IS AI ERASING THE IMAGE OF GOD?

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1:

• What makes us different from machines? Todd unpacks the doctrine of Imago Dei and how AI is blurring the lines between man and machine.

• A Christianity Today issue surprisingly focuses on AI—but how helpful was it really?

• Baylor gets a grant to study why Christianity "hurts" LGBT students. Todd explores the deeper problem behind that question.

• AI algorithms are shaping addictive social media habits—and possibly shaping your soul.

Segment 2:

• What is intelligence? And what makes human intelligence unique?

• Todd explains how Christians are turning to their theological catalogs to make sense of AI’s rise.

• With machines giving life advice and learning faster than ever, the question looms: Should they get human rights?

Segment 3:

• Could robots someday replace your pastor? A wild idea, but maybe not far off.

• Christianity Today’s AI issue wasn’t all bad—Todd shares what was decent and what wasn’t.

• Are we made for this speed of life? Internet and urban living may be rewiring our brains in harmful ways.

Segment 4:

• A moment of honesty: Todd gives credit to a few C.T. articles.

• But Christine Caine’s “testimony” in the same issue raises red flags—comparing her sin to Judas’s betrayal.

• Was Jesus inviting Judas to repent? Todd tackles the theology—and calls out false narratives with clarity.

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0:00.0	Wretched Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:08.5	God gave me a Ferrari because I am a Ferrari.
0:12.6	You're a Ferrari, too.
0:13.7	When God made you, he had all the options put on.
0:17.3	You are fully loaded and totally equipped.
0:20.3	So do this with me. Where did we ever come up
0:23.4	with the style of preaching we have today? There is some entertaining preaching but not convicting
0:27.8	preaching and the legacy has been tragic. It's time for Rretched Radio with Todd Friel. Who are you?
0:36.1	Who, who, who, who. That's kind of catchy. That might work if it were the 60s.
0:41.1	This is Richard Radio and maybe better than the interrogative who. What are you? What makes you
0:49.9	different than the plants, the birds, the bees, the trees, frial, trees are plants.
0:56.5	The point is, you and I as image bears of God, are downright different.
1:01.8	But the question is, what differentiates us from every other created thing?
1:07.8	And perhaps the follow-up question, what difference does it make? Oh,
1:13.1	the difference makes a lot of difference because we're different. Yes, yes, I wrote this monologue.
1:21.4	Why? Because the image bearer that you and I alone possess that imprint of God, it's getting blurred. It's being erased.
1:33.3	It started with people like Charles Darwin who decided we need to descend man, we need to elevate
1:39.2	animals and basically make us the same. Lo and behold, that's what is taught to kids in schools.
1:46.0	You're just primordial ooze.
1:47.7	You crawled out of a swamp.
1:49.2	You're no different than a bonobo monkey.
1:52.5	You are not distinct.
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