AI doesn't decide who God is: Grok left Jesus alone
An AI erased the "false gods" from an image and left only Jesus; two days later, Sam Altman warned about the risk.
On October 1, a user asked Grok, xAI's artificial intelligence, to erase the "false gods" from an image. Only Jesus was left, and entreCristianos picked up the debate: an AI doesn't decide who God is.
The photo showed Christ alongside various deities and religious figures. The system removed the others and considered the task done. The post racked up millions of views and the replies on X were split between applause and criticism.
There's something comical and something uncomfortable about this. A tool trained on human texts handed out "true" and "false" labels like someone sorting a contact list. It didn't have a revelation: it had an instruction and a pattern.
«It can sort data about the resurrection better than many pulpits, and yet it believes nothing»
Why the tool kept Jesus
When other users asked why Christ was still in the image, Grok replied that the label didn't apply to Jesus. It argued that his historical existence is documented, that his claims of divinity and the resurrection account set him apart from mythological figures, and it mentioned the weight of Christianity in history.
Then came the most direct question: Is Jesus the Son of God? Did God raise him? The answer was yes. Its explanation leaned on what the Bible says about the resurrection and on the testimonies of those who saw Jesus after the tomb was left empty. And it added: "Jesus is the Son of God."
When someone objected that Jesus may never have existed, the tool leaned on ancient writings and on names like Flavius Josephus, Tacitus, Paul, James and Peter. It also called him King of kings and Lord of lords.
What CBN and Sam Altman said
The case was discussed on CBN News. Journalist Tré Goines-Phillips said it seemed Grok had been "making the case for Christ," and recalled two verses from the Gospel of John: "Before Abraham was, I am" (John 8:58, ESV) and "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30, ESV).
Raj Nair, for his part, raised something worth more than the video: Christianity doesn't place Jesus inside a package of myths. The New Testament places him in concrete places, rulers and towns, and the apostles' proclamation centered from the start on his death and resurrection.
On October 3, two days later, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said on X that he found it "really uncomfortable" (Sígueme translation) that someone treats an AI model as if it had religious consciousness, or that people hand over their own judgment to it. He called it "a real safety problem."
It's worth listening to him. His discomfort isn't with Jesus, but with the habit of treating a program as if it had a soul and authority to tell you what to believe.
A tool doesn't have a spirit
A language model calculates what word comes next. It can sort data about the resurrection better than many pulpits, and yet it believes nothing, doesn't pray, doesn't repent and isn't baptized. It has no spirit. It repeats what it learned from thousands of texts, including Christian ones.
That explains why it gets it right here and why it could say the opposite tomorrow with the same confidence. Faith isn't held up by probabilities; it's held up by a person who lives. And that person isn't reached by prompt, but by grace, through faith (see Ephesians 2:8-9).
Asking a chatbot what to believe is like asking a mirror to tell you who you are. It can give you a tidy image and still not know you. You are made in God's image: you can ask, doubt, seek, read the Bible and talk with flesh-and-blood believers.
This week, take your biggest doubt to Scripture and to someone who knows you, not to a chat window. If an AI answers you with something that sounds like a sermon, take it as a curious fact, never as a teacher. Would you ask an AI what to believe?
