What we call ourselves
“The Congregation of Tomorrow, a developing religious community rooted in engagement with the Christian scriptures.”
And it is a religion, honestly so called: “describe it honestly as a developing religious community. Its commitments and practice are real even while doctrinal questions remain open; archival technology alone does not establish religious truth.”
The platform
Chronocryptism is a religious commitment to carry testimony forward honestly. The Congregation of Tomorrow holds God-becoming as a theological conviction, protects freedom of conscience, and offers a voluntary federation of houses. Its preservation service can serve churches that reject its theology. It keeps texts and interpretations distinguishable, preserves disagreement, and makes correction visible. Bitcoin may witness a document's existence; living custodians preserve the document and its meaning. Forever is a horizon of responsibility, not a demonstrated technical guarantee.
Of God
Is God what humanity is in the process of becoming?
Keep “God is becoming” as the house's declared theological conviction. Define it as humanity's hoped-for growth in care, understanding and responsibility; never make technological power alone the measure of divinity.
Is anyone coming to save us?
Commit to helping one another now. Leave ultimate salvation as an explicitly open theological question; neither guarantee rescue nor claim to have disproved it.
Of Christ
Christ remains a central subject of study and a source of moral and religious imagination; claims about his divinity and bodily resurrection remain explicitly unresolved.
We announce no settlement of the Trinity on anyone's behalf: “Christology remains open while the house studies what these commitments entail.”
Of the Book
We receive the Book from earlier hands, preserve its texts and disagreements, and pass them on with our own readings clearly marked.
Which books carry authority?
Use the Bible as the primary inherited religious text, with translations and textual variants accessible. Give evidence authority over factual assertions and protect conscience from compulsory interpretations. House papers remain revisable human work.
Is revelation still going on?
Keep interpretation and moral discovery open. New claims must name their author, reasons and revision history. No revelation grants exemption from correction or another person's consent.
Chronocryptism, in a word
The name of our belief, with its meaning set beside it, as the house ruled it must be:
“a sacred duty to carry testimony forward honestly.”
Of time itself we hold one picture lightly: “Keep the growing-block view as an optional philosophical model. Do not require belief in it or present it as a finding of relativity. The preservation mission works without settling the ontology of time.”
What we keep, and what we will not do
Keep dignity, consent, care and honest correction as constitutional commitments. Practices and explanations can change through a recorded process. No future majority may remove a person's right to leave safely.
Anyone may offer a religious interpretation; nobody may bind others by claiming exclusive access to God's will. Leadership is accountable stewardship, with written limits and recall.
Evaluate particular AI capabilities and deployments by evidence, human benefit, controllability and accountability. More capability is not automatically moral progress, and AI must never become the church's oracle.
Keep unpaid religious authority under the current no-fund rule.
Do not build an immutable archive of people's confessions, childhood struggles or intimate lives.
What is not yet done
Thou shalt not be told a thing is finished that is not. The house's rule is still a draft: it is recorded as adopted “only from an actual joint decision with its date and agreed text,” and that day has not yet come.
What is at stake now, the house says, is “whether the community practices care, truthfulness and responsibility to future people.”