In our culture today, the unborn, disabled, elderly, or terminally ill are increasingly seen as burdens we must bear. For example, one article commenting on anti-aging research described people living to older ages as creating a “‘care home world’ full of decrepit people.”

But this isn’t how the Bible views people! We are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God. We have value and purpose because we’re made in God’s image, not because of our quality of life or what we contribute to society.

God sent his Son to give his life for us, that we might receive salvation. That’s how much value we have in God’s eyes!

In a millions-of-years worldview, comets are a big problem. You see, every time a comet orbits close to the sun, it gets smaller and eventually disintegrates. In just a few million years there wouldn’t be any comets left in our solar system. Yet there still are!

To explain this, secular scientists propose the Oort Cloud where comets are supposedly produced before they’re pulled into our solar system. But there’s absolutely no observational evidence for this Oort Cloud!

When we start with God’s Word, we don’t need to invent imaginary comet makers. God created the universe, including comets, just a few thousand years ago.

Over the past few years I’ve heard so many tragic stories of young people taking their own lives with the help or encouragement of their AI chatbot. You see, technology hasn’t helped with the struggle for meaning and purpose so many are facing. It’s just made the problem worse!

The answer for a struggling culture is pointing them to the purpose, meaning, and value that is found in God’s Word—chatbots can’t give that!

The Bible says we are of such value that our Creator came to earth as the God-man. He chose to die in our place, taking the penalty of death that we deserve. And meaning and purpose are found in following him.

All this week we’ve been looking at a biblical view of technology. And technology is becoming quite amazing! Artificial intelligence is seemingly the way of the future—it can do so many things faster and better than a human.

Does this mean humans are becoming insignificant? Or that we aren’t unique? Not at all. You see, it’s not our intellect or our problem-solving abilities that set us apart from the rest of God’s creation. We’ve been made in the image of God! That’s what gives us value!

We’re unique because we bear the image of the Creator. And we are of such value that God sent his Son to die for us.

As we learned earlier this week, there’s a growing number of people who think artificially intelligent machines are the next step in human evolution—some think they might even replace us or rule over us.

But AI isn’t evolving and it’s not the next step in our supposed evolution. Artificial intelligence is an example of biomimicry. This is when humans copy God’s superior designs in their technology. By studying and trying to copy the way our brains learn, and programming machines to learn the same way, we’re simply copying God’s amazing design.

Life did not evolve—and it’s not evolving now!

As Christians, God’s Word must shape our thinking in all areas—including technology!

You see, technologies like AI aren’t inherently bad—they’re just tools. They can be used for evil or to help us fight against the effects of the curse. In Genesis, we’re charged with ruling over God’s creation. Technology helps us develop new ways to care for creation while working for man’s good.

While technology has some great benefits, we shouldn’t put our hope in it. It can temporarily fight the curse, but the only permanent solution is faith in Jesus Christ who will someday create a new heaven and earth.

Many people believe that AI is the next step in human evolution. They believe if we integrate with machines we can escape our biology—and maybe even death itself.

This kind of thinking flows from an evolutionary worldview. If we’ve evolved from lower life forms through naturalistic processes, maybe we can give nature a hand and control our future evolution.

But we didn’t evolve, and we aren’t getting better! We were created perfect, but because of our sin we now suffer and die. True hope of escaping death is only possible because Jesus died in our place and offers the gift of eternal life to all who will believe.

Many people believe Jesus came into being as the babe in a manger. But Scripture tells us that Jesus is the eternal God and our Creator. He’s always existed from eternity past and will always exist into eternity future.

When we teach the Old Testament, we need to show that the whole Bible is about God’s plan of redemption—it’s all about Jesus! The gospel and the person of Jesus are found all throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.

Jesus isn’t just the babe in the manger we celebrate at Christmas. Jesus is the eternal God who stepped into history as the God-man to die on the cross and be raised again.

This week we’ve been looking at how teaching the Bible chronologically makes it come alive. It connects the dots and helps us understand the flow of biblical history.

But we also need to connect the Bible with the world around us. As we teach God’s Word, show how it connects with archaeology, geology, biology, and anthropology. People need to see that the Bible is not some story book full of just moral truths. It’s a book of history! It connects with real people, places, and events in history.

And this unleashes a powerful truth. If we can trust what the Bible says about history, we can trust what it says about the gospel!

If you ask most people where we find Jesus in the Bible, they’ll point to the New Testament or maybe just the gospels. But Jesus is the theme and focus of the whole Bible!

Jesus is the “scarlet thread” woven throughout the Old Testament. It’s here we see the unfolding of God’s plan to rescue the world through his Son. What we learn about Christ in the New Testament fulfills much of what we read about him in the Old Testament.

Seeing Jesus from the beginning to the end highlights that the Bible—and history itself—has one author. It’s all about Jesus and what he came to do for sinners just like us.