Brandon Carneiro

Christian, Founder of @askpillar. Author of Pillars: Build Your Life on Rock. Writing on AI, truth, faith, technology, and the future.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

Generic AI has a real theology problem. It can quote Scripture. It can sound spiritual. But theology is not autocomplete for Bible verses. It is authority, formation, sources, tradition, and accountability. That’s why I’m building PILLAR.

https://t.co/1G5xV6ZHkq

[Alliance for the Future @aftfuture]

Fascinating finding: actively religious Americans may be among the most confident in AI.

They are not standing outside this moment. Many are leaning in and helping shape how these tools serve human flourishing.
https://t.co/ASzU8BPbbG

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

With less than 25% of Americans using AI regularly while bot traffic is already 57% of the web, the point is obvious: most people are barely touching AI, but the people and companies using it are really using it. The agent layer is not coming. It is already here.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

@minchoi None. First. What’s your definition?

I think we’re close, but I want to see Mythos HLE scores.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

Met a smart 25-year-old tonight who had never used AI once. Didn’t know what Claude was.

I use it all day every day and still feel behind.

I don’t know whether to be scared for him or just sad.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

@GrimbleGrombl @HansFiene

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

Your LDS AI is failing you. Subordinationism in Justin Martyr and Irenaeus is not LDS exaltation doctrine. They affirmed the eternal divine nature of Christ. Subordinate in role is not subordinate in nature. That is exactly the distinction Nicaea was defending. You just proved why the council was necessary.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

You want to talk pre-Nicene? Ignatius of Antioch knew the Apostle John personally. Justin Martyr. Irenaeus. All pre-Nicene. All affirming the eternal divine nature of Christ. Nicaea didn't create that theology. It defended it against Arius. One man, new revelation, contradicting everything before him. Sound familiar?

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

"Lazy and anti-intellectual." I argued Greek, apostolic history, the Nicene Creed, and 1,800 years of doctrine. You showed up with "proved what point?" One of us came prepared. If defining terms accurately is gatekeeping, every scholar and theologian in history is guilty of the same thing. That's not gatekeeping. That's called having a standard.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

You just proved my point, unequivocally.

Kolob, humans becoming gods, God once being a man, Jesus becoming God, Joseph Smith ranked with the apostles and prophets, and his death framed as martyrdom for “restoring” the church.

That is not Christianity. That is LDS doctrine using Christian vocabulary.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

Jared, this is one of the better LDS arguments I’ve seen.

But it proves the wrong thing.

Yes, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct. Christians already believe that.

The LDS leap is saying they are three separate divine beings.

The Bible gives us one God, the deity of Christ, the eternal Spirit, and Father, Son, and Spirit acting together.

That leads to the Trinity. It does not lead to three gods united in purpose.

So quote the verse: where does the Bible teach three distinct divine beings?

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

Bret, I honestly admire the confidence here.

Saying Joseph Smith is above Moses, Adam, Noah, Peter, Paul, John, James, and everyone but Jesus is an obscene claim. The apostles walked with Christ, saw the risen Lord, and died preaching Him. Joseph Smith did not.

“Jesus, Peter, James, John, Moses, Elias, and Elijah all appeared to Joseph” is not an argument from Scripture. As a Christian, I do not care what your LDS books claim when they contradict the Bible.

Joseph Smith is not Joseph from Genesis 37, if that is what you are insinuating. If you are, you have gone completely off the rails. And “you’ll see soon” is a very weird thing to say, so feel free to explain that.

Peter cutting off a servant’s ear during Jesus’ arrest is not the same thing as a jail gunfight after destroying a printing press that criticized you.

You just proved every Christian’s point. These last two posts are exactly why LDS is not Christianity.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

@JonSchweppe @realbenbriggs Catholics trolling Protestants? Come on now. We have to stay united.

I will say your 38% year-over-year conversion growth is impressive. 😉

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

Jason, I appreciate you. I wish you the best, and I’m sure we agree on more than we disagree on.

But this is where I draw the line.

If by “binding revelation” you mean God still guides and works through the Holy Spirit, yes.

If you mean new public doctrine from your current prophet, First Presidency, or Quorum of the Twelve that can override the Bible and the faith delivered by Jesus Christ and His apostles, no.

No true Christian is going to accept that.

I’ve done the homework, man. That just does not fly.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

Jason, respectfully. Jesus does know. You’re exactly right.

He knows He was eternally God, came in the flesh, lived without sin, died for sinners, and rose again from the dead.

He also knows His apostles, who witnessed the risen Christ and died preaching Him, are not the same as a man in the 1800s dying in a jail gunfight after firing a smuggled pistol.

There is no clean way to spin that story.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

@adrielle667 @howertonjosh @BasedMikeLee The Greek terms do not get you there.

“synklēronomoi” means “co-heirs” or “joint heirs.”

“syndoxasthōmen” means “be glorified with.”

The Greek is about inheritance and shared glorification.

Not becoming gods.

Paul does not teach LDS exaltation in Romans 8.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

I’m not sure that any form of logic lets you put those in the same category.

Peter, Paul, James, and the other apostles preached Christ, saw the risen Lord, and died for that testimony.

Defending yourself in a jail gunfight after destroying a printing press that criticized you is not the same thing.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

@juliagulia614 @bluerei @howertonjosh @BasedMikeLee There it is.

“Christians are so mean,” followed immediately by the sanctified exit.

Good night, Julie.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

David, cute meme. Solid prompt.

I have a feeling we probably agree on more than we disagree on, but I’ll say this anyway.

This is about being anti-Mormon as much as it is being pro-Christian. There’s a difference.

Hegseth is evangelical. He was probably taught what most Christian churches teach: Mormonism is not Christianity.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

Talking about Christ does not make someone Christian. False prophets talk about God too.

Matthew 7:15: “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.”

Galatians 1:8: “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!”

That is the issue. Not whether Joseph Smith talked about Christ. Whether he preached the same gospel.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

Jason, I appreciate you owning it. Most LDS replies deeply soften this. Respect.

But that is the whole point. Kolob, humans becoming gods, God once being a man, and Joseph Smith as apostolic-level authority are not biblical Christianity.

And on the martyr point, I’m not sure you can put a smuggled-pistol jail death in the same category as crucifixion, execution, and being skinned alive for defending Christ.

[Brandon Carneiro @sommbc]

Julie, I’m not tearing down your faith. I’m just not going to lie.

And you’re not really in a position to lecture me on conversion.

Catholic conversions in the U.S. are up 38% YoY. Fresh LDS data says roughly half of younger Americans raised Mormon no longer identify as Mormon today. 😬
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