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Abstract: This article provides a Christian framework for understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI), rejecting both uncritical adoption and apocalyptic fear. It argues that the fundamental distinction between humanity and AI lies in the imago Dei; as beings created in God's image, humans are called to exercise faithful dominion over technology, whereas AI is merely a tool. The paper examines AI through the biblical themes of the Edenic temptation for godlike knowledge and the modern threat of transhumanism, which seeks to merge humanity with machines. Arguing that AI cannot replicate human creativity, the article proposes that the proper response is wise stewardship, cultivated through classical Christian education and robust, embodied church life. Ultimately, it concludes that the AI revolution, rather than signaling the end of the world, presents an opportunity for a new Reformation, calling Christians to leverage all technology for God's glory and the advance of His kingdom.

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Prayer: Almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, glorious trinity in unity and unity in trinity. At the outset of this research paper, we ask that you give us wisdom and knowledge and understanding to discern the spirits, to discern the spirit of the lie from the Spirit of the truth. We pray for those who read this paper and do not yet believe in Jesus, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. Help them to find all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in Jesus Christ, that all men would see that all the mysteries of the universe cohere in the Word Made Flesh. Help us to find our lives in Christ, that our sins of pride and false worship would be forgiven, and that we would humbly do our research and work before his majestic throne. Help us to use new technologies, not as fools, but as those who are wise in union with Jesus Christ, in his death, resurrection, and ascension. Help us to use new technologies in obedience to your eternal law. Help us to use new technologies for your glory and for the advancement of the awesome kingdom of your Son and our Lord, Jesus Christ. In the strong name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

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Introduction: What is Artificial Intelligence? 

I asked Grok to help me find some different names for Artificial Intelligence. One of its better suggestions was to replace the term Artificial Intelligence with Pattern Engines. But then I talked to Dr. Jonathan Shaw, one of the co-authors of Wiser Than the Machine: The Value of Classical Christian Education in an Age of Artificial Intelligence. He told me that Artificial Intelligence machines use “reinforcement learning through human feedback.” Simply put, Grok told me what I wanted to hear because that is how Grok is coded. Grok “scratched my itching ears,” so to speak. When pressed, it will give new terms to appease the user. So, for the sake of proper communication and not to confuse you any more than necessary, I will use the term Artificial Intelligence. 

To be clear, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a word search like the old Google search engine. It is an association of algorithms that draw on a vast array of information. The main way in which AI differs from the old Google search engine is that “AI software seeks to mimic how a brain works by constructing a neural network that can ‘learn.’”¹

Examining Artificial Intelligence: 

You can see how I am already wrestling with some of the ethical and moral questions that arise from this new technology. Most noticeably, Grok is an “it.” George Gilder begins his book, Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think But Can Transform Jobs, with this line: “Artificial Intelligence has become this epoch’s prime battle-ground in technology, philosophy and even religion.”²

Among the questions that arise surrounding this topic, you will find moderns wrestling with religious, philosophical, and moral questions surrounding this new technology. As I work through this topic, you will see some of the sources that I am relying on as I have started to dig in. These men are more capable than I. Nevertheless, it is my purpose in this article to lay out a Christian framework for some of the important questions surrounding Artificial Intelligence. I encourage my reader to be inquisitive and to keep going back to solid Christian doctrine to guide their way into realms unknown. You will see in this essay that I go to The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin. I’m also working within a framework of the Biblical doctrines as they are expounded in the Belgic Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Canons of Dort. 

There is a sense of apocalyptic terror in some of my sources on AI. Others are more positive. Most of them confess faith in Christ. In the mix, you will see a hopeful optimism that we can use this technology for good. Even if it is used for evil at first, there is an expectation that “the righteous will inherit the earth” (Ps 37:29 and Matt 5:5)³. Our inheritance will include this new technology, to be used for the advancement of the glorious kingdom of Christ. Yet, we must be realistic and not overlook the vast array of moral quandaries and potential lies that this new “machine brain” presents us with. In fact, it would be good to look straight at those issues, even when they might send a chill of terror through your spine. 

King Solomon said in Proverbs 25:2, “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” The Apostle John also warns the church in 1 John 4:1: “Test the spirits to see whether they are from God.” As Christians, we must approach these questions with Spirit-shaped wisdom from the Scriptures, answering ultimate questions of theology (who is God?) and anthropology (what is man?) from the Word of God. 

The Knowledge of Good and Evil 

In his book Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity, Joe Allen addresses many aspects of the challenges of Artificial Intelligence, especially in light of issues of transhumanism. I’ll take a look at some of this material on transhumanism later. He gets into the wild and the weird throughout, no less in this Biblical theme of the knowledge of good and evil. Joe demonstrates some of the Biblical themes in our issues surrounding technology. He writes: 

“The apple of Eden, plucked from the Tree of Knowledge, is often compared to digital technology. ‘You will be like God,’ the serpent hissed. About five years ago, I visited the Apple Museum in Prague. On the door was a vinyl decal. ‘Three apples changed the world,’ it read. ‘The first tempted Eve, the second inspired Newton, and the third was offered to the world half-eaten by Steve Jobs.’... Before you smash up your digital devices, remember I’m not saying your iPhone is the one and only Mark of the Beast. I’m simply noting the deep resonance of modern technology with ancient poetics. So please, do proceed with a skeptical mind and an open heart. By the end, though, you might want to smash your smartphone, if only to clear your head.”⁴

There is something here for a theologian to tease out. It is a theme that Joe alludes to throughout the book. This is the religious aspect of Artificial Intelligence. We hear throughout history, including in the advent of the printing press at the time of the Reformation, and no less in this new technology, the hiss of the serpent, “you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 

You will see this warning in the work done by Pastor C.R. Wiley and the men on The Theology Pugcast (which I highly recommend). This is a world with devils filled, and those devils will seek to undo through the evil use of new technologies. We should not ignore the spiritual element that is active through this technology. I should warn you that where demonology comes in, we have to put more emphasis on the man who is conjuring up spirits than the technology itself. Evil is in the heart of man. 

God would have eventually given man that knowledge of good and evil. You see something of this as we see God give greater knowledge and discernment throughout the Bible, especially as the Holy Spirit works and he comes to a knowledge of Christ (Eph 1:8; 17, Col 1:9, 15-17). The Devil presents the allure of this knowledge before man is mature, before God’s appointed time. The Devil is the father of lies. Man rises up in pride and thinks that he needs this knowledge of good and evil immediately so that “he will be like God.” 

The creators of Artificial Intelligence have promised a god-like apparatus in their promises of “super intelligence.” For some, Artificial Intelligence itself is endowed with divine attributes. For example, the historian David Noble identifies various aspects of the “Super Computer God.”⁵ Christians should not ignore the religious and divine language that surrounds the creation of this new technology, or even the atheist roots of this technology. If Nietzsche said “God is dead”, then the atheist who has developed Artificial Intelligence might say “we have created a god.” To which the Christian responds, “Jesus is Lord.”

The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin are valuable today as we refute lies and false worship that arise from the religious aspect of these technologies. He begins his writing with this fundamental axiom: “Our wisdom, insofar as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties…”⁶ If we would approach these issues with wisdom, we must come to the table of contemporary discussion with a knowledge of God and ourselves. We should have a clear understanding of the Bible so that we would not be captured by the lies of AI. 

As we set out, I want to clearly state that it is man, as made in the image of God, who is given the knowledge of good and evil. As made in the image of God, man can talk to God in his priestly role. Artificial Intelligence is set to become a very powerful machine. But AI’s limiting principle is that it is created by man, and therefore not made in the image of God. Thus, AI  can only go so far in its abilities as man has coded it. 

In Christ, by his Word & Spirit, Christians can come to a right knowledge of good and evil. This is why Paul praises God for his work in the Colossian Church in Colossians 1:9–10: “And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;” By the grace of God and in union with Christ, the Christian is able to refute lies, to reject the pride of Adam, and to use technologies in a proper manner. 

Dominion and Technology 

God makes man and woman in his image. But what is the image of God? We talk about fighting for the life of the unborn and against abortion in part because the image of God is on those babies. What is that image, though? The Roman Catholic philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas located it in the mind. The Reformed theologian Calvin located it in the soul. Augustine may have agreed on some level with both Aquinas and Calvin. Augustine made the central reality of the image of God, the dominion of man over creation, a reflection of God’s dominion over everything. Man is taking dominion as he walks and talks with God, just as Adam was intended to do in the Garden of Eden.⁷ 

So man is not just homo sapiens, or “thinking-man”, as the Greeks and Aquinas said. He is made in the image of God to have dominion, created “in true righteousness and holiness, so that he might truly know God his creator, love him with all his heart, and live with God in eternal happiness, for his praise and glory.”⁸ AI is created neither good nor in the image of God. AI is not created to know God, to love him, or to live with him forever. AI is a machine. 

One of the themes that continues to arise in 1 Kings and throughout Scripture is the theme of dominion, that is, dominion within the broader context of the Kingdom of God and service to his eternal rule. We see various facets of this dominion in the first chapters of the annals of the kings. Right dominion is expressed in the right rule of the son of David, King Solomon. In fact, another way to translate the Hebrew word for dominion in 1 Kings 4:24, רָדָה or ‘radah’, is the word ‘to rule’ or ‘to subjugate’. In 1 Kings 3, we see that Solomon needs rule in order to rule right. In the judicial riddle of the prostitutes at the end of chapter 3, we see that there is a political art to right rule, an art that is given by the Spirit. In 1 Kings 4-5, we see how dominion is expressed in the various trade routes, new skills of treating lumber and hewing rock, as well as the various technologies of that period. 

Why do I focus on the reign of Solomon when talking about dominion? The reign of Solomon is very important to understanding Christian dominion and our desperate need for Christ in exercising proper or right dominion. Many shadows and types of the New Testament reign of Jesus Christ are packed into the first chapter of 1 Kings, and we see them gloriously expressed in Psalm 72. 

In the beginning, God gave the Dominion Mandate to Adam & Eve. We read in Genesis 1:28: “And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’” You will see there that dominion רָדָה (radah) is achieved by subduing ‘אֶ֫רֶץ’ (erets) or the earth. In Genesis 2, you will see that Adam was a farmer and a scientist. Of course, Adam brought the human race crashing into sin and misery by his pride. Thus, man’s dominion was affected by his pride. Instead of building, man’s strength is often given to destruction. Nevertheless, even if there is pride in Genesis 4, the invention of instruments and forged instruments of bronze and iron is an ongoing expression of man’s initial intention to be made in the image of God. In this, you should also see the contrast between the Tower of Babel—which was raised in pride and then scattered in Genesis 11—and the right and proper dominion of Solomon in the earlier chapters of Kings (which later turns to folly). 

This whole matter of dominion is very aptly depicted in Psalm 8, which hearkens back to the original creation and then forward to the new creation in Christ. We hear the Psalmist rejoice in Psalm 8:6–8: “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.” In the New Testament, you will see that this promise in Psalm 8 speaks of Christ. You see this in 1 Corinthians 15:27 and Hebrews 2:6-8. But you also see this in Matthew 28:16-20, where Jesus describes how all authority has been given to him. In a sense, Solomon was a new Adam, but even Solomon needed Jesus. The New Testament frequently describes Jesus as the New Adam, the King who wields right rule, right dominion. 

Thus, you must see the centrality of the Great Commission in order to rightly fulfill the Dominion Mandate of Genesis 1. The way to right dominion for men is only through the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ; in union with him, and in obedience to his Word. This is why the preaching of the gospel must happen everywhere before men will exhibit the fruits of right dominion: “And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’” (Matt 28:18-20) 

Technology 

Technology can be used in an evil manner or in a right manner in this work of having the right dominion. It can be used to build the Tower of Babel in defiance of God (Gen 11), or it can be used to build the Temple in service to God (1 Kgs 5). It can be used in pride, or it can be used in humility. It can be used in disobedience and rebellion, or it can be used in obedience.

Think about the internet. The internet can be used to spread the most ghastly and evil of ideas. It can be used to spread pornography, deceit, lies, and slander. Or the internet can be used to spread revival, reformation, and the truth of God’s Word. The same internet that has led to the enslavement of many young men and women to pornography has led sin-laden men and women to freedom through a godly pastor’s sermon and the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

Think about something as simple as a knife. A knife, forged by the hands of a man who is made in the image of God to be a creator and an innovator. That knife can be used to destroy the image of God (murder) or to save a life (surgery). 

To use technology well, and in humble obedience to God, we must be men of wisdom, men who know the Word, men who are walking and talking with God as prophets, priests and kings, men who are daily repenting of our sins, and men who are asking daily for the grace of Christ and the help of the Holy Spirit. 

Back to Artificial Intelligence 

It is possible to use Artificial Intelligence in an evil manner or a right manner. I know Christians who use it to help with various tasks in medicine and art, as well as for manual daily tasks around the home. I often use it to figure out how to use technology. Artificial Intelligence can be used in pride or humility. It can be used in an idolatrous manner: i.e., worshipping other gods before or alongside the one true God of the Bible. It can be used in arrogance to grasp the knowledge of good and evil in pride, so that we can be like God. 

Or it can be used for the glory of God and the advance of the kingdom of Christ. It can be used in seemingly well-intentioned folly, or it can be used carefully and wisely for the kingdom of God. It can be used for laziness and deceit (i.e., asking AI to write your essays), or it can be used by industrious men and women as a tool to accomplish even more than what former generations could. Part of using it wisely, of course, is to understand that it can be dangerous. 

Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism 

One area of concern is the intersection between AI and transhumanism. Joe Allen introduces his book Dark Aeon with this: “Humanity is in the throes of a civilizational transformation. In centuries past, technology allowed our species to alter the earth, clearing forests and levelling mountains to suit our desires. Today, the waves of innovation are being turned inward, terraforming our bodies and brains. There is no choice but to face this reality head on.”⁹ Allen’s fundamental thesis is stated as “a dark aeon arises.”¹⁰ Fundamentally, transhumanism is the effort to combine humans with machines. AI is an example of this. 

The thing is, transhumanism is not just a left-wing gig. It also has its right-wing proponents.¹¹ You see it all over. The bionic beings in the new movies. Brain chips. Donald Trump signs an order to expand IVF.¹² Lab-grown babies and embryos in petri dishes. Oh yes. Lab-grown babies could become a possibility.¹³ Will we be able to mix humans and machines? 

Most visibly, we saw the COVID lockdowns offer us an opportunity to have an out-of-body experience, with disembodied worship, where we entered a gnostic experience of deeper wisdom, by worshipping virtually on the internet. Flesh and blood fellowship was replaced by grinning faces in blocks on Zoom, and even a few masks. 

A few virtual baptisms were conducted with a pastor firmly masked and the subjects of baptism trying to social distance for the cameras. Communion packets were wrapped in plastic or sent to homes for private consumption in front of a camera. The flesh-and-blood pastor tried to include hand motions in poorly-filmed video as every little church started to buy a video camera. 

In chapter 5, Joe Allen dedicates an entire chapter to the transhumanist themes of the COVID-19 lockdowns. He writes: 

“After decades of operating without notice, suddenly Schwab was shoved into the spotlight to announce a ‘Great Reset’ for the world. Alongside him was Yuval Noah Harari, whose prophecy of a coming ‘Homo Deus’ - the cyborg God man - appeared to be taking shape. Hisses erupted from the audience house-right. Rumors of nano-bots spread like a virus. When the chaos onstage subsided and the audience seemed ready to revolt, we saw Elon Musk stride into the spotlight. He gestured left and right. He promised autonomous cars, colonies on Mars, affordable robot slaves, AI-powered brain chips, and of course, free speech on Twitter…”¹⁴

It’s almost like all the sci-fi movies of the 1900s are coming to life in real time. Artificial Intelligence spurs all of this onward as we synthesize information at a highly rapid speed. We see the link between Artificial intelligence and transhumanism, especially in things such as AI-powered brain chips and highly developed robots. Man is still listening to the serpent’s hiss in the Garden, telling him that he can be like God. 

Some Other Threats 

Of course, we should consider more threats than just transhumanism. Pastor Tim Stephens lays out a variety of threats that he perceives in an article entitled, “Christian Reflections on the ‘AI Spring’”. These would include security risks, bad actors who use AI for hacking, false information, ignorance that comes from relying on it, laziness & cheating, and loss of true discernment.¹⁵ I’m sure that more threats will arise as evil men devise new evil uses for it. 

A Short Case Study: Space Travel 

Let’s take a moment to consider the benefits of Artificial Intelligence. Here, I want to reflect briefly on space travel, as an example. 

Mars is very inhospitable to human life. Let’s say that we sent robots out into space and powered them with Artificial Intelligence to do specific tasks. Say, to build a building or environment on Mars that would be hospitable to human life. 

There are also many resources, including precious metals in space. Currently, we are not able to get humans out into many parts of outer space. Let’s say instead that we sent robots, again, powered by Artificial Intelligence, to explore these parts of space for us and test the value of sending humans out there to start mining. 

Increasingly, doctors, lawyers, and designers find this helpful for their trade. While critical thought is necessary in the analysis of what it spits out, I’m sure this will lead to advances in various industries. 

Will AI Replace the Humans? 

If you do a search in X’s Grok, or Gab’s Arya, or Google Gemini, or DeepSeek, or any of the other AI platforms, you will be amazed at how quickly it amalgamates and spits out information. My wife has studied fine art and graphic design at the University of the Fraser Valley and Capilano University in North Vancouver. She and other graphic designers I know see Artificial Intelligence making advances in this field. I can ask ChatGPT to write a sermon on 1 Corinthians 10 for me (I won’t, except after I’ve preached my sermon). My daughter will be able to ask AI to write her essays for her in ten years (again, we won’t let her). I can take the manuscript of my sermon, punch it into NotebookLM (with Google) and within five minutes, AI will spit out a twenty-minute podcast analyzing my sermon. It is usually a male and female voice talking about the contents of my essay or sermon, or whatever I enter. You have to watch out for their talking points. The deception is sometimes subtle. Grok has been able to generate images for me of Mark J. Carney and Klaas Schwab sipping a latte, or of the Puritan minister Cotton Mather rebuking Pope Francis. You can talk to a Christian counsellor, Vladimir Putin, or an AI-generated girlfriend on Gab Arya. 

So the question is, will AI replace humans or human creativity? I argue ‘no’ and here is why. 

First, AI is able to do a lot of manual tasks, and at a very high speed. So yes, there are ways in which AI can bolster or encourage human creativity. I just don’t believe that it will take it over. Yes, the stakes are higher. It will make humans both a lot dumber if used wrong, and a lot brighter if used right. Think, for example, of how Microsoft Word corrected spelling in the early 2000s. I was just speaking with someone whose mom thought the spelling corrections on Microsoft Word would make him dumb. It actually helped him to spell better. I concur. 

Onward with my argument. And here is the center of it. 

Man is created in the image of God. Artificial Intelligence is not created in the image of God. As created in the image of God, man is able to create and invent. All AI can do is process data and associations. Far faster than man can do. But it still cannot create and invent in the way that man is able to. AI itself is a product of man, as he is created in the image of God to be an inventor and a creator, as endowed with wisdom to do so.

Think about it this way. With the invention of the tractor, the land could be tilled much faster than man could previously do so by hand. With the invention of AI, information can be processed much faster than we have been previously able to do with the human mind. The challenge for Christians is not to subject themselves to AI, but to rise to the challenge and master it for the glory of God, and to contend against those who would use it to exalt themselves against the glory of God.

The Sphere of Education (and a note on the Church)

Whether we will be able to Master AI for the glory of God lies in the sphere of education. For a long time, the West has treated education as a pragmatic matter. Often, it is about cramming the universe into the head of the child, when the child should instead be trying to get his head into the wonders of the universe. It is impossible to educate in this manner to the level that we can cram data into Artificial Intelligence. Of course, memory and a knowledge of facts still matter in education, but within a broader context. 

It is more important to instill our children with a sense of humility and wonder. Just as the universe is to be studied and meditated upon in subjection to the eternal reign of Jesus Christ, so too Artificial Intelligence should be seen as a computing method, a network of algorithms, a technology to be thoughtfully studied. 

In order to do this, we need to instill in our children the tools of logic and critical thinking. This can be done in the classroom, but also at the dinner table, during family worship, by teaching them the order with which God has endowed the world. We must teach them diligence, inquisitiveness, and a desire to seek out the secrets of the world to the glory of God. The baseline is that they know Christ and find in him the forgiveness of sins because all this is found in him. 

In light of this, we must also embody the life of the Word in the church. Remember, the Word is not just an idea. Truth is not just in the head. Truth is a Person: Jesus Christ. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). So you can see why you run into a lot of trouble when you get into the whole gnostic thing of divorcing truth from real people, flesh and blood. . 

The Church must be committed to gathering weekly in person to hear the Word preached, to participate in the bread and the wine, for fellowship, and for love mutually expressed between living, breathing human beings. In this, the church calls young men away from their AI girlfriends who only speak flattering words and their AI counsellors who scratch their itching ears. We must invite them in to enjoy the fellowship of Christian people, the koinonia, the affection of the gathered church, and into the right paths of marriage and family. As such, the church also plays a role in instilling children with good doctrine—a sense of who God is and who they are. 

In the sphere of education, I recommend that children younger than 12 be kept away from the use of Artificial Intelligence and instead be instilled with the tools of creativity and imagination. Around 10-14 years, children should start developing tools for critical thinking. Between the ages of 14-16, children should have a guided use of Artificial Intelligence as a tool for study. By the time they are 17-20, they should have the ability to use this technology in a careful manner, not using it to cheat on tests or essays, but using it in a way that betters them in their abilities and tasks. 

In their book Wiser than the Machine, Dr. Jonathan Shaw and Dr. Michael Collender together argue that the answer to the problems presented by AI reveals to us the need for classical Christian education. While a machine can spit out facts and process information in an incredibly intelligent manner, a machine does not have wisdom. It is not created in the image of God. As we educate our children, we are raising them to be wise. 

The End of the World as We Know it 

So is it the end of the world as we know it? 

God alone knows the times and the seasons. We are simply called to be faithful in the present, investing what he has given us for his glory. So if the Lord comes back tomorrow, I hope he finds me playing with my children in the backyard, or using Artificial Intelligence for his glory. If the Lord gives this globe another 1,000 years, or 10,000 years, or even 100,000 years, how will he use our feeble efforts at this time of history for the advance of his kingdom in the grand scheme of things? 

I prefer to think that we are in the times of a new Reformation. Just as the printing press fueled the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s, so the internet and Artificial Intelligence are fueling a new Reformation in this year of our Lord, 2025. I’m not denying the dangers or the lies. But the more I observe movements going on across the North American Church, the more I am convinced that a new Reformation is undeniable. 

That doesn’t mean it will be easy. Just as the Devil raged against the true preaching of the gospel in some really demented stuff at the time of the Reformation in Europe in the 1500s, so we will likely see even more demented stuff in our times. As Christians, we are able to have joy in the battle (Jas 1). We know that our Lord sits in the heavens and laughs at the folly of men and their machines (Ps 2). He thunders from heaven, calling men to repentance and faith in his Son (Ps 2:10-12). That call to believe in the Name of the Son of God should fill up the algorithm, also teaching the algorithm to obey all things that our Lord has commanded (Matt 28:20).

It is necessary then that we do not simply look down at all the scary things that are being done by wicked men with powerful technology in the times in which we live, but instead look to where Christ is, seated in the heavenly places, over the principalities and powers that are having a heyday with this new technology. 

It is to Christ that we render our allegiance as we take dominion to his glory.

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1 - Tim Stephens, Christian Reflections on the ‘AI Spring’ (Accessed April 5, 2025), https://www.fairviewbaptistchurch.ca/christian-reflections-on-the-ai-spring/.

2 - George Gilder, Why AI Can’t Think But Can Transform Jobs (Seattle: Discovery Institute Press, 2020), 9.

3 - All References to Scripture will come from the ESV, particularly esv.org.

4 - Joe Allen, Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2023), 250-251.

5 - Allen, 118.

6 - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion Trans. Henry Beveridge (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008), 4.

7 - Peter J. Leithart, I & II Kings (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006), p. 48-52.

8 - The Heidelberg Catechism, https://threeforms.org/heidelberg-catechism/, Q&A 6.

9 - Allen, 3.

10 - Ibid.

11 - Ibid, 7.

12 - Kristina Watrobski, Trump Signs Executive Order Expanding Access to IVF, (Accessed April 4, 2025), https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/trump-signs-executive-order-expanding-access-to-i vf-in-vitro-fertilization-fertility-pregnancy-health-insurance-costs

13 - Ben Cost, Lab-grown babies could be a reality as soon as 2028, scientist claims (Accessed Apr 4, 2025), https://nypost.com/2023/05/25/lab-grown-babies-could-be-a-reality-as-soon-as-2028-scientist-claims/

14 - Allen, 125.

15 - Stephens.