There is also a sense in which man is always tempted to look to strengthen himself in power, prestige, and/or money. The temptation to engage with AI to produces sermons, and other forms of content, are a dishonest way of making it seem you are more capable. By stealing the credit of what AI is accommplishing, one makes it look like they are more fruitful, creating a reputation that it not earned, and perhaps wrongfully gaining more presitige, influence, and money.
(Maybe place this first) The more wealthy and more powerful an individual is, the more anxious one becomes to hold on to that wealth and power (wallace 155). Likewise...above
part of the problem falls at the feet of the church members who are so hungry for production instead of shepherding that they would perhaps rather not know or care about how all the content and production happens, as long as it is available for consumption (Wallace 162)
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This type of argument originates from a philosophical approach called pragmatism. This philosophical system is not concerned with whether something is true, but whether it works.
"We should not hesitate to say that the modern demand for practical action, when coupled with indifference to or impatience of truth, is thoroughly perverse and wicked." (Vos 388)
The Westminster Confession of Faith states that the moral law binds all people at all times to obedience, therefore though the civil and ceremonial law may have expired with the theocracy of Israel, the moral law does not expire. (Van Dixhoorn 246)
It is important to understand that the moral law has not changed or been done away with for new covenant believers, and to recognize that problematic philosophies such as pragmatism can take root when such thought is embraced.
Van Til states that man regularly faces the temptation to escape hard labor by transferring it to others, and he points to how this can be a form of stealing (Van Til 175)
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"Pragmatism was empiricist in its methodology and valued inquiry, doubt, and the acceptance of fallibility. While this has the appearance of humility, it made the autonomous man the measure for all truth." (Hatch 52
"Our pursuit of technological advances is most often motivated not by a desire to glorify God, but by the sinful pursuit to achieve the unachievable: to be gods ourselves." (Thacker 43)
But there is a danger in the opposite happening. We regress in our ability to think for ourselves and process God's Word as one relies on AI. (Thacker 96)
