Proclaiming the Gospel with Evidence to All Peoples Everywhere
It seems most of the reports about AI suggest it lends itself to nefarious purposes. Perhaps this is true. In the hands of the more virtuous, it can help also in the preparation of the Good News for hundreds of millions of people in many languages. Bible translation software processes human language much as traditional software handles data, using techniques collectively termed “Natural Language Processing” (NLP).
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By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
In the last issue of Happ-O-getics, I challenged the view held by some scholars that the illiteracy rate among people at the time of Jesus was at least 98% (they could neither read nor write). Based on the many libraries and volumes of written documents that existed even then, the statistic is quite unlikely.
I also quoted Helen Bond, a professor of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh who said, “If Jesus was a carpenter/mason, as we generally suppose, then it’s not impossible that he had some rudimentary grasp of letters and/or numbers for the purposes of his trade, but I think it very unlikely that Jesus could read or write.”
In this issue, I want to challenge the naivety or nonsense of this statement regarding Jesus.
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