I just finished watching I Robot. I’d seen it before, but this time I was intentionally looking for a message to take away from the movie. Most stories speak eternal truths whether they mean to or not, and I easily found one. The best line of the movie came between the two robots VIKI and Sonny. VIKI has decided to take away the free will of mankind because they are too destructive toward themselves and toward the existence of robots. Sonny is rushing to destroy VIKI to prevent her from essentially enslaving all of humanity.
VIKI: Do you not see the logic of my plan?
SONNY: Yes, but it just seems too… heartless.
You see VIKI is a super computer that follows logic alone. The logic she follows leads to cruel actions toward others and it completely lacks any heart. Sonny on the other hand is a robot who has been designed with free will, emotions, and most importantly of all…heart.
A simple message perhaps, but a profound truth. Brain without heart is less than human and for that matter less than God. A significant part of our humanity is our heart. God see’s the heart and knows our motives. Thank God we’ve been given a good restored heart through Christ! And that heart comes from our Creator (in Who’s image we were made and in who we are redeemed through the blood of Jesus). When we think of God as all brains and no heart it’s no wonder we doubt His intentions and fail to see Him as truly good. We doubt Him and we doubt our true selves.