The Tariff Puzzle: To me the biggest mystery is this: what on Earth is the order of countries in the list? Not alphabetical, not size or trade volume, no monotonicity I can discern at least. Has anyone figured this out? Random, like much in this administration? https://t.co/3XRHJLkFSA

🆕4.19更新 1. @sign 的SBT分发今日大规模进行，SBT是空投标准共分为四级，根据用户参与行为评估，包括支持战士：基于与社区成员互动的频率和质量，偏好非 AI 生成的真诚连接。 /橙血战士：通过在 X 平台和 Telegram 上参与 Sign 的日常活动（如每日任务、Twitter Spaces）展现活跃度。/杰出内容创作者：根据创作内容的热情、创意、一致性及对他人的支持度评判。 /认真建设者：为橙色王朝做出卓越贡献的人。@realyanxin @0xzoe_im 2.0G @0G_labs 又来整活了，最近又发布了Puzzle Mania 的积分任务，这个是目前最明确的获得0G空投的任务。目前参与人数超60万，增速很快，看了下基本都是社交任务@michaelh_0g @Jtsong2 记得撸下https://t.co/fFbzOBc5aP 3.MegaETH @megaeth_labs 自测试网自推出以来表现一直很亮眼。据统计公共测试网截止18日活跃地址数已超过2400万个，过去7天新增950万个；总交易数突破6.85亿笔。这两天热度不断攀升，看来是在酝酿大动作！新推出 的Crossy Fluffle——第一款实时链上游戏，可以体验下，名副其实的即时性@hotpot_dao 传送门👉https://t.co/EB1Og2Z3xZ 4. @defidotapp偷摸涨了手续费后又迎来了linea的marketing lead ，项目话题热度拉满，感觉可以更多的关注下建设产品，别一会一个bug，专心在产品用户上更有好感👌 5. @OpenledgerHQ，这个是老查提醒我的，种子轮融资800万美元的Depin挂机项目，挺简单的，就是要谷歌账号，个别ip会有限制，换下就行，具体流程: 打开网站登陆谷歌账号 ——完成每日签到和推特及DC任务——下载谷歌扩展程序,点store进行挖矿,添加后选择谷歌账号登录即可，点击claim 每日签到 6大卡车 SKYA @SKYAIpro 预售结束，有超11 万地址参与，累计募集83,848 BNB（约5,000 万美元）。SKYAI 今晚 20:00AMA并公布下一步计划。其中@BroLeonAus @four_meme_ @BNBCHAIN 作为嘉宾参与，最近打了好几个这种大卡车，都是退款，然后狗屎一样，但愿这个能跑出不一样的玩法 7.最近 Axiom @AxiomExchange 的交易量市场份额一度接近 60%，势头迅猛。据@defioasis 数据分享，整个 Meme 交易平台在最近的日成交额冲到了 2.52 亿美元，是自 2 月中下旬以来最高点；而Axiom 表现尤为突出，从 4 月 13 日到 17 连续 5 天刷新历史最高交易量@mist_trading @cal_trading @Siegfried90210 8.最近Btc生态最近开始复苏了 ，这两天Alkanes 元协议 @oylwallet 龙头@mintalkanes 代币 $METHANE(甲烷) 单张价值 $101。久违的热闹，我已经弄好钱包准备大干一场了@CG_BRC20 带带弟弟

Bybit CCCC 巴厘岛现场记录｜Card3 项目方视角 1. Card3 项目参与 我代表 @card3_ai 以项目方身份，第一次参加 @Bybit_Official 在巴厘岛举办的 #CCCC2025Bali# 内容创作者大会。我们为现场 200 多位 KOL、项目方和 Bybit 内部同事定制了 NFC 社交卡，并上线了「Tap 2 Connect」现场积分排行榜——最终为最活跃的前 20 位社交高手送出了 @MemeCore_ORG $M Token + @iSafePal 硬件钱包，算是用最 builder 的方式向内容圈交了个朋友。 2. 🌿 @benbybit 花园 AMA，高光回放 在花园的圆桌 AMA，Ben 状态极好，面对几十位华语 KOL，两小时无保留开聊，从黑客事件、业务战略，到交易所之战、钱包产品、乃至中美市场博弈。 这些话很难在公开渠道听到，但都是真东西： - 黑客事件后的“收购邀约”某头部交易所发出投资收购邀约，剧本几乎照抄 FTX。Ben 没说狠话，但说得很重：“拒绝了，幸亏我们 solvent，能撑住。” - 除了币安和 OKX，Ben跟其他华人交易所老板之间其实关系都很熟，圈子还是那个圈子。 - CEX vs DEX: 主战场永远是 CEX。DEX 是“无 KYC 的刚需补充”，但成交量、深度、用户结构完全不同。 - CEX的Web3 钱包不是好生意, 认为OKX 投入 500+ 人做钱包，Ben 评价“不划算”。Bybit 决定未来关掉钱包业务，并暗示会有全新产品推出（还笑称因为 Bybit的黑客 被盗后，OKX 把钱包从主 App 拆出来了）。 - 美国市场计划 - Trump 回归，美国迎来 4 年加密监管友好的机会窗口期。Bybit 会进入美国市场，方式是与本地巨头（如贝莱德类型）合作，对方主导合规和关系, 拿60+%大头，Bybit 输出产品与交易能力。 - 警惕Coinbase的全球扩张: 合规交易所也开始下场做offshore业务, 他比较警惕Coinbase, Coinbase在收购Deribit (衍生品交易所Top3), Bybit其实本来也想投Deribit，但15亿美金黑客事件之后，只能暂时放弃。。 3. 🌏 中国市场的现实 - 去年中Bybit重新开放中国用户 KYC 注册，内部争议激烈，Ben 表示当时主要是为了对冲美国对离岸交易所的围堵策略。 - Bybit 从未做过中国 C2C出入金 通道，未来也不会。做了意味着要承担团队安全风险。 - 对香港用户审查更严格，因为 Bybit 正在重新申请香港持牌交易所。 - 场下有位大哥提到，香港持牌的 OSL 所其实内地流量不小，有内地“帽子叔叔”通过 OSL 卖币。目前OSL 甚至在协助地方政府推动监管框架，好为地方财政“卖币收入”铺路 . 4. Mantle($MNT)与交易所平台币之辨 Ben 再次强调：$MNT 不是 Bybit 平台币。 好的 CEX 不一定要发币。BNB 是历史产物。 Mantle 当前作为 L2 发展受限，未来将战略转型为「链上银行」，并与某家瑞士银行合作，Mantle用户可获得加密友好型银行账户。 5. 上币策略 & 团队文化：全面透明、深度联动 这次 CCCC 来了 30 多位 Bybit 华人同事，从新加坡、香港、迪拜等地飞来，涵盖产品、市场、现货、衍生品, 支付等核心板块。他们不是“主办方观众”，而是实打实的“全场 builder”，与项目方和 KOL 打成一片。 第一天早上的上币环节由现货负责人亲自讲解——从机制、流程到资源联动，内容透明、毫不遮掩。 Bybit 的上币打法非常结构化： 多元上币方式：Launchpool、Launchpad、Byvote、HODLverse 等模块组合出击，社区+生态+游戏化并重； 严选机制：只看“真实需求+产品力”，不卷叙事、不蹭热点、不搞“上所即巅峰”； 市场活动联动：如 Puzzle Hunt、Token Splash 等，强化用户参与度； Meme 市场反思：Trump 类 Meme 币虽爆，但流动性易枯竭，缺乏叙事支撑； 新叙事聚焦：RWA、AI Infra、链上数据（如 SoSoValue、RedStone、Hyperliquid）是 Bybit 重点关注方向。 6. 华语 KOL 生态印象小记 这次来了 150 多位内容创作者，大多数是天赋与努力兼备的 KOLs。随手记几位聊过的新老朋友： @Paris13Jeanne K线教主, 出众美貌+才华明明就是人生赢家，居然还是位卷王。大中午在沙滩拍完比基尼艳照，1小时内出片、剪辑、发推，推文质量不输品牌号。 @Goupenguin 挖矿小企鹅：传统金融出身，表达密度高，语速惊人(估计是我一天说话的 10 倍)，难怪微博直播打狗每晚四位数在线。 @Mumu_yay Mumu 老师：谦虚“野生交易员”，实则全能选手, 晚宴“高抛低吸”小组战, 一秒抓住交易本质，带领小组在人数劣势下双料夺冠，Leader气场拉满。 @btc_jx 大名鼎鼎的静香小姐：KOL里社牛的社牛 (Card3线下社交挑战赛亚军)，居然原来还是 #atomicals# 的家人, 给我看了她钱包里23年铭文大热时打的阿童木 $ATOM (ARC20), 一直没有卖, 抱团痛哭。 @jianguotz 建国同志：深藏不露的 OG 创业老兵，跨行业认知跨度惊人，听他讲话像加密行业口述史。 7. 市场周期这件事 与几位 Whale 级别的大户、VC 朋友与投研类 KOL 交流后发现： 观点分歧极大，乐观者与悲观者对半开。 但大家有一个共识： 逻辑自洽，仓位真实。每个人都在用自己的钱，为自己的判断下注。 8. 最后一点个人反思： 23 年曾做过播客，但没坚持下来。 这次回来最大的触动是——不做 KOL 也要做表达者。 观点、调研、交锋、记录、思考，是每一轮周期里真正留下来的“链上痕迹”。 再次感谢 @CCCCampus 主办方, 年底里斯本再见!

Know Thy Enemy 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Sun Tzu, a Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher, once said, "Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated." Knowing ourselves alone is like a blind archer shooting arrows at a target, hoping one will hit the bullseye. Knowing ourselves and our enemy is like an archer with eagle-eye vision, and with every arrow he shoots, he will surely hit the bullseye. Therefore, we cannot walk naively through life, blind to our enemy, knowing nothing of him except his name. Ignorance is not bliss. In the book of Hosea, GOD said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children."  Who is our enemy? Anything or anyone that turns us away from GOD is our enemy. Therefore, as children of GOD, we cannot be as innocent as doves but also as wise as serpents to know who our enemy is. We cannot be like Eve, knowing good and not evil or knowing light and not darkness. She is not at fault because she has not taken the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil during that time to know the existence of evil. She only knew a friend but not a foe, good but not evil, that could turn her fate for the worse. Hence, she was as innocent as doves. We cannot be like that because within us is the knowledge of good and evil, so we must be more than innocent as doves but as wise as serpents to know the traps of evil. We cannot be living in a fool's paradise, thinking that GOD will save us from the hand of the devourer. He will not since He did not save Adam and Eve from the deceit of the Serpent that led them into suffering, pain and death. Why would he make an exception for us? To beware of our enemy, we should never let anyone sweet-talk us into believing anything that seems too good to be true—it probably is. GOD's actions speak louder than His Words. Unless those gifts are under goodwill, everything of GOD, protection, provision, blessings, or promises requires us to walk on the tightrope of obedience. Even though Eve is ignorant, naive, or impressionable, she could not have fallen into the Serpent's lie if she had walked tightly on the rope of obedience. God's protection and provision are only found in obedience, and anything out of obedience is out of His protection. Hence, once Adam and Eve disobeyed, they had to leave Eden away from GOD's protection and provision. GOD did not show them leniency even when they were first-time offenders deserving a second chance.  Once fallen, the second chance only came a few thousand years later in the form of Jesus Christ. Even if we are given a second chance, it does not exempt us from being disobedient to do as we wish. We still have to be obedient in the face of temptations. Even if Jesus's love covers all sins, it does not mean we can continue sinning. Anyone who continues to sin shows he is unrepentant. Forgiveness requires a repentance heart and demands us to turn over a new leaf. If there is no change and transformation, it will mean that there is no repentance. In the epistle of 1 John, John states, "No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him." That implies that knowing GOD will teach us to stop sinning, which is where forgiveness comes in. If we keep sinning, then we need more than forgiveness; we need tolerance. But GOD is willing only to forgive sin, not tolerate sin. Coming back to what is written in the book of Hosea, we are destroyed by a lack of knowledge because we have rejected knowledge. At face value, we are blockheaded to reject knowledge, but in reality, our fallen nature refuses to accept the things of GOD. It is written in the Epistle of Galatians, 'For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so you do not do what you want.' Therefore, no matter how hard we endeavour, as long as our flesh is alive, we will refuse to learn. It is not that we do not want to, but we cannot because the flesh, our gatekeeper, has a natural rejection of the law. The law of GOD goes in one ear and out the other. Metaphorically, we are like a filter that absorbs all evil influences and sieves out all good. Through the prophet Hosea, GOD reprimanded the Jews for being blockheaded, but it is not a Jewish problem but a universal one. Anyone who wants to become a child of GOD will face the issue of incompatibility of their fallen nature with GOD's. They are like oil and water, immiscible. Indirectly, GOD is saying through the prophet Hosea that whoever rejects the law is incompatible with Him and cannot be His children. Therefore, anyone holding on to his flesh becomes an enemy of GOD and cannot be his child. In today's context, many believe that once their sins are forgiven, it means that God has accepted them as who they are—fallen beings. Do not be deceived. If this is true, then many things cannot add up. If the blood of Jesus can wash away our sins and transform our fallen nature, then Jesus would not ask us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him. Jesus's blood can only wash away our sins but not transform our fallen nature. When Jesus said, "It is finished." And bowing His head, He yielded up His Spirit. It does not mean that, with His death, we are free from our fallen nature. Our enemy hopes we will believe that. Jesus meant He had finished his mission on earth. He conquered man's eternal death so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. If Jesus's death is enough to put to death our fallen nature, then it is redundant for Jesus to ask us to deny ourselves. That is to say, Jesus has done His part, figuratively, to bring us to the water. We must drink the water ourselves. If we want to belong to Christ Jesus, according to the Epistle of Galatians, we must crucify the flesh with its passions and desires. No one can do that for us except ourselves. We hold the last piece of the puzzle to salvation as we have the final say - to crucify or not to crucify our flesh. Now, standing between God and us is our common enemy, the fallen nature. With Christ's death on the cross for our sins, God no longer holds against us for the old debt, which is committed by our fallen nature. God is willing to let bygones be bygones. However, bygones will never be bygones if we keep sinning by listening to our fallen nature, keeping the beast alive. In the epistle of Romans, Paul states, 'For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.' This verse refutes the catchphrase of 'once saved, always saved.' No one is saved until they put to death the deeds of the body. That is to say, if there is no death of our fallen nature, we will not be saved. When we believe in GOD, He expects us to be transformed. A confused mind is the devil's playground. Therefore, we must be clear of the changes between the old and the new covenants. Jesus came to fulfil the old covenant by His death on the cross, bringing about the new covenant. If we are not clear about the change, then we will be like Eve, falling into our enemy's deceit. To understand this change, we must understand Paul's writing by understanding who he is. Jesus recruited Apostle Paul after He had resurrected, in a spiritual encounter, where Jesus appeared to Paul in an audible voice. Paul is unlike Jesus's twelve disciples, who among them were fishermen, tax collectors and peasants. Paul was a Pharisee, a student of Gamaliel, a man held in great esteem by all Jews. Therefore, Paul was not a nobody like the rest but someone proficient in the Law of Moses. He wrote and contributed about fourteen out of the twenty-seven epistles of the New Testament, having a dominant no lesser than Jesus's disciples. Instead of selecting one of the twelve disciples whom Jesus closely taught to champion the post-Christ movement, GOD chose Paul, who had never met Jesus and didn't claim to have met him. Paul is similar to Moses, who was taught by the best of the Egyptian court, and Paul, who was trained by Gamaliel, recognized as a Pharisee doctor of Jewish Law. Through Moses, GOD established the Old Covenant and through Paul, the New Covenant. Many of Paul's writings are challenging to comprehend and are unlike those written by Jesus's disciples, who are narrations of Jesus's ministry. Paul's writing expounds on the ministry of the Holy Spirit. When we put to death the deeds of the body, we are no longer under the law but under the Holy Spirit. Jesus's death parted a way for those who believe in Him to walk out of the bondage of sin like GOD parted the Red Sea for the Israelites to leave the bondage of Egypt. Unless we are willing to sin no more, we will not move out of the bondage of sin. The good news is the door remains open and will be opened forever to anyone who wants to leave their sin behind. The contention is not about the open door but who is exiting through the door. Many praise GOD for His goodness for the open door, but no one is leaving their Sodom and Gomorrah because they love sinning too much to leave. Therefore, no matter how good GOD is, it has nothing to do with anyone unless he wants to stop sinning. After evaluating all that Christ has done by His death on the cross, Paul still warns us that if we live according to the flesh, we will die, implying that the flesh is still alive in us, residing in the still soft voice, leading us into the way of evilness. Jesus's death or blood has no detrimental effect of it. It is still much alive, working its way to our death. It is like some cancerous cells working within us that cannot be removed by any means except by the Holy Spirit. Only those under the Holy Spirit have the power of the Holy Spirit to put to death the deeds of the body by sinning no more. Only then will they live. Many do not know that our enemy is well hidden within us, the first one to greet us in the morning and the last one to wish us goodnight, always talking to us and helping us make decisions. Those who listen to it become futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Paul describes them as having a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. The blood of Jesus did not put a stop to the evil influences we are hearing. As long as we are willing to listen, it will speak. Once we listen, we become accomplices in crime, like Cain, who killed his brother Abel. Our enemy is much nearer to us than we think and more influential to us than we know. He is not the big bad fox lurking in the forest but the coaxing voice that, as our second nature, justifies us to sin. When we look at the broken lives, broken relationships, or broken bank accounts of many, we know many have listened to its foolishness and treated it as wisdom. We cannot outsmart our fallen nature because it has evolved through time to understand the weaknesses of men. Therefore, we need to stand firm on GOD's commandments and not depart from them. Only then can we not fall into destruction. However, despite our best intentions and determination, it will be challenging because we do not have what it takes to be better than our fallen nature. We are like David fighting Goliath, sure to be defeated. We are, as Jesus commented, 'Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.' Jesus could have given us a better answer as to how to combat the weakness, but He did not. What He said is as good as asking us to wait and see that we do not enter into temptation. It is not that He does not want, but it is not under His purview but the purview of Paul to introduce the Ministry of the Holy Spirit. Without this, the work of the Trinity would not be complete. Only then will we be like Samson in an incident where suddenly, a young lion came roaring at him, and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. We will be tearing apart the roaring lion, our devour. Prayer: Thank you, God, for giving me the Holy Spirit to empower me to defeat my enemy and for opening my eyes to see how easily my enemy can infiltrate my mind and heart—just as easily as the Serpent is able to access the Garden of Eden to talk to Eve. Only when I study your words carefully will I not be like Eve, deceived into believing something that is not true. Continue to teach and guide me through your Holy Spirit so that I will not fall into the devil's trap and sin against you. Amen.

The purpose of science in GOD's plan John 1:3 Through Him, all things were made, and without Him, nothing was made that has been made. Science removes our need for GOD. Science dispels faith and the need for GOD. Many of the life's answers can be answered by science. Hence, no one needs to run into a church for healing if they can walk into a hospital. No farmer needs to pray for an abundant harvest when they have agricultural science behind them, ensuring many of their problems can be resolved through science. Therefore, no one needs to go to GOD in prayer for every trivial matter. In other words, GOD outsources man's reliance on Him to Science. Hence, a man does not need to waste his time early in the morning praying for his sheep, goats, cows, donkeys, and a long list of mundane things but to pray for things of eternal value. GOD, through science, answered man's prayers before he even asked. Via the Internet, any problem can be answered immediately. All we have to do is ask the most knowledgeable person, AI ( artificial intelligence), and the next thing we know, voila, we get a perfect answer. Science allows us to solve things ourselves before we approach GOD. Even if we ask God, we might not get a fast answer. Therefore, science, in terms of technology, plays a more significant role in a person's life than GOD. Supremacy of GOD over science Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out. If science dispels faith and the need for God, then what is God's purpose for science? GOD is a jealous GOD, and He will not allow anything to stand higher than Him, not Satan and not even science, replacing His importance. He is the creator of all things, and He will not create anything that diminishes His supremacy. He planned the beginning from the end and knew the cause and effect of everything so nothing would catch Him by surprise. When GOD said, "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts", He means He is supreme beyond our understanding. He is much better and knows much more than we do. Science is merely a search engine that searches for what GOD has concealed. Since science discovers the mysteries of the universe that GOD has, it implies science is not above GOD and will not supersede Him because the master behind science is GOD. Science's failure to find GOD. Mark 4:12 They may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding. Science often messes up our heads regarding GOD. What science cannot establish does not mean it does not exist. Science establishes itself through facts and figures, while GOD is through faith. If we use facts and figures to measure GOD, we will not be able to find Him because we are using the wrong parameters. It is similar to using a thermometer to measure the volume of water. We cannot use physical means to measure spiritual matters because GOD can only be spiritually discerned. Since science has yet to develop a spiritual detector, it fails to find GOD. To see Him, we need faith to connect with Him and know His existence. Without faith, we are spiritually dead and can never find Him. Science is like an atheist, lacking in spiritual dimension; it is spiritually dead and, metaphorically speaking, has no wifi connection to GOD. They are 'ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding.' Only spiritually alive people have spiritual detectors to see and hear from GOD. Hence, science, figuratively speaking, cannot hear and see from GOD. GOD, beyond science but within the Bible John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. What science cannot do, but we can. By reading the Bible, we can discover GOD. He presents Himself in the complexity of His Word, the Bible through events, stories and parables. To find Him, we cannot read the Bible at face value as if reading a novel. The Word needs to come alive by the anointing of the Holy Spirit to make GOD alive. Then, we can piece Him together. If not, we will be like the six blind men from ancient Indian folklore of the blind men and an elephant. Each blind man who had never seen an elephant tried to imagine what the elephant was like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part of the animal's body, but only one part. They then describe the animal based on the portion they touched. The first man who touched his leg said the elephant was like a pillar. The second man who touched his tail said the elephant was like a rope. The third man who touched his trunk said the elephant was like a tree branch. The fourth man who touched the ear said the elephant was like a fan. The fifth man who touched the belly said the elephant was a wall. The sixth man who touched the tusk said the elephant was like a solid pipe. The importance of knowing the whole picture The descriptions of the same elephant differ from one another, each insisting he was right. All of them were right in parts, but none of them got the whole picture right. Therefore, none of them know what an elephant is. It was no fault of their own as they were blind. We are not blind, but GOD is like the elephant, too big to see within our range of vision. Our eyes limit us. Therefore, our minds cannot conceptualize Him. To know GOD with our restricted vision, we need to piece the fragments of GOD together with the borrowed eye of the Holy Spirit to see through the Bible, to see what we cannot. Like a puzzle, we need to put all the parts together to understand the totality of GOD. If not, it is as good as holding a piece of the puzzle, thinking we know GOD through it. Thus, if anyone were to tell us something different from what we know, do not label them as false prophets. Instead, be humble and pray for GOD to open our eyes and expand our minds so that we can see beyond what we can. Science does not point us to GOD. Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Spiritual blindness robs us of knowing GOD. Science has no spiritual radar. It is spiritually blind and cannot see GOD. Therefore, science cannot discover GOD and point us to Him. What science cannot do, the Bible can. The reason for our spiritual blindness is our carnal nature, the flesh. If we cannot master our evil nature, we are confirmed blind. Our evil nature turns us away from GOD, so we cannot see Him. If we are not totally blind, we can be partially blind because of our spiritual limitation, which comes from the lack of anointing of the Holy Spirit. The Bible is like the elephant in ancient Indian folklore, and we are like the blind men. When we read through the Bible, we touch the different facets of God. However, we are partially blind towards Him because we are stiff-headed in our opinion, not accepting all that is written in the Bible, wearing blinkers, and, like the blind men, refusing to look from other angles. Mental blind spot syndrome In other words, we have mental blind spots that lead to spiritual blindness, which science cannot help. The reason is many perceive God from their favourite perspective by accepting what suits our sinful nature, creating a lopsided view of GOD. Preachers like to speak on messages of forgiveness of sin but not on stopping sin, and blessings but not curses because that is what many want to hear. We become like small children; they pick what they like to eat, and we choose what we want to hear, which is unhealthy. Therefore, like the six blind men's ideas of an elephant, we create our idea of GOD. He becomes an alien, not who He is, but what we formulate Him to be. Scientific discoveries are from GOD. God said, "Now, if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him" He understood that many mysteries of things are beyond our understanding and scientific investigation. In other words, by default, we lack wisdom and understanding. However, when a solution is critically needed, those who seek Him, regardless of believers or unbelievers, will be satisfied. When we ask, He will answer. The advancement in science is that many who ask GOD tough questions get solid solutions. He will not find fault with anyone who asks, even if he is not with His. Therefore, it is GOD, through science, who created the miracles, not science, through the ingenuity of men. Hence, the solutions that science provides are nothing more than ideas from GOD. Everything revolves around GOD, including science. Science liberates us time to know GOD. Science improves life and liberates many of the inconveniences of living, providing solutions to many earthly problems. God wants us to be more like Mary and not like Martha, who was weighed down with the daily chores and worried over many things. GOD does not want us to be busy with unnecessary things, so we have more time for Him. He wants us to concentrate on one crucial thing: spending more time learning His Word and developing a closer relationship with Him. The purpose is for us to prepare for our eternality. Without enough spiritual knowledge, we cannot grasp the different aspects of God, making Him contradictory and lacking in consistency. If we want to know God, we need to seek Him with all of our hearts by understanding His Word. Only when we have spiritual understanding will we have the tools to decode the mysteries written in the Word and not be misguided by our ignorance. If not, we are like a computer lacking the required language to understand spiritual matters. Knowing the Bible is not knowing how to read all the words in it but understanding what is being said in between the lines. Science reduces our transactional relationship with GOD. When there is a problem, there is a need, and that is when a man needs GOD. If a man is happy and has what he wants, he is contented with life and has no problems. He does not need GOD. That is the reality: a man only seeks God when he is in need. Once his problems are over, he may forget about Him. This transactional relationship with God, akin to a marriage of convenience where the focus is on 'What can I get out of it?' is dangerous. When the need is over, the relationship is over. A relationship based on needs is a one-sided relationship with much to be needed. The person in need puts himself in a disadvantaged position in the relationship where he is always not measuring up. If we worship GOD, it is out of motive and not out of love. GOD's love for us is pure, without motives. Therefore, He does not want to dangle carrots in front of us for love. He does not want us to be like a bird in a cage but a bird free to soar the sky. If we love Him, we will fly back to Him voluntarily, without compulsion but of love. Science reduces the problems of life and our reliance on GOD. That releases us from a relationship out of need but out of choice. If anyone were to choose Him, it would not be out of benefits but because they want to. Science becomes a good test of a man's heart towards God. Science frees man from many mundane problems and frees us from the need for GOD. So if the Son sets us free, we will be free indeed, even of Him. Through science, GOD created a better and more exciting world for us that is independent of Him. The question remains: Do we still want Him who is against our fallen nature or move on to one who is accommodating to our fallen selves? Time and advancements in science have revealed the answer. In Europe, many churches of the early Christians are left empty and are converted for drinking, dancing, and other purposes other than a place of worship. There are more people in the pub than in a church, showing that Christianity has lost its favour and popularity. In other words, men have left their faith because they have found something better. Once GOD has outlived His usefulness, they dump Him. Conclusion: The limitation of science Science can have its benefits, but it is not above God. No matter how excellent science is, it can only clean the outside of the cup and not the inside. What is of eternal value is to clean the cup on the inside, which science cannot do. No matter what science can do for us to liberate us from the need for God, we should not let go of Him. Our lives are more than what we have on earth. Improvement, progress and advancement are only temporary. What we have with GOD is eternal. Prayer: God, thank you for the comfort and convenience that science and technology bring. Continue to open my eyes and expand my mind to know You better. Let Your Word wash the inside of my cup, and let me not be contented with science that cleans on the outside. Science is only Your servant. Let me not be contented with Your servant and miss out on You, the Master