WEBVTT 00:02.157 --> 00:05.681 [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast from Denison Forum. 00:07.043 --> 00:09.506 [SPEAKER_00]: It's Thursday, October 1, 2026. 00:10.147 --> 00:13.911 [SPEAKER_00]: This is an automated reading of today's Daily article authored by Dr. Jim Denison. 00:14.812 --> 00:18.497 [SPEAKER_00]: Today's article is titled, attempted hijacking, called a Gehottest Territack. 00:24.148 --> 00:31.871 [SPEAKER_00]: The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot, according to Israeli officials. 00:32.951 --> 00:40.133 [SPEAKER_00]: He sent the jet plunging nearly 14,000 feet in less than 30 seconds, but the pilot fought off the attack and opened the cockpit door. 00:40.633 --> 00:45.355 [SPEAKER_00]: His bravery managed to prevent a 9-11 disaster, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 00:46.460 --> 00:53.629 [SPEAKER_00]: passenger identified as Yanev Hayun, said he then grabbed the terrorist, put him in a hold, and first of all pulled him outside. 00:54.590 --> 01:01.478 [SPEAKER_00]: He called for other passengers to restrain the copilot, then grabbed the controls before another pilot on board took over and landed the plane. 01:01.919 --> 01:03.621 [SPEAKER_00]: The airplane had more than 170 Israelis on board. 01:05.248 --> 01:16.633 [SPEAKER_00]: Israel's defense minister described the incident as a jihadist terror attack, though Mr. Netanyahu told Fox News Wednesday night that it was too early to say whether there was any indication of Iranian involvement. 01:17.553 --> 01:23.575 [SPEAKER_00]: But if this was a terrorist attack against Israelis in Israel, it would join a long list of such attacks over the years. 01:24.856 --> 01:30.078 [SPEAKER_00]: Each was motivated by a belief that attacking Jews is a defense of Islam required by the Quran. 01:31.199 --> 01:37.981 [SPEAKER_00]: Such attacks illustrate John Stone Street's observation that ideas have consequences and bad ideas have victims. 01:39.522 --> 01:44.723 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's explore this fact in light of what has been called the single most consequential invention in human history. 01:45.743 --> 01:59.808 [SPEAKER_00]: In an important recent article for The New York Times, National Religion Correspondent Elizabeth Diaz reports that AI developer Anthropic has been hosting a variety of meetings with religious leaders to seek their help with Claude, their cutting edge AI model. 02:00.690 --> 02:11.277 [SPEAKER_00]: Christopher Ola, who leads the company's team responsible for understanding why AI systems like Claude act the way they do, wants to persuade the models to abide by a moral code that will protect humanity. 02:12.298 --> 02:22.924 [SPEAKER_00]: Consequently, he has met with a wide range of religious scholars and leaders from Pope Leo 14th and other Catholics to Jewish, Sikh, Mormon, and evangelical thinkers. 02:24.185 --> 02:28.028 [SPEAKER_00]: Halfway through her extensive article, Diaz asks the key question, 02:29.455 --> 02:33.877 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if AI models can be taught to behave morally, whose morals should they reflect? 02:34.957 --> 02:46.022 [SPEAKER_00]: In response, she quotes Ola, we do think that there's some shared notion of goodness that cuts across society in some very broad way, and it seems like these models understand a lot of virtues. 02:46.982 --> 02:51.204 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think there's something there that is a shared thing that we can all engage with. 02:52.304 --> 02:53.485 [SPEAKER_00]: Without such a shared thing, 02:57.728 --> 03:03.591 [SPEAKER_00]: Those who control AI will impose their own moral vision, which will become the invisible infrastructure of these systems. 03:04.271 --> 03:07.272 [SPEAKER_00]: And this vision will be as subjective as the people who frame it. 03:08.333 --> 03:11.634 [SPEAKER_00]: Here we find the central problem of our secularized society. 03:12.594 --> 03:16.876 [SPEAKER_00]: By abandoning biblical morality, we are left with the morality of our own choosing. 03:18.037 --> 03:22.599 [SPEAKER_00]: With no true north on our compass, we will go wherever our personal will to power takes us. 03:23.722 --> 03:27.724 [SPEAKER_00]: Every day, crimes and tragedies in the headlines show us how that's going for us. 03:28.805 --> 03:34.449 [SPEAKER_00]: I played tennis for many years, won some intramural matches in college, and thought I was pretty good. 03:35.289 --> 03:38.091 [SPEAKER_00]: Then a friend in the church I was pastoring and invited me to play with him. 03:38.971 --> 03:44.755 [SPEAKER_00]: He had competed professionally years earlier, but he had not played in a long time, and was just starting to get back into the game. 03:45.795 --> 03:51.659 [SPEAKER_00]: As we warmed up, it seemed to me that he was in fact, Rusty, so I resolved to go easy 03:54.357 --> 03:56.198 [SPEAKER_00]: than he asked if we wanted to play a few games. 03:57.500 --> 04:00.322 [SPEAKER_00]: I agreed and graciously suggested that he served first. 04:01.283 --> 04:07.988 [SPEAKER_00]: When he hit his first serve, I watched him toss the ball in the air, heard his racket hit it, and saw a blur streak passed me. 04:09.329 --> 04:12.211 [SPEAKER_00]: There was no way I could respond quickly enough to get my racket on it. 04:13.292 --> 04:19.157 [SPEAKER_00]: In that moment, I learned the difference between an amateur and a professional, at least in regard to tennis. 04:20.258 --> 04:21.159 [SPEAKER_00]: I say that to say this. 04:22.103 --> 04:27.044 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't really know how good we are at something until we compare ourselves to someone better than us. 04:28.485 --> 04:33.186 [SPEAKER_00]: Of all the people with whom we can make such a comparison, God is obviously at the top of the list. 04:34.287 --> 04:38.168 [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah was a priest in Israel and a good friend and counselor to King of Zia. 04:39.108 --> 04:42.289 [SPEAKER_00]: By any human measure, he was a success at what he did. 04:43.409 --> 04:45.770 [SPEAKER_00]: But when he met God on his throne, he cried out. 04:46.628 --> 04:53.914 [SPEAKER_00]: Woe is me for I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. 04:54.715 --> 04:57.397 [SPEAKER_00]: For my eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts. 04:58.558 --> 05:00.740 [SPEAKER_00]: Peter had a similar experience in Luke 5. 05:01.520 --> 05:05.544 [SPEAKER_00]: He had been a successful fisherman and businessman and a faithful follower of Jesus. 05:06.582 --> 05:16.490 [SPEAKER_00]: But when he encountered the full divinity and omnipotence of Christ on the Sea of Galilee, he fell down at Jesus's knees, saying, "'Depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord.'" 05:17.511 --> 05:20.474 [SPEAKER_00]: John was Jesus's beloved disciple and best friend. 05:21.494 --> 05:27.499 [SPEAKER_00]: But when he met the risen Christ on the prison island of Patmos, he wrote that I fell at his feet as though dead. 05:28.500 --> 05:29.581 [SPEAKER_00]: Louis Giglio is right. 05:30.242 --> 05:33.885 [SPEAKER_00]: God is the great I am, and I am the little I am not. 05:34.969 --> 05:36.690 [SPEAKER_00]: The English novelist, Dorothy Lord. 05:38.291 --> 05:42.213 [SPEAKER_00]: Sayers remarked, hell is the enjoyment of one's way forever. 05:43.774 --> 05:46.996 [SPEAKER_00]: The French Theologian François Fenelon was therefore right. 05:47.957 --> 05:51.719 [SPEAKER_00]: To realize God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation. 05:52.940 --> 05:54.681 [SPEAKER_00]: How do we realize his presence today? 05:55.761 --> 06:01.705 [SPEAKER_00]: Dwight Moody said of the Bible, this book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book. 06:02.877 --> 06:12.623 [SPEAKER_00]: This is because the Bible is intended to lead us into a personal encounter with its author, and, as John Calvin noted, all God's promises depend upon Christ alone. 06:14.824 --> 06:19.207 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'll ask, when last did you meet the Living Lord Jesus in a transforming way? 06:20.167 --> 06:20.948 [SPEAKER_00]: Asked differently. 06:22.389 --> 06:24.150 [SPEAKER_00]: When last were you awed by God? 06:26.811 --> 06:29.233 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to the Daily Article Podcast. 06:30.018 --> 06:39.093 [SPEAKER_00]: For links, scripture references, or to find out more about Denison Forum, visit us at DenisonForm.org or click the link in today's show notes.