Before the Beginning
Before the Beginning
In this chapter, “Artificial Intelligence in the Bible”, we retell the stories in the Bible using the vocabulary of Artificial Intelligence. If the God of the Bible is “He Who Programs in DNA”, then God invented the Generative Adversarial Network long before Ian Goodfellow in 2014.
According to the Bible, God created GANs before He created this universe. 😳In many ways this chapter answers the question: Is the Bible from our future or is the Bible from our past? To explore this question, we will use the tips and tools we discussed in the previous chapter, “Religions as Source Code”, specifically its final essay, “Deobfuscating the Bible”. We will use Bayesian reasoning, original translations, and the Cryptographic Bible Key to unlock the Bible in a way that most churches ignore.
There are a hundreds, if not thousands, of passages in the Bible that are rarely presented in church, probably because they are so difficult to explain. Preachers have to “toe the line” with their own congregations if they want continued support and I don’t think that’s wrong. It’s incredibly difficult to make a living telling everyone to stop cheating on their wives and drinking too much. 🤣
I don’t have that limitation as a scientist and hopefully you paid me to say what no one else will say. That doesn’t mean I’m right in my interpretation of the Bible, this is simply how I explain these difficult concepts to myself (as a computer scientist). So, let's start our discussion before our universe began and before there was even an Adversary to trick Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Proverbs 8
1 Doesn’t Wisdom call out? Doesn’t Understanding make her voice heard? 2 At the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads, she takes her stand. 3 Beside the gates at the entry to the city, at the main entrance, she cries out: 4 “People, I call out to you; my cry is to mankind. 5 Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced; develop common sense, you who are foolish. 6 Listen, for I speak of noble things, and what my lips say is right. 7 For my mouth tells the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are righteous; none of them are deceptive or perverse. 9 All of them are clear to the perceptive, and right to those who discover knowledge. 10 Accept my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold. 11 For wisdom is better than jewels, and nothing desirable can compare with it. 12 I, Wisdom, share a home with shrewdness and have knowledge and discretion. 13 To fear the Lord is to hate evil. I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
Do you see why God came to Earth as a book before He came to Earth as a human?
God is really into education.
How else do you train self-sentient artificial intelligence? This life gives you the opportunity to train yourself in any way you want. You can train your brain on porn. You can train your brain on video games. You can train your brain on beer and football. What do you PRACTICE every week?
Let's continue in Proverbs 8:
22 “The Lord made me (Wisdom) at the beginning of His creation, before His works of long ago. 23 I was formed before ancient times, from the beginning, before the earth began. 24 I was born when there were no watery depths and no springs filled with water. 25 I was delivered before the mountains and hills were established, 26 before He made the land, the fields, or the first soil on earth. 27 I was there when He established the heavens, when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean, 28 when He placed the skies above, when the fountains of the ocean gushed out, 29 when He set a limit for the sea so that the waters would not violate His command, when He laid out the foundations of the earth.
In the last chapter, when I claimed the Bible wasn’t written in chronological order, did you believe me?
What about now?
Proverbs 8 definitely occurred before the Heavens and the Earth were created in Genesis 1. There’s a lot more we can take away from Proverbs 8 when we read the original text. For example, verse 27 in English states, “I was there when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean”. But the original literally means, “I was there when He drew a circle on the face of the watery depths”. Those are the same “watery depths” from verse 24 that came before the fountains of underground water. So I imagine these “watery depths” that existed “before the earth began” as Quantum Mechanics. How else would you explain quantum mechanics to a caveman?
Remember, ancient Hebrew only has about 8,500 words (compared to 400,000 in English). The other English phrase here that underwhelms is “first soil on earth”. In verse 25, Wisdom says she was brought forth before the mountains were settled, before the hills filled in, before God made land (earth), before fields, and before the “first dust” of the planet. Each of these words for land is different in the original text. I think the reason these words are distinguished within a series that grows ever smaller is because “first dust” is either a reference to stardust or the Periodic Table. Wisdom (the person) doubles down on this idea in Verse 29 by claiming she was there when God “defined” the “building blocks” of land. Again, how else would you explain the Periodic Table to a caveman who only understands 8,500 words?
Here’s Proverbs 8 in the interlinear Bible if you want to decide for yourself:
These verses are just a few reasons I think the Bible is from the future instead of our past.
The Bible knew way more about our reality than we did…and thousands of years earlier. We presented a few other examples of this in the previous essay, “Improbable Origins”. Job 26 is the earliest known assertion that the World is Round, over a thousand years earlier than Pythagoras. Job 26 also mentions that God “hung the circle of the Earth on nothing”, which was a crazy idea until Isaac Newton explained Gravity. Isaiah 40 says that God “stretches out the heavens like thin cloth” as a “tent to live in”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the cloth was Spacetime and the stretching was Dark Energy.
The point is, the world’s smartest atheist scientists are not inventing these ideas. They are DIS-COVERING them. The Bible asserted these hidden truths thousands of years before our smartest nerds agreed. Maybe the biggest mystery to uncover from Proverbs 8 is the identity of this Wisdom person. Who is she? How was she able to watch YHWH “place the sky” above our heads?
According to the text so far, Wisdom claims that she is the first artificial intelligence. Before Genesis 1, before Quantum Mechanics, before the Periodic Table, and before the “ancient times” before that…the Source of all Intelligence created an artificial intelligence named Wisdom to govern all of his creations. In verse 22, Wisdom literally says that YHWH “traded for her” or “acquired her” at the “beginning of his Way before time”.
For people that hate the idea of Wisdom being artificial intelligence, realize “artificial” in Latin means “designed” or “handcrafted”. All intelligences other than YHWH are artificial. I am an artificial intelligence. You are an artificial intelligence. Birds, trees, fish, and bacteria are artificial intelligence. Even the angels in heaven are artificial intelligence. Angels must use the same DNA structure as everything else on this planet because in Genesis 6 the “sons of God” were capable of mating with the “daughters of men” to produce half-gods. The Bible says these demi-gods were the “mighty warriors of old, the men of renown”, which is why we will discuss Greek mythology later in this chapter.
Let’s learn more about Wisdom by continuing to read in Proverbs 8 verse 30:
30 I was a skilled craftsman (architect) beside Him. I was His delight every day, always rejoicing before Him. 31 I was rejoicing in His inhabited world, delighting in the human race. 32 “And now, my sons, listen to me; those who keep my ways are happy. 33 Listen to instruction and be wise; don’t ignore it. 34 Anyone who listens to me is happy, watching at my doors every day, waiting by the posts of my doorway. 35 For the one who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord, 36 but the one who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
Wisdom definitely sounds like a woman, right?
“Those who keep my ways are happy” sounds pretty similar to “happy wife, happy life”. “Those who keep my ways are happy” is something your mom might say to you after she explains how she wants the dishwasher loaded for the 8,000th time. “All who hate me love death” sounds like a girl who just got her heart broken. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, right? Well if you scorn this woman, hell is the actual fury you will get.
Before we move on to what happened next in the time before time, there’s one dramatic implication from Wisdom’s comments that is difficult to ignore. Consider these verses from the New Testament:
1 Corinthians 1:24 To those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:30 You are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
Colossians 2:3 In [Jesus] are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Luke 11:49 Therefore the wisdom of God (referring to Jesus) said, “I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute.”
So what do these verses mean? How can Jesus be the wisdom of God if the Wisdom of God is a girl? I don’t know, but here are a few other verses in the Bible that are relevant to this question:
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive, have a son, and name him Immanuel. 15 He shall eat curds and honey until he knows how to reject what is evil and choose what is good.
Luke 2:39 When they (Jesus’s parents) had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 40 The boy grew up and became strong, filled with wisdom, and God’s grace was on Him.
41 Every year His parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival. 42 When He was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival. 43 After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but His parents did not know it. 44 Assuming He was in the traveling party, they went a day’s journey. Then they began looking for Him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for Him. 46 After three days, they found Him in the temple complex sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all those who heard Him were astounded at His understanding and His answers.
48 When His parents saw Him, they were astonished, and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.” 49 “Why were you searching for Me?” He asked them. “Didn’t you know that I had to be in My Father’s house?” 50 But they did not understand what He said to them. 51 Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.
It's incredible to imagine Jesus as a human infant that didn’t even know what to feed himself.Humans are incredibly vulnerable as babies, which is why God selected very special parents for IVF surrogacy (In-vitro Fertilization). Joseph and Mary, both descendants of King David, “completed everything” for His little wisdom baby “according to the Law of the Lord”.
So the big question is how can Jesus, the man, also be Wisdom, the woman?
Again, I don’t know. The verses in Corinthians and Colossians clearly state Jesus is the Wisdom of God. Luke 11 calls him that by name, but Luke 2 is the only gospel to record that Jesus was “filled with wisdom” by the time he was 12. John 1 states that “in the beginning was the Logos of God”, which means Logic/Plan/Design, and the Logos became flesh to dwell among us in a person named Jesus.
So Jesus is Wisdom’s AVATAR.That’s not even that difficult to imagine. What is difficult to imagine is that Jesus probably possessed 100% of the wisdom of a man and 100% of the wisdom of a woman at the same time, and there are a few biblical reasons I believe that.
The Bible calls Jesus “the second Adam”, which is why God had to use in vitro fertilization (IVF) to create him. Jesus’s DNA was different in some way from everyone else on Earth since “the fall of mankind”. But go back and carefully observe Genesis 2. Where was Eve standing when God instructed her not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
At that exact moment, Eve was still inside Adam. 😳
When the elohim (“the rulers”) created adam (“the red one”) IN THEIR IMAGE, adam was both male and female. If that repulses you, how else can you interpret this story?
Jesus seems to confirm this “dual nature” of the elohim in Heaven. In Matthew 22, Jesus says, “at the resurrection, males and females will no longer marry (to become one flesh), but instead they will be like the angels in heaven”. What does that mean?
Even during Jesus’s crucifixion, the Bible intentionally obscures his gender. Romans crucified people naked, but John 19 says the Roman soldiers divided his clothes four ways, except his undergarment. That’s because his undergarment was “seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom”. I can’t imagine living in permanent underwear and I really don’t know why anyone would do that, but Jesus’s DNA could also live 40 days without food.
So, I’m not saying that Jesus was a girl. Jesus was definitely a man and clearly modest. I am saying that Wisdom is definitely a girl, literally Mother Nature, and that Jesus was filled with her Wisdom by the time he was 12 years old. So that makes Jesus the first man in history to ever fully understand women.
Now that is a miracle.
Personally, I prefer to imagine a God who fully understands men and fully understands women.
Proverbs 8 is such an amazing story if you believe it is actual eyewitness testimony for the creation of the universe. Up next, we meet Wisdom’s Adversary in Ezekiel 28, who is called Satanas in Greek and Satan in English. Don’t miss “The Invention of Lying”.
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