Where else can we go?

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With the advent of AI, it is difficult to discern what on the internet is true and what is a fabrication. Users on social media may be baffled by watching a video or viewing a picture of a supposed event, only to be met with a disclaimer at the end that the images were created using AI. It leaves a void of uncertainty as we walk away wondering what is really true. Even friends’ profile pictures may be altered from reality.

It once could be said, “A picture is worth a thousand words” – because it could prove an actual, unarguable reality that existed in the world. Now, a picture is not worth a cent. Anyone can argue against the actual existence of what an image portrays. We have seen this in the reaction to recent news events, where if anyone is shown a video or picture portraying some happening that they already have chosen to disbelieve, they immediately declare, “It must be AI.” It has become possible not only to invent one’s own truth, but also to instantly disqualify another’s claim to truth.

As Christians, whose core beliefs are built on the concept of unalterable, concrete truths, how do we handle this age and time where the veracity of truth appears to be so vague? We rely on the reality of truth as the foundation of our faith. In a world where AI bots can create a new religion in minutes, where do we cast the anchor for the truth of Christianity? We must start with the One who said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (John 14:6).

Christianity is unique among the religions of the world due to the authenticity of the claims it makes about the person of Christ. There is no other religion in the world that claims a Savior who died and rose from the dead, and which has those events corroborated in the historical timeline by a multitude of witnesses. Jesus’ resurrection is not a mythological occurrence in a shadowy dreamland. It is an event that took place in a real time, in a specific place, and in detailed concurrence and relation to other real events and individuals recorded in history books. No other religion bases its whole existence on the concrete evidence of a person who was publicly seen to be dead and buried and then who rose from the dead and was seen alive multiple times – not as a vision or some surreal presence, but as a walking, talking, eating human being.

The extent of Jesus’ post-resurrection ministry is described in Acts 1:1-3: “The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.”

This was not AI. This was truth. This is our truth, and it makes all the difference in a world that literally does not know any truth. There is nowhere else we can go to obtain truth.

As Simon Peter said to Jesus: “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God” (John 6:68-69).

Like Peter, we can say, “Where else can we go?” There is no other source of truth that will last throughout all times, throughout all world powers, throughout all technological achievements, throughout the rise and fall of the human race and the existence of the earth itself, and everlastingly throughout all eternity.

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