Chapter 31: Search Engines for God

In our current Age of Accessibility the evolution of mankind has made an exponential leap thanks to the computer and the Internet.

Children born into the world now will never really know what it is like not to have at their disposal access to information about everything. They will never know how almost impossible it used to be to travel to strange and foreign lands. They will not be denied access to global information, photographs, videos, and news. Children born into this world now are essentially drop-kicked into life's complexities and their medium for learning is the search engine.

Each human being is, in and of him/herself a kind of search engine and operates like a search engine in the quest to know (or deny) God.

Outreach and Inreach

The farther outward we are able to reach to access information to understand our existence, we will equally reach farther inward to access the same. Thus, one's external capabilities and obsession with an Internet search engine is the mirrored reflection of our internal evolution and our insistence in accessing God through the search engine of one's self.

The Shroud, unlike anything else, is the manifestation of the fusion of the external and internal search engines. It mysteriously lures us towards its vortex-like pathway to God. No human mind in our world has been able to crack the code and access all the necessary information about how the image was formed or how it could be reproduced. The Shroud helps us to appreciate the layers upon layers of complexity and simplicity of our cosmos and the omniscience of God.

When we take everything we know, of Christ's life, of the Gospels, of the Bible, of the sciences, of religion, of history, of physics we fall down the rabbit hole into the image on the Shroud, searching for God through the light of the Resurrection of Christ.