Dumbing Us Down?

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So the other day my phone totally died.  And I was lost, figuratively.  I couldn't remember anyone's phone numbers.  I couldn't tweet.  I couldn't check my email.  I couldn't check in with Gowalla.

And this really got me thinking.  Is our technology actually making us dumb? We have become so smart in small doses but it has made us not have to use our brains.

And this has allowed me to have an even better appreciation of why God chose to send His Son when He did.  At that point in history, people remembered things.  They passed on traditions orally. The writings that became the New Testament were from probably 40 years after Jesus had ascended into heaven.  Yet the details of the stories that were saved are incredible.  Somethings make us wonder why they are even there.

It's hard for me to imagine that God's hand was not in the creation of the Bible.  It's hard for me to think that it's an accident.  So, it's funny that, me not having any charge left in a device that makes me not have to think about things as much, really has caused me to think about where we came from.

God's ways are so much bigger than ours.  And I think Him that they are.