Artificial Intelligence in the Church

People get vehemently angry about artificial intelligence generating sermon material for spiritual leaders, and yet for years and years, we have allowed false teachers to creep into the church of Jesus Christ. Many have placed their own Bibles aside during the week. Countless ones have refused to commit Scripture to memory. Multitudes have flocked to what appear to be entertainment venues in order to be uplifted by pep talks peppered with Scripture, rather than to be honestly challenged by the sharp sword of God’s holy Word.

Now, we stand flabbergasted at artificial intelligence. Let me tell you, unknown numbers of “Christians” have been fed by demons through the watered-down, false gospel long before AI became the thing about which to be disturbed.

Far too many Christians ceased to be troubled by the trends of the modern church a long time ago. As a faith culture, we compromised with the devil when we accommodated diluted sermons, so that people could be at peace with their compromised lifestyles and lack of passion for Jesus Christ.

When the church’s view of Scripture diminished, when we could no longer tolerate long sermons and teachings, when we began to value the look of the “stage” and the “worship leaders” more than the content of the Word of God, when how our buildings appeared to the world mattered more than how the sermons appeared to the Lord God Almighty, that is when we gave in to “artificial” intelligence.

True wisdom comes from the Lord. To be precise, it is found in an honest fear of the Lord. If we had continued in sincere fear of the Almighty God, we would be less worried about artificial intelligence in the church.

Nothing is more artificial than the devil substituted for God. The greatest imposter projected to people, rather than the embodiment of Truth. And yet, here we are …

– Shelli Prindle

“Now the Spirit expressly says that in the later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.” (1 Timothy 4:1)

Artificial Intelligence – February 14, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Serious-minded Christians (and I’m doubtful there is any other kind) ought to be sure they know how to navigate their paper-bound Bibles, how to use Bible commentaries and dictionaries, and how to discern between true and false teachers and preachers. We better also be digesting and studying the Bible at a level that enables our minds to begin connecting all parts of the entire counsel of God’s Word, that we might evaluate everything else in life through the lens of the Bible. We ought to be conscientiously dependent on the Holy Spirit for wisdom and discernment.

Why is this pressing on my heart? One reason is because artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay, and it has advanced by astronomical degrees. Microsoft has developed (and continues to refine) a new version of its Bing search engine that utilizes ChatGPT by OpenAI. A recent article in the USA Today newspaper warned of inaccuracies and slants against conservative viewpoints. Additionally, another article in the same paper noted that Microsoft created an AI model that works behind the scenes to decide what resources to use to answer your question or request.

We know that search engines have always had inherent flaws and biases. This is only going to grow worse, and it is growing worse very quickly.

All of this, my friends, is being used by the antichrist spirit to pull people further and further from God’s truth by bias, deception, and dependence on artificial intelligence, rather than on the human mind God has created and graciously given.

It is the human soul in which the Holy Spirit resides when a person trusts in Jesus for salvation from sin. The Holy Spirit does not reside in artificial intelligence. AI has no ability to depend on God. AI cannot willfully submit to the Lord.

We CAN submit to Jesus. And we better. And we ought to get very serious about our knowledge of, and relationship with, the Lord. The beginning of the end is upon us.

– Shelli Prindle

“The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)