Ladies and gentlemen, I suppose this happens almost to every generation, but when I grew up and went to high school in the 1970s, some of my friends would try and get fake IDs so they could go out and drink.

And I was never a troublemaker as a kid. It didn't appeal to me at all, but they wanted to get a fake ID,

because at the time, I want to say that the drinking age at the time was 18.

And some kids in, you know, 16, 17 could pass for that.

So they get these fake IDs, these New Jersey fake IDs, so they go to a bar.

And so they could drink. and they could get into trouble. And that can happen to us today when we adopt an ID,

an identity for ourselves that really is fake. We don't tend to flourish. We tend to hurt ourselves and hurt others. And that's the

subject of a brand new book that my guest, Abdou Murray, has written. It's called fake ID. And it deals

with two major issues. Major issues. It deals a lot of issues, but the fake ID that people get

with regard to gender ideology and also the encroachment of AI that causes us to sometimes wonder

if what we're actually seeing is real. And Abdu just wrote this book. It comes out February 3rd. Actually, that was

yesterday. If you're listening to this on Tuesday, actually, no, it's today. Today's February 3rd.

If you listen to this on Tuesday, the book's fake ID, how identity, ideology, and artificial

intelligence are collapsing reality and what to do about it. We discussed this in the last podcast, how it's collapsing reality.

We'll do a little bit more of that. And then we're going to talk about what we can do about it.

And, Abdu, by the way, it's great having you on the show again. I didn't give you the round of

applause last time, but here he is. That was the great Abdu. By the way, if you say anything wrong here, Abdu, you're going to hear this? Wrong. And if it turns out to be not a good show, you're going to hear this at the end. You're fired. All right. So let's just jump in and talk a little bit. Let's start with the image of God if we can, because if we have a healthy

idea of the fact that we're made in the image of God and we follow that, we'll probably

improve our chances of flourishing. But if we sort of deny who we are, we're going to have

trouble. I know

theologians debate what it really means, what the Bible really means by saying human beings

are made in the image of God. How do you take the image of God? How do you define it?

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