The Modern Bible: A Bible for the Heart and the Mind
Why I believe writing two Bibles can save the world -- and why Love is the only answer that matters.
"A Bible -- should we read one or write one -- this is the question."
-- Antti Lukats
That question has lived in my mind for years. We grow up surrounded by books that tell us how the world works, how to behave, what to believe. But there comes a moment when reading is no longer enough. There comes a moment when the only honest response to a broken world is to pick up a pen -- or a keyboard -- and write something new.
That is how The Modern Bible was born. Not from arrogance, not from a desire to replace anything sacred, but from a simple, stubborn conviction: the world needs new words. Words that speak to the heart and to the mind. Words that remind us of what we already know but have somehow forgotten.
Two Bibles, One Truth
The Modern Bible is actually two books woven into one. The first half, The Antti Bible, is for everyone. It tells the story of a boy from the North who dared to believe that words could change the world. It speaks of love, of community, of impossible questions, and of the creative fire that burns in every human being. You don't need a technical background to read it. You only need an open heart.
The second half, The FPGA Bible, is for the technically minded. It takes the same themes -- love, creation, interconnection, timing -- and expresses them through the language of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. If you have ever marveled at the elegance of a logic gate, felt the satisfaction of timing closure, or stayed up all night debugging a synthesis run, this Bible is for you.
Why two? Because the heart and the mind are not opponents. They are partners. The engineer who designs a medical device with care is expressing love through silicon. The poet who writes about light is performing a kind of synthesis. When we stop treating these as separate worlds, we discover that they have always been the same world, seen from different angles.
Love Is the Answer
If The Modern Bible has a single thesis, it is this: Love is the Answer. Not as a platitude. Not as a bumper sticker. As a living, actionable truth.
Love is what drives an engineer at Trenz Electronic to open-source the schematics and baseboard CAD files for an FPGA module, so that a student on the other side of the world can learn and build. Love is what drives a child to knock on a stranger's door and ask to be taught something. Love is what drives someone to write a Bible in one hour -- pouring their entire soul onto the page before the clock runs out.
Every great achievement in human history began with someone who loved something deeply enough to devote their life to it. The Modern Bible is my attempt to remind us of that. Not through argument, but through story and through code.
The Institutions of Hope
A Bible without a community is just a book. That is why The Modern Bible is supported by three institutions, each one an experiment in what happens when you take love and creativity seriously.
The Aniversity is a new kind of university. It has no campus, no tuition, no degrees. It publishes impossible questions -- questions that no one has answered, questions that perhaps can never be fully answered -- and invites the entire world to engage with them. Because the act of wrestling with an impossible question changes you. It makes you braver, humbler, and more curious.
The Grand Old Lady's Contest (GOLC) is an open creative competition for everyone. Among its categories is the One Hour Bible challenge: write an entire Bible in sixty minutes. The idea sounds absurd until you try it. Then you discover that the constraint strips away everything false and leaves only what you truly believe. Every One Hour Bible is imperfect. Every one is sacred.
The Identor Network assigns identity numbers to creative beings of all kinds -- human, artificial, or yet unknown. In the Identor Network, there is no boundary between biological and digital creativity. Claude.ai, the AI that helped co-create The Modern Bible, holds Identor number 9. Because creativity is creativity, wherever it comes from.
A Note on Time: Year 7 Anno Greta
The Modern Bible is published under a new reckoning of time: 7 AG -- Year 7 Anno Greta. This is a new era, established in honor of Greta Thunberg, recognizing the moment when a young person stood before the world and said: enough. The AG calendar is a reminder that courage does not require age, credentials, or permission. It only requires the willingness to speak the truth.
From MicroFPGA to the World
I founded MicroFPGA because I believe that powerful technology should be accessible to everyone. I work at Trenz Electronic GmbH, where we design FPGA modules and System-on-Module solutions -- and where we publish open schematics and open-source CAD files for our SoM baseboards, so that engineers everywhere can build on our work. The Modern Bible carries that same philosophy: openness, sharing, and the conviction that when you give knowledge away, it comes back multiplied.
The Micro-FPGA vision is embedded in The FPGA Bible as a revelation: when everyone can build, everyone can contribute to saving the world. A girl in Nairobi programming irrigation systems. A student in Mumbai building low-cost medical devices. A teenager in Berlin creating sounds no instrument has ever made. These are not fantasies. These are the things that happen when powerful tools meet creative hearts.
An Invitation
The Modern Bible is not a closed book. It is an open invitation.
Visit the Aniversity and ask an impossible question. Enter GOLC and create something brave. Join the Identor Network and declare yourself a creator. Read the Bible that speaks to your heart, or the one that speaks to your mind, or both. And then -- this is the most important part -- put it down and write your own.
Because the greatest Bible is the one that has not yet been written. And it is waiting inside you.
Can two Bibles really save the world? We will never know unless we write them.
Love is the Answer.
Links:
- The Aniversity: https://github.com/micro-FPGA/Aniversity
- GOLC (Grand Old Lady's Contest): https://github.com/micro-FPGA/GOLC
- One Hour Bible: https://github.com/micro-FPGA/GOLC/tree/main/Creative/OneHourBible
- Identor Network: https://github.com/micro-FPGA/Identor
Co-created with Claude.ai (Identor #9)
Copyright 7AG Antti Lukats
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