Why not train GPT-2 or 3 with these texts, so we can get AI commentary and maybe some new scripture? I’m curious how a neural network will reconcile different versions of the Creation and Christ’s birth. If GPT can simulate someone’s girlfriend maybe it can simulate Augustine or Aquinas.
"Therefore God called upon his angels to come and to save the earth and her inhabitants from destruction. And they did so. And God said, “Let every creature breathe safe by the Spirit of the Lord through Jesus Christ, that his spirit may be like unto this day.” And God called upon the angels and promised them."
As one who cares deeply about the Bible, my comment upon it is that it’s super inaccurate in style and doctrine, and very clearly draws considerably upon extrabiblical sources. As simple examples, the Old Testament section (whose faults are more obvious than the Synoptic Gospels section) talks of Jesus, who wasn’t yet born; treats “Satan” in a way that is clearly inspired by Christian writings from hundreds of years after Jesus, entirely unsupported in the Old Testament (the concept of a supernatural devil as part of their religion is largely just not found in the Old Testament, it being introduced after the exile; if you look for “satan” transliterated in the Old Testament, you tend to only find it in 1 Chronicles 21:1, Job 1–2 and Zechariah 3:1–2, and “devil” is nowhere at all in the Old Testament) and not really supported by the New Testament either; talks of the Holy Ghost and kingdom of God/heaven in a way also entirely absent in the Old Testament, but more after the style of the New Testament (true of a few more things as well); and talks of angels as mortal and capable of evil in a way entirely unsupported by both testaments, but present in various subsequent Christian teachings. It’s frankly more an imitation just of the style of formal English from a few hundred years ago, with some religiosity in its content, but not in the slightest bit plausible or coherent as far as something that would actually be in the Bible.
(It’s fun taking things seriously and seeing where it gets you.)
