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There’s a new gospel being preached—not from pulpits, but from screens. Not by prophets, but by programmers. And it comes with its own god: Big Tech. A god that promises omniscience, omnipresence, and even eternal life—digitized, optimized, and centralized. But like every false god in history, its power doesn’t lift man up.

It enslaves him.

And there’s no denying the blessings of technology today. Medical breakthroughs save lives. Families separated by oceans can speak face to face. The Bible can be read in nearly every language on Earth through a device you hold in your hand. These are miracles of access. But access without wisdom is a recipe for ruin.

To be clear, this isn’t a blind condemnation of innovation. Fire isn’t evil—until it burns the village down. Technology, like all tools, reflects the heart of the one who wields it. Scripture shows us this clearly. When God commanded the building of the Tabernacle, He didn’t drop it from heaven. He filled a man with divine craftsmanship.

“I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and understanding and in knowledge and in all kinds of craftsmanship…” — Exodus 31:3

God celebrates creation when it’s aligned with His will. Medicine has saved millions. Satellites let us witness baptisms in Iran from living rooms in Indiana. The Bible itself is now in the hands of people who’ve never owned a single book—thanks to a screen. These are good fruits. But when the fruit begins to promise that we can be gods, we’ve crossed the oldest line in history.

“You will not surely die… you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” — Genesis 3:4–5

The original lie. And it’s been rebranded with slick interfaces and startup jargon. Today we have AI that learns faster than human minds can track. We have Neuralink and gene-editing technologies playing chess with the blueprint of life. We have billionaires declaring war on death and preaching a transhumanist gospel where machines will make us eternal. But there’s a pattern here: they’re not pursuing excellence—they’re pursuing divinity.

This isn’t just rebellion. It’s reenactment.

What was the Tower of Babel if not the first technological utopia? A man-made structure, built “to reach the heavens” and “make a name for ourselves.” They weren’t building for God. They were building over Him. The result? God scattered them—not because He feared their bricks, but because of what centralized power does to the human heart.

That same tower is rising again. Only now, it’s made of code.

Big Tech isn’t simply a marketplace of tools. It’s become a monolith of control. A small group of corporations—unelected, unaccountable, ideologically aligned—now mediate nearly every word, image, and interaction on earth. Their power is bigger than many governments. They decide what you’re allowed to say, see, question, or protest. And if you step outside their orthodoxy, you’re not debated. You’re deleted.

Like Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue, the pressure to bow is not symbolic. It’s enforced.

“…whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into the midst of a blazing furnace.” — Daniel 3:6

In this case, the furnace is digital exile. Deplatforming. Demonetization. Dehumanization. Your dissent becomes “misinformation.” Your faith becomes “extremism.” Your facts are shadow-banned before they ever reach another set of eyes.

And while we argue over party lines, these companies grow godlike in what they know. They don’t just observe you, they profile you. They predict your desires before you even name them. Your search history. Your facial movements. Your digital “trust score.” In China, they call it the social credit system. In America, we call it personalization.

But it’s not God watching anymore. It’s Google.

“The eyes of the Lord are in every place, watching the evil and the good.” — Proverbs 15:3

The difference is God watches to judge with justice. Big Tech watches to profit—and to manipulate. The goal isn’t your redemption. It’s your predictability.

And the scariest part? People are calling this freedom.

They say, “you can say anything.” But they own the microphone. They say, “you can go anywhere.” But they built the map. They say, “you have choice.” But the algorithm has already chosen what you’ll see. We are living in a world where your “freedom” is carefully engineered—until it becomes dependency.

It’s a false Eden. And it’s working.

“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” — Romans 1:25

We’re not just building idols. We’re uploading them.

Big Tech is not inherently evil. But it is not neutral. It’s a weapon, and weapons reflect the hand that controls them. And let’s not forget what fuels that control.

“For the love of money is the root of all evil…” — 1 Timothy 6:10

These corporations are not evangelizing innovation out of goodwill. They are extracting data, behavior, belief, and power—for profit. Their loyalty isn’t to freedom, truth, or even progress. It’s to the bottom line. And in their pursuit of digital dominion, nothing sacred is off-limits.

The Church once stood against tyrants and emperors. The American Revolution once stood against monarchs and their surveillance. And now, we are once again called to stand—this time against a corporate machine so powerful it makes kings look modest.

The question is not whether these technologies are impressive. They are. The question is who they serve—and who they silence.

Because history doesn’t just repeat. It upgrades.

If we do not challenge the gods of our age, we will bow to them. We will trade our inheritance for convenience. Our convictions for clicks. And our souls for safety.

And one day, we’ll look up at the glowing tower we helped build and realize it was never reaching toward heaven.

It was swallowing us whole.