The calling

The Bible doesn’t begin with technology as a problem. It begins with a garden, and a command to cultivate it. The Hebrew word is abad, and it assumes tools. Before any fall, the first humans are already makers.

And the story does not end where it began. It ends in a city (Revelation 21–22), and you cannot have a city without technology in the broadest sense. The arc of Scripture is garden to city. Making is part of the journey home.

Halfway through Exodus, God fills the craftsman Bezalel “with the Spirit of God, with skill and ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts.” He is the first person Scripture names as Spirit-filled, and he is filled to make things.

Exodus 31:3

Technology is not a concession to a fallen world. Making is part of bearing God’s image.