The Denison Forum team welcomes you to the Daily Article podcast for Monday, July the 17th,

2020. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

My wife and I saw Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part 1 over the weekend, and I understand why one of the

actors called it, quote, the biggest action movie of all time. Without giving away the plot,

I can tell you that Ethan Hunt's enemy this time is the entity, which is essentially artificial

intelligence on steroids. One reviewer described it as

omnipresent, near-omniscient, and almost intangible, yet it has the potential to send the

earth back to the Stone Age. Upon reflection, it occurred to me that the movie parallels the

real world in ways that is urgently relative for every Christian,

whether we see the film or not.

The entity is defined by three characteristics above all.

Let's see if they remind us of another entity we face today.

First, the entity possesses limited omniscience and omnipotence.

It can be anywhere the digital world exists and thus threatens to control the entire planet. Similarly, in 2 Corinthians 4-4, the Bible calls Satan

the God of this world and states in 1. John 519 that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Second, the entity is deceptive in the extreme using digital means to mislead its adversaries.

Similarly, we read in 2 Corinthians 11, verse 14, that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light,

and in 2 Corinthians 4,4, Satan has blinded

the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory

of Christ, who is the image of God. Third, the entity is humanity's greatest enemy, threatening

the destruction of life as we know it.

Similarly, in John 10 verse 10, Satan comes only to steal, kill, and destroy.

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