BABEL – Behavioral AI-driven Black-box Emergent Lordship

As I continue to ponder John 8:21-30, my mind was connecting the meaning of all that we have discovered up to this point in our red-letter journey. Walking chronologically with Jesus through the gospels helps afford you the same maturity of thoughts and ideas that the disciples would have been going through. It's only fitting that each encounter feels more deeply meaningful.

I like to consider myself the 15th disciple. Matthias was the 13th replacing Judas. Paul, the 14th and the rest, you, me, everyone of Jesus followers become the 15th. It's kind of like the 19th hole on a golf course, but I digress. The point is that it's a shared expression that I don't consider my own.

In this section of scripture, Jesus is clear explaining that He is from above and they (the Jews) were from below. Not just here but in other places, Jesus says that the only way to "above" is through Him. If you abide in earthly systems, you gain earthly things. If you abide in Jesus, you gain heavenly things.

As you guys know, this is where I went off the tracks and started looking at "earthly systems". And of course, the big one right now is AI. As we approached discussions of reciprocal dependence of earthly systems. Thinking about that opened up the idea that the dependence on God is NOT reciprocal. God doesn't need you! That leads to the very definition of grace.

And so here we are and we are asking the question, what if man creates a system that is not dependent upon man. What happens? What does that look like? We call it BABEL

Behavioral

AI-driven

Black-box

Emergent

Lordship.

If you have read your bible, you know what it looks like, but we're going to bring it to the surface so it's much easier to identify.

Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/babel-behavioral-ai-driven-black-box-emergent-lordship/