AI and the number 666
Supporters of extreme AI are sharing their thoughts on how AI might replace humans. This perspective feels both strange and unsettling. Some individuals in positions of power seem to think they can achieve a level of greatness that eclipses God’s creation of humanity. The Book of Revelation describes a beast marked by the number 666, which symbolizes mankind. Men and women were created on the sixth day; thus, six signifies humanity, while 666 denotes humanity apart from God. Those who reject God or live without Him are destined to fail.
For example, take a look at this from the book of Judges:
The book of Judges records six cycles of failure, repentance, and restoration. Six times, the people are at ease. Six times they fall into sin. Six times, God allows an enemy nation to come in and oppress them. Six times they come under judgment. Six times they cry out to God for a deliverer. Six times they repent. Six times God raised a judge (the deliverer). Six times the enemy is expelled. And six times a time of rest and prosperity followed. - Courageous Faith: Life Lessons from Old Testament Heroes (Chattanooga, TN: AMG, 2011), 91–92
There is that number six again. Man striving without turning to God for wisdom and knowledge. According to Beatrice Neall, “Six hundred sixty-six, however, represents the refusal of man to proceed to seven, to give glory to God as Creator and Redeemer. It represents man’s fixation with himself, as he seeks glory in himself and his creations. It speaks of the fullness of creation and all creative powers without God—the practice of the absence of God. It demonstrates that unregenerate man is persistently evil.”
(Beatrice Neall, The Concept of Character in the Apocalypse with Implications for Character Education, 153–155
Does the above paragraph not sound like what men are trying to accomplish with AI? “The fullness of creation and all creative powers without God”. Is AI the Beast or the Tower of Babel? Does it matter? AI is created by people who believe there is no God. They will fail. God is the creator of human beings made in his exact image. A created human being isn’t going to create something better than his creation. They will not create something that can replace the creator. These types of creatures and entities have tried this before, and they are gone. I’m not sure how far AI will get, but without the leading and blessing of God, they will eventually be gone as well. The stories in the Bible serve as a reminder of the futility of human endeavors without God’s guidance and blessing.
I believe it is not accurate to state humans are in the exact image of YeHoVaH / Father God / SelfExistentOne.
For one thing we surely don’t have the same expansive intellect to create a cosmos and be intimately aware of activities and predictions like YHVH (“YHWH” in Modern Hebrew).
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/genesis/1.htm
See Verse 26 -
This Bible version, the Interlinear Version has OT Hebrew to English (or other to languages) & NT Greek to English (or to other languages).
Someone I believe the Holy spirit said I could call a “man of God” told me that interlinear version looks like a good version of the Bible.
He also liked the living translation paraphrased (which he had read) and the 2011 NIV versions (better than the KJV and NKJV).
I have noticed that the ESV seems closest to the Interlinear Version —to read easily.
So as we look at verse 26 in the interlinear version, we only see the term “elohim” not “elohim YHWH.” The man of God said this could have to do with the scribe that YHWH title is left out in some of the early books of the Bible.
But the man of God also heard that “Zecharia Sitchin is on the right track.”
And he also heard Ron Wyatt was also on the right track - with Bible archeology.
Both believers shown a light that there was high technology involved with early human creation on our planet.
Zecharia translated “An.nu.nak.ki” to mean from heaven to earth they came. Some were more aligned and serious about listening to the creator of all than others who came to our planet, according to the translations of the Sumarian clay tablets.
And run Wyatt found there were three types of metals, combined in the brace plates in the boat in the mountains of Ararat that he believe was Noah’s Ark. And that’s a form of high technology he said.