It's a Computer World

I know one thing: on a computer you had better punch in the right codes if you want the right results, and there's nothing relative about it. "Close" may count in horseshoes, but not with a computer.

I am told that the essence of the matter with a computer is very simple. Numbers, words, sounds and pictures can all be zeroes and ones. Computers are machines which carry out operations on such codes according to rules with which they are supplied. Moreover, they do this extremely quickly. Information of all kinds, and in vast quantities, can therefore be processed and communicated almost instantaneously. But woe be to the person who tries to ignore the codes, or breaks the rules. Crash!

Strange, isn't it, that living in a computer world, some people tell us there are no absolutes. They insist that all things are relative, situational and tentative. Well, tell it to my computer because it doesn't believe your assertion.

Regardless of what some would have us believe, there are absolutes -- not subject to modification or modification.

God's Word, for example, is fixed and permanent. "Thy Word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever." God's Word is truth -- absolute truth -- permanent truth!

As the apostle Paul said, "Let God be true, and every ;man a liar (Romans 3:4 NIV).

John Gibson