Ability to See Good and Evil
Osamu Tezuka created, several years after WWII, a hero of Japanese comic who became very popular in Japan. It was a robot boy called Atom. The animation featuring Atom was also televised in the U.S. as Astro Boy. Tezuka led the Japanese comic/animation world until his death in 1989.
Tezuka gave several special features to Atom to act as a hero in his work of the Testuwan (mighty or iron arm) Atom series. One of the characteristics he gave to his robot Atom was the ability to find evil in a human being. Atom could see evil in a man who pretended to be good. Atom could judge whether a man was good or bad. And Atom was a good robot loving justice and having compassion to the weak.
Tezuka set the situation that robot Atom was created in 2013. But even today the mankind cannot create such a robot as Atom. Even it is dubious that AI can find evil in a man. However, it is expected that the mankind will develop AI or artificial intelligence that can detect a lie in human speech. But will the mankind develop a robot that can see whether a certain man is bad or good?
Tezuka must have thought that a robot needs the ability to judge evil and good to serve human beings. And Japanese readers, who were mostly children, of the Atom series loved the justice-loving Atom. Then Tezuka became the top manga artist in Japan after WWII.
On the other hand, how can we, human beings, enhance the ability to see through other men and find evil in them, while there are many con men or swindlers or bad guys with crooked hearts?
If the God programmed us so as to have such ability, it would be easy for us to avoid encounter or communications with bad guys who hide their evil minds. But first of all, we have to love justice and have compassion to the weak like Atom.
Christ Jesus said that there was none who was good except the God. But by reading the Bible and learning the words of the God and Christ Jesus we must be able to live as good men. And we will be able to acquire the ability to see evil or malicious intentions in other men.
And can the mankind come to love justice to the degree where we will create robots equipped with AI who can see good and evil and act to protect good from evil? At least, Satan will hate such robots and try to destroy them. Will we protect such robots from Satan?
Anyway, if the God had created the mankind with the programmed ability to love justice more than anything, the human world should have been better than it is now. So, it is a mystery that the God gave the human being only the weak or limited ability to love justice while He sent Christ Jesus to the human world to teach love for justice and the poor and weak. And we have to continually read the Bible to keep the necessary level of our love to justice.
And we have to teach children, at least, that God is good and Satan is evil in case, like the robot boy Atom was programmed to love justice.
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Mar 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
Mar 1:2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Mar 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.