God and AI: Have We Replaced the True Helper?

This topic has been on my heart for a while, and I feel like now is the time to write about it. To be transparent, I do not have every part of this perfectly structured, and I do not know if I have every point figured out. What I do know is that I believe the Holy Spirit will guide me in saying what needs to be said.

Before I go any further, I want to make something clear. I am not writing this as a perfect man who has everything figured out. I, Kyler Jenkins, do not have everything figured out and will act like I have a halo around my head. I have fallen into the very thing I am writing about, and I have had to deal with the conviction that came from it. So if you are reading this and something begins to stir in your heart, know that I am not writing from a place of judgment, but instead I am writing from experience.

We are living in a time where artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life. We are seeing the good and the bad that comes with it. We are seeing beauty and destruction, knowledge and deception, convenience and dependence. AI can be useful in a lot of ways. It can help with research, organize work, create images, build recipes, explain difficult topics, and give us access to information faster than ever before.

I am not saying AI itself is evil. I use it, and I believe it can be a helpful tool when it is kept in its proper place. The concern I have is what happens when the tool begins to take the place of the One we were supposed to depend on.

• Have We Replaced the True Helper?

As believers, we have been given the Holy Spirit. We were never meant to walk through life alone or depend completely on our own understanding. Yet AI has introduced another kind of “helper” into our lives, one that can answer almost immediately.

You can ask AI for advice, direction, explanations, prayers, writing help, and solutions to problems. You can go to it when you are confused, anxious, frustrated, or unsure about what to do next. The convenience is real, but that is also where I believe we need to examine ourselves.

At what point does something useful become something we depend on too much?

This may sound harsh or blunt, but it is a question I have had to ask myself: how can I say I know my Heavenly Father if I struggle to pray for more than five minutes, yet when times get hard or concerns come up, I immediately run to AI for help?

That question convicted me because it forced me to look at where I was actually placing my trust.

• Where Do You Run First?

When life becomes difficult, where do you go first? When you need advice, what do you open first? When you are confused about a decision, do you pray and seek God, or do you immediately search for an answer somewhere else?

I believe our first response can reveal a lot about what we are depending on.

There have been moments where I realized I was quicker to ask AI a question than I was to pray. It was easier to type something into a box and receive an immediate response than it was to sit quietly before God, open Scripture, pray, and wait.

That realization did not make me want to throw technology away. It made me realize that something in my heart needed to be corrected NOW!

I had to repent.

I had to recognize that I was allowing a tool to occupy a place in my life that it was never meant to have.

• When a Tool Starts Becoming an Idol

One of the things that makes AI so appealing is that it requires very little patience. You ask a question, and within seconds you can receive a detailed response. There is no waiting, no silence, and no need for faith.

Our relationship with God does not always work that way.

There are times when we pray and do not immediately receive an answer. There are times when God requires us to wait, trust, seek Him, study His Word, and continue walking by faith even when we do not fully understand what He is doing.

That process builds relationship.

AI can give us information quickly, but information is not the same thing as relationship. It can explain something about God, but it cannot know God for us. It can generate words that sound like a prayer, but it cannot replace us getting on our knees and crying out to our Father, why, Because Ai does not have a soul that connects us with Elohim.

This is where I believe if you call yourself a born again believer, true obident follower of Christ have to be careful.

Maybe AI has become the first place you go for advice. Maybe you are asking it to write prayers for you instead of learning how to speak honestly with God yourself. Maybe you are using it to write something that God placed on your heart without first sitting with the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to develop what He wants to say through you.

Maybe none of those things are happening in your life. But I still believe the question is worth asking: Has this remained a tool, or has it become something I depend on?

Anything can become an idol when it begins taking the place that belongs to God. Also something that can become your god and break the first commandment. If this is you, repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.

• AI Can Be Useful Without Becoming Your God

I want to be clear because I do not believe the answer is to become afraid of technology or pretend AI does not exist. I believe it can be used responsibly and can be incredibly helpful.

Use it to research, use it to organize information, or use it to learn. Use it to find resources that can help you study a topic more deeply and allow it to assist you with things that make sense for a tool to assist you with.

But DO NOT confuse information with revelation.

DO NOT confuse an AI response with the voice of the Holy Spirit.

DO NOT allow convenience to replace communion with God.

AI may be able to explain a Bible passage, but you should still open your Bible. It may help you organize your thoughts, but you should still learn how to sit with God and think. It may offer advice, but you should still pray for wisdom and discernment.

Most importantly, it should never become the thing you trust more than God.

• Return to the Secret Place

If you read this and feel convicted, I do not believe the answer is shame or feeling judged, but instead the answer is repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand.

Go back to the secret place wherever that may be.

Spend time with God when there is no phone in your hand and no instant answer waiting for you. Pray even when you do not know what to say. Open Scripture and sit with it, learn to wait again and learn how to listen again. Learn to depend on God again because that is where true growth comes from.

If AI has slowly taken a place in your heart that belongs to Him, acknowledge it and ask God to forgive you, and begin putting things back into their proper order.

There is nothing wrong with using a tool. The problem begins when the tool becomes the place where we put our trust.

• Examine Yourself

I want to leave you with the same questions I have had to ask myself.

Are you replacing God with AI?

Are you spending more time asking AI questions than spending time in prayer?

When you need wisdom, who do you run to first?

Has AI remained a useful tool in your life, or has it quietly become something you rely on more than God?

Do not rush past those questions, please be honest with yourself.

I had to be honest with myself, and there were things in my own heart that I had to repent for.

AI can be useful, but it is not God. It is a lowercase god if you make it to be one. It can provide information, but it cannot replace the Holy Spirit. It can assist you, but it was never meant to become your source.

Use the tool, but do not worship the tool. Seek knowledge, but never stop seeking the One who gives wisdom.

Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.

By: Kyler Jenkins / His Standard 622