There are at least two places where the sentence, “Nothing is too hard for God,” appears. One is the Sarah story when she is told she will conceive and bear a child way after the age of fertility, and one in Jeremiah 32:17.
I just heard (viewed) a You Tube presentation about the influence and uses of Artificial Intelligence. It scared me as a Christian (the film is by a Christian woman), as a writer, as a grandmother, and as one who used to grade students’ essays, stories, term papers, and exams. Artificial intelligence is operating from my computer right now, from my phone, from my posts, and from every trip I take in my car.
I am used to praying for God’s tall hedge of protection around me and those I love. And, indeed, nothing is impossible or too hard for God. But the capabilities of flawed men to construct our society, to produce the “perfect” candidate, or even construct “the AntiChrist” is becoming possible through the use of Artificial Intelligence. It can even produce weapon systems that guide themselves without human intervention or direction or ability to counterattack.
The things of the fantasy world may become the “stuff” of reality. While I am a firm believer in the omniscient, omnipresent, all powerful, Almighty power of God, it does bring a moment today for me to pray against this impending challenge.
I give you the website. https://youtube.be/1EDqNyefUmM Ignore the “come on ads.” There are three. While fascinating, they are mere interruptions to the message of AI influence. Pray with me about this, and about the world we are entering that is so unlike anything we’ve known previously.
I’m remembering Jonathan Edwards’ sermon from Colonial Times: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” which attempted to warn of coming events. We throw the term Armageddon around with reckless abandon. We watch “Groundhog Day”(incidentally, the groundhog saw his shadow and today predicts six more weeks of winter). Artists and writers have imaginatively “scared” us with fantasticcal creatures and scenarios, and the book of Revelation which I am now studying yet again has some creatures that are at best “other worldly” and metaphorically symbolic.
But the information on this video may have today’s possibilities correct. I don’t know what we can do to prevent the use of such technology. I do know identity theft is rampant and from close-to-me true experience, scammers can wreck havoc with naive, trusting people. A simple phone call or computer message can throw lives into chaos. What if, as this tape suggests, our whole world fall under the “spell” of an AI leader globally? When scripture warns to watch for wolves in sheep’s clothing and the roaring lion wandering the world, seeking whom he may destroy, was he talking aobut a constructed being, and artificial intelligence bringing the world to its knees?
Thought provoking at least. To counterattack this, read, as I did yesterday, the absolute power of God with Moses against Pharoah in Egypt. Or Noah’s story. Or Daniel in the lion’s den. I hear the song on ZRadio often: “Yes He Did, so Yes He Can!” Is anything, I ask you, too hard for God?
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