Wolves Who Know the Bible

Wolves Who Know the Bible

Theme: Asked about Silicon Valley AI figures embracing Christianity, Gary Wayne warns about Gnostic teachers who work inside the church, know the Bible well and use "interpretive" readings to make it mean anything. His answer for believers is to read the Bible. Paul's warning to the Ephesian elders is in Acts 20:29-30 (NKJV).

Sources:

• Danny Jones Podcast with Gary Wayne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BstHzjJT0w (clip from 2:22:08 to 2:23:42)

Summary

Danny Jones asks what Gary makes of "Silicon Valley AI folks embracing Christianity." Gary says he has no issue with an AI researcher becoming a Christian, but he wonders whether such a person is "a true monotheist Christian," because Christianity has its own polytheism, which he calls "Gnostic Christians." No individual is named.

He says this sect "infiltrate[s] Christianity with interpretive applications to Scripture." In their view you must be "an adept" to understand the Bible, so "they can make it mean anything that they want." He contrasts that with "the literal understanding of the Bible that I think Jesus actually taught." They "distort the document," "create doubt all of the time" and "know the Bible better than Christians do." Meanwhile, "Christians don't read the Bible enough to understand when somebody is leading them astray with clever arguments."

Edit note: some hedging, crosstalk and a reference to an earlier part of the show are trimmed for length.

Key lines

• Danny Jones: "What do you make of all these Silicon Valley AI folks embracing Christianity?" (2:22:08)
• "I wonder whether or not they're a true monotheist Christian." (2:22:31)
• "...they infiltrate Christianity with interpretive applications to Scripture like they do with their own Scriptures." (2:22:43)
• "So, we have Gnostics that invade the churches, and they distort the document. They create doubt all of the time." (2:23:17)
• "And they know the Bible better than Christians do." (2:23:30)
• "Christians don't read the Bible enough to understand when somebody is leading them astray with clever arguments." (2:23:34)

Scripture

• Acts 20:29-30 (NKJV): "For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves."

Takeaway

False teachers rarely look like outsiders. Paul said they would come from "among yourselves." The defense is not suspicion of everyone but knowing the Word well enough to test what is taught, like the Bereans, who "searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so" (Acts 17:11, NKJV).