Should Christians use ChatGPT for Bible Study?
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2023
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Hello friends, in today's video I talk about a very incredible new technology called ChatGPT operated by Open AI. I have studied what other Christians believe to be true about ChatGPT - and I openly talk about my honest opinion about this technology - specifically in the context of studying the Bible and theology. This is a new resource for everyone and it is a time to explore to see what this powerful technology can do - but we must do it with wisdom, discernment, and the heart posture of glorifying God with everything we do!
Hope this is encouraging to you.
Blessings and love,
Ash
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🔶 churchleaders.com/pastors/444...
🔶 aiandfaith.org/featured-inter...
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I actually just got done reading the book of Matthew and asked ChatGPT to create a Bible study on it for me. I had it create a summary of each chapter with study questions and it was really quiet good. The questions were insightful and the summaries were accurate 😊
Amen
Awesome!!!
Repent. And stop contacting unclean spirits for information. Have some discernment.
Discernment for sure! So true that technology could be used for good, but also it could be bad. We have to ask God for lots of wisdom and direction…at the end of the day personal Bible study, effective with prayer and being spirit lead, and of course, putting it to practice is most important. Thanks for sharing Ashley!❤
Absolutely! Love this comment. Thanks for sharing :)
thank you for producing this valuable video!!
Thank you Ashley, I've never heard of this tool but I totally agree that in the end we need discernment as well as to do our own study in the Bible ❤
Hi Ashley! May the Lord bless you from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic! I loved this video!
Very helpful video, thank you!
I have seen this name online but didn’t know what it was. Thanks for your opinion on it, Ashley. May God bless your ministry and Johnny’s ministry. Love from Canada ❤️🇨🇦
Great video and discussion! Agree with the comparison to Google and us having discernment / cross checking. And making sure we still do the hard work! I’m glad you make this video❤
Thank you friend!
Thank you so much for this Ashley. I’ve been curious about this a while. You did a great job researching it! I was reading an article today on two sisters, one is either 102 or 103 years old and the other 106! The oldest sister said she doesn’t feel old and happy that she doesn’t speak like an old person. She attributed this in part to reading books. Your points are valid and well taken. Im not 106 but I love to read. I totally get it for something quick but I don’t want my brain to “get lazy” 😂. Love you and Taylor and mentor momma and everything you do for us❤.
❤❤❤ same. Sometimes I see myself falling into laziness and only going on my phone. I want to read books more!
Such an interesting conversation. A lot to think about
Yes a lot to think about for sure!
i think it can be a study TOOL, but at the end of the day we can't expect an AI to do a full Bible study with the spiritual understanding a child of God could have. There is no revelation in that study, it's just regurgitated words the AI has taken from other sources and mashed up together. There is no time spent delving into God's word, there is no relationship building with Him. If the spiritual aspect is missing from the Bible study, then it's worthless imho.
Yes, I agree. Do you think it could be used as a study tool and aid for digging deeper into the Bible if your heart is in the right place?
@@coffeeandbibletime hmm very interesting question. for me personally, i think it can be a good starter, but ultimately it is our spirit and soul the ones that have to dig deeper and reach that place with the help of the Holy Spirit, but it can definitely be used as a tool, like we use the Bible commentaries from other authors
Hi! I really enjoyed this video because I didn't hear about it until recently and students at my school use it for academics lol. Although I'm a senior and might go into graduate school to get my masters, I definitely would rather rely on the holy spirit to help me with my assignments because leaning on him has been the biggest blessing in this period of my life and then I can give him the glory whether it's a C (some classes are extremely hard lol) or an A. I just know God helped me pass by his grace and mercy without the chatGPT.
Also, not all commentaries are biblically based so using discernment on those is essential because it may have false doctrines. There are many scholarly sources that are wrong as well, so using discernment as Mrs. Ashley said in her video is important. I hope everyone is doing okay and drop down any prayer requests. Blessings!!
Great video.
Ashley, I totally agree with you! We should not rely on it for truth. I just think it can be something to play around with for fun.
Thanks for sharing ❤ this was new to me as I not heard of it until you addressed it. I think I will sit out for awhile and see how the system develops. They still have a lot of quirks to work out in it. And you are so right about Christian’s needing discernment when using AI.
A tool's features and possibilities dictate how it will be used, as Marshall McLuhan explained so long ago. The only discernment is not to use it. The drawbacks severely outweigh the benefits.
My opinion or advice is. Don't use it as your spiritual teacher. I am afraid that people who don't have the courage to ask a bible teacher will ask chatgpt. It is probably wrong in many topics about sin and a wrong life view. (more self than God focused).
When I was a teenager I use google a lot and didn't read my bible. I had weak faith, now I read the bible for a few years and I had grown so much more in my relationship with God. People need to take time for the Lord, I believe there is not a shortcut to learn the bible. You need to meditate (remember) it and that takes long.
Really good point, no other content should replace your on reading of the Bible.
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I never heard of chat GPT. I love Moody Bible Commentary and enduring word for in-depth Bible study.
Hi Sis, I deal closely with this tech in my job. Developers themselves can't explain how outputs are reached. I think we need to be especially unemotional as believers engaging with AI. The root word of demon - daimon is Greek for intelligence. The less we disclose to chatbots the better. They're especially tricky, and there are other AI tools that can help better and not need as much verifying for accuracy. Like Scite, for research is pretty cool.
Hello! Thank you so much for your insight and thoughts. :) I further studied into the greek work daimon (I took biblical greek in college). The word δαίμων has the meaning a god, a goddess; an inferior deity or an evil spirit. This exact word is found in Matthew 8:31, Mark 5:12, Luke 8:29, Revelation 16:14; 18:2. Nowhere is it translated as intelligence - but always as devil. δαίμων is not directly translated as intelligence nor does it have that in the definition either. I am curious where you made this connection? Another thought... The Lord has allowed mankind to create this technology we see today. Do you believe this technology can be used for both good and evil purposes or only evil purposes? Thanks for discussing!
@@coffeeandbibletime I think ai is created for evil with benefits that make it attractive.
I've been curious about this but I really don't plan to use it. I've got my own methods of studying my Bible and I really don't need to add something else. I agree...we need to figure out for ourselves what works for us in studying our Bible. Thank you for the information on this.
Thanks for sharing Kathleen!!! I love that you have found a strong and good method of Bible study that works for you!! so good!
I love your glasses!
I had no clue what ChatGPT is so I watched to find out. Thank you for doing all the research you did so we can be informed
I’m at 7:03 and I’m laughing about the paper clip… similar has happened to me
Hi Ashley! I wholeheartedly agree with you about being very careful about using chatgpt. Your comparison between using a credible source and the chatgpt reminds me of Abraham and Lot. Lot chose the easy way and look at the results of his life and Abraham had the harder road, but God blesses Abraham far above his wildest dreams. Thanks so much for your wisdom.
I wrote to chatgpt that show me the Bible verses of the five first books of the Old Testament where there are prophecies and foreshadowing of Jesus. Chatgpt helped me very much in that regard and gave a great answer 👍
I have used it for writing descriptions for books that we have written. I did ask it some questions about Bible characters to test it's accuracy. I had to tweak them quite a bit. It was a great starting point but I wouldn't use it for Bible study. Thanks for your video on this topic.
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That’s true, it could be insightful yet deceptively leave things out.
Just so you know some people believe Evil stands for Electronic Virtual Intelligent Life .
Just in case their right , I vote no to using it for study :)
AI is programmed by people but people using it don’t use the Holy Spirit. Why would you want to use anything that is not Christ centered?
I love what you said about making us lazy, as well. Learning always has two dimensions: a content of information that we take in, and a processing mode. Even if the content would not have the problems it has (the ones you mentioned about lacking semantics, therefore not being vulnerable to anything related to truth and ethics), the problems it poses to our cognitive processing mode are absolutely huge. In my Church, the Bible can only be read if you pray before and you humble yourself while reading it (by kneeling, for example) because God's word is not on a par with other intellectual products, and we must be in a certain state of mind and heart to receive it right. I think that apart from lazyness, a certain gum-chewing attitude could also be instilled on biblical topics, which would only lead us very far from the state of mind needed to grasp Heavenly content.
I just use it to summarize the chapter for me when I don’t understand it really helps me a lot when I don’t understand what the word is saying :)))
Yes, I use it to write stories, incorporate God into by having my characters pray and Bible verses
Hadn't heard of it, but I seems like it'd be OK to use for a quick answer.
Such a great video I found it by praying and then having the Holy Spirit put on my heart to do a search of ChatGPT and studying God’s Word, and it lead me directly to your video.
An immediate thought that I had was imagine if you’re getting a Bible study from Mr ChatGPT and suddenly realize that most, if not everything that it’s been teaching you from what is the information that it gathered while it’s scoured millions of websites all over the Internet, which included the Mormon LDS official website, as well as the
Jehovah’s Witness and you guys get my point.
If you’ve done any apologetics, or witnessing to either one of these organizations, you’ll probably know that both of their official site’s are an ocean of false deceptive teaching. And not most but ALL of it was written specifically to manipulate, confuse and eventually win over the listener to believing in their cult as actually being Biblical!
You got us thinking...and thank you so much for that! I keep hearing about the discernment and the checking that people should engage in...And I find that a bit naive. This tool is clearly a shortcut, and will be used as one. Let us imagine someone does not have the time, or the patience to look up 5 different webpages on the same topic on Google and instead feels happy to have ONE summary on chatgpt. It is clear this person is in a hurry - the hurry can have different reasons behind it and we will not judge that. What makes us think that people in this situation will have the time to cross check what CHAT GPT produces? To discuss with mentors and to look up credible scholars who wrote about it. And if they did have that time, why start with chatgpt in the first place? Maybe it will just get you on a wrong path, and make you waste time with a perspective that was not a research priority in any way. Research priorities can come from two directions: your genuine interest (your heart burns to provide an answer to that question) or a major author's emphasis on that topic (the authors are credible sources and it is worthwhile to pursue topics that they believe are essential to a particular subject, right?). In other words, chat-gpt can have an agenda-setting effect and a framing effect as well. It can anchor your mind towards a certain perspective and, if you do not have the time to check, that perspective will stick. If you do have the time to check, why spend it checking on chatgpt instead of pursuing your own interests or an author's thread?
I haven’t heard of this as a new resource! Definitely something to err on the side of caution with. I’m getting back into bible study, for the first time all by myself, are there any other credible sites or books you recommend for bible study/theology?
yes i use it.
Ask God not AI
Yes Chat GPT is becoming popular these days. I have been seeing it the most from youtubers saying you can use it to generate money with affiliate marketing or something. Definitely have to be careful.
Thank You ❤
I have found it to be very impressive when asking it to exegete verses and passages. I do use it with caution however.
I have been using various AI within my Bible studies for a bit now, I am using ChatGPT4, Bard, Bing AI, and the embedded AI in Notion. Often, I ask the same question in to all of them and compare the responses. That said, and just like hearing from anyone on the internet, I weigh the responses against my own understanding and logic. And just like people will disagree, and even call people on some platform or another apostate, it is for the individual to decide what they will use and what they will not. After all, there are Bible translations I won't touch as a matter of taste or theology... AI will be no different I presume. Oh, and FTR, not all AI's are created equal... just like translations of the Bible ;)
The models powering ChatGPT and similar tools are not actual databases, they are more like mathematical formulas developed by processing a vast amount of information from the Internet. What they do is take some input (the prompt plus previous prompts plus answers in the case of the chat format) and generate a sequence of words that sounds correct (but it might not be correct). Disclaimer: I'm not an expert, just have some basic knowledge on these tools.
100% agree that they shouldn't replace trusty sources and that we should use our own discernment. After all, spiritual things are spiritually discerned.
I've personally find it useful for summarizing things, editing text for better wording, and arguing against me with (ie. "here are my thoughts on X give me some counter arguments")
6:46 - Do you have a paperclip in your glasses?? (Ok, should have waited like 30 seconds before commenting haha)
Never heard anything about it.
Neither have I, to be honest.
Thank you for the insights into the disadvantages - indeed, the information is curated by a system that basically makes a sort of an average of all the information it was trained on. It is quite far from an encyclopedia, in every meaning that we might give to an encyclopedia (which would mean credible information and first-hand sources above all). I am wondering why you mention this advantage: finding ONE summary instead of FIVE that would be available on Google - how is this a major advantage? What do you mean? I see immense advantages in having 5 perspectives.
"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John 14 : 26 The Spirit is our best teacher. A machine does not have and never can have the Spirit. ;-)
One would think that one could have variants that have been trained based on a limited database. For example one might limit it to Lutheran doctrine that would have say all of Luther's sermons and material from Lutheran seminaries.
Or one might have one that is based on a set of these such as those who have a certain view like pretrib vs post trib etc.
One would think over time one might see these specialized databases on many subjects with Bible study being one of those.
But as you say, it is a tool is that like any tool can be used in a good way or a bad way.
One other thing is that there is a random element so one can ask it the same thing seral times to compare those as well.
Another use might be to use it to find data such as asking it what is the best commentaries on the Book or Revelation that is based on a pretrib rtapture that has been written before 1955?
BTW, I just logged onto ChatGPT (for the first time at that) and asked it this question
What do Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 have in common?
and got this answer:
Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 are both considered to be "wisdom psalms" in the Book of Psalms. They are also placed at the beginning of the book, with Psalm 1 serving as an introduction to the entire collection and Psalm 2 setting the stage for the rest of the book by introducing the theme of God's sovereignty over the nations.
In terms of their content, Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 differ in style and tone, but there are a few similarities between them.
Firstly, both psalms contrast the righteous with the wicked. Psalm 1 begins by describing the blessedness of those who do not walk in the counsel of the wicked, while Psalm 2 contrasts the rebellion of the nations with the righteous rule of God's anointed king.
Secondly, both psalms emphasize the importance of meditating on God's law. Psalm 1 says that the righteous person delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on it day and night, while Psalm 2 describes the rebellion of the nations against the Lord and his anointed as a rejection of his law and authority.
Finally, both psalms make use of imagery and metaphor to convey their message. Psalm 1 compares the righteous person to a tree planted by streams of water, while the wicked are like chaff blown away by the wind. Psalm 2 uses images of God's wrath and laughter to convey the futility of the nations' rebellion against his anointed king.
Overall, while there are some similarities between Psalm 1 and Psalm 2, they serve different purposes and convey different messages, with Psalm 1 focusing on individual piety and Psalm 2 on the sovereignty of God over the nations.
Pretty amazing!
Never heard of it.
There are so many sites available for use. Frankly I am timid to try all of them just to evaluate them. Can you provide a link? If not, can you give me more info so I can find it please?
for me every day study
No I don't use chatgpt that's a robot no soul no spirit it's very deceiving
Thank you for sharing your honest opinion.
Wrong. Its fallen Angel's. Unclean spirits.
We can think of it as just another tool however we should keep in mind what those creators and those out in front of AI had and have in mind for it. Look for Elon Musk, the World Economic Forum, Yuval Noah Harari, and see the purpose of why AI was created and what they have in mind for the world regarding AI. Every time we engage with AI the closer we bring it to being sentient, i.e. "alive". We can't be unaware of what the world is doing.
I hope people see the red flags with this type of AI in concern with the end times. This type of thing can change Bible verses & make you believe you're reading the Bible when you're not. I will steer clear from using the program.
What’s the name of the book you’re using as a credible source?
CoffeeandBible or anyone XO I'm pretty new to 'wanting' to read the bible and wonder, when people say they open the bible for an answer daily, or if there struggling and the open the bible for god to speak to them, where do we turn, how do we know where to turn to, like what page or what chapter or book or verse..
I want to be going through something and turn to a page and read and.. feel like god answered me.. but i see SO many pages and books and it's overwhelming to know where to turn X TIA X
Hey there! First of all it's great to hear about your desire to be in the word. I'd say most important is not opening the bible and just picking any old verse and claiming it. Taking scripture out of context is an easy way to get off course. Just take it book by book, then when you pick a book, take that book chapter by chapter and verse by verse. The bible will explain itself to you if you take your time and look at whatever chapter you are in and just slow down. Take notes and look words up. Each verse will help interpret the verses before and after. I hope this helps a bit. Just take it slow.
For me, I always ask ChatGPT according to the bible
Never use it before so I can’t comment on but I do know that if we want to understand scripture we should seek for the Holy Spirit because it’s the Holy Spirit that teaches us all things right?
I'm too leary of AI to start using it
What is ChatGPT?
Who doesnt love a little fallen angel angel technology?
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What if we put an AI in our brain in the future?
for me I think study in chatgpt
but I like have group people
I think 1000 pagues
I guess
Great. Now ask it, what is truth?
AI will be God's servant as well if he wills :) Even Rocks can cry out :)
What a hoggwash