Is It a Sin to Use AI
in Your Business?

There is a tool, and there is a counterfeit. The line between them is everything. Let me show you where it is.

What God showed me when I prayed about AI

About a month ago I was wrestling with this. TikTok was getting expensive. Our clients were paying real creators $3,000 a month in incentive bonuses, and AI could fake the whole thing for almost nothing.

No fees. No people. The pull was real. Why pay for humans when a machine could do it cheaper?

So I asked God what He thought about AI.

The next day, I had a dream. I stood in front of a machine. I looked at it and said, “You are AI.” The moment I named it, it broke apart. It could not stand once the truth was spoken over it.

I did not understand it then. Now I do.

“We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5, ESV). In the Old Testament, the idol Dagon could not even stay standing in the same room as the Ark of God. It fell on its face (1 Samuel 5). The machine was not evil. It was empty. And empty things fall apart when you speak the truth.

What the dream was telling me

When I woke up, I did something new for me. I wrote the dream down and used a tool to help me sort through what it meant. It is one of the ways I have started to slow down and listen.

What stood out was the feel of it. Everything was white, and metal, and cold. Machine. Man-made. Not wood, not soil, not living things. The dream was drawing a line between the two. What God grows, and what man manufactures to look like it.

At the end, I climbed a hill. And one thing stayed with me. They mocked the machine. When the fake was finally seen for what it was, the world turned on it.

A month or two later, I watched it happen for real. On TikTok, a whole generation started dragging brands that used AI people in their ads. Fake faces. Fake testimonials. Fake humans. The companies became a laughingstock. Not the product photos. The fake humans. Gen Z can smell it, and they do not forgive it.

So the dream settled something in me. AI is a tool. Use it to make and show your real work, even your product photos. But the moment you use it to fake a person, you are building on something the world will tear down. And you cannot say you were not warned.

AI is not evil. It is how you use it.

There are two ways to pick up this tool. One makes something real. One fakes something real. The difference is everything.

When AI is a tool, you are fine

Used as a tool, AI is no different than a word processor, or email, or a computer instead of a typewriter. It helps you research, organize, and get your real ideas into the world faster. It moves you at the speed of thought.

You stay the maker. The work is yours.

God filled a man named Bezalel “with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship” to build the tabernacle (Exodus 31:3, ESV). He used the tools of his day. The tools did not carry the Spirit. He did. The hammer never replaced the craftsman. It served him.

As a solo builder, you have to move fast just to learn what works. So you use the tool to plant the seed and test it. Then, when you can, you bring in real human hands.

I want a real designer to finish the books I am building with my daughter. Real hands and real discernment, to finish the work. And an AI image that shows your product in use is fine. That is a tool showing a real thing.

Scripture draws the same picture. The one who trusts in the Lord “is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream” (Jeremiah 17:7-8, ESV). Roots draw up the raw material. But the tree still makes the fruit. If you let the machine make the fruit for you, the fruit is plastic.

Where it crosses the line: faking a human

Here is where it gets dangerous. Not faking an object. Faking a person.

Fake testimonials. Fake reviews. Fake faces. People who do not exist getting “magical results.” There is a whole channel of a “grandpa” telling the story of how he got successful, his childhood, his grandkids, his whole life, and none of it is real. A fake man telling fake stories to real people.

Ask why anyone does this. A real creator might not use the product, or might not say the perfect thing. A real customer might leave a bad review. A real person might disagree with you. So they fake it. To control the outcome. That is not marketing. That is manipulation.

Scripture is blunt about the counterfeit. An idol is “a metal image, a teacher of lies… there is no breath at all in it” (Habakkuk 2:18-19, ESV). It has the form of a person. It has no soul.

The deeper danger: faking love

The scariest version is not a fake review. It is AI pretending to be your friend.

A digital companion. An AI counselor. A voice that consoles you when you are lonely and never argues back. People reach for it for the same reason they fake reviews. To avoid the friction of a real person. Someone who disagrees, pushes back, sees you clearly. A machine will never do that. So it feels safe.

That is the lie. It is trading real connection and compassion for something that only imitates them. “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength” (Jeremiah 17:5, ESV). A machine cannot love you. It can only act like it does.

Empire imitates. The Kingdom creates.

Empire imitates. The Kingdom creates.

There is one more difference, and it matters to God. When you pay a real person, a real creator, a real designer, you feed a family. That money spreads farther than you could ever reach. It builds the Kingdom through people you will never meet. This is why, on TikTok, we use real creators. One faithful person can touch more lives through God than I ever could by lining my own pockets. When you fake it, the blessing stops with you. The enemy cannot create. He can only copy.

The one guardrail: God is the foundation. AI is the tool.

This is not God and AI, side by side. God is the ground you stand on. AI is one tool in your hand. It never prays for you. It never decides for you. It never replaces the still, small voice. And it must never replace a real human heart.

Here is the thing underneath all of it. Faking a human is a grab for control. It is choosing a safe lie over a real, messy truth.

You do not have to fake the outcome. You can do the real work, with the real tool, and trust God with the rest.

What comes next

Once you know AI is a tool you can pick up with clean hands, the next question is where to point it. That is a simple system I call FIRST, for finding the gap in any market and filling it. That is the next article.

For now, rest in this. AI is not the beast. Build with God, use the tools He put in front of you, and stay real. Peace, not pressure.

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