“Someone needs to evangelize Elon Musk. Who will lead him to Christ?” the account The Art Of Purpose succinctly wrote on the Musk-owned social media platform X. He shared an AI-generated image of the world’s wealthiest man appearing in prayer, with his hands clasped together while kneeling in the pews of a church with a blurred stained-glass window of Jesus in the background.
Musk, for his part, responded personally to the appeal. Busy running some of the world’s largest companies, he does seem to make an effort to post regularly on his site. In this case, he commented under the original post with a short but unambiguous reply: “I agree with the teachings of Jesus,” he wrote.
The original poster, the aforementioned The Art Of Purpose, commented a second time in what must have been a welcome surprise to see Elon Musk respond directly to him. “Brother you are so close,” he said. “I’m rooting for you.”
No shortage of other comments flooded the post. At the time of this article, about a half year later, the image of Musk praying in church and imploring him to accept Christ had been seen approximately 1.6 million times on X. “Always a good thing to do! But if one of Jesus’ teachings—and a teaching he repeats—is that he is God, what does that imply for our own lives and actions?” asked conservative commentator Michael Knowles.
Peter Sweden, another prominent voice in the conservative sphere, concurred with the sentiment that Musk should embrace Christianity. “One can just imagine how much better the world would be if everyone lived by the golden rule. The left thinks more state control will make the world a better place. But some self control to do what is right toward others would actually make the world better,” he wrote.
Andrew Torba responded to Musk with a Bible verse, saying: “Accept Him as your Lord and Savior. He loves you and died for you. Pick up your cross and follow Him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3.”
And a user named Renatta dropped one of the most direct reasons for Musk to complete his religious journey. “You are so close. Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one gets to the Father but through Him. He lived a sinless life and died a sinner’s death on the cross and rose again on the third day so that you could be set free from your sins. Accept Him as your Lord and Savior. Repent of your sins. Believe, and you will be free. I am praying for your salvation, Elon. God bless you,” she said.”
As the post was dated February 16th, The Christian Tribune previously covered this story. While Musk has not definitively followed up with this message and taken the proverbial leap, it also wasn’t the first time he intimated his leanings. “Speaking to members of the Christian satirical group The Babylon Bee in an undated video,” The Christian Tribune wrote two days after the X post went viral, “he said he wouldn’t get in the way of people who believed Jesus saved lives and affirmed he had received the holy sacrament as a baby.”
“But hey, if you know, if Jesus is saving people, I mean, I wouldn’t stand in his way, you know, like they’ll be sure I’ll be saved. Why not?” he said of his general outlook toward religion, before turning his baptism as a child into a humorous anecdote.
“Yes, I was baptized. They dunked me in the water when I was just a baby. I even had, like, you know, the blood and water Christ , kind of weird, you know, if you’re a kid, like, you get to give you some weird tasting, you know, let’s get in a wine. Yeah. Like, what the hell is this? I remember thinking that was just crazy when I was a kid, I like this, like, whoa, you know? I mean, even as a metaphor, it’s kind of odd, you know. So it’s like, I’m sure to be doing alcohol to minors,” he said.