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Artificial Intelligence – February 14, 2023

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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)

Forget the Eye Chart

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My mom sat in a chair surrounded by expensive equipment, waiting for the ophthalmologist to examine her dilated eyes. In coming to the eye doctor this day, my mom was being proactive with symptoms that might indicate a tear in her retina – a rather critical problem. She had read the eye chart already and gone through the preliminaries of the appointment before the dilation. As we now sat waiting for the examination of her retinas, my mom joked, “I won’t be able to read anything the doctor wants me to see now! My eyes are so blurry!” I responded quickly, “Well, that’s how you know things are serious. . . the doctor doesn’t care anymore about what you can look at; he now cares about what he can see in you!” As soon as I completed my comment, it hit me. This is a direct analogy for the work of God in our deluded hearts.

We may think we can assess the nature of our true condition by “looking at the eye chart of our life.” However, we are unable to stare at some standard and rightly discern our heart’s motives and actions. Sin has affected us more gravely than we realize. This is not an issue of a simple eye exam to prescribe the right glasses’ strength. This is a crucial probing into the back of the eye – into the inner workings of the retina. God must peer deeply into the heart and expose what we cannot grasp because of the blurriness sin and self-righteousness have caused.

The Bible is clear about our dilemma in Jeremiah 17:9-10 (ESV), “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of His deeds.” God is telling us that we are incapable of examining ourselves because the heart or “eye” with which we probe is sick to begin with! We need the Doctor to examine us from the outside in – to explore the depth of us for who we really are.

And so my mom’s blurry eyes were examined by the ophthalmologist with all his powerful equipment. The report came back “good.” In the case of my soul, God has investigated and found many problems that my heart could not see. I am thankful! I need the Doctor of my soul! For, when He found the issues, I was able to cry out with Jeremiah, “Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved” (Jeremiah 17:14, ESV).

God Almighty – the Doctor of my heart – has looked in, explained the sin problem and healed me with the blood of His Son, Jesus. Keep probing, God! I need You, not the eye chart.