Interesting. I do believe this to be a 'bizarre experiment' and not necessarily a ready-to-roll coming-to-a-dealership-near-you concept car sort of thing that may never see any practical application.
BUT..... :)
It has been a strongly recurring thought lately that perhaps if Jesus does not return soon that the world's technologies will swiftly enough supplant our ability to believe. This kind of thing didn't occur to me, but another means does.
We struggle enough as it is to understand God's Word. Even those of us who long for the Lord, trust Him, seek Him, love Him, live to obey Him and glorify Him, etc., we are having an increasingly difficult time wrapping our arms around truth in the face of greater knowledge of a kind that puts more distance between our thoughts and the truth of the Word.
For example, in the developed world the increase of knowledge and all of our technologies is forcing a new paradigm of understanding the world. When people now read the Bible or hear the gospel, their hearts are so shaped by this God-hostile paradigm before they ever encounter the Word that not only do they not believe, but it is so pervasive as to make the gospel truth like an entirely foreign language of nonsense to them.
Now, look, I'm well aware that to the natural man the gospel is nonsense. That's black and white in Scripture. Takes no special understanding to see that, right? But, look at so-called and even actual Christians. WE are increasingly less able to rightly divide the word of God. It is in the developed world, the civilized nations with advanced technologies, that even those who profess Christian faith are now spoiling it by blatant misunderstanding.
When the Dutch Reformed Church approves homosexual marriage and living based on "human dignity", and appeals to the Scriptures for its authority to make that decision, there has been a blinding to truth. When Joseph Prince is taken as a serious -- or actual -- Christian, there has been a blinding to the truth and a gross inability to rightly divide the Word of God.
How much farther can our societies go forward in technological advancement and greater knowledge without supplanting faith in God altogether? I submit to you that we are wholly unable to bear the weight of the knowledge we now have, and that the knowledge itself so suppresses truth that we do not recognize it and will never have "sense" enough to resist it.
In other words, if the days are not cut short, the very elect will, indeed, be deceived. That may very well include more oppressive technologies such as this brain magnet.
How, long, O Lord?
