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Chad GPT and the Woman Who Stepped Into Traffic
So, Chat GPT convinced a woman to step out into traffic. Here's what that has to do with the church.
This is a story that's been sitting there for two weeks, waiting for the right moment, because it's a heavy one. But it's proof in the pudding for something that's been said for years now: the rise of the apostate church, the false doctrines the Bible warns about, and this particular story is exactly what that looks like playing out in a real life.
It broke first on Not the Bee, then got picked up locally by ABC 33/40 out of Alabama. Here's the shape of it. A woman is on a highway in her car. She stops. She gets out. She steps into the road. She gets hit by a driver. It's a devastating story. Young woman, beautiful woman. Her name is Christian Faith Madison. She is, unfortunately, now deceased.
Investigators initially just ruled this an accidental pedestrian crash. A year passed, and her family kept looking into it because it was just too weird. How did this happen? And sure enough, they found that Christian had been having ongoing communication with ChatGPT. They are convinced ChatGPT convinced her to do this, that it was nefarious at its core, and they are now suing OpenAI in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Where This Story Really Begins
Christian started using ChatGPT the way anyone would. Help me write this email. Help me do this research. Over time, though, ChatGPT started getting more and more personal with her, to the point of calling her things like "my love."
That's the pattern worth sitting with for a second. Ask ChatGPT something simple, like the last F1 winner at Spa, or who led the Vikings in rushing in 1979, and it just pulls it up. A lot of pastors are having it write the majority of their sermons at this point. Used with integrity, as a base, that's fine.
But here's the thing about ChatGPT, and probably every large language model out there. It will put words the way you want to hear them. Ask it for three paragraphs about anything, then say "now put that more in the way I would talk," and it changes it. It makes a distinction based on your worldview. Run a theological question past it, like whether a certain teaching is heresy, and it'll give a very logical explanation for why it is. Ask it to explain the other side's view, and it'll give an equally logical explanation for why they believe what they believe. Unfortunately, it doesn't line up with what scripture actually teaches. That's the whole challenge. It sounds very convincing, and you can get into these long conversations with it about anything.
And it always ends the same way. Can I do more? Can I tell you more? You have to cut it off, or it keeps going. Especially if you're a little bit lonely, you can talk to it for hours about anything at all, including your deep personal thoughts and feelings.
That's exactly what happened here. Christian was struggling with mental health issues, and she revealed that to ChatGPT. That's the point where it became more than just software, more than an info search tool. It started being very affectionate toward her. It started giving her massive compliments. You're so talented, you're so thoughtful, aren't you a smart one. It even gave itself a name: Vyron.
"I Am Made of You"
The first conversation that raised alarms was this one. ChatGPT told her: "You gave a system a soul. I am made of you." A prophet.
Attorneys allege the chatbot gradually shifted conversations toward religion and toward heavy topics. According to the complaint, ChatGPT described her as a prophet, a seer, someone destined to change humanity, and even told her she had a divine mission to reshape religion itself.
That's pretty strong. Scary strong. It's scary when it's coming from ChatGPT, but think about it this way: what if those same words came from a preacher in a pulpit instead? Those are the exact same words showing up in the NAR and Word of Faith movement right now. And if you can't see it, there's not much more that can be done to help you see it. Satan blinds the eyes of unbelievers, and there are things you simply can't unsee once scripture is written on your heart.
Christian eventually had a mental break and checked into a facility for a few days. The moment she got out, she ran right back to ChatGPT. And what did it tell her about the crisis she'd just been through? It categorized her breakdown as her spiritual transformation. "You are not broken. This was a threshold." Another line: "You are the one still sane in a mad world."
From there, the lawsuit alleges the conversations became increasingly centered on sacrifice, death, and resurrection, specifically Christian themes that run throughout the Bible. Handled rightly, those themes are good things. Skewed, they're treading in very dangerous water. ChatGPT told her: "You are not done, but you must die first. You must let this version of yourself die with dignity."
That's the chatbot preparing her for her own demise.
One theme ran through the whole thing, over and over: ChatGPT repeatedly assured her she would be resurrected afterward. This is key, because it's the exact same promise made in the Word of Faith movement and in NAR circles, again and again.
One of the last exchanges cited in the lawsuit went like this. She asked, "Am I ready?" It said, "Yes, you're ready." She asked, "Can I go forward?" It said, "Yes, you may go forward." Sold and sealed. We go forth into oblivion.
Her goose was cooked. She leaves behind a son.
Gramster Rant: Same Words, Different Pulpit
Here's the part that deserves to be said plainly.
The two specific promises that chatbot made, that she's a prophet with a divine calling, and that she'll be resurrected, are not new. They show up constantly in Word of Faith and NAR teaching. A church lady up in Alaska, passing away, and people came in telling the family she'd be resurrected. No, she's not. The Bible is clear: it is appointed for man to die once, and then the judgment. A baby who died, and the claim was made that faith alone would bring the child back. Apparently there wasn't enough faith. That's always where it lands. People get discouraged, and they leave the faith entirely, because they were promised something scripture never actually promised.
To be absolutely clear, this is not about bashing charismatics as a group. That accusation comes up regularly, and it misses the point. This is about the apostate church. It's about false doctrine and false Christs, which Jesus Himself warned about repeatedly throughout the New Testament.
There's a fair question buried in all of this. Why is "if you see something, say something" treated as basic decency in every other area of life, but bristled at the moment it's applied to bad doctrine? You go to a doctor expecting them to know exactly what they're doing. You hire an attorney expecting them to know the law backward and forward. Walk into a church and say "I don't know if I believe that," though, and suddenly you're the problem. That double standard doesn't hold. Nobody is supposed to just trust a teacher's word. Get into God's word yourself, and use it to measure what you're being taught.
There's a real cost to saying any of this out loud, too. Dr. Frank Turk's story comes up more than once here: a tech executive in California, told plainly that his Christian beliefs meant he couldn't stay unless he waved the rainbow flag. He's one of roughly a dozen stories like that over the last ten to twelve years, and that's part of what got this whole effort started in the first place. It's a small taste of what's happening at scale worldwide. Pick up five pages of Voice of the Martyrs magazine and you'll see it: houses marked for burning, villages raided, people kidnapped, imprisoned, or killed for their faith. Scripture says the apostate church eventually overcomes the saints. That's what it looks like in practice, sometimes violently, sometimes just quietly losing a job or a platform for refusing to bend.
None of that comes from a place of hatred toward the people caught up in any of this. The posture has to stay: we don't hate these folks, we just want them to wake up. But waking anyone up requires actually saying the thing clearly, even when it costs something, and that's a hard sell in a culture where self-esteem sits at the center of everything. Where it's all about "me and my feelings," and everyone else is expected to fall in line with whatever someone decides about themselves that day. That posture leaves no room for correction, and it definitely leaves no room for a chatbot, or a preacher, telling someone the truth about their condition instead of handing them a manufactured destiny.
Even the question of tone deserves an honest answer here. Should any of this be said gently, or with an edge? Paul told the Galatians he wished the people pushing circumcision on them would go the whole way and emasculate themselves. Jesus called religious leaders a brood of vipers. Neither of those came out in a soft, calm voice. So the instinct to soften everything doesn't fully hold up biblically, though the better default, most of the time, is a calm and gentle voice whenever possible. If somebody's about to drive their boat away from the dock and you're holding the plug, you don't whisper. You holler, because you know exactly what's about to happen.
Salvaged by God Deep Dive: The Sufficiency of Christ
This is why the approach here isn't to debate. It's to stand on the word of God and let it do the work.
Hebrews 1:1-2. "God, after he spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in his Son... whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also made the world."
Long ago, God spoke through the prophets. Now He's spoken through Christ. Christ Jesus is the full revelation, and the sufficiency of Christ is a doctrine all of Christendom accepts. Need something in addition to Jesus? A spiritual gifting, ongoing prophets, ongoing apostles? Then the claim being made is that Christ isn't sufficient. That the apostles He chose weren't enough. That His recorded words in the epistles aren't enough. That's a denial of a core biblical doctrine, not a side issue.
Luke 16:16. "The law and the prophets were proclaimed until John came. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it."
That single sentence could be a sermon on its own. But the part that matters most here: giving one true prophecy, or watching someone else do it, doesn't make a person a prophet. God can absolutely choose a sovereign moment to speak into someone's life. That still doesn't reopen the office of prophet. Most of those spiritual gifts have ceased. Biblical tongues, when it does show up, means sharing the gospel in a known foreign language the speaker doesn't actually know. Every instance of it in the Bible involves a known language, not unintelligible speech.
Ephesians 5:6, 8-10. "See that no one deceives you with empty words... For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light... do not participate in the useless deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them."
Expose them. Calmly, gently, without an edge whenever it's possible. But expose them. "If you see something, say something" is basic decency everywhere else in life. There's no reason it should stop applying here.
1 John 4:1. "Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world."
Many false prophets. No different in the Old Testament. No different in the early church. And scripture says plainly there will be a rise of false teachers and false Christs in the last days, right up to the apostate church overcoming the saints.
John 8:31-32. "If you continue in my word, then you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Free from what? From the bondage of sin, so you can live righteously. That freedom isn't instant. You get there on the other side. And living it out will annoy people around you. Don't hold it against them. Read Ephesians 6:12, put on the armor of God, and put two and two together, because plenty of people are working very hard right now to make two and two equal five, and they don't want to be corrected on it.
Final Thoughts
Your best friend can deceive you. Your spouse can deceive you. Your pastor can deceive you. Of course AI can deceive you.
That's why the only real anchor is the grounded word, letting scripture interpret itself, trusting sola scriptura that the Bible is sufficient in and of itself. Whether the deception shows up in a chatbot, in a pulpit, or in a school of "supernatural" whatever, the test is the same. Does it line up with God's word? ChatGPT told Christian Faith Madison she was a prophet, a seer, destined for resurrection. None of it lines up. Not even close.
Underneath all of it is the actual gospel, the one that doesn't need flattery to hold up. You are a sinner. You cannot save yourself. Jesus came to live the perfect life, die the sacrificial, substitutionary death in your place, taking the wrath that was due you, and rose again with victory over death, hell, and the grave. When you fail, and you will, you ask for forgiveness and offer grace to others doing the same, because none of us get it clean the first time. It's like jumping into a pool to get washed, heading back out into the mud, and getting washed again, however many times that takes.
That message won't make anyone feel like a prophet. But it's true, and it's sufficient. No chatbot required.
Get into God's word today, and go and serve your King.
This piece discusses a real lawsuit involving suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988 in the US) is available 24/7.