Authentic intelligence requires insight, discernment, and wisdom, not just computing. Artificial intelligence merely scans and sorts the information that it has access to. Authentic intelligence chooses to seek and submit to righteousness and truth.

Artificial intelligence is mindless information processing devoid of consciousness and conscience, but authentic intelligence requires the awareness of consciousness and the discernment of conscience. Authentic intelligence requires the willingness and the wisdom to see life from God’s perspective not from our own.

The knowledge of good and evil causes us to rely on our own self-wisdom which, apart from God’s life, is artificial intelligence that is easily deceived. The life of God is authentic intelligence offered freely to us by the risen Jesus (the way, the truth, and the life) through inner rivers of everflowing living water that release within us God’s direct revelation and the leading of the Spirit. Brokenness when humbly embraced shows us the fallacy of our artificial human intelligence and opens our heart to the authentic intelligence of God’s point of view, empowering us to continually surrender to God’s life and to “abide in the vine” (of the living Jesus).

Mental health requires both a healthy brain and a self-disciplined mind. If your life is stuck in artificial intelligence and isn’t overflowing with love, joy, peace, and the rest of the fruit of the Spirit, an ongoing connection with the living Jesus will change that. The best way to encourage yourself is to encourage someone else.

The artificial intelligence that says that God only speaks to and through important religious leaders has crippled Christianity. God is looking for authentic Spirit-led followers of the risen Jesus, not artificial “parishioners” or church members.