Seeing God Clearly
Interactive Bible Study Series · by Jay Rich
Read it. Hear it. Study it.
KNOW IT. GRIP IT. STAND ON IT.
Jesus is near. His invitation is still the same: “Follow Me.”
WHY THIS STUDY?
Have you ever had thoughts that make you question what you know about God?
Am I really forgiven? Do I really belong to Jesus? Could God really love me? What am I supposed to do now?
You may be new to the Bible, a new believer, or someone who has followed Jesus for many years. Wherever you are in your walk, this study is designed to help you know what God says, understand it clearly, and not waver from what He has already said.
Seeing God Clearly is designed to help believers know, understand, remember, and stand firmly on the foundational truths of Scripture. It was created to take you back to Scripture—to know what God says, understand it clearly, hold onto it, and live according to it.
Don't take the author's word for it. Open your Bible. Check every passage. God's Word is final.
HOW TO USE
Choose a book and chapter. Read the teaching, then open the Scripture passages and read them for yourself. You can also use Read Aloud to listen to the lesson or Scripture.
Don't rush. Read the surrounding verses. Check the context. Ask, “What does God's Word actually say?” Then return to the study and continue.
KNOW IT. GRIP IT. STAND ON IT.
BIBLE TRANSLATION
The Seeing God Clearly Bible Study Series was written using the English Standard Version (ESV), which is also the Bible translation used in my church and the translation I normally use for teaching and study.
The interactive version uses the World English Bible — Protestant Edition (WEBP) for the Scripture passages you can open, read, and hear aloud. The reason is not because I prefer the WEBP over the ESV. The WEBP is a public-domain Bible translation, which allows Scripture to be provided directly within the interactive study without the licensing restrictions that apply to copyrighted translations such as the ESV.
You may notice differences in wording between the WEBP and the Bible translation you normally use, but the Scripture references remain the same.
Use your Bible too. If your church uses a different Bible translation, open your Bible and read the passage there. Read the surrounding verses, check the context, and compare the teaching in this study with what God’s Word actually says.
The purpose is not for you to simply take the author’s word for it.
Open your Bible. Read the passage. Check the context. Know the truth. Grip the truth. Stand on it.
ESV Copyright Notice: Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
READ ALOUD
Read Aloud uses the speech voice provided by your device and web browser. The voice you hear may be different depending on whether you are using an iPhone, Android phone, tablet, Windows computer, or Mac.
The Interactive Bible Study does not select or provide the voice. Your device and browser determine which voice is used. Because of this, the voice may also change if you change devices or your device’s speech settings are updated.
You can use the Speed setting in the study to adjust how quickly the lesson or Scripture is read.
DO I REALLY NEED GOD?
Why We Need God Even When Life Is Going Fine A Scripture-centered study of why every person needs God—not only when life is difficult, but because He is our Creator and salvation is found in Jesus Christ.
THE BLOOD OF JESUS
What His Blood Accomplishes for Those Who Belong to Him
HOW DO I KNOW I BELONG TO JESUS?
Learning What God Says, Knowing What Is True, and Standing on the Rock
NOW YOU KNOW — WHAT'S NEXT?
The Mission Jesus Gave to Those Who Belong to Him
WHY DO I NEED TO GO TO CHURCH?
What the Bible Says About Belonging, Growing, Serving, and Worshiping Together
LOVE, FORGIVENESS & TRUST
Loving Like Jesus Without Abandoning Wisdom
PRIVATE CHRISTIANITY
Did Jesus Tell Us to Keep Our Faith to Ourselves?
WHEN AI MEETS THE BIBLE
What Scripture Actually Says—and What It Doesn’t
DO I REALLY NEED GOD?
Why We Need God Even When Life Is Going Fine
TWO PATHS, ONE DIRECTION
Learning to Love, Understand, and Walk Together With God
“Open your Bible. Check every passage. Do not take the author’s word as final. God’s Word is final.”
Leader Resources
Seeing God Clearly Bible Study Series
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SEEING GOD CLEARLY BIBLE STUDY SERIES
HOW DO I KNOW I BELONG TO JESUS?
Learning What God Says, Knowing What Is True, and Standing on the Rock
BUY ON AMAZON →NOW YOU KNOW — WHAT'S NEXT?
The Mission Jesus Gave to Those Who Belong to Him
BUY ON AMAZON →WHY DO I NEED TO GO TO CHURCH?
What the Bible Says About Belonging, Growing, Serving, and Worshiping Together
BUY ON AMAZON →PRIVATE CHRISTIANITY
Did Jesus Tell Us to Keep Our Faith to Ourselves?
WHEN AI MEETS THE BIBLE
What Scripture Actually Says—and What It Doesn’t
FICTION / NOVELS
WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS
A Christian apologetics book examining the evidence for faith in Jesus Christ
BUY ON AMAZON →
COFFEE SHOP STORIES
CHRISTIAN LIVING & FAITH
TRUE STORIES / NONFICTION
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CHOOSE A CHAPTER
FOR FURTHER STUDY — SCRIPTURE GUIDE
GOD AS CREATOR AND GIVER OF LIFE
Genesis 1:26–27; Acts 17:22–31
SIN AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Isaiah 59:1–2; Mark 7:14–23; Romans 3:9–26
GRACE AND SALVATION
John 3:14–21; Romans 5:6–11; Ephesians 2:1–10; Titus 3:3–7
JESUS CHRIST
John 14:1–11; Acts 4:8–12; 1 Timothy 2:5–6
THE CROSS
Romans 3:21–26; Romans 5:6–11; 1 Peter 2:21–25
FAITH, REPENTANCE, AND FOLLOWING
Mark 1:14–15; Mark 8:34–38; Luke 9:18–26; Mark 10:17–31; James 2:14–26; Acts 17:30–31
NEW LIFE IN CHRIST
2 Corinthians 5:14–21; Galatians 2:15–21; Ephesians 4:17–24
URGENCY AND JUDGMENT
Luke 12:13–21; John 3:16–21; John 3:31–36; 2 Corinthians 5:20–6:2; Hebrews 3:7–15; 2 Thessalonians 1:5–10
DEPENDENCE AND ETERNAL LIFE
John 15:1–11; Romans 6:20–23; Romans 8:31–39
REMEMBER
You do not need God only because life is hard. You need God because He made you and gives you life. You need God because sin is real, and you cannot make yourself righteous before Him. You need God because you cannot save yourself.
And the good news of the Bible is not that God waited for you to become worthy. God acted. He sent His Son. Christ died for sinners. Salvation is offered by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
Open the Bible. Read it in context. Ask what God has actually said. And stand on the truth.
INTRODUCTION — SOMETHING HAS CHANGED
Artificial intelligence has moved quickly from a specialized technology into ordinary life. People now use AI to write, study, research, create images, translate languages, analyze information, assist medical research, and perform tasks that once required much more time and human labor.
For Christians, that change raises important questions. Is AI evil? Is it connected to forbidden knowledge? Did 1 Enoch predict it? Did Daniel describe the information age? Could AI be involved in the events of Revelation? Should Christians use it—or fear it?
Those questions deserve more than sensational answers. The rule of this study is simple: What has God actually said, and how should Christians respond to extraordinary knowledge and power without adding to His Word or ignoring its warnings?
Throughout this study, we will distinguish three things: what Scripture directly says, what may be a reasonable application, and what remains speculation. A possible connection is not automatically a prophecy. A modern similarity is not proof that an ancient passage predicted a particular technology.
We do not need to make the Bible more dramatic than it already is. We need to understand what it actually says.
Open your Bible. Read the passages in context. Test every claim. And where God has not told us, be willing to say, “I don’t know.”
SCRIPTURE GUIDE
KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM Proverbs 1:5–7; Proverbs 2:1–6; Proverbs 9:10; Proverbs 18:15; 1 Corinthians 8:1–3; James 1:5; James 3:13–18
THE HUMAN HEART AND SIN Genesis 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9–10; Mark 7:20–23; James 1:14–15; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23
EDEN, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, AND BABEL Genesis 2:15–17; Genesis 3:1–7; Genesis 3:22–24; Genesis 4:17–24; Genesis 11:1–9
GENESIS 6 AND ENOCHIC TRADITION Genesis 6:1–4; Jude 5–7; Jude 14–15
DANIEL AND THE TIME OF THE END Daniel 12:1–4; Daniel 12:8–10
DECEPTION AND DISCERNMENT Matthew 24:4–5; Matthew 24:23–25; 1 Thessalonians 5:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12; 1 John 4:1
REVELATION, DECEPTION, AND THE MARK Revelation 13:11–18; Revelation 16:13; Revelation 19:20
GOD’S KNOWLEDGE Psalm 139:1–6; Isaiah 46:9–10; Hebrews 4:13
SALVATION IN CHRIST John 3:16–18; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 5:8; Ephesians 2:8–10
CHRISTIAN FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY 1 Corinthians 6:12; 1 Corinthians 10:23–24; Philippians 4:8; Colossians 3:17
SCRIPTURE AND AUTHORITY Psalm 119:105; Acts 17:10–12; 2 Timothy 3:14–17
CHARACTER AND RESPONSIBILITY Luke 6:43–45; Galatians 5:19–23
COURAGE AND TRUST Psalm 56:3–4; Matthew 10:26–31; John 16:33; 2 Timothy 1:7
JESUS CHRIST Matthew 16:13–17; Hebrews 13:8
FINAL CHECK
Before finishing this study, answer these questions honestly.
1. Does the Bible actually say what I am claiming? 2. Am I reading the passage in its context? 3. What words actually appear in the text? 4. Am I confusing technological possibility with biblical prophecy? 5. Am I treating a similarity as proof? 6. Am I importing modern technology into an ancient passage without textual evidence? 7. Am I confusing 1 Enoch with Genesis 6? 8. Am I distinguishing direct biblical teaching from reasonable application? 9. Would my conclusion survive reading the whole passage? 10. Am I willing to say “I don’t know” where Scripture does not tell us?
These questions protect us in both directions: from dismissing real biblical warnings and from manufacturing certainty that God did not give.
REMEMBER
Artificial intelligence is powerful. Knowledge is powerful. Technology is powerful. But power is not God.
Knowledge is not the same thing as wisdom. Information is not automatically truth. Intelligence is not righteousness.
Technology cannot forgive sin. AI cannot save humanity. The greatest danger facing humanity did not begin with the computer. Scripture locates the problem of sin in the human heart.
That is why our ultimate hope is not that we will eventually build something intelligent enough to solve our deepest problem.
Our hope is Jesus Christ.
AI may change the world.
It does not change the truth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jay Rich is a Christian author, teacher, and outdoor enthusiast who writes to help people see God clearly through His Word in everyday life.
Through the Seeing God Clearly Bible Study Series, his goal is simple: open the Bible, see what God actually says, understand it clearly, and stand on the truth.
NOTES
Use your notebook or journal for additional notes as you work through the study.
SCRIPTURE READINGS
The WEBP is provided so you can read and hear Scripture within this study. You are encouraged to open your own Bible and read these passages in the translation you normally use. Read the surrounding verses, check the context, and see what God's Word actually says.