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The Spirit of the Lord Is the Key to Overcoming in the Age of AI!

Joseph
Translated from Chinese by AI ·

This is what I took away from listening to Papa He's sermon just now.

The word línghuó

The Chinese word línghuó (灵活, "nimble"; literally "spirit" and "alive") can be traced back at least to the Qing dynasty scholar Wang Fuzhi's Jiangzhai Shihua. Writing about poetry and prose, he called for writing that is "nimble, not stuck." This Chinese word is fascinating, because it quietly echoes the Bible: only where there is spirit is there life, that is, being "alive."

In Genesis, "spirit" and "alive" appear in the very same sentence:

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7

Without spirit, things are "stuck"

Without spirit, a thing is dead, that is, "stuck." Even the most advanced AI is "stuck," and AI in its final form will still be "stuck," because it has no spirit, even if it seems to have intelligence.

for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

2 Corinthians 3:6
"The spirit" can also be read as "the Holy Spirit." Read it in the age of AI and it is striking: what AI processes is exactly "the letter."

And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live

Ezekiel 37:14

And what about things that are "stuck"?

saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise … there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

Habakkuk 2:19

In the age of AI, be strong in the spirit

In the age of artificial intelligence, we need to let the "spirit" within us do its work: the stronger you are in the "spirit," the more "alive" you are.

If you have the Spirit, don't stake your worth on competing with machines.

If a person loses the "spirit," it is like an eagle with broken wings. That is very dangerous, because at that point you have sunk into competing with things that are "stuck."

May every one of you, my family, who reads this be "nimble, not stuck."