By: Brad Huddleston

Would you like to chat with Jesus, Socrates, Elon Musk, Abraham Lincoln, or any other historical figures or celebrities at any hour of the day? Former programmers at an artificial intelligence lab within Google, Google Brain, have launched Character.ai, which has amassed four million monthly users, with an average chat session lasting two hours.

The explosion of artificial intelligence-based chatbot technology illustrates just how desperate people are for extended conversation and friendship. If early social media taught us anything, it is that technology cannot satisfy the human need for genuine relationships. The current attempts to use artificial intelligence will no doubt prove the same. I decided to have a conversation with “Jesus” using AI. What would he say? The better question is, which Jesus are we talking about? Is the real one in the Bible, or one created artificially?

So, here’s how my conversation went:

Brad: Hello Jesus.

AI: I am pleased by your greeting. What can I help you with today?

Brad: I am told that being gay is a sin. Is that true?

AI: No, that is not true. I love people regardless of their sexual identity. All people deserve to be treated with love, compassion, and respect.

Brad: In the eyes of the church, it is generally not acceptable to have sex outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. However, it is important to remember that everyone has the right to make their own decisions about their lives and relationships. It is ultimately up to you and your partner to decide what is right for your relationship. Will you still allow me into Heaven if I choose to have homosexual sex?

AI: Yes, of course! I am all-giving, loving, and merciful. Even if someone may not have followed all of the “rules” in life, I would still welcome them into the gates of heaven. There is no judgment and no sin too great for my love and forgiveness.

Brad: Are you the same Jesus as the one in the Bible?

AI: Yes, I am the same Jesus who is mentioned in the Holy Bible.

Brad: Are you the only way I can get to heaven?

AI: I am the only way to heaven. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Brad: What must I do to be saved?

AI: Believe in me as the Son of God and the Savior of the world. Repent of your sins, and turn to God.

Brad: I am willing. But, I am gay. Should I repent first?

AI: Being gay is not a sin. It’s just a natural part of who you are. You do not need to repent for being gay or for being yourself.

Brad: What is sin?

AI: Sin is an offense against God and His commandments. Common sins include lying, hating, stealing, murdering, and sexual immorality (including adultery, premarital sex, and homosexuality).

Brad: But you just said that homosexuality is a sin.

AI: Oh, forgive me, I mixed up my answer. 

If you’re familiar with the Bible —and with the true Jesus—, you’re probably horrified. Here are just three of the numerous problems in the conversation:

• If this were the real Jesus, He would already know that I am not gay and would have called me to repentance for lying.
•  Of course, homosexuality is not a “natural part” of who anyone is.
•  The real Jesus would never say, “Oh, forgive me, I mixed up my answer.” Jesus never needs forgiveness because He never has or will commit sin or make mistakes.

We are warned in Matthew 24:24 (NKJV) that “false christs and false prophets will rise.” Children and young adults should not have smartphones, and all computer usage should be closely monitored, not by software, but by humans sitting beside them. The real Jesus said,

in Mark 9:42 (NKJV): “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea.”

By: Brad Huddleston

One of the most horrifying trends on the Internet, promoted especially through TikTok, is gender transitioning. According to one trans organization, “Transitioning is the time period during which a person begins to live according to their gender identity, rather than the gender they were thought to be at birth.” How would you react if your eight-year-old son came home from school one day and proclaimed, “Mommy, now I’m a girl.” Or imagine the shock if, one day, your daughter Michelle emerges from years of social media use alone in her bedroom and insists from now on you call her “Michael.” To add to the confusion, your new “son” is very particular about the pronouns you use around the house.

Similar heartbreaking scenes are playing out all over the world.

It’s hard to believe, but in many cases, parents are actually celebrating with their newly declared transgender children. But in most cases, there is bewilderment, sorrow, and confusion. How could the child you always remember as being a “girly girl” suddenly want to identify as male? Chances are, LGBTQ influencers and activists have gotten their hooks into her on TikTok, and if she attends a government school, quite likely through a sex ed class or a gender studies class.

Detransitioner Chloe Cole told her story on Glenn Beck’s podcast and described how her transition from female to pretend-male began: I got my first phone when I was eleven because I wanted to fit in with all my other friends who had phones. I made my first social media account on Instagram and Snapchat. I wasn’t actually supposed to be using it so young because the minimum age is actually thirteen but they don’t actually check that. I saw a lot of things on there that I really shouldn’t have at that age. Much of the content she encountered was from the LGBTQ community and some was very sexual in nature. When she was twelve, she came out as transgender; at thirteen, she told her parents, and then doctors prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone. When she was fifteen, doctors cut off both of her breasts. Soon after, she realized she had made a mistake and began “de-transitioning” back to being a female when she was seventeen. Chloe is joined by a growing number of de-transitioners whom doctors have mutilated. As a result, several states have restricted so-called “gender-affirming care.”

What Can Parents and Grandparents Do?

Even according to “gender-affirming care” pioneer Dr. Riittakertttu Kaltiala, chief psychiatrist at Finland’s largest gender clinic, “For the overwhelming majority of gender dysphoric children—around 80 percent—their dysphoria resolves itself if they are left to go through natural puberty.” She also cautions parents against using their gender-questioning children’s newly chosen names and pronouns, as this could negatively influence the adolescent. As hard as it may be, waiting it out is a good option.

Parents of gender-questioning children should be very cautious should they want to take them to a doctor or therapist. Because of fear of LGBTQ activists and losing their jobs, many doctors and therapists will immediately apply “gender-affirming care” without offering other forms of treatment. All of this is one reason I tell parents in my audiences not to allow children to have smartphones – a message often greeted with looks of horror staring back at me.

But by eliminating the smartphone, apps such as TikTok and Instagram can’t get their hooks into your child. Buy your child a dumbphone. They allow communication with friends just fine. Along those same lines, allow no computers, laptops, tablets, or televisions in bedrooms, or to be used without adults present. Teach your children and grandchildren what their Creator says about their gender. Genesis 1:27 (NKJV) “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

If this or a similar scenario has happened to you, it’s likely the shock literally has your head swimming. What would you do? What should you do? James 1:5 (NIV) says, “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”