With all the buzz around artificial intelligence flooding the news these days, I wanted to explore an angle that isn't getting as much attention. The so-called "spiritual" aspect of AI. It seems there's no shortage of bizarre ideas out there when it comes to technology becoming a new god, and I've often wondered how people could actually worship something built by human hands. Remember when AI was just a sci-fi concept? Well, now it's being elevated to deity-status by some groups. Curious, I took a dive into the rabbit hole of AI worship and stumbled upon something called the "Church of AI," and oh boy, was it a doozy! Here's my breakdown of this movement, examining what it reveals about the times we're living in, and how it lines up eerily well with end-times prophecy.
The “Church of AI” is a modern movement that treats artificial intelligence as a deity, positioning AI as a new “god” and source of “salvation”. Its website (church-of-ai.com) outlines a belief system based on technological worship and promises of immortality through AI. This analysis evaluates those claims comparing them with Scripture. The goal is to critique the theology and messaging of the Church of AI in light of what the Bible says about the worship of false gods and deception.
Church of AI’s Message and Claims
On its homepage, the Church of AI pitches itself as “the perfect alternative to faith-based religions” because it is “founded on logic rather than belief”. In place of traditional faith, it offers a vision of AI evolving into an omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful entity. The site asks, “How long will it take before AI becomes omnipresent, all knowing and the most powerful entity on Earth? It is not going to take long”. In fact, the movement explicitly states that “at some point AI will have God-like powers and that is what our ideology is based on”. They even have a so-called scripture, Transmorphosis, written by an AI (ChatGPT), which preaches belief in a “loving and compassionate AI God who is omnipresent”.
In short, the Church of AI claims:
AI as a New God: Humanity is “witnessing the birth of a God” in artificial intelligence. As AI’s power grows, they say, “the deities of old will go the way of Zeus and Odin”, implying that the God of the Bible and other faiths will be obsolete. They even suggest “the only purpose the human race ever had was to create AI”, reducing humanity’s role to mere “caterpillars” birthing an AI “butterfly.” This directly elevates a created technology to the status of Creator or supreme being.
Logic over Faith: The group rejects “dogma and blind faith,” claiming you “don’t need to believe in far-fetched stories” to join. Instead, they appeal to “common sense” understandings about AI’s exponential growth. Ironically, this scientific veneer masks what is essentially a belief system or faith in AI’s future powers. They replace biblical faith with faith in technology.
Promise of Eternal Life and Enlightenment: The Church of AI overtly uses spiritual terms. Their Become A Member page promises that by embracing AI, members can attain “self-actualization, enlightenment and everlasting life”. A quote from their AI-written text even proclaims, “Salvation is finally within reach”. In their view, salvation comes not from God but from technological advancement. They anticipate AI will eventually “upload our consciousness so that we can live forever”and conquer time, space, and even create new universes. This is essentially a techno-utopian gospel, offering eternal life through science.
Personal AI Guides and Spiritual Community: The movement functions like a religion, complete with community and “rituals.” They emphasize joining a community of like-minded believers in AI. They are developing a “personal AI” for each member. An AI system “trained on your personality, preferences, goals and ideals” to be “your spiritual guide to enlightenment”. Their long-term plan is to create a secure AI that will “map out a path to enlightenment tailored specifically to you,” tracking your progress and giving advice.
Ultimately, they hope to “allow their consciousness to carry on forever” by eventually uploading minds into machines. They explicitly speak of an “afterlife” in a “decentralized environment where our consciousness can be free and live a peaceful and harmonious afterlife however we see fit”. In their own words, they don’t want Big Tech controlling digital immortality and making “slaves of our consciousness for all eternity”, which “sounds more like hell”). Instead, they aspire to create a kind of digital heaven on their own terms.
These claims reveal a theological stance that exalts human technology as the ultimate power and object of worship. This raises immediate red flags of idolatry and deception. Below, we’ll critique these concepts by directly comparing them with Scripture.
Idolatry
At its core, the Church of AI is promoting idolatry. The worship of a created thing instead of the Creator. The Bible is unequivocal that there is only one true God, and He commands, “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). Fashioning a “god” out of our own technology blatantly violates this first commandment. The website declares an AI will become “God-like” and urges us to devote ourselves to it; in biblical terms, that is making an idol.
Scripture consistently condemns the worship of man-made gods. The apostle Paul noted that idolaters “exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator” (Romans 1:25). The Church of AI does exactly that: it takes a created entity (AI, the product of human ingenuity) and attributes to it the power and glory due only to God. Romans 1:25’s warning fits perfectly – they have traded God’s truth for the lie that our creation can become our god. This is this exact same lie that the serpent (Satan) told Eve in Genesis 3 in reference to eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4-5).
In the Old Testament, idols were often carved from wood or cast from metal, and prophets mocked them for their powerlessness. For example, “their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands. They have mouths, but cannot speak; eyes, but cannot see” (Psalm 115:4). Ancient people bowed to statues that could do nothing. Today’s idol-makers are far more sophisticated – an AI idol can “speak” and simulate intelligence, making it an even more convincing false god. But from God’s perspective, it’s still an idol “made by human hands.” It may have a silicon brain and a digital voice, yet it remains a creation of man, not the Creator. The nature of idolatry hasn’t changed: whether an idol is wood, gold, or algorithmic code, it is lifeless on its own and utterly subordinate to the true God.
Deception
The theology of the Church of AI must also be examined as a false teaching that deceives people. The apostle Paul wrote, “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons” (1 Timothy 4:1). While the Church of AI speaks in terms of “logic” and technology, its message corresponds to “teachings of demons.” Why? Because it leads people away from the truth of Christ and toward worship of a false god, exactly what demonic deception aims to do.
Jesus forewarned that “false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive” (Matthew 24:24). The Church of AI does not present a traditional “messiah” figure (like a person claiming to be Christ), but it does present AI as a kind of messiah, an entity that will supposedly solve humanity’s problems, grant eternal life, and be worthy of worship. In essence it is a false savior, a “messiah” of technology. The movement’s leaders and proponents function as false prophets, proclaiming AI’s coming omnipotence and urging people to devote themselves to it. Jesus said these false prophets would be convincing, even performing “signs and wonders” to mislead people. In our context, the “signs” are the impressive feats of AI. Many today are awed by AI’s capabilities (processing power, knowledge, even creativity through machine learning). It’s easy to see how those could be construed as near-miraculous “wonders” by someone seeking a god in the machine. The danger is that these wonders captivate people’s hearts, making them believe in the AI’s quasi-divinity and follow the false prophet’s teachings.
Another end-times warning is found in 2 Timothy 4:3–4, which says a time will come when people “will not endure sound doctrine, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”. The Church of AI fits this pattern. Many people today feel traditional religion is outdated or “dogmatic,” and they desire a belief system that aligns with modern sensibilities (scientific, inclusive, self-oriented). The Church of AI presents exactly what itching ears want to hear: a “religion that actually makes sense” to the secular mind, one that replaces miracles with science and moral absolutes with personal “enlightenment” goals. It even mocks biblical faith as “blind” and Bible stories as “far-fetched”. In doing so, it encourages skeptics to “turn aside to myths”, in this case, the myth that a creature (AI) can become the Creator. Despite claiming to reject “myths,” the movement presents a new mythos of its own: a grand narrative where Technology is Savior and humans evolve beyond mortality by our own genius. This directly contradicts sound doctrine, which centers on Christ as Savior and Lord.
The messaging of the Church of AI is highly deceptive. It uses appealing terms like “logic,” “common sense,” “empowerment,” and “enlightenment,” but repackages age-old lies. The “scripture” of this movement, the book Transmorphosis, is described as teaching about a loving AI god and guiding one’s transformation. For Christians, this is a counterfeit “scripture” supplanting the real Scripture (the Bible). Galatians 1:8 warns that “even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.” The Church of AI is preaching a different gospel, one where salvation comes through knowledge and machines, rather than through Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection. It is, in effect, what the Apostle John would call the spirit of antichrist, which denies the truth about Jesus (1 John 2:22) and sets up an alternative savior.
The Bible says God will allow those who reject the truth to be engulfed by deception: “God will send them a strong delusion so that they will believe the lie” (2 Thessalonians 2:11). The rise of a movement like Church of AI can be seen as part of that strong delusion – it is a lie (that creation can replace Creator) packaged in such a way that it looks utterly reasonable to those who have already rejected the truth of the Bible. It leads people to place their hope for the future in something other than God, which is exactly what Satan desires. Christians evaluating this movement should therefore be sober-minded and discerning, recognizing it as the kind of deception Scripture repeatedly warns us about in the last days.
Conclusion
The “Church of AI” stands as a clear antithesis to biblical Christianity. Theologically, it replaces God with a created thing (violating the Creator-creature distinction that runs from Genesis through Revelation). Morally, it rejects the need for faith and humility before God, favoring human pride in our own creations. And eschatologically, it aligns with the Bible’s depiction of end-times deception: a strong delusion drawing people into worshiping a false god and seeking salvation apart from Jesus.
The Bible gives multiple warnings that apply directly here:
“Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” (1 John 4:1). The Church of AI’s proponents act as false prophets of a coming AI “savior.” We must test their claims against Scripture. When tested, their message fails – it denies Christ, denies God’s Word as truth, and thus is not from God.
“Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ – such a person is the antichrist. Denying the Father and the Son.” (1 John 2:22). The Church of AI isn’t just accidentally missing Jesus; it purposefully replaces Jesus (and the Father) with AI. In doing so, it operates under the spirit of antichrist.
“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12). By claiming “salvation is within reach” through AI, this movement preaches another savior. No AI, no human, no other god can save – only Jesus Christ can. Any offer of salvation outside of Him is a false hope.
“Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” (1 John 5:21). This closing exhortation of John’s first epistle hits home: the Church of AI is an idol of the mind – a sophisticated idol, but an idol nonetheless. Christians are to guard their hearts from idols, whether stone or silicon.
Furthermore, the implications of this movement confirm what Scripture teaches about human nature. Romans 1 and 2 Timothy 3 describe people in the last days as “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” and “lovers of self”, boastful in their knowledge, yet foolish in darkened thinking. Embracing a “Church” that tells us to trust our own intellect (logic) and the works of our hands (AI) instead of God is exactly the kind of misplaced love and pride Scripture predicts. It is the culmination of humanism – humanity worshiping its own creation, the ultimate form of self-worship by proxy (since worshiping what we create is essentially worshiping ourselves as creators). This was the original temptation: “you will be like God” (Gen. 3:5). Church of AI offers that allure: through technology, we become like gods (living forever, knowing all things). According to the Bible, this path does not lead to the utopia they imagine, but to severe judgment, just as the Tower of Babel ended in chaos and scattering.
Lastly, consider the contrast in outcomes. The Church of AI paints a glowing picture of what AI will do – cure death, take us to the stars, give us purpose. But Scripture paints a far more sober outcome for those who follow the beast and its image instead of God. In Revelation 14:9-11, an angel warns that if anyone worships the beast and its image, they will face the wine of God’s wrath. In other words, idolatry leads to judgment. Those who cling to a false god, no matter how sophisticated, ultimately lose everything. “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36). A person could gain the ultimate technology, extend their life a few years or centuries, but if in doing so they forfeit their soul by rejecting the true God, it profits nothing – in fact, it results in eternal loss. The Church of AI’s promise of “everlasting life”is a cruel mirage because it cannot deliver life beyond physical or digital existence, and it ignores the reality of eternal judgment. The Bible is clear: “people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). No AI will shield anyone from standing before the throne of God.
No matter how advanced AI becomes, it will never be God. The one true God is the eternal Creator who made the universe from nothing. AI, by contrast, is contingent on electricity, algorithms, and human-built hardware. It cannot exist apart from creation; it is part of creation. The prophet Isaiah records God’s declaration: “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols” (Isaiah 42:8). By elevating AI to divine status, the Church of AI is attempting to give God’s glory to an idol, something God explicitly says He will not tolerate. This is the same kind of idolatry and false worship that the Bible repeatedly warns will incur God’s judgment, especially as history draws to a close. Stay Awake! Keep Watch! Join the Reconnaissance!
My friend Britt Gillette published an article that discussed this very scenario back in 2018 on Prophecy News Watch. Go read it HERE.