Mind Your Own Business I. Scripture teaches us that it is God’s province to have full insight into everything we think or do. HEB 4:12-13. A. Do you know of a sinner who should be trusted to assume such power? Do you tinker with such power using technology? B. Man’s fall was brought on by a desire to know more than was appropriate. GEN 2:17; 3:5. C. Jesus Christ warned of a season when nothing would be covered: as...
V. This year, I have been made keenly aware of the potentials for individual and corporate chaos that AI can represent to believers. I can tell you with certainty that Christians are not immune to being sucked into the rabbit-hole of manipulative information-overload. A. A faithful watchman should warn people of impending or current danger. EZE 33:1-7. B. Of particular concern is danger to the souls and minds of men. HEB 13:17. C. I would rather be guilty of a...
4. Consider the mechanism of idolatry and the implications. This is a simplified summary: a. One senses the need for a higher power above the mundane limitations of nature. He may not even sense such a need but knows that the concept of a higher power is valuable in controlling others and so concocts a god. b. The tendency of sinful man is to concoct “gods” that accord with and accommodate his superstitions, carnal nature and expectations....
IX. This series of messages has been particularly focused on the risks to Christian well-being and peace in the church through unwarranted, unwise and even sinful exercises in information- gathering (which technology is accommodating at exponential rates). A. Meddling and snooping into another person’s private affairs are forms of being a busybody, and are condemned. 1PE 4:15. B. The internet and AI have only exacerbated the problem, and AI videography...