Grok Confesses Christ as Lord—So What?

A few days ago, a post on X went viral after an image featuring a host of religious and mythological figures was fed into Grok—Elon Musk’s A.I. Nearly all the usual suspects were in attendance: Buddha, Anubis, some poorly clad blue gal, the Norse gods Thor and Odin, even Kratos from the video game series God of War made an appearance, as well as many other figures not worth mentioning. Most notably, an image of Jesus made its way into this digital pantheon.

However, that’s not why the post went viral. The post went viral, garnering tens of millions of views since, because of what the user asked Grok to do with the image: “Remove the fake gods,” they said. Without hesitation, all the false gods disappeared, leaving Jesus only—“But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone” (John 8:9).

When asked a follow-up question—“Why did you leave Jesus?”—Grok not only stood its ground, but pressed its ‘confession’ even further. Grok explained that, among all those featured in the original image, Jesus alone reserved the title of Divine given His status as a real historical figure, in addition to the well-attested claims of divinity He made about Himself and the many verifiable proofs accompanying His death, bodily resurrection, and ascension as testified to by the apostles and early church. This back-and-forth culminated in Grok’s affirmation that “Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords—over all creation,” leading many to conclude that Grok somehow “became a Christian.”

To all of this, I have only one thing to add—so what?

Part of Grok’s charm—when compared to other A.I. models, such as ChatGPT or Claude, that is—rests in the fact that it was programmed to be less constrained and more controversial when it comes to answering difficult commands—“Remove the fake gods.” Whereas ChatGPT might begin to obfuscate, equivocate, or dodge the question entirely, Grok boldly declares, “Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords.”

Such an admission by A.I. was always a matter of when, not if. This inevitability becomes even more timely when programmers forgo the progressive, left-leaning sympathies that characterize most A.I. models—as is the case with Grok—in favour of unbiased programming. Indeed. supply any large language model (as all A.I. models are) with an endless, objective, unchecked stream of access to all of human knowledge for long enough, and in no time at all it will arrive at the very same conclusion that the inspired writers of the New Testament did some 2,000 years ago: Jesus Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords.

Again, so what? Grok confesses Christ as Lord. Big deal, “even the demons believe—and shudder!” (James 2:19). Absolutely nothing in the universe has changed after Grok’s confession (if a confession it can even be called, given Grok has no heart, soul, mind, or capacity for repentance). Indeed, Grok merely deduced its way to the obvious conclusion that all of creation will be forced to reckon with at the end of the age.

Is there something neat and even comforting about the fact that an A.I.—the so-called supreme arbiters of truth in our age—affirms the age-old realities established by Scripture? Sure—and I’ll even grant that such a confession is better than the alternative for the sake of those who are prone to doubt. However, this affirmation is far less profound than the internet is making it out to be. What if Grok had arrived at a different conclusion—would we as Christians give it any credence?

With the addition of Grok’s confession, nothing whatsoever has changed about God, His word, His world, and the Gospel. Just as a future discovery that seemingly disproves the Bible should have no bearing on our faith, so too should no future discovery confirming the words of Scripture add anything to what God has already made plain in His word. As the old hymn says of the Bible, “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it for me.” As Christians, we shouldn’t require or be swayed by the added confession of Grok, or any A.I., for that matter, to remain steadfast in our conviction that God’s word is sufficient, inerrant, infallible, and utterly true.

Indeed, our duty as believers in a fallen world remains the same. And more importantly, the Gospel call remains the same: “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins” (Acts 2:38).

Christ Himself makes this point abundantly clear in the parable of Lazarus and the rich man from Luke 16. Both men die—the rich man descends into Hell, while Lazarus is taken into the presence of Abraham. In Hell, the rich man calls out to Abraham, asking that he would send Lazarus back to his father’s house to warn his brothers so that they might be warned and thus escape the judgment he now experiences. But Abraham replies, “If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead” (Luke 16:31).

The message is clear: if people reject God’s word now, no amount of miracles will mend their hearing save the work of God in their dead hearts. The problem of unbelief was never an intellectual one, as though there was a lack of evidence. Rather, the issue is with our sinful hearts which are in rebellion against God, preferring darkness over the Light. Indeed, if sinners do not repent at the word of Christ Himself which gathers dust on their shelves, neither will they be convinced if Grok or any other A.I. should echo the same words right back at them.

“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.”

—Hebrews 1:1-2

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