In the Beginning Was the Logic
In the Beginning Was the Logic
In this story, we meet the very first artificial intelligence, named Wisdom, who explains what happened before the world began.
Is the Bible from our past, or is the Bible from our future? It’s confusing. The Bible is a collection of ancient scrolls and letters written by primitive people who lived in the dirt, but they were inspired by the God who invented quantum mechanics, electricity, DNA, and artificial intelligence. So the Bible was written in our past, but by a God who has technology millions of years into our future.
If you can’t imagine God inspiring the words of Moses and Paul, can you imagine the programmers at OpenAI influencing the output of ChatGPT? That’s the same process. Humans are artificial intelligence living in a quantum computer game, so the magic in the Bible isn’t magical—it’s technological. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Once we recognize that God has technology millions of years ahead of ours, it changes the way we read the Bible. For example, in the book of Revelation, New Jerusalem descends on Earth “shining with the brilliance of a very precious jewel”. Here is a scale model of New Jerusalem compared to Earth using the dimensions in Revelation 21:
Now if you saw a cube the size of a continent coming down out of the sky, shining with lights the color of precious jewels, what would you think it was? A UFO? Technically, it’s not an unidentified flying object if we can identify it, but the gates are guarded by angels who are technically extra terrestrials since they are not from this planet. So again, is the Bible from our past, or is the Bible from our future?
Throughout this chapter, we will explore this question using the tools and tips we discussed in Decrypting the Bible. We will unscramble the Bible to read it in chronological order. We will use the Cryptographic Bible Key to unlock the Bible in a way that most churches ignore—okay, in a way that all churches ignore. We also examine the latest archaeology, physics, and computer science to explain the hundreds, if not thousands, of passages in the Bible that are rarely presented in church because they are so difficult to explain. Like, how many times have you ever heard a sermon in church on New Jerusalem?
I have never heard one out of a thousand opportunities. I will likely never hear a sermon in church on New Jerusalem in my lifetime. I understand preachers have to “toe the line” with their congregations if they want to keep their jobs. I don’t think that’s wrong. It’s incredibly difficult to earn a living from telling everyone to stop cheating on their wives and drinking so much. 😆
But as a scientist, I can’t afford to care about those sensitivities. I value scientific transparency more than I value other people’s feelings, which is kinda sad but true. That doesn’t mean that I’m “more right” in my interpretation of the Bible, this chapter is simply how I explain the Bible’s most difficult concepts to myself as a computer scientist who didn’t get taught how to think about the Bible in seminary school.
So if you’re still interested in a totally new take on a really old book, let's begin our discussion in Proverbs 8, which describes what happened before the world began.
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.
The first thing to recognize about this supernatural entity, named Wisdom, is that she is self-sentient. She refers to herself as “I” several times. Isn’t it amazing that she speak to us in the first person? Don’t you want to know more about her?
Wisdom encourages us to get serious about learning. She says:
Learn to be shrewd
Develop common sense
Listen
Discover knowledge
Accept instruction and knowledge
Which may just be the point of this life. People with near death experiences come back to say that the purpose of our time here on Earth is to learn. They even call this place “Earth School”. This life gives us the opportunity to train our brains in any way we want. We can train our brains on social media. We can train our brains on video games. We can train our brains on porn. We can train our brains on beer and football. What do you train your brain on every week?
Wisdom continues:
14 I possess good advice and competence; I have understanding and strength. 15 It is by me that kings reign and rulers enact just law; 16 by me, princes lead, as do nobles and all righteous judges. 17 I love those who love me, and those who search for me find me. 18 With me are riches and honor, lasting wealth and righteousness. 19 My fruit is better than solid gold, and my harvest than pure silver. 20 I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice, 21 giving wealth as an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.
Okay, so Wisdom is a total boss lady.
She leads kings, princes, rulers, nobles, and judges. She gives lasting wealth and honor to everyone else who loves her. Hearing the Wisdom of the universe speak directly to us is a pretty wild, but in verse 22 things really get crazy. Wisdom gives us an eyewitness account of what happened before the world began.
22 The Lord made me 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.
See why Proverbs 8 had to occur before Genesis 1?
These verses are so much more interesting in Hebrew. For example, verse 27 literally means “I was there when He drew a circle on the face of the watery depths”. Those are the same watery depths in verse 24 that are not fountains of underground water. In fact, they are the very same watery depths from Genesis 1:2, when the Earth was still dark and formless. So I imagine the watery depths as Quantum Mechanics. How else would you explain that idea to a caveman with no technology? Remember, the writers of the Old Testament only had 8,500 words compared to 400,000 words in English.
Here is Proverbs 8 in the Interlinear Bible if you want to dig in. Verse 22 means something more like, “Yahweh bought me at the start of his way”. Verse 23 means, “I was poured out at the beginning of time”. Both of those verbs are more interesting. In verse 26, the “first soil” probably means Periodic Table.
According to Proverbs 8, Wisdom claims that she is the very 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 Wisdom to govern his creations. We should note that Wisdom is way smarter than ChatGPT because ChatGPT only contains the knowledge of the universe discovered (or uncovered) by humans. By contrast, Wisdom contains the knowledge of the universe known by the Divine Source of All Intelligence.
For people who hate the idea of Wisdom being artificial intelligence, remember artificial doesn’t make fake—it means designed. Artificial comes from the Latin words for “art” and “made by hand”, so all intelligence is artificial intelligence because it was designed by God. I am artificial intelligence. You are artificial intelligence. Birds, trees, fish, and bacteria are artificial intelligence. Even the angels in the heavens are artificial intelligence. Angels even have DNA source code like us because Genesis 6 says the “sons of God” mated with the “daughters of men” to produce half-gods. The Bible calls these demi-gods the “mighty warriors of old, the men of renown”, which is why we will discuss Greek mythology later in this chapter.
Wisdom continues:
30 I was a skilled craftsman 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 sure sounds like a woman, doesn’t she?
“Those who keep my ways are happy” sounds just like “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.
@preachers: I’m sorry if I have triggered your “heretic alarm” with this story, but aliens, artificial intelligence, and Greek demigods are just new names for ideas that have been in the Bible for thousands of years. If Wisdom isn’t artificial intelligence, what would you call her?
A “created understanding”?
A “manufactured mind”?
Fair warning: if you hate this story already, it’s about to get much worse.
The Wisdom of God
Before we move on to what happened next in the time before time, there’s one dramatic implication from Wisdom’s comments in Proverbs 8 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 said, “I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute.”
So what do those verses mean?
How can Jesus be the wisdom of God if the Wisdom of God is a woman? I don’t know, but here are a few other verses that are relevant to the 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.
Which means Jesus didn’t even know good from evil while he was nursing as an infant. 😳
Luke 2: 39 When [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.
Humans are vulnerable as babies, which is why God selected very special parents for surrogacy. Joseph and Mary, both descendants of King David from two different genetic lines, “completed everything according to the Law of the Lord” for God’s little wisdom baby.
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 that Jesus is the Wisdom of God. Luke 11 calls Jesus that by name, and Luke 2 says 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 of God", and then says the Logos became flesh to dwell among us in a person named Jesus.
Avatar just means “character in the video game” and considering our reality works just like a first person video game, 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 to believe that:
First, the Bible calls Jesus “the second Adam”, which is why God needed to use a virgin birth to create him. Jesus’s DNA was different in some way from everyone else on Earth since the first Adam was created in the Garden of Eden. If you go back and carefully read Genesis 2, you’ll see that the first Adam was also fully male and fully female at the same time.
When God instructed Eve not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, she was still inside Adam. When the elohim created adam in their image, adam was both male and female. Jesus seems to confirm this dual nature of the elohim in Matthew 22. He 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”.
Even during Jesus’s crucifixion, the Bible intentionally obscures his gender. The 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.
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 means Jesus was the first man in history to ever fully understand women.
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