I can speak to a couple of perspectives I have seen other people use it for, ranging from valid to somewhat scary.
1. Preparing a sermon for Church, I don't advocate for this, but it's definitely being done out there. Here, the pastor may know the topic they are speaking on, but want the LLM to help them plan out the message and structure it.
2. Preparing lesson plans for Sunday School. This seems reasonably fine to me, but I would still err on the side of not trusting the raw scriptures output as evidence, and instead look them up separately before reading them out.
The above examples may particularly come into play when English is not a first language, since although they can understand and express their faith easily in their native language, ChatGPT can help them represent it in English well.
Personally, I think the use cases are many, but mostly for discussion / personal reflection. These include things like asking for perspectives that other Christians take on certain passages, helping understand how some scriptures link to other scriptures in the Bible, and sometimes even exploring some of the history of the Christian faith through the last ~2 millennia since it was written.
Anything meaningful you can manually research further / reference before taking it at face value, but it can work as a great starting point for your search.
1. Preparing a sermon for Church, I don't advocate for this, but it's definitely being done out there. Here, the pastor may know the topic they are speaking on, but want the LLM to help them plan out the message and structure it. 2. Preparing lesson plans for Sunday School. This seems reasonably fine to me, but I would still err on the side of not trusting the raw scriptures output as evidence, and instead look them up separately before reading them out.
The above examples may particularly come into play when English is not a first language, since although they can understand and express their faith easily in their native language, ChatGPT can help them represent it in English well.
Personally, I think the use cases are many, but mostly for discussion / personal reflection. These include things like asking for perspectives that other Christians take on certain passages, helping understand how some scriptures link to other scriptures in the Bible, and sometimes even exploring some of the history of the Christian faith through the last ~2 millennia since it was written. Anything meaningful you can manually research further / reference before taking it at face value, but it can work as a great starting point for your search.