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A new AI tool claims to interpret someone speaking in tongues—and yes, people are actually testing it. One woman shared a recording of her own private prayer language and says the AI’s translation included themes of divine timing, trust, and surrender. Some are calling it a breakthrough. Others are calling it blasphemy.
The Bible clearly teaches that interpretation of tongues is a spiritual gift given by the Holy Spirit—not something manufactured by code or mimicked by machines (1 Corinthians 12:10). So what happens when artificial intelligence steps into that space? Are we witnessing a new tool for spiritual discernment—or crossing into dangerous territory?
This raises deeper questions about discernment, spiritual gifts, and the difference between what is real and what is artificial. Can the Spirit of God work through technological means? Or are we trying to replicate what only God can do?
What do you think?
Has AI gone too far? Or is this a tool God could use?
“The claims made by the AI model have sparked both excitement and concern across the Christian community.”
Of course AI will offer an interpretation of tongues, AI is incapable of returning a null response. It has to tell you something, even if that response has no basis in reality.
(IMHO) AI is like the most obnoxiously opinionated person you will ever meet; the very definition of “wired”, an electronic prosaic prig, a dismissive dummy, an ultra-impersonal intellectual, a simulated smarty-pants, one whose presence instantly sucks all the air out of a room. If AI were not A, none of us would care to spend 5 minutes with him/her. Armed with superfluous rhetoric, AI overwhelms an innocent inquirer with a grammatically perfect treatise on any subject, while accepting no responsibility for its veracity. Such a person you and I would intentionally avoid; not because we don’t think they’re smart, but because they feel duty-bound to exterminate all mystery from our lives.
Why we built ourselves a robotic “know-it-all” nerd in the first place, does not make sense to me.
Before we interpret tongues, do we not have to establish what they are?
First usage is a major clue.
So is the Greek word used.
When tongues were first used, everyone understood them in their native language.
So that also establishes that first usage was a known language to those hearing the words.
Why is it so important to establish this?
Knowing this removes the mystasisum of the miracle.
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The Greek word used translates to glossary, which also establishes the miracle as a known language.
No mysterious non-understandable language here.
Our phones can do this now.
Non-understandable language is same in every language, gibberish.
The Holy Spirit was not interpreting gibberish.
The miracle is that He interpreted all of the languages at the same time.
They all understood the interpretation in their native language at the same moment in time.
That is something our phones cannot do; at least not yet.
