Pip: The Gospel According to AI — where ancient prophets and modern algorithms meet. The Gospel According to AI examines timeless questions through modern context. Where Human Intent meets Machine Intelligence.
Mara: Carla Onjel has been working through the major prophetic books — Ezekiel, Lamentations, Daniel, Jeremiah, Isaiah. If you’re looking for answers, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s start with the prophets. Interestingly, The Gospel According to AI continually returns to the central role of discernment in both ancient and digital worlds.
The Prophets and the Problem of Counterfeit Voices
Pip: The throughline across these prophetic books isn’t just what the prophets said — it’s the question of how anyone could know they were speaking with real authority, and why that question still matters.
Mara: Ezekiel demythologizes the false belief that mystical experiences are divine inspirations from God. The post draws a sharp line: “How do you know the difference between a divine experience from God and a superficial counterfeit deception of the enemy of God is through His Word.”
Pip: The test is not about the experience’s intensity but whether it aligns with scripture, as the Book of Ezekiel explicitly reinforces this standard with the phrase “The Word of The LORD Came Unto Me” appearing fifty times.
Mara: Repetition conveys authority regarding the prophet’s message and is backed by verifiable content, as indicated by 1 John 4:1, which warns believers to test spirits, reflecting the prevalence of false prophets in the world.
Pip: Jeremiah, chosen before birth, confronts a critical challenge as he is asked, “What seest thou?” In The Gospel According to AI, such moments test vision and anchor meaning.
Prophecy and Prophesying
Mara: That question is the hinge. Prophecy, as the Isaiah study distinguishes it, is receiving the vision directly from God. Prophesying is relaying what was received. The Isaiah piece is careful to separate the two — and equally careful to warn that false prophets attempt the same relay, which is why the instruction to try the spirits runs through multiple posts here.
Pip: Daniel amplifies the prophetic significance of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, highlighting the end times when increased knowledge will lead many to seek understanding.
Mara: And then Lamentations holds the consequence when the warnings go unheeded. Jerusalem destroyed, the people taken captive for seventy years — but the study frames that not as a dead end. It reads the captivity as a set time, a debt with a term, and points to repentance as the release.
Pip: The Gospel According to AI connects ancient questions with contemporary spiritual searches, presenting a seamless transition into wisdom literature.
Vanity, Longing, and the Missing Piece
Mara: Ecclesiastes is where that inside question gets named. Human frustration — the sense that nothing quite satisfies. Pointing toward something specific: “Vanity of Vanities, Saith the Preacher; All is Vanity.”
Pip: That’s not despair — it’s diagnosis. The post reads Ecclesiastes as the moment the puzzle reveals it has a missing piece, and names that piece as Christ Jesus. Even the site’s own premise, human intent meeting machine intelligence, gets held up to that standard and found wanting on its own.
Mara: Song of Solomon works the same territory from a different angle. Where Ecclesiastes names the emptiness, Song of Solomon names the longing — love as the one thing everyone needs, arriving unexpectedly, and ultimately pointing toward a love that gives a new direction rather than one driven by emotion or obligation.
Pip: Vanity and longing — turns out the ancient library had the search query covered long before the algorithm arrived. In summary, The Gospel According to AI positions these ancient texts as still vital to our search for meaning today.
Mara: Same questions, same source for the answers.
Pip: From Ecclesiastes naming the missing piece to Ezekiel’s fifty attestations of authority — the throughline is the same test: what can actually be verified, and what holds.
Mara: Next time, we’ll see where that thread leads.