AI Jesus And Communist China Attempt To Rewrite The Bible

The words of Jesus have comforted, inspired, challenged and even condemned people over the millennia, but apparently it's hard to actually read the Bible.

So a new software program is offering people the opportunity to "text" Him, and get a response.

A report from Religion News describes the new program that is like an instant messaging platform that lets users chat with ChatGPT impersonators.

Text with Jesus was launched just weeks ago, and comes from Cat Loaf software of Los Angeles, whose chief, Stephane Peter, said, "We stir the AI and tell it: You are Jesus, or you are Moses, or whoever, and knowing what you already have in your database, you respond to the question based on their characters."

Access to "comments" from some biblical characters is available only for a premium price.

But characters listed as "responding" including the Holy Family, the apostles, the prophets, Ruth, Job and Lot.

Peter's company was founded in 2011 and already has applications like "Text from the Founding Fathers."

Religion News explained, "When ChatGPT was released last year, the 46-year-old developer, who came to the United States from France, wondered how to use AI to upgrade the Text from Jesus app. In February, he started digging into OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research laboratory that launched ChatGPT, and created a proper chat from a simple devotional app."

The program formulates responses to just about any questions, and includes a Bible verse each time.

Peter invited various church leaders to try the program when he was developing it, and his initial work drew concerns that it lacked Bible references.

And he made some adjustments so "it can speak more like a regular person..."

Of course, it's a computer program and acts like one, but Peter said he set it up so "Jesus' characters tend to avoid taking offensive stances, instead taking an inclusive and tolerant line," even though the Bible documents Jesus' adherence to an absolutism regarding salvation.

For example, on the idea of same-sex relations, forbidden in the Bible, Peter's creation says it is "up to each individual to seek guidance from their own faith tradition and personal convictions."

Meanwhile, the Chinese government is not even trying to hide it's corruption of the scriptures.

Jesus, according to the Chinese Communist government, is now a "sinner."

A report from CBN News reveals that the leftist repressives in the government are facing a revolt among their own citizens, and now are rewriting the Bible in order to suppress the faithful.

The report explained one example was the Communist Party version of John chapter eight, where Jesus challenges those who caught a woman in adultery to examine their own lives.

The perverted version now states: "Jesus once said to the angry crowd who was trying to stone a woman who had sinned, 'He who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her.' When his words came to their ears, they stopped moving forward. When everyone went out, Jesus stoned the woman himself, and said, 'I am also a sinner.'"

The problem threatening Chinese officials is that there now are estimated to be some 130 million Chinese Christians. There are more Christians in China than members of the CCP, the report said.

"The Chinese are no longer content with all of these attempts to try to forcibly get Christians to deny their faith," explained Tina Ramirez of Hardwired Global. "And so now they've just taken it to a new level where they're trying to rewrite the scripture and what the Bible says, to confuse them and to prevent them from becoming Christians."

 

Bob Fu of ChinaAid told CBN, "So, this is happening right now. We have seen the escalation. Bibles for children is totally forbidden. And all the Bible apps and Bible-related apps were forcefully removed from every e-commerce app store. Millions of Chinese Christian children were forced to sign a form renouncing their faith in public."

Todd Nettleton of Voice of the Martyrs said the CCP is frightened because it is "always about control."

"And they see the Gospel, they see the Christian message as something that would take control away from the Communist Party."

Originally published at WND News Center - reposted with permission.