Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Yep.
Enough said!🎯
My favorite Protestant non-response: “That only applied to the Apostles.” Oooo-kay!
Frank,
I have encountered that “non-response” as well. Then I would ask what other things only applied to them? Baptism? Celebrating the Lord’s Supper? I would enjoy watching the sputtering then.
Ah, I was such a troll in my 20’s. Wonder what happened since…
I tried the same prompt but with Gemini, and it said none. When I queried why it didn’t include James 5:16, it said the reason was the specific “instead of” criterion, which would imply a dichotomy or mutual exclusivity between confession to Jesus and confession to someone else.
James 5:16 of course explicitly says to confess to others for the purpose of being saved, but it doesn’t include the criterion above.
Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. (James 5:16 DR)
Thus is demonstrated both:
(1) how the OP is beginning from a flawed presupposition that there is some sort of mutually exclusive relation between confession to Jesus and confession to some one other than Jesus
(2) how AI is largely going to give you the answer that fits the presuppositions you provide it.
I slightly reworded the query to: “List all the bible verses that support confessing sins to others. If there are none, say none.” It immediately located James 5:16 and also sourced Acts 19:18 and Numbers 5:7. How you ask an AI is often just as important as what you ask it.
With any AI the rule is always garbage in, garbage out. AI lacks the real intelligence possessed by a parrot.
No. The parrot can feed itself.
(It also can operate up to 100 years with no updates -but that’s the kind of quality you get with all of that Creator’s work.)
I have reliably heard of a few evangelical Protestants approaching Catholic priests to hear their confessions. Not very common, of course, but demonstrates a belief and desire for tradition.