When I think about the story of David and Goliath, I like to picture David as having an extra leg instead of a left arm, ready to throw a whole torso at Goliath, who’s standing behind him amorphously in Sauron-style armor. And thanks to the power of AI, now my imagination has become reality:
![AI-generated picture of David and Goliath.](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-david-and-goliath.jpg)
Not really. I gave an AI the text prompt: “David fighting Goliath by a river,” and then it created the image by itself. The AI in question is WOMBO Dream, a new app that generates a trading-card style image based on text you give it. While this image was the most horrifying of all the images it generated for me, it did a decent job on many Bible-related prompts. Below is a gallery of my favorites.
The AI did best with prompts relating to the angel announcing the birth of Jesus to the shepherds:
![AI-generated image of an angel appearing in the sky to shepherds.](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-shepherds-1.jpg)
![AI-generated image of an angel appearing to shepherds with a star in the background.](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-shepherds-2.jpg)
The star in the last image shows up again in this rendition of the adoration of the magi:
![AI-generated image of the adoration of the magi.](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-adoration-of-the-magi.jpg)
Gethsemane captures the essence of the scene, with a somewhat abstract robed figure collapsed while others pray:
![A robed figure in the foreground falls down while figures in the back pray in a garden.](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-gethsemane.jpg)
The creation of the world shows the waters above and the waters below:
![Two primeval spheres separated by the sky.](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-creation.jpg)
Perennially favorite Bible verse Jeremiah 29:11 gets a literal rendering with a giant eye in the sky:
![An eye watches over someone with outspread arms,](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-jeremiah-29-11.jpg)
Here the rainbow in the Noah story becomes an instrument of vengeance:
![A rainbow cloud attacks the earth,](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-noah.jpg)
I call this one “The Kiddie Table at The Last Supper” (are those French fries?):
![A table in front of a traditional Last Supper scene.](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-kiddie-table-last-supper.jpg)
What it’s really doing here is representing the related scenes multiple times in the same image, which is actually quite common in historical artistic depictions of biblical stories. That’s how I interpret what’s going on in this scene of Elijah being fed by ravens, where I think he appears both in the foreground and in the background:
![](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-elijah-ravens.jpg)
Finally, here are two images where the AI came up with a conceptually interesting (to me) idea that a human artist could polish and make something thought-provoking. First, here’s a representation of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness about turning stones to bread. Here there are stones that look like bread to heighten the temptation:
![Bread-looking stones among rocks.](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-stones-bread.jpg)
And finally, the Tower of Babel made out of words. That’s just clever:
![The Tower of Babel made of what looks like words on paper.](https://a.openbible.info/blog/2021-12-tower-babel-words.jpg)