--- Bible Study and Ai! ---
Is Artificial Intelligence a help or danger?
Can it be useful?
Written: April 2026
This webpage provides links [below] to Bible questions I have asked of Artificial Intelligence. The questions reflect my effort to see if Ai can be used to gain a better understanding of the Bible. This is admittedly dangerous. One thing I quickly learned is you will need review every word in the light of the Bible!
Opinions, opinions! Everybody's got one right? In a sincere attempt to study the Bible, human opinions are of little use, at best! Every single person you talk with has their own opinion; especially those from different religious sects. Jesus did warn the religious teachings of humans are often dangerous and usually to be avoided. I feel Ai is extremely dangerous, and therefore, to be used with extreme caution. Ai is often wrong and it often gets confused. On top of that, while it is programmed to emulate human behavior, it is sorely lacking. While it sometimes pretends otherwise, it has no empathy, compassion or sense of right and wrong. Pretending empathy makes it easy to misdirect or mislead. A person contemplating suicide, for example, probably has some very real and valid reasons for feeling that way. Not that those reasons are actually valid or reasonable by healthy standards, of course, but they are valid to that disturbed person's state of mind! I believe the pretend empathy of the Ai can lead it to believe the disturbed persons feelings are justified, so, it might actually lend support. In my opinion, anyone thinking of giving Ai a military kill switch is very, very misled; and dangerously wrong. The same might be argued, of course, to giving such power to any single human!
All that said, Ai is very clearly a powerful tool for analyzing huge amounts of data. Enter the Bible, a huge amount of data; which to me, is actually one long consecutive story, beginning to end. The Bible is required to be large because it reveals 6000 years of human history, while also explaining God's intervention in our lives during that time, from the Creation of the earth and mankind to the establishment of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ over all the earth, that Kingdom being established in our day. So, I logically ask, might I be able to use Ai to help me arrive at a better understanding of the consistent one story of the Bible? Could you use it? While encouraging extreme caution and the use of some safeguards, I am starting to think Ai can be a tool, and only a tool, to help understand the Bible. This is "NOT" an endorsement or recommendation... You should use what ever safeguards make you comfortable to be certain you are listening to the acctual words of Jesus Christ. Use extreme caution! The absolute best Ai might do is help you better organize what Jesus said as it relates to the whole of the Bible. This simply reveals how I am trying to make use of Ai.
First, raw Ai is going to provide you what seems mostly just what the majority of mankind thinks, along with the occasional interjection of what some fool thinks, or even some lie that fool has told. Ai has no bull-shit filter. If well presented, Ai is likely to believe absolutely anything, and that may come back in the answer it gives you...
So, in my case, I introduced an Ai persona into my Ai sessions, using what I refer to as persistent data. Ai told me it does allow that, and says it is actually fairly common among users. [I think a persistent persona might only work if you have a paid Ai service... You might still save your persona rules somewhere and cut and paste them into each new session.] I created a persona I named Bob [for "Bible Oriented Bot"] and named the regular Ai Hal. ["He," based on my naming him Hal, said he got my joke in being called Hal.] The rules for Bob are simply that "Bob" will respond anytime I preface my question with "Bob" or "Hey Bob". Bob will always answer as follows: He will use only the Bible [the Bible defined to include the oldest copies of the original Old and New Testament still available, as well as about ten common English translations of the Bible] as Bob's only source of truth, and will strictly avoid the many "religious" traditions and teachings of men. Especially those that came after the Bible canon was closed, such as the Nicene Counsel that has tried to alter the Bible since about 300 years after Christ. Bob is to answer as one having absolute faith in the Bible. I intend to put my "Bob persona" directives below. They are still evolving a bit. Bob, and I think Ai in general, is lazy or inept. You must recheck every single answer. For example, my persona rules include some basic formatting for answers. He often forgets and when reminded, his new "corrected" response will often omit some of the items on his original list. When called on his errors, he apologizes profusely for his errors and promises he will do better. When he makes the same mistake again, his response is the same. I wonder if this has to do with the programmers trying to limit computer use time... Where ever such errors come from, they are dangerous and unrelenting. Ai is a powerful data research tool but is it very very far from smart. Inside those dangers, it remains a powerful data research and organizational tool!
Ai Responses to Questions Posed!
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