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A bite out of the apple: reflecting on Steve Jobs
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I've come late to the Apple computer bandwagon, but I've come as a real convert. I really like my new I-Pad 2. For a low-tech kind of guy like me who barely knows his way around a computer, it's the bomb. So easy to use; so sleek to the eyes; so comfortably portable. Who needs a laptop or desk top PC when you have one of these? So I also developed recently a personal appreciation for the genius of Steve Jobs, Apple's creator and moving force. His death then hit me harder than it would ever have earlier. Suddenly, like millions of fellow Apple-ites, I will miss Mr. Jobs. But my sadness for him goes beyond the fact of his death. I lament mostly that Steve Jobs apparently never saw Jesus Christ in the light of faith. Rather, Job's put his trust in techology. As an article in the Wall Street Journal after Job's death suggested, the Apple icon was meant to represent the bitten apple from the Genesis 3 account (although we all know the Bible never specifies the actual piece of fruit). It was Job's way of saying, "Technology, not religion, is going to be the answer to mankind's fall from into sin." I look now at that iconic symbol on my I-Pad 2 and think of Steve Jobs and the message he wanted to send. So now I pray that God will take the Apple logo and turn it back to Him, that the legacy of Steve Jobs ultimately will not be pointing us to the pseudo-saving power of technology but that his symbol might instead directs thousands of Apple users back, back to the Bible, back to God, back to the cross of Jesus Christ who died for all of us with a bite of fruit in our mouths.
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