BIBLICAL COUNSELING STORIES—AI THERAPY AND THE BIBLE – PART 1

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.9 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Transformed Podcast Episode 108 | January 30, 2025 Dr. Greg Gifford unpacks the world of AI therapy, sharing his firsthand experiences and raising questions about its ethical, spiritual, and practical implications. He explores the opportunities and risks of turning to chatbots for emotional support and how to discern their place in a Christian worldview. ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?
0:03.8	Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.
0:07.7	I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.
0:10.5	God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.
0:14.8	God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.
0:19.6	The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is
0:24.4	Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's
0:30.1	University and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford, and today I have a new type of episode for you.
0:44.6	I am calling it biblical counseling stories. I want you to imagine if I were a journalist
0:50.5	presenting information to you, that's what my biblical counseling stories will be.
0:55.8	So I want to cover topics like people, organizations, events. And right now, today's episode,
1:03.3	I want to cover artificial intelligence therapy and the Bible and try to introduce a concept
1:10.0	to you that is obviously buzzing around us with
1:12.9	chat GPT, AI, we have Siri everything, Alexa.
1:19.2	So how do we think biblically about artificial intelligence therapy, AI therapy?
1:24.6	So this is the goal.
1:26.3	Today I am going to help introduce to you AI therapy what it is
1:31.1	and how it's being used in the therapeutic process. I'll do my best to just kind of report today,
1:37.1	but there are some questions and some concerns at the end of today's episode that I think will be
1:40.9	worth your attention. And then into our next episode, what we're going to do
1:44.7	is we're going to look at the results of using this tool, what has already taken place. And that's
1:49.8	everything from individuals falling in love with chatbots to one unfortunate scenario where a young
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