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November 7, 2025 Paid subscribers

When Miracles Look Like AI

Holding on to wonder when every sign can be faked.

It’s becoming easier every day to fake a miracle.

A healing video goes viral — a man in a wheelchair stands, weeping, worship breaks out — and the comments fill with one line:

“It’s AI-generated.”

I understand it. We live in a world where nothing can’t be edited. Even the real looks rehearsed. Authenticity has been deepfaked into extinction. But here’s the strange irony: the very technology that makes it easier to counterfeit miracles also reveals how miraculous we are.

Artificial intelligence — the ability to create, to compose, to think — is itself a reflection of divine image-bearing. God breathed into dust and made a mind that could imagine. And now, we’ve made a mirror that can imitate imagination itself. It’s astonishing, and terrifying. AI can mimic the appearance of life. But it can’t create a soul.

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