Christians Can Give Two Cheers for AI

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“Christians should affirm neither panic nor utopianism. Instead, we can give two cheers for AI—recognizing it as an outworking of humanity’s God-given creative vocation while insisting on moral and theological limits.” - TGC

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Worldview vs. Social Imaginary

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“ ‘Imagination’ is simply the mental faculty that we have of conjuring up mental images in our minds. ….Thus, the social imaginary includes not just intellectual beliefs but what we picture in our minds (memories, feelings, desires, fantasies, our constructions, and what we take as real).” - Gene Veith

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What If Aliens are Real? A Thought Experiment

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“If next week Trump were to give a speech presenting compelling evidence of extraterrestrial life… some people would be terrified….But what about your church? What would happen the Sunday morning after this kind of news?” - CToday

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The Enduring Word: Take up and read!

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“Christianity is a worldview that is fundamentally word-centered. Words are central to God’s nature, purposes, and work in the Creation, Redemption, and Restoration of the world. According to Genesis 1, God spoke creation into existence.” - Breakpoint

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Why the Worldview of Atheists May Be a Little Christian

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“There’s a spectrum here…. I think what you’ve got somewhere in the middle is people who both recognize the cultural value of Christianity and all it’s given us in the West, but who are also sort of quite attracted to it as well, but perhaps are struggling to commit to the supernatural claims” - Breakpoint

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Worldviews and Tragedy

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“Tragedies expose our deepest beliefs about life and the world. Not only do they reveal what those beliefs are, they test whether they are ‘big enough.’” - Breakpoint

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