1st Peter 5: 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
With the phenomenal growth of artificial intelligence and a multitude of chatbots and browsers, great care has to be exercised in searching for truth on these platforms, because in many instances the information dispensed is not properly vetted for truth or veracity. This caution will become even more pertinent with the heavy reliance on artificial intelligence to do the research, and draw conclusions, and therefore, the trumpet must be given a certain sound in our day to alert us to present and future dangers, as is clearly referenced in the above passage.
As a general rule devils do not care how, and when individuals are devoured, once they are devoured. If they can devour some on the internet they will, and if a more direct approach that appeals to a person’s intelligence will do the trick, then they will go that route, for the end game is to devour, and that at all costs.
[The Great Controversy pp 583] With many, a philosophical idol is enthroned in the place of Jehovah…. Though in a different form, idolatry exists in the Christian world today as verily as it existed among ancient Israel in the days of Elijah. The god of many professedly wise men, of philosophers, poets, politicians, journalists, the god of polished fashionable circles, of many colleges and universities, even of some theological institutions, is little better than Baal, the sun-god of Phoenicia.
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!