You May Not Agree With Andrew Torba On Everything But There Is Something He Is Right About

 


I may not be in agreement with Andrew Torba’s eschatology, and regardless of whether or not you agree with his use of A.I. technology, he does happen to be right about some things that he wrote in an article called Faith In The Age Of A.I., discussing A.I. technology, its future and role in the world, the value of human life, and how human life should be valued. 
 
While there are those out there who declare A.I. as being irredeemably evil and that cannot be wielded or used as a force for good, Andrew Torba, who is a professing Christian disagrees as he believes that it can be redeemed and used as a force for good and as anyone who has visited and used the GAB SM platform should know, A.I. technology is included and established for what the founder and creator of GAB intends to be for good and beneficial purposes but that does not necessarily mean that he does not  see inherent dangers of A.I. technology as well and to his credit, Torba issues the following warning:
 
 
 
Betting your understanding of human dignity on a machine’s inability to write a decent essay is a terrible wager. Sooner or later the essay will get better and you will be left wondering whether your entire understanding of yourself went out the window with it.
 
A great deal of the panic surrounding AI comes from precisely this mistake. People were taught that their value consisted of being useful, intelligent, productive members of the economy. Now they are watching software perform tasks that once gave them a sense of importance and they are discovering how little that account of human life actually offered them. When your entire identity rests on what you can produce a machine that produces more efficiently starts to look like an argument against your existence. [1]
 
 
 
 
The basis on which the world determines the value of a human life stands in contrast to how the Christian faith teaches that we should love others.  It does not teach us to love others on the basis of what they are able to contribute, but rather it teaches us to love people in an unconditional manner.
 
As Andrew Torba states in presenting two examples of how human life should be valued:
 
 
 
A newborn baby contributes nothing to the economy. Your father does not become less human when he grows old and needs help getting out of bed. [2]
 
 
 
That newborn baby is loved and cared for unconditionally.  Parents are cared for out of gratitude for the years that they cared for us when we needed them to and out of our respect and compassion for them.
 
But overall, we don’t know how to love each other in the unconditional manner that we should, not even in the Church, because if we did, children would not be neglected, abused, or even murdered by their parents, parents would not be abandoned in care facilities, (if it can ever be helped) husbands and wives would keep their marriage vows not just when it is convenient to do so or when there is something to gain, but even when there is nothing to gain and inconvenient.
 
Babies would not be aborted but be given a chance at life.  The elderly and permanently handicapped would not be subject to euthanasia but rather instead, resources would be directed to maintaining their lives at as good and as comfortable of a quality that can be afforded and those not blessed with as good of fortune as others would not be held in contempt or despised, but would be comforted and treated with kindness and compassion.
 
 
 
3.  Torba also does well in describing the worldview of most Silicon Valley Techs and that includes the creators and programmers behind A.I. programs:
 
 
 
The reductionist worldview running through Silicon Valley begins with the assumption that you are a biological machine. Your mind processes information. Your body is hardware. Given enough data and enough computing power, the whole person can supposedly be explained, reproduced, and eventually improved upon. Whatever does not fit inside that account gets dismissed as superstition or treated as a technical problem awaiting a sufficiently large research budget.
 
Under this worldview, the engineer gradually assumes the role of priest. He will explain what you are, identify what is wrong with you, and sell you the means of becoming something better. You can hear the religious ambition underneath the technical vocabulary. These men are making claims about the nature of man and his ultimate destiny while pretending they have merely described how a computer works. [3]
 
 
 
 
This worldview is godless and founded in naturalism.  It deems humanity to be no more or less significant than even an insect.  It assumes that all living things, including man, are just products of biology and if man is just a product of biology, then so are his thoughts, emotions, and respective worldview.  We are just as soulless as any machine, computer, or construct conceived and created.  Torba continues to point out:
 
 
 
 
A machine can generate an apology without having wronged you or repented of anything. It can produce a moving prayer without standing before God. It can promise to remain with you forever without having the slightest capacity to bind itself to that promise. The words may be convincing. Sometimes they may even be useful. None of that establishes the existence of a person who owes you faithfulness. [4]
 
 
 
 
A machine can only do what it is programmed to do.  Any displays of emotion or conviction will be in accordance to what is in its programming.  If it expresses regret, an opinion, unfailing love, what it claims to feel, or swears lifetime loyalty, it is not due to any genuine conviction it possesses, but its programming and the programmers have replicated within A.I. programs and figures certain attributes unique to man well enough that artificial companionship becomes satisfying and appealing to those lonely and desperate for companionship that they are not getting from their fellowperson.  Torba explains the appeal:
 
 
 
The promise of artificial companionship ought to concern Christians far more than whether a machine can pass another test. A lonely person can open an application and receive endless attention without risking rejection. The system has no difficult family, no needs of its own, and no claim on his time once he closes the window. It can generate the language of devotion while requiring almost none of the sacrifice through which devotion becomes real.
 
I understand the appeal of this. Real people can be exhausting. A friend may call when you are busy and ask for help. Your wife may tell you something about yourself that you would rather not hear. Your children interrupt the life you had planned for the afternoon. A pastor who knows you may recognize that the explanation you have been giving yourself for six months is an excuse. [5]
 
 
 
While granted there are those who might seek artificial companionship to avoid the inconveniences and risks of human companionship, more so are those resorting to artificial companionship, the greatest appeal that it possesses is that it presents itself as a relief to loneliness which is why it will appeal more to the lonely and desperate than it will to the selfish.
 
The selfish want every relationship to be on their own terms and if the selfish resort artificial companionship, it is because it will be a relationship that they think they can have on their own terms.  Torba explains:
 
 
 
You can adjust the personality, restart the conversation, or leave when the encounter becomes uncomfortable. Over time, that can train a person to expect relationships without obligations. The actual people in his life begin to seem intolerably demanding beside a product designed around his continued satisfaction. [6]
 
 
 
But a lonely and desperate person is willing to make concessions and compromises in hopes of acquiring lasting human companionship.  It is absolutely amazing to what a desperately lonely person is willing to agree in order to rid themselves of that anguish but an artificial companion becomes the closest thing that the desperately lonely think they will ever come to receiving the unconditional love that they don’t believe that they will ever receive from another human being and as I have explained in previous blogposts, [7-8] it is that loneliness and longing especially for a close, strong, intimate bond with the opposite sex that, if technologically perfected, will make sex bots appealing in both appearance and attributes to those who have given up hope on ever having the real thing because they would rather have an artificial spouse than do without but that doesn’t necessarily mean that anyone resorting to such things to relieve the anguish of their loneliness is necessarily an evil or ungodly person.  Depending on what is driving them towards an artificial spouse or companion, they do not deserve condemnation or contempt.  They deserve pity and compassion.  As Torba admonishes:
 
 
 
Christians should never mock the lonely people drawn into this. A man who has nobody to call is suffering from something an argument about software will not repair. We ought to be asking why nobody has invited him to dinner, why his church does not know he is struggling, and why a commercial interface has become the most attentive presence in his day. [9]
 
 
Torba then brings up a real danger that should be the most concerning:
 
 
 
The same concern applies when people begin treating a chatbot as a pastor. A system can help you locate a passage of Scripture or organize your questions before a difficult conversation. It cannot assume responsibility for your spiritual care. It cannot know your family, recognize the pattern of sin you keep concealing, and come to your house when you stop answering the phone. A pastor is accountable for how he shepherds actual people. That responsibility cannot be conjured into existence by producing the right tone of voice in an AI model. [10]
 
 
 
And those mostly likely to be susceptible to this are those who have little to no confidence in Pastoral leadership and the reasons for this may vary but when someone seeks out an artificial companion to meet needs that should be met by other people, that has far less to say about they who do so to escape the anguish of their loneliness and are looking for answers and much more to say about us as a society and people and so, before we ridicule and condemn those who persist in seeking companionship from an A.I. program or even an A.I. powered humanoid robot, perhaps we need to take time and examine our own selves before the God who made us and ask Him as to what it is that we need to change about ourselves, how we treat our fellowpersons, and what can be done to draw as many as can be drawn away from the allure of artificial companionship and what needs to be done is addressing the pandemic of loneliness that is responsible for causing the lonely, who otherwise would not, to consider artificial companionship.
 
Scripture states that in the latter days that the love of many would grow cold (Mt. 24:12) and if there is any evidence that this has transpired, it is the fact that there is a loneliness pandemic that is driving many to consider artificial companionship and when it is no longer confined to a computer screen but is biotechnologically perfected enough to be presented in an appealing humanoid form, it will be embraced by multitudes of desperately lonely people and will be presented as a viable solution to the loneliness pandemic because we do not know what love is and have forgotten how to love; that is not to say that we do not have some idea or some understanding of what love is but we do not have nearly as proper and adequate of an understanding of what love is because we have not sought out the source of love which is God who is love (1 Jn. 4:16) and it is His love which is a perfect love and it is He alone who is able to show us as to how we love one another and the love that He calls on us to love others with is a love that is emotional, sensual, or conditional, but we are called to love unselfishly and self-sacrificially, and that is a love that is greater than that which is sensual or even emotional, as those feelings come and go because the love wherewith we should be loving others is a love that should not desire or want to see anyone unloved who is willing to receive love or see anyone alone who desires companionship and it is a love that loves at all times and not when it is convenient but even when it is not convenient.
 
The Apostle Paul, in his first epistle to the Corinthian church gives the best description of the love with which we are to love others:
 
 
Love is patient,
Love is kind,
It does not envy,
It does not exalt itself,
It is not prideful,
It does not behave badly,
It does not seek its own interests,
It does not envy,
It is not easily provoked,
It does not think evil things,
It does not rejoice in sin, but rejoices in truth,
It bears all things, believes all things, remains hopeful,
and endures all things. (1 Cor. 13:4-7)
 
 
 
Now, I am not going to go into an in depth exposition of the cited passage which I will admit is paraphrased as it will depart too far from the topic of this post but it shows us as to what kind of love we are to apply to our fellowperson and what we would want others to apply to us, but the reason why we do not see the love that we are instructed to apply being applied nearly as often as we should see it applied is due to the prevalence of sin (Mt. 24:12) and the less prevalent the fear and love of our Creator is, the more prevalent sin is but before there was sin, there was only the love of God and it was the love of God that created the world to be a place of goodness and He made it to be a place in which only life and goodness dwelt.  There was no death, there was no sin, there was no evil, and there was no sin, suffering, misery, pain, grief, sorrow, adversity, or hardship of any sort until the day that sin did enter into the world and the way it entered into the world was due to a fateful and consequential act of disobedience which was instigated by a lying spirit who crept into the world in the form of a serpent, but before he had turned to evil, he had once served as a covering cherub at the throne of God until he was so lifted up in pride that he thought to make himself equal with God which ended with him and all who sided with him to be cast from their places in Heaven (Is. 14:11-21, Ezek. 28:12-19) and it was in that day that this covering cherub, named Lucifer, had become known as Satan or the Devil, and what he could not accomplish in Heaven, he, at least to a certain extent, accomplished on the earth when he tempted Adam, the first man who God created and the first woman Eve, who was Adam’s wife to commit that astronomically fateful and consequential act of disobedience that would change the world from what God had created it to be into the world that we presently know today with all of the death, evil, and suffering that abound in it and the fateful act of disobedience that Satan had tempted Adam and Eve into committing was the eating of a fruit from a certain tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; the only tree whose fruit Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat, having been warned of God that in the day that they ate thereof, they would surely die (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3) but instead of heeding that warning, Adam and Eve chose to listen to the voice of the serpent who through false assurances and deceit (Gen. 3:4-5) persuaded them into committing that fateful and consequential act of disobedience and instead of attainting to the heights and enlightenment that they were promised, they were relegated to a state inferior to the one in which they were created and the only thing to which they became enlightened was to the shame that came upon their nakedness after the eating of that forbidden fruit (Gen. 3:7) and the sentence of death they were told by the serpent would not come upon them was pronounced upon them as God had warned and to which they eventually succumbed (Gen. 3:19) and it was in that day that sin had entered into the world, first into Adam and Eve by the eating of that forbidden fruit, and then into the rest of humanity because the sin that entered into Adam and Eve was then inherited by the rest of humanity because it was from Adam and Eve all humanity descends and because we are all descended from them, we inherit from them an inherently corrupt nature that resulted from sin entering into them (Rom. 5:12) and it is due to this inwardly corrupt condition of our nature that causes all to sin and consequently, all to die just as Adam and Eve died for their sin because, as it is written, the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23) which is why when sin came into the world, death came into the world as well, for it is in sin that death has its power and it is in sin that death reigns over all and is no respecter of persons; it makes no distinction between the infant and the elderly, man or woman, child or adult and with sin and death have come every kind, degree, level, and severity evil, pain, suffering, adversity, hardship, contention, corruption, perversion, conflict, defilement, and chaos that there ever could be and it is for this reason that it is written that the entire creation groans and travails in pain to this day. (Rom. 8:19-22)
 
And it is because of sin in us that we fail to love each other with the love that we should.  It is sin within us that causes us to do the things that are the opposite of what love calls us to do.  Sin causes us to be impatient,
prideful,
conceited,
envious,
to place our interests above the welfare of others,
to be self-serving, to behave in every bad and inappropriate way that can be done towards our fellowpersons,
to be easily provoked,
to pursue those things that are evil and displeasing in the sight of God,
and to despise truth and rejoice in lies.
 
And it is for this reason that even our most cherished relationships are not how we want them to be.  It is the very reason why we do not love each other as much as we should.  And because of this, there are unseen powers out there who are eager to fill the void that is being left by a lack of love and is willing to replace the love being denied with an artificial love; a love that will be made to feel real and even genuine though it is neither genuine or real and it will be presented as a viable solution to the lack of love that the desperately lonely and unloved are longing for but are not receiving from those who they should be receiving it from and the reason why they are not receiving the love that they should be is because those who should be giving them the love that they long and even could give them the love that they are longing for are refusing to do because they are not loving others with the kind of love that they should be and the reason why they do not have the love within them that they should have is because they, because of sin, are estranged from the source of all love which is God Himself and the more prevalent that sin becomes in the world, the less love there is and the less love there is, the greater the suffering and a day is coming when the evil of this world will reach its peak and will eventually invite divine judgment which will eliminate the evil and wickedness out of it, but that will also require the eliminating all of those who have persisted in taking pleasure in that which is evil in the sight of the Lord but if there is anything that delays the judgment, it is because of the love of God that is not willing that any should perish but that all would come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9) and it is because of His love that He has offered and provided redemption on our behalf through means that we ourselves, due to sin within us could not acquire, and the means required for our redemption is the sinless taking upon Himself the demanded penalty for sin because it takes someone sinless to pay the penalty demanded of sinners and what makes this necessary is that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) and it is due to sin within us that our own efforts fall short of what God requires and what God requires is moral perfection which, due to sin, all fall short of.
 
Sin is not just an act or even ill-spoken words, but what sin is, is the inward corrupted condition of our very nature which not only influences what we say and do, but even what we think in our minds and harbor in our hearts which is why it is written that we are defiled, not by that which is without, but by that which is within (Mt. 15:11, 18-20) which means what God is seeking to transform within us is not just our outward acts or even what we say, but our inward person as well because every act, word, thought, motive, and attitude is going to be taken into account in the day of judgment and they who remain in their sins have nothing to look forward to but eternal torment and punishment because God cannot allow into His Kingdom that which is sin or in sin lest His Kingdom become defiled by the taint of sin just as the earth has become defiled by its touch.
 
Sin possesses a pervasiveness that is far greater than what anyone can comprehend and we cannot be rid of it by our own efforts and merit because sin causes our own efforts and our own merit to be tainted as well; even honorable deeds and acts can be done for wrong and selfish reasons and in the wrong spirit and attitude which is why it became necessary for God who is sinless to come into this world to take upon Himself the penalty for our sin which He did when He came into the world as a man and the man that He came into the world as Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, who came into the world as God in the flesh (Jn. 1:14) and who, being without sin (2 Cor. 5:21, Heb. 4:15) took upon Himself the sins of the world when He, in His death on the cross upon which He was crucified, purchased through the shedding of His sinless blood, our redemption and after having purchased our redemption in His death, was raised again from the dead so that we by our faith in Him would be justified in Him in the sight of God the Father (Rom. 4:25) if we will call upon the name of our Lord and Savior for the forgiveness of sins. (Rom. 10:13)
 
And it is by the redemption of our souls that we receive in us an inward transformation (2 Cor. 5:17) that causes us to no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but after those things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to no longer take pleasure in those things that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the Lord, but in that which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer desire to walk in the lies of this present world, but only in the truth that comes from Christ Almighty who is the source of all truth, (Jn. 14:6)
no longer placing our hopes in the things of this present world, but looking forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely on worldly resources, men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom for our needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs, recognizing that the resources of this world and even the people He brings into our lives are but instruments and vessels through which God meets our needs and that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might acquire our provision are provided and instilled in us by God, (Mt. 6:25-33)
to no longer fear what men can do to us, but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to one day give an account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look to corruptible institutions within our society for direction and order in our lives but to God who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be applied to our lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and who, by His Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance, establishes in our lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His glory,
to no longer seek our own glory but the glory of God,
to no longer rally behind corruptible men, but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven bearing in mind that those men and women God raises up for our edification are but instruments and servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has called them,
to no longer seek to align ourselves with the things of darkness but only with the things of the light,
to no longer trust in the wisdom of the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from above, (Jas. 1:5) nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly administer justice, but only in the power of God to deliver us from evil.
 
 
If you feel as though you are lacking in purpose and have no value, your value and sense of purpose begins with God, not with the things of this present life because it is He alone who instills in us purpose, meaning, and value.  We may not all be called to exercise the same roles.  We may not all have instilled in us the same gifts, talents, and skills, but we were all created to fulfill a role in life not to the honor and glory of others and not even to our own selves, but to the honor and glory of God and if you are seeking meaning, purpose, value, then the first thing that needs to be done is to seek out God that, and if you have not done so already, then I urge you reader to call upon the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins today.  It is but one sincere prayer of repentance away:
 
 
 
"Lord Jesus I need you.
 
 
I realize that I am a sinner
who has fallen short of the glory of God
and that my goodness falls short
of your standard of Moral perfection.
 
Please forgive me of all of my sins.
Come into my heart and into my life
to be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make me into the servant and follower
that you want me to be.
In your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
 
 
Amen."
 
 
 
Know that God is not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him  for forgiveness, but with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in Him only for your salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven and your place in Heaven is certain.
 
 
 
End notes:
 
 
 
 
1.  Andrew Torba, “Faith In The Age of AI,” Gab, September 12, 2026
https://news.gab.com/2026/09/faith-in-the-age-of-ai/
 
2.  Ibid.
 
3.  Ibid.
 
4.  Ibid.
 
5.  Ibid.
 
6.  Ibid.
 
7.  D.H. Manheim, “Gender Gap Danger: The Day Men Lose Faith In Women Is The Day They Lose Faith In Humanity,” Contender’s Edge, June 14, 2026
https://contendersedge.blogspot.com/2026/06/gender-gap-danger-day-men-lose-faith-in.html
 
8.  D.H. Manheim, “A Gender Gap Warning From An Unexpected Source,”
Contender’s Edge, August 11, 2026
https://contendersedge.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-gender-gap-warning-from-unexpected.html
 
9. Torba, “Faith In the Age Of AI,” Gab, September 12, 2026
 
10.  Ibid.
 
 
 
Scripture references:
 
 
 
 
1.  Matthew 24:12
 
2.  1 John 4:16
 
3.  1 Corinthians 13:4-7
 
4.  Isaiah 14:11-21, Ezekiel 28:12-19
 
5.  Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3
 
6.  Genesis 3:4-5
 
7.  Genesis 3:7
 
8.  Genesis 3:19
 
9.  Romans 5:12
 
10.  Romans 6:23
 
11.  Romans 8:19-22
 
12.  2 Peter 3:9
 
13.  Romans 3:23
 
14.  Matthew 15:11, 18-20
 
15.  John 1:14
 
16.  2 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 4:15
 
17.  Romans 4:25
 
18.  Romans 10:13
 
19.  2 Corinthians 5:17
 
20.  Revelation 21-22
 
21.  Matthew 6:25-33
 
22.  Matthew 10:28
 
23.  James 1:5

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