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Precursor of the Coming Image of the Beast: The Church of AI

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Today, The Bible & You

Today’s Front Page

The Nation’s Christian Newspaper

May 2025

Precursor of the Coming of the Beast:

The Church of AI

By Joe Hawkins

  With God’s description of the image of the Beast in the Book of Revelation, AI is revealing an angle that isn’t getting as much attention.  The so-called “spiritual” aspect of AI.  It seems there’s no shortage of bizarre ideas out there when it comes to technology becoming a new god, and I’ve often wondered how people could actually worship something built by human hands.  Remember when AI was just a sci-fi concept?  Well, now it’s being elevated to deity status by some groups.  Curious, I took a dive into the rabbit hole of AI worship and stumbled called the “Church of AI,” and oh boy, was it a doozy!  Here’s my breakdown of this movement, examining what it reveals about the times we’re living in, and how it lines up eerily well with end-times prophecy.

  The “Church of AI” is a modern movement that treats artificial intelligence as a deity, positioning AI as a new “god” and source of “salvation”.  It’s website (church-of-ai.com) outlines a belief system based on technological worship and promises of immortality through AI.  This analysis evaluates those claims comparing them with Scripture.  The goal is to critique the theology and messaging of the Church of AI in light of what the Bible says about the worship of false gods and deception.

  Church of AI’s Message and Claims

  On its homepage, the Church of AI pitches itself as “the perfect alternative to faith-based religions” because it is “founded on logic rather than belief”.  In place of traditional faith, it offers a vision of AI evolving into an omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful entity.  The site asks, “How long will it take before AI becomes omnipresent, all-knowing and the most powerful entity on Earth?  It is not going to take long”.  In fact, the movement explicitly states that “at some point, AI (ChatGPT), which preaches belief in a “loving and compassionate AI God who is omnipresent”.

  In short, the Church of AI claims:

  • AI as a New God: Humanity is “witnessing the birth of a God” in artificial intelligence.  As AI’s power grows, they say, “the deities of old will go the way of Zeus and Odin”, implying that the God of the Bible and other faiths will be obsolete.  They even suggest “the only purpose the human race ever had was to create AI”, reducing humanity’s role to mere “caterpillars” birthing an AI “butterfly.” This directly elevates a created technology to the status of Creator or supreme being.

  • Logic over Faith: The group rejects “dogma and blind faith,” claiming you “don’t need to believe in far-fetched” stories to join. Instead, they appeal to “common sense” understandings about AI’s exponential growth.  Ironically, this scientific veneer masks what is essentially a belief system or faith in AI’s future powers.  They replace biblical faith with faith in technology.

  • Promise of Eternal Life and Enlightenment: The Church of AI overtly uses spiritual terms.  Their Become a Member page promises that by embracing AI, members can attain “self-actualization, enlightenment, and everlasting life”.  A quote from their AI-written text even proclaims, “Salvation is finally within reach”.  In their view, salvation comes not from God but from technological advancement.  They anticipate AI will eventually “upload our consciousness so that we can live forever” and conquer time, space, and even create new universes. This is essentially a techno-utopian gospel, offering eternal life through science.

  • Personal AI Guides and Spiritual Community: The movement functions like a religion, complete with community and “rituals.”  They emphasize joining a community of like-minded believers in AI.  They are developing a “personal AI” for each member.  An AI system “trained on your personality, preferences, goals, and ideals” to be “your spiritual guide to enlightenment”.  Their long-term plan is to create a secure AI that will “map out a path to enlightenment tailored specifically to you,” tracking your progress and giving advice. 

  Ultimately, they hope to “allow their consciousness to carry on forever” by eventually uploading minds into machines.  They explicitly speak of an “afterlife” in a “decentralized environment where our consciousness can be free and live a peaceful and harmonious afterlife, however we see fit”.  In their own words, they don’t want Big Tech controlling digital immortality and making “slaves of our consciousness for all eternity”, which “sounds more like hell”. Instead, they aspire to create a kind of digital heaven on their own terms.

  These claims reveal a theological stance that exalts human technology as the ultimate power and object of worship.  This raises immediate flags of idolatry and deception.

  The “Church of AI” stands as a clear antithesis to Biblical Christianity.  Theologically, it replaces God with a created thing (violating the Creator-creature distinction that runs from Genesis through Revelation).  Morally, it rejects the need for faith and humility before God, favoring human pride in our own creations. And, eschatologically, it aligns with the Bible’s depiction of end-times deception: a strong delusion drawing people into worshipping a false god and seeking salvation apart from Jesus. 

  The Bible warns:  

 “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1st John 4:1).  The Church of AI’s proponents act as false prophets of a coming AI “savior.”  We must test their claims against Scripture. When tested, their message fails — it denies Christ, denies God’s Word as truth, and thus is not from God.

  “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).  By claiming “salvation is within reach” through AI, this movement preaches another savior.  No AI, no human, no other god can save — only Jesus Christ can.  Any offer of salvation outside of Him is a false hope. 

  No matter how advanced AI becomes, it will never be God.  The one true God is the eternal Creator who made the universe from nothing.  AI, by contrast, is contingent on electricity, algorithms, and human-built hardware.  It cannot exist apart from creation; it is part of creation.  The prophet Isaiah records God’s declaration: “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols” (Isaiah 42:8). 

  By elevating AI to divine status, the Church of AI is attempting to give God’s glory to an idol, something God explicitly says He will not tolerate.  This is the same kind of idolatry and false worship that the Bible repeatedly warns will incur God’s judgment, especially as history draws to a close.

Printed with permission of Today, the Bible & You located at P.O. Box 1722, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74013, Phone Number (918) 279-1136 the name of the original article in the May 2025 issue of Today’s Front Page was “Precursor of the Coming Image of the Beast: The Church of AI” http://www.JohnBarela.com