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VR (virtual reality) CHURCH – Attending a Church in the MetaVerse .
Metaverse is a combination of meta- and universe. Meta- refers to something transcendent or next-level and all-encompassing. For example, a “metatag” of this web page is a description of what the article is about. Similarly, the “metanarrative” of the Bible is God’s plan of salvation through Christ.
Broadly, “The Metaverse” is the collection of digital spaces where people interact with each other and those systems. It includes everything from social media platforms to video games to online banking sites. The ultimate expression of a system within the metaverse would be a virtual reality (VR) “world” much like the video game in the movie Ready Player One. Virtual realities such as those in The Matrix aren’t metaverses, since the people inside them aren’t meant to realize they’re artificial. The holodeck—seen in Star Trek—is close to a metaverse, since people know it’s virtual. Yet the holodeck is meant to be “almost real,” as compared to a deliberately stylized metaverse. Digital spaces such as those in the Tron films are something like “behind the scenes” experiences, not metaverses.
The concept of a fully immersive simulated experience, and the dangers it could produce, has been a part of science fiction for more than a century. An especially strong example is Laurence Manning’s The Man Who Awoke (1933). His story features a man who spends millennia in periods of suspended animation. In between those periods, he observes humanity’s collapse as it relies more and more on artificial intelligence, virtual realities, and machines.
The vision of interactive virtual worlds came more fully into popular culture through the work of other science fiction writers. Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt” (1950) shows the danger of leaving children in a virtual world of their own making. Around the same time, Isaac Asimov published The Naked Sun (1957), which featured entire societies based around virtual experiences: holograms, near-total lack of personal contact, and heavy reliance on artificial intelligence.
Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) describes another situation closely related to the modern concept of the “metaverse.” In the novel, the main character’s wife is addicted to “parlor walls”: a room where the walls are screens that play soap operas that she can participate in with the use of “shells” or earbuds. The concept continued in the ’60s and ’70s in the science fiction genre cyberpunk: a term coined by author Bruce Bethke. In those novels, users create avatars and travel around the digital world, doing everything from playing games to traveling along digital pathways to a digital post office to send an email or a digital bank to send or deposit real money. All the while, the user sees the space as the avatar does, able to turn and go in different directions to see different things while interacting with the real world.
The concept of an avatar traveling through digital space is what differentiates the vision of the metaverse from less immersive tasks such as online shopping. Video games have progressed the concept the most; examples are games like Second Life and World of Warcraft. Second Life is particularly intriguing in that it includes personal online relationships and an environment the user can change. Both games involve financial transactions with other users.
A fuller expression of the metaverse combines virtual reality with real-life situations. During quarantines for the COVID virus, for example, some high schools held graduation ceremonies inside the video game Minecraft. Currently, some video games allow users to spend real money on virtual fashions for their avatars. Ultimately, the metaverse would include a network of digital locations where users would meet with friends, go to school, go on vacation, buy real items—even go to church.
Is the metaverse a bad thing? There are advantages. Education will be more immersive and (so far as bandwidth and equipment are available) more equitably available. Transportation costs will decrease as people stay home to work. Damage to the environment may decrease, depending on the technology involved. People who are physically limited will be able to “travel” and virtually engage in activities they couldn’t otherwise.
Even so, tech experts warn that, the more the metaverse expands, the more social problems we’ll see. Such problems are almost self-declaring. E. M. Forster’s short story “The Machine Stops,” written in the early 1900s, explored the dangers of humanity submitting their physical and emotional lives entirely to remote, mechanical stimulus instead of personal experience. In the modern world, video game addiction is a real problem, and an all-encompassing virtual world will only tighten that grip. Teachers and others working with children have noted that virtual interaction is nowhere near sufficient for emotional development, compared to face-to-face experience. Pundits have long joked that, if humanity ever developed a “perfect” customized virtual reality, such as the Star Trek holodeck, society would crash to a halt because we’d never do anything else.
The internet of things (online access to physical objects like dams, powerplants, and home thermostats) is already vulnerable to hacking. As the metaverse expands, it will become more so. The metaverse will include more personal information, including financial and medical, that can be accessed by bad actors. In many cases, we won’t know if the “person” we’ve developed a VR friendship with is real, a bot, a thief, or someone who is grooming us for abuse.
There will also be sociological issues. A virtual world is filtered according to what people do or don’t want to see. People who live online won’t be confronted with the struggles of neighbors. They won’t see the homeless in their cities. Those who do not have access to the technology may have a harder time finding work. Young children may not receive the care and socialization they need. Even the sense of responsibility for civic issues may decrease as we find more in common with “tribes” of people from all over the world and forget the importance of government in our geographic homes.
The Bible doesn’t mention the metaverse, of course, but expanding life online presents serious theological implications. The metaverse is supposed to be an “embodied virtual world,” but this is a contradiction in terms. God created us with physical bodies in a real, physical world. He did not design us to lose ourselves in an artificial, non-physical existence. Social media is a great way to connect with friends, but it does not replace present human contact. Having the opportunity to take a virtual reality tour of Paris, the Amazon River, or a fantasy world may be a fascinating diversion, but God commanded us to interact directly with His creation (Genesis 1:28). Online dating services have resulted in many happy marriages, but couples have to meet in real life at some point.
The metaverse isn’t cause for alarm or fear. God is still on His throne. It does present us with choices, however. We can make conscious decisions to attend church, have meals with friends, and go to work while still using the internet to augment experiences like communication, purchases, and banking. As an online ministry, Got Questions will be the last to completely condemn internet encounters. Undoubtedly, further involvement online will become inevitable. We just need to remember that we don’t live there. We are real, physical people who live in the physical world God created and commanded us to steward.
Jesus didn’t come to earth as a digital avatar; He came in a physical body to die a physical death to, in part, redeem our physical bodies. His followers will spend eternity in glorified but still physical bodies. The metaverse will be a tool, but it can never be the “abundant life” God intended for us
Joh 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Joh 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
PASTOR DIRK SAYS
WHEN THE ROCKS BEGIN TO CRY OUT – WE WHERE WARNED
Bible Verse and Prayer for Today;
Philippians 4:6-7, which says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus”. This verse encourages believers to surrender their worries to God through prayer, promising that His peace will provide a profound sense of calm and security.
Addresses daily concerns:
It speaks directly to the anxieties and worries that people face in their daily lives, reminding them not to be troubled by them.
Offers a path forward:
It provides a practical solution to worry—by presenting requests to God with prayer and thanksgiving.
Promises divine peace:
The verse concludes with a powerful promise of “the peace of God, which transcends all understanding,” offering a deep, spiritual comfort that goes beyond human comprehension.
Prayer
Lord , Please we Need Your Peace in our Hearts . we Pray in Jesus name . Amen and Amen
Bybel Vers en Gebed vir Vandag
Filippense 4:6-7, wat sê: “Moet oor niks besorg wees nie, maar maak in alles julle begeertes deur gebed en smeking met danksegging bekend by God. En die vrede van God, wat alle verstand te bowe gaan, sal julle harte en julle sinne bewaar in Christus Jesus”. Hierdie vers moedig gelowiges aan om hulle bekommernisse deur gebed aan God oor te gee en belowe dat Sy vrede ‘n diep gevoel van kalmte en sekuriteit sal bied.
Spreek daaglikse bekommernisse aan:
Dit spreek direk tot die bekommernisse en angs waarmee mense in hul daaglikse lewens te kampe het, en herinner hulle daaraan om hulle nie daardeur te bekommer nie.
Bied ‘n pad vorentoe:
Dit bied ‘n praktiese oplossing vir bekommernis – deur versoeke met gebed en danksegging aan God voor te lê.
Beloof goddelike vrede:
Die vers sluit af met ‘n kragtige belofte van “die vrede van God, wat alle verstand te bowe gaan”, wat ‘n diep, geestelike vertroosting bied wat menslike begrip te bowe gaan.
Gebed
Here, asseblief, ons het U vrede in ons harte nodig. Ons bid in Jesus se naam. Amen en Amen.
NOTE : There will be No Teaching and Devotion today for I would Like to high Light the opening Teaching and Warning . PLEASE read it Again !
LET WEL: Daar sal vandag geen Onderrig en Toewyding wees nie, want ek wil graag die openingsonderrig en waarskuwing beklemtoon. Lees dit asseblief weer!
The Collectors of Manna – Women of the Word // Gaarders van Manna – Vroue van die woord
Dilize Light has Managed a TruLight Ladies Group on Telegram for the Past 6 Years and from Today . she will be Sharing her Manna with the Ladies in The TruLight Daily Manna Platform . Dilize is the only Daughter of Pastor Dirk and has been part of the Ministry since the age of 11 . Dilize is also the Radio Host for the Popular TruLight Top 10 that airs on TruLight Radio XM saturdays at 17h00′
Dilize Light bestuur die afgelope 6 jaar ‘n TruLight Damesgroep op Telegram en van vandag af sal sy haar Manna met die Dames deel op die TruLight Daaglikse Manna-platform. Dilize is die enigste dogter van Pastoor Dirk en is deel van die bediening sedert die ouderdom van 11. Dilize is ook die radio-aanbieder vir die gewilde TruLight Top 10 wat Saterdae om 17:00 op TruLight Radio XM uitgesaai word.
Krummels Van Tyd:
Iemand wat vir ons kom kuier het eendag se skedule was knap want hy is ’n baie besige man, maar na ’n moeilike dag in belangrike vergaderings, het hy dit reggekry om my familie vir ’n halfuur te sien vir ’n vinnige en laat aandete. Ons het sy besoek geniet, maar ek onthou dat ek na my bord gekyk en gedink het: “Ons het net die krummels van sy tyd gekry”.
Toe het ek onthou hoeveel keer God die krummels van my tyd kry – soms net die laaste minute voordat ek aan die slaap raak.
Daniël was ’n besige man. Hy het ’n hoë regeringsposisie in die antieke koninkryk van Babilon beklee, en ek is seker hy het ’n vol skedule gehad. Hy het egter die gewoonte ontwikkel om tyd saam met God deur te bring – drie keer per dag te bid, God te prys en Hom te dank. Hierdie roetine het hom gehelp om ’n sterk geloof te ontwikkel wat nie wankel wanneer hy vervolging in die gesig gestaar het nie (Dan 6).
God begeer ’n verhouding met ons. In die oggend kan ons Hom in ons dag in nooi, en dan kan ons Hom prys en Hom deur die dag hulp vra. Ander kere kan ons alleentyd saam met Hom koester en oor Sy getrouheid nadink. Soos ons tyd saam met God in gebed en in Sy woord deurbring, groei ons in ons verhouding met Hom en leer ons om al hoe meer soos Hy te word ! Soos tyd saam met God ‘n prioriteit word, geniet ons Sy geselskap al hoe meer.
Liewe Vader, ek wil ‘n intieme verhouding met U hê. Ek nooi U uit om deel te wees van my hele dag – van die oomblik dat ek wakker word totdat ek gaan slaap.
Diegene wat op die Here hoop, sal hulle krag hernu.
Crumbs of Time:
A visitor to our home one day had a tight schedule because he is a very busy man, but after a tough day of important meetings, he managed to see my family for half an hour for a quick and late dinner. We enjoyed his visit, but I remember looking at my plate and thinking, “We only got the crumbs of his time.”
Then I remembered how often God gets the crumbs of my time—sometimes just the last few minutes before I fall asleep.
Daniel was a busy man. He held a high government position in the ancient kingdom of Babylon, and I am sure he had a full schedule. However, he developed the habit of spending time with God—praying three times a day, praising God, and thanking Him. This routine helped him develop a strong faith that did not waver when he faced persecution (Dan. 6).
God desires a relationship with us. In the morning we can invite Him into our day, and then we can praise Him and ask Him for help throughout the day. Other times we can cherish time alone with Him and reflect on His faithfulness. As we spend time with God in prayer and in His word, we grow in our relationship with Him and learn to become more and more like Him! As time with God becomes a priority, we enjoy His company more and more.
Dear Father, I want to have an intimate relationship with You. I invite You to be a part of my entire day—from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed.
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
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