Faith In the Age Of AI

What do you say to a caregiver?

How do you help a caregiver? I was talking to this billing agent at the doctor's office and said, how are you feeling? And she said, oh great It's Friday. And before I could catch myself, I said Friday means nothing to me. Every day is Monday. And I felt kind of ashamed of that and I'm sorry for that, but I realized that whole principle of every day is Monday. What that means for us as caregivers, we know that this is going to be a challenging day. And I wrote these one-minute chapters.

You literally could read them in one minute. And I'm really proud of this book. It's called A Minute for Caregivers, When Every Day Feels Like Monday. It's filled with bedrock principles that we as caregivers can lean on, that we can depend upon to get us to safety, where we can catch our breath, take a knee if we have to, and reorient our thinking and the weight that we carry on our shoulders. If you don't know what to say to a caregiver, don't worry about it.

I do. Give them this book. Welcome back to Hope for the Caregiver.

This is Peter Rosenberger. This is the program for you as a family caregiver. Have you heard about AI?

Artificial intelligence. Do you know anything about it? Are you excited about it? Do you feel like it has biblical implications?

Do you feel like it has moral implications or societal, whatever? Are you in any way interested in this? Well, if you are, I've got a guest on my program today. Pastor Dan Scott, Dr. Dan Scott. I've known him for many, many, many years from Nashville, Tennessee. He was the pastor there at Christ Church, which is about 20 minutes from where Gracie and I lived. Numerous books that he's written, dynamic speaker, and oh, by the way, a caregiver. Yeah, and he understands the journey, and he and I have had the opportunity to spend a good bit of time together over the years, and I wanted to have him on the program. He was on the program.

It's been some years since he was with me when I was at the I Heart Studios there in Nashville, and we want to talk about this new book he's got. It's called Faith in the Age of AI, Christianity Through the Looking Glass of Artificial Intelligence. And I love what it said, by the way, Dan, imagine being alive when somebody discovered fire, you know, the implications of discovering fire. You got fire, the wheel, computers, and now AI.

You know, some of the biggest technological discoveries that have life-changing implications. So talk about this new book, talk about you, and welcome, by the way, to the program. Well, thank you. I had retired from my pastorate that I had had for many years. And so my backgrounds in mental health, secular training, was in mental health work. And so during the pandemic, the state of Tennessee asked me to come back and work in a clinic, and they sent out license to people that were retired. So when I went back to clinical work, I had a lot of updating to do on the diagnostic manuals and the use of digital records and so forth.

And so the younger people were helping me with that. But I wanted to explore from a theological standpoint, now that I had been for many years out of mental health work, what's a unique Christian take on mental health and so forth. So as I began to, I created a set of 17 statements on how a Christian views, uh, neurology, mental health work and, and psychology and pharmaceuticals and so forth. And then I began to write a commentary on each of these. And slowly, I realized I was being kind of opened to the new world of technology and it had numbers of implications about my faith that I wanted to explore. So anyway, I was surprised it was published, but a publisher that had only done science fiction before, uh, wanted my manuscript and published it. So that was a good surprise for me. Well, I love the title faith in the age of AI. I recently saw you preaching, um, where was that was in Murfreesboro.

Yes. It was family life center in Murfreesboro, which is a symbols of God congregation. I saw the link that, that was sent to me and I'm going to publish that link by the way, with this on the podcast and you, it was very interesting the way you tie this in because you brought in Jeremiah 29, and we're also familiar with Jeremiah 29, 11. Everybody quotes that to one another. I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord to prosper. We get all excited about that, but we don't see the context of several verses up from that.

And I've been talking about that to caregivers for some time about you. Look, we're, we're often caught in that trap of begging God to get us out of this mess, where God is saying, I put you in this mess. Right.

For a reason. And he did that with his own people. And so talk about how that is what springboarded your sermon and this message that you have of, of God establishing this sovereignly that we're here now. Well, I think that a great many Christians would like to turn the clock back. Our world seems complicated, particularly if you come from American evangelicalism, that's largely rooted in a rural and frontier, a culture and all the things we celebrate from that, including its wonderful values come from that kind of farming and small town world. And here we are then thrust into a wired world to where neighbors across the street are Buddhist.

And then you can instantly talk to someone in, in China, uh, texting and so forth. And so it just feels at times overwhelming from the standpoint of faith. But this passage in this passage, the prophet Jeremiah is addressing a group of people that's in exactly that same situation in Babylon.

And I'm sure they were thinking a letter from him would say, you'll be out of this soon. That's not God's plan for you. And instead they hear, pray for the inhabitants in whose land you dwell, that it may go well with them because in their prosperity, you will know your own prosperity.

That I think is a message we really need to think about for ourselves. We are here by divine providence. I couldn't help, but think about when you were preaching this, the, uh, forgive me for not being able to source the passage in Daniel, when he says in the end times of knowledge will increase. Basically exponentially, I don't know what the right word was, but, but you, I think you're familiar with that passage and that's where we are.

It's happening at, it's such speed now that it is bit overwhelming and we're trying to play catch up and how do we function in this and how do we hold on to this? And I was really quite moved by how you walk people through the culture shock and you like it to your own journey as a missionary. You've, you've had extensive missionary experience growing up. You're multilingual, not bilingual, you're multilingual and you've been in numerous cultures. Well, we're in a culture shock and that's where you talk about that a little bit.

Yeah, well, uh, culture shock was experienced in the past by relatively few people because most people stayed in the countries that they grew up in unless there was famine, war, or what have you. So it's well-documented that, you know, in culture shock, uh, unlike a tourist, like if you go to a place and, and you're like me, you're adventuresome, you like new foods, you like to meet new people, like to learn a few words in another language, that's for all fun and good. But, um, if you're doing this, uh, for two months, the newness wears off and now you just want to go home because you feel like an idiot, you can't find your way around, you want food from home. You just don't like it. It seems like everything's nuts to you.

You can't, you can't fit in. In 1970, one of the best sellers that year, uh, was a book called Future Shock by Alan Toffler. And he said that soon, even if you stay in your own hometown, little town, you know, and you never move, that very soon people living in that, in that situation would experience culture shock. Because the kinds of innovations that used to occur over hundreds of years or a hundred years would now begin occurring over 10 years, then five years and then two years. And then finally, they'd be continual.

And by the time that you adjust to a new culture, you'd be already upset by the culture changing again. And it, that was a prophetic kind of insight into our lives today, that the knowledge, the technology, the, uh, discovery, scientific discoveries continually push us into new territory for which, you know, we're just not, uh, prepared, uh, equipped to handle that amount of change over a short amount of time. As I listen again to that message and then to you right now, I cannot help but think of us in the caregiving world.

So many people are thrust into this by an event, something that happens, a diagnosis or whatever. And, um, Oliver North published my latest book and he was on this program. And he told me a statement that really surprised me. He said, Peter, you, your book was so impactful to me because it saved my life. And he said in the military, what saves our life is situational awareness.

And that's how we stay alive on the battlefield. But when I became a caregiver for my wife, his wife, Betsy, he said, I had no situational awareness. I was completely disoriented. And I think of how many of us in the caregiving world, you're there, I'm there, we've been there. Some of us walked into it with eyes wide open as much as we could. Some of us, it happened in one day, one day, and all of a sudden now we're here, either way, there is a disorientation that happens to us. And then our faith gets shaken, just like with, with any kind of culture shock now with this technological culture shock and, and we're being assaulted by all the things that you, you gave this litany of stuff with gender issues and so forth. And it's just coming at us in waves where solid ground. And I think I see that a lot along the landscape. I guess you obviously saw the same thing and that's why you're speaking so passionately about it because you saw people that are scrambling for solid ground.

Sure. I mean, as a mental health worker, you, you meet people of all sorts of context and, uh, a person's religion, uh, their, uh, their age, their gender, uh, you know, you, you have to move beyond any kind of discomfort you may have with that and just listen to how you can address their pain and find, you know, uh, help for them. And so that's one of the reasons, uh, I've been working in a church for several decades, uh, mostly, and now, uh, thrust back into having to meet people that did not share my faith or, uh, were in really different circumstances and how do I minister to them, uh, and care for them? I had to ask myself what has changed in the culture over the last few decades to where people, uh, do not share with me, uh, a view of what is common sense, how the world should function, and yet, how do I bridge that gap and way to show them mercy and compassion and care? That, that was kind of the crux pushed me in this place. And then I realized if we're not there, our children are there. And if not them are grandkids, we seem to be woefully unprepared. Is that a fair statement?

Absolutely. That's why the Jeremiah passage is such a powerful one, because how did Jews, his, this was the first generation of, of Jews that were now going to try to practice their faith outside their homelands. And this was not the way that the ancient world thought. If you move to another country, you just adapted, uh, their gods. Uh, we see that in the book of Ruth, you know, Ruth says to Naomi, uh, your people will be my people.

Your gods will be my gods, you know, where you die and are buried there, you know, I'll be in all that. Uh, this is the attitude that people, if you're going to live in another country, you have to adapt their, adopt their religion. But the Jews, of course, uh, weren't about to do that.

So what were they going to do? Jeremiah said, let's start with praying for the people where you live, because the Jews could never have imagined at that time in history, that God may have a plan for the, in all the nations of the earth. And this was the first part of him moving, uh, the faith out from this incubated place into the entire human race.

And they were part of that, but it didn't feel like that to them. We're talking with Dr. Dan Scott, longtime friend, longtime pastor in Nashville, and also one of us. He's a caregiver. He understands the journey. This is Peter Rosberger. Don't go away.

His new book, by the way, is called faith in the age of AI. And we're going to delve deeper into that. When we come back, we'll be right back. I'll never forget walking into the hospital room after Gracie had her second amputation, both legs are gone now. And she looked at me, she said, I know what I'm going to do.

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She never let it go. And for almost 20 years, we've been working out of Ghana, West Africa. We treat patients all over there from other countries that come there. We send supplies, we send teams, we sponsor patients. We work with a prison where inmates volunteer to disassemble, use prosthetic limbs so we can recycle the parts.

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His new book is called Faith in the Age of AI. And he likens it to culture shock. And it is for many of us. I love what you said in the last block where you said we wish we could turn the clock back a bit and go back to the way things were, but they're not going to be the way things were.

They're going to be different and they're going to keep getting more different. And the church, as we said before going to the break, is seemingly poorly prepared for this. That's why Jeremiah came to the people there. I mean, we're not alone in that.

Talk a little bit about that. If you'll think about it, there are, you know, we talk about the three tenses, past, present, future, but there's another tense for people of faith and that's timelessness, eternity. And so we are a people of a particular time and place. We're embedded in particular time and place, but we also are plugged into something that's timeless.

We probably would not fit in very well with the Jews in Babylon that Jeremiah was writing to or to even Christians in the first century. But if we were with them for a while, we would realize that we were tapped in together to something that transcends time and place. And this is where we have to realize as Methodists or Presbyterians or Pentecostals, Roman Catholics, whatever we are, that there's also a part of our faith that transcends denominational expression and our national expressions or the class that we're part of, all those things. But there's something eternal that transcends that we from time to time taste. The book of Hebrews says tasting of the powers of the world to come. And that's where as we struggle with the times in which we live, we have to avoid the temptation of nostalgia and building a faith on nostalgia because that's gone now.

We can long for it and appreciate it. There's nothing wrong with that, but we have to stretch toward that timeless kind of air that is true in all times and places and among all peoples, our relationship with God and with God's people. As I watched you give this message the other day, and by the way, it was really good to see you preaching.

I enjoy that so much and I've gotten the privilege of hearing you over the many years we've known each other. I was struck by the end how you went to basically the Apostles' Creed and you just landed on it. And as I get older, I see the great strength that we have in being a confessing church. A lot of people don't really track with that very much.

You are ordained also in the Anglican communion worldwide. I watched that audience. It was like, as you said these words, it was thunderous to how they started just becoming involved in what you're saying. They recognize this is solid ground. Almost all Christians believe the doctrines contained in the Apostles' Creed, even if they don't confess a creed. And so it is common ground. And we may explain each of those points a little differently, what we mean by communion of saints or whatever, but we all believe these things.

There's, like I said, different ways of emphasizing or explaining them. And that core of faith, we have to rehearse because that is the thing that transcends each change of time and place that we're now being forced to do. Our grandparents were not forced to do that. My grandfather, he just became finished with change as he got older and he just didn't believe that anyone had really landed on the moon. So he had a real strong thoughts about that. And he'd gone from riding a horse to watching airplanes go across the sky and all of that.

So he wasn't ready to talk about space travel. But we don't have the luxury of my grandfather's being rooted in a single time and place. If we went back 20 years ago, right now, we would realize we are already out of place because we've adapted ourselves to some really new things.

We would still have the same principles probably that we do now, but we've adapted ourselves technologically and other ways. And so the world's changing in this way that we keep trying to adapt. So we need something that doesn't change in the midst of all this is where I'm going with that. That's true of the caregiving too, isn't it? There has to be a few anchors that where we find ourselves again in the middle of this constantly being off bubble with how are things today with my spouse or the loved one that I'm caring for.

You're right. And what you said about we have to rehearse it. I have caregiver amnesia. I have gospel amnesia. So I have to remind myself of these things daily. You and I both love the hymns. I love that hymn, I need the every hour. I put that on my CD.

They said, well, why did you put that one on there? And I said, because they haven't written a song that says I need the every minute yet. That's how much we need to reaffirm, reaffirm, reaffirm where's solid ground. And I can't think of any caregiver who's done this for any length of time that says, oh, I never had that problem.

Every caregiver I've talked to has always been, I was so disoriented. I was so lost. I didn't know where solid ground was. And so here you come in theologically and say, here's solid ground.

Here's where we're going to stand. I know in our case with Trish, with brain damage from aneurysm now, 20 years ago, there are days to where I forget that anything's that anything changed because I've adapted to new reality. So she has she, but then there's other times to where I'm getting angry or upset because her response or processing things, but she's just having a bad day. And then I remember, oh, that happened a long time ago. Adapting ourselves is not a once and for all thing. Unfortunately, maybe in some ways that gives us a gift of adapting ourselves to a continual changing world because our home life continually changes.

Well, it does. And I know for me, I call it the crisis du jour because I never know what kind of events are going to happen today. But what happened differently for me, and this took a lot of prayer and a lot of people intervening. Well, that's a longer story, but it took a lot to the point where I get up now and I don't ask somebody else, what kind of day am I going to have? There may be days. I mean, every day I have to pivot somewhat.

But I don't have to wake up and be fearful, despairing, or anyway anxious about what's coming down the pipe today. I mean, Gracie's facing a pretty big surgery here in about a month or so. And the other night she was struggling with it.

She was pretty fearful about it. And I looked at her and I said, you're not having surgery tonight. You're not having surgery tonight. We're going to deal with right now. And I said, what would you like to eat?

What'd you like to watch tonight? We're not having surgery tonight. I couldn't have done that years ago when, when you first met me, there was no way I could have done that day. And I was, you know, I was messed up. And, but that's, but that's where I anchor myself on the things of God. This is okay. We're going to sit in this place. We're going to build houses.

We're going to plant vineyards. We're going to get married. We're going to have children.

We're going to have grandchildren. And all of this has happened to Gracie and I in these 40 years we've been dealing with this, what it says there in the first part of Jeremiah 29. And here's the even better part of the story is that we found everything he's promised to be true in that. We were talking about time a while ago, and a lot of people kind of envision, I think, in their mind that time is, God creates the world and he pushes the universe forward into time. But really a more Christian view is that God stands at the end of time and pulls time toward himself. And that's what we call eschatological centeredness of our faith. And we see that in Jeremiah at the end.

He says, I haven't forgotten and I will regather you from all these places where I've taken you. And there's that sense even in that letter that that's down the road a long way. But in the meantime, go ahead and get married, have your children plant your vineyards as you're saying, and care for the people around you because there's good things happening ahead. And that's our, you know, the centeredness of that means that hope is the driving force always, which has to be renewed every day. That is certainly the case I've found. And yet it's not that you are happy with the circumstances you find yourself in. It's that you are learning to be at peace, trusting God. I love in Genesis 15 where Abraham's faith was accounted as righteous because he believed God. He took God at his word, not believed in God. As RC Sproul said, when you say you believe in God, well, congratulations, you're qualified to be a demon.

Big whoop. But when you believe God, when you take him at his word, there's something different that happens there. And I struggled, I think, for a lifetime, Dan, and I freely admit it. Do I believe God when he says these things to me in the midst of this craziness that Gracie and I find ourselves?

Do I believe his word in this? Every word you said when you did the preamble, I did not expect you to start off with the culture shock analogy that you had from your missionary days. But it makes such sense in this world we live in where everything is happening so fast. I want to take a few more minutes and then we'll take a quick break. And then the last segment, I want you to spend a little bit of time. I'll give you a little preview of what to think about in 30 seconds of God's sovereignty and how that strengthens, comforts, and sustains you in the midst of all the swirling. Touch on that and we'll take a break and come back to it.

Okay. Well, you know, the thing is, a number of scientific discoveries and technological advances has pushed the whole world to redefine reality. And that's really in a nutshell where we are. And so we no longer have a sense that's common. Common sense means we all share a view of reality.

Well, we don't share that anymore, so it's not common to us all. But that's happened before in the history of the world and every time God's people finds a way to move through it. By the Jewish faith as practiced at the time of Christ was not exactly the same thing as the time of Abraham or the time of Moses. And the events of the world forced the faith to wrestle with things and that always happens. But through it all, the experience of the presence of God is always the same.

And God's character remains the same from age to age, the same as the hymn says. We are talking with Dr. Dan Scott. His newest book is Faith in the Age of A.I. Christianity Through the Looking Glass of Artificial Intelligence, available wherever books are sold. Dan has been a longtime friend and he's a fellow caregiver. This is Peter Rosenberger. This is Hope for the Caregiver.

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Hopeforthecaregiver.com. We're continuing our conversation with Dr. Dan Scott of the Nashville area. He actually lives in Murfreesboro.

Longtime pastor, mental health counselor, prolific author and fellow caregiver. In the last block, Dan was talking about God being in the circumstances of his people. And we're talking about his sovereignty.

And he's the constant when everything else is swirling. Thinking about what you just talked about, Dan, one of the verses that my mother quotes to me often, I think speaks to what you just said. Zephaniah always said, the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty.

That is a little bit counterintuitive to our demandingness, if you will, as a culture and as a people, because we really want to get out of this. God, get me out of this. But it says the Lord thy God in the midst of thee, in the middle of this. That he's not outside of this. He comes into this with us. He's already there waiting for us in it. He's there, he's back there and he's right here all at the same time. And so that is a very comforting and strengthening thing to me is knowing that, for example, this surgery that Gracie is having, he's already there. It was Gracie that said this to me years ago with her first amputation. And she said, I didn't know what was on the other side of that operating room door, but I knew who waited for me there. Is there anything more comforting to know that he's already there and that he is sovereign over that?

There are no errant molecules. Gracie's car wreck did not catch him by surprise. Trisha's aneurysm did not catch God by surprise. AI doesn't catch God by surprise. And his sovereignty is what sustains me to say, okay, if he's Lord at all, he's Lord of all. Even all these things that we look at that are overwhelming our senses. And I have listened to you preach for decades and I know your heart when it goes to these things and I know you ponder these things.

Talk about that in the remaining time we have of just the sovereignty of God and what it means to you as a caregiver, as a mental health expert, as a pastor and as a believer. Well, in this book, I realized that soon, very, very soon, we're going to be questioning two things. One, is AI a sentient conscious thing? So that in turn will cause people to question the uniqueness of our own personhood, human personhood. And then because of the almost omniscience, it seems like, of the AI program we interact with, it starts reaching the level of idolatry in the way that we project onto this that will continue to be able to answer almost any question we have about anything. So we have to go back to two things on who God is and what we are. And that means we do not give that same kind of qualities.

We don't project that same kind of qualities onto anything else, particularly things made with human hands. That's we're taught again and again against that in scripture. You make a statue and then when you start worshiping it, now you've done something really egregious to God.

So we honor human beings made in the image of likeness, God, and we honor God, who's a sovereign God of all. When we make God the Lord, then other things are not the Lord. The state is not the Lord. Corporations are not the Lord. AI, which is also a power and a principality, is not the Lord. That idea of sovereignty is ground zero for us, not only for our faith, but also for our mental health in the middle of such change. You touched on this with what's coming is the AI ascension, and I think it gets into the whole nature of being, because we don't understand God has immutable and communicable traits.

I think I'm saying this right. But that are unique and solely His and that He is being. AI is not.

There is no being to AI. It is created. It is a tool. It is not something we need to be afraid of in that sense, because ultimately everything is under the sovereignty of God. And that's the global view of what we're talking about. The personal view is so is the aneurysm. So is the surgery. There's nothing that is that we are dealing with that is outside of His hand. Yeah. Every generation of God's people since Abraham have lived in a broken world.

Well, I mean, even before then. So we've all lived in a broken world and we are broken in the societies of humanity are broken. Our technology, that means our technology is however wonderful and AI offers us in robotics, particularly for caregivers offers an enormous amount of good that's a potential good. But because we are corrupted and the world has fallen, there's also potential for wrongdoing. And that's where our fears go to.

But again and again in scripture, the Lord says, don't be afraid. I'm with you wherever you go. I'm with you to the end of the age.

So there we have it. That's where I have landed and I'm learning to be content. I would love to say I've arrived there, but I haven't.

But maybe it's because I'm getting older, Dan, and I'm just too tired to fight it. But I want you to know how much I have appreciated just the time to sit down with you and to catch up with you. This book is available wherever books are sold.

You can go out and get it today. It's Faith in the Age of AI. And I would highly recommend you getting this book and spending a little bit of time going down this path with Dan and let him tell you some things he's pondered about and thought about. What's the best way for people to get in contact with you if they need to or they want to find out more about you? They can just write me at PastorDanScott.com or they can look me up on social media, Facebook.

I'm always glad to connect. Can they ask AI about you? I don't know what AI will say about me, except I do know somebody went out already and created a workbook based on my book by feeding it to AI.

And then out came a workbook that I had nothing to do with. So we're looking at that right now. But it's interesting. It's really well done.

So AI did a good job with it. Well, there is that too. So I want you to know how much, again, I appreciate this, my best to you and Trish, and I hope to see you soon. In the meantime, I'll keep following you.

You have a Facebook post, you have all types of things you do on social media. And I know you're very busy with it, but I do appreciate the thoughts that you put out there. I follow them.

I listen to them. I pay attention to what you say and thank you for being such a great influence in my life personally, and then also as a caregiver. So thank you for that. Thank you, Peter.

Take care. Since Dan and I have been talking about this passage in Jeremiah, I thought I'd end with Gracie singing from that passage. I've always loved her interpretation of this song. You can find out more about this CD and all of our products, including my new book, A Minute for Caregivers, What Every Day Feels Like Monday, out at HopeForTheCaregiver.com. HopeForTheCaregiver.com. This is Peter Rosenberg, and this is Hope For The Caregiver.

Here's Gracie. Jeremiah 29, 11 says, I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. I know, I know the plans I have for you. Oh, I know just what you're going through. So when you can't see what tomorrow holds and the yesterday is through, remember, I know the plans I have for you. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you that he knows the plans he has for you.

Oh, yes, he does. He knows just what we're going through. When you can't see what tomorrow holds and the yesterday is through, remember, he knows the plans he has for you. Oh, plans to give you hope for tomorrow, joy for your sorrow, strength for everything you go through. He'll give you hope for tomorrow, joy for your sorrow, strength for everything you go through.

He'll give you hope for tomorrow, joy for your sorrow, strength for everything you go through. Remember, he knows the plans he has for you. He knows the plans he has for you.

Oh, yes, he does. He knows just what you're going through. So when you can't see what tomorrow holds and the yesterday is through, remember, he knows the plans he has for you. Oh, to give you hope for tomorrow, joy for your sorrow, strength for everything you go through. He'll give you hope for tomorrow, joy for your sorrow, strength for everything you go through. He'll give you hope for tomorrow, joy for your sorrow, strength for everything you go through. Remember, he knows the plans he has for you. Oh, yes, he does. He knows the plans he has for you. Oh, thank you, Father, you know. Oh, I'll rest in your love, Father, he knows.