Steve Jobs’ Belief in God. Maybe.
Jobs as quoted by biographer Walter Isaacson on CBS’ 60 Minutes.
Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50-50 maybe.
But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of — maybe it’s ’cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated. Somehow it lives on.
Source: CNN story, ‘Biographer: Mortality motivated Steve Jobs’
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Is the Shroud real? Probably.
The Shroud of Turin may be the real burial cloth of Jesus. The carbon dating, once seemingly proving it was a medieval fake, is now widely thought of as suspect and meaningless. Even the famous Atheist Richard Dawkins admits it is controversial. Christopher Ramsey, the director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Laboratory, thinks more testing is needed. So do many other scientists and archeologists. This is because there are significant scientific and non-religious reasons to doubt the validity of the tests. Chemical analysis, all nicely peer-reviewed in scientific journals and subsequently confirmed by numerous chemists, shows that samples tested are chemically unlike the whole cloth. It was probably a mixture of older threads and newer threads woven into the cloth as part of a medieval repair. Recent robust statistical studies add weight to this theory. Philip Ball, the former physical science editor for Nature when the carbon dating results were published, recently wrote: “It’s fair to say that, despite the seemingly definitive tests in 1988, the status of the Shroud of Turin is murkier than ever.” If we wish to be scientific we must admit we do not know how old the cloth is. But if the newer thread is about half of what was tested – and some evidence suggests that – it is possible that the cloth is from the time of Christ.
No one has a good idea how front and back images of a crucified man came to be on the cloth. Yes, it is possible to create images that look similar. But no one has created images that match the chemistry, peculiar superficiality and profoundly mysterious three-dimensional information content of the images on the Shroud. Again, this is all published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
We simply do not have enough reliable information to arrive at a scientifically rigorous conclusion. Years ago, as a skeptic of the Shroud, I came to realize that while I might believe it was a fake, I could not know so from the facts. Now, as someone who believes it is the real burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, I similarly realize that a leap of faith over unanswered questions is essential.
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That’s a totally WIMPY effort, isn’t it: Maybe kinda sorta. I really think he could have TRIED a little HARDER than THAT.
But I’ve noticed that rich people aren’t very motivated to do it. In the book of Revelation, Jesus complains about the Church of Laodicea where the Christians were prosperous. And they were so selfish and self-centered that He couldn’t get them interested in the things they SHOULD be interested in. They could not be MOVED to make the effort. The Lord Jesus didn’t know what to do with them.
It’s interesting that God expresses real frustration in those verses.
Seems as if Steve Jobs could hardly be bothered, even when faced with the reality of his own imminent Death. I wonder what Steve Jobs would say to us NOW, today, if he could??? I betcha it would be a real earful.
Jesus said at one time that poor people should glory in their low position. I really thought Jesus was being ironic when He said that, but maybe He wasn’t. Because poor people are more likely to learn to pray and to lean on God. When we get to the afterlife, we might see how truly lucky we were, that we had to rely on God and were thus forced to develop our spiritual side.
I read in several articles that appeared the day of his death, that he was a Buddhist.
Which would account for the non-committal attitude towards God.
Guess he knows NOW, doesn’t he?
The man was a hard worker, a family man, and a genius who left us all a great legacy, as far as technology.
I can only hope & pray that he had a moment of reckoning, and made peace with God while he still had breath to do so.
Yes, I hope so too. I think it’s “cheating” to make a deathbed decision for the Lord but it’s better than nothing. I hope something real and genuine did happen before he died.