{"id":2146,"date":"2007-03-03T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/03\/shift-happens.html"},"modified":"2007-03-03T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T16:00:00","slug":"shift-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/03\/shift-happens.html","title":{"rendered":"Shift Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had published this here by accident, I meant to publish it on my other blog, Life Under the Sun.  But I noticed that it remained in our RSS feed and people had attempted to access it.  Sorry about that!  I&#8217;m republishing it for their benefit.When I saw this video, I felt overwhelmed by the numbers, they are staggering.  We know that the Internet is this vast sea of information and sometimes you feel lost in it all.  I think that&#8217;s why Google is so important, it helps to cut through the trash to find the diamonds.<object height=\"372\" width=\"496\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.glumbert.com\/embed\/shift\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.glumbert.com\/embed\/shift\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"372\" width=\"496\"><\/object>(<a href=\"http:\/\/renaissanceblogger.org\/2007\/02\/27\/did-you-know\/\">via<\/a>)Hugh Hewitt had David Allen White and John Mark Reynolds on his show debating whether all this information is a good or bad thing.  Go listen to the debate or <a href=\"http:\/\/hughhewitt.townhall.com\/Transcript_Page.aspx?ContentGuid=c734b82f-80ca-4778-8e78-d3a08fa086c2\">read the transcript<\/a>.  I could see both sides but ultimately I believe that the Internet offers more good than evil.I know there is all this great information out there, yet I spend a lot of my time reading news stories, not the classics \ud83d\ude42  But I know that I also have a great resource in the Internet because more and more people like my Hermeneutics professor, Dr. Vern Poythress, make their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frame-poythress.org\/\">articles and books<\/a> available on the Internet.I think that the Internet has the potential to be a force for good.  It is the great equalizer, we all have access to the same information.  I also love being able to access information that I wouldn&#8217;t be able to access without the Internet. Where else could I get free mp3 files of audio books?  I  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com\/audiobooks\/Pilgrim\/mp3\/\">downloaded Piligrim&#8217;s Progress to listen in the car<\/a>, where I spend most of my life \ud83d\ude42 I could also listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com\/audiobooks\/Imitation_of_Christ\/mp3\/imitationmp3.htm\">Imitation of Christ<\/a> if I wanted to.My professor, Dr. Gaffin, suggested that we read one of his papers to understand the role of  Holy Spirit in the Old Testament, I found it on the Internet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerux.com\/documents\/KeruxV10N2A1.asp\">here<\/a>.I think that ultimately the Internet is value neutral and that we bring our own issues with us.  If we lack disciple in the real world, we&#8217;ll lack it here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Internet\" rel=\"tag\">Internet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/information+overload\" rel=\"tag\">information overload<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had published this here by accident, I meant to publish it on my other blog, Life Under the Sun. But I noticed that it remained in our RSS feed and people had attempted to access it. Sorry about that! 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