The Photographer Who Was Actually There

In 2023, Boris Eldagsen submitted an AI-generated image to the Sony World Photography Awards and won. When he revealed the truth, he declined the prize, igniting a global conversation about what is real and what is fabricated.

We live in an age of deepfakes where anyone with a laptop can manufacture a convincing image of something that never happened. Seeing is no longer believing.

This is precisely the accusation Peter anticipated two thousand years ago. He could hear the skeptics sharpening their arguments: "Nice story, Peter. Very creative mythology." So he planted his feet and declared, "We did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty."

Peter was not editing footage in a studio. He stood on that mountain. He heard the voice of the Almighty thunder through the clouds with his own ears. He saw the glory of Christ blazing before his own eyes. His testimony was not generated — it was witnessed.

And then Peter points us to something even more certain than his own experience: the prophetic word of Scripture, a lamp shining in a dark place until the morning star rises in our hearts. Not a flickering candle of human opinion, but a steady, God-breathed light no algorithm or human invention could ever produce.

When everything around us can be fabricated, the word of the Most High remains unmanufactured and unshakable.