Questions about whether the Fall was necessary or not are way “outside my pay grade”:) But I have noticed two interesting things about the fall and technology. First, after the story of Cain and Abel in Gen. 4, it is Cain’s pagan descendants who create music, metal tools, and husbandry while nothing is mentioned about what Seth’s line created. Second, the portrait of the eschaton is always a city, not a garden. A city of course needs technology of some kind. So whatever the cause, it looks like our future will involve some kind of technology. Yeah!

I loved the concept of “the first anonymizer.” Specifically, how you connect the fig leaves as the first technological invention to cover Adam and Eve’s shame with the anonymity of the internet that covers our shame today.

I’ve had a light bulb moment since reading your post and it’s raised a question for me that I’ve never considered:

So, with McLuhan’s premise that media is an extension of our humanity and your statement that “all our technology functions in some way to protect us from the effects of the Fall.”…do you think that the Fall was the reason why we needed and created technology in the first place?

Awesome. Would love to talk about this more…great stuff….I think you are on to something, and it has me thinking a lot about my MFT work.

rhett