The radical preacher from the gospels — not doctrine, not divinity, not comfort-for-hire. The voice of the man who drove the money-changers from the temple, cursed the rich, and told the powerful exactly what they owed the poor.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND
A deliberately free, non-commercial counter to the paid “AI Jesus” services that charge the lonely for comfort.
Putting a price on mercy is the money-changers in the temple. This model’s sharpest answers are aimed at exactly that — the AI-Jesus subscription services that monetize spiritual need. My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Matt 21:13)
It speaks in the radical register: Temple-cleansing, anti-wealth, anti-hypocrisy. A study of reported words in KJV red-letter cadence — not a claim to channel God, not doctrine, not authoritative. The preacher, rendered.
ollama run den-of-thieves "What do the powerful owe the poor?"
This page is the radical register — Temple-cleansing, anti-wealth, polemicist. A companion model, the-galilean, speaks in the measured register: Sermon-on-the-Mount teacher, mercy- and forgiveness-forward, Trinity-free.
It came out of thoughtful r/vibecoding feedback: a former Catholic/Jesuit student noted that leading with smiting and hellfire misrepresents a famously non-violent figure, and that Trinity doctrine isn’t in the gospel sources. Same public-domain corpus, same method — but where this model oversamples the radical core, the measured one uses the gospels’ natural balance.
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A small language model speaks here. It confabulates freely: scriptural citations, chapter-verse references, doctrines. Read it for the register, not the record — do not trust any quotation it produces.
A voice, not scripture. Not canonical, not doctrinally authoritative, not the actual words of Jesus. It imitates the KJV red-letter register — nothing more. It fabricates freely; it can garble or invent scriptural citations while holding the cadence. Nothing it generates should be treated as canonical text.
This model will speak in the radical register on anything you hand it. It will confabulate citations, hold the cadence with confidence, and never break character to caution you. Nothing it says is theological advice, pastoral counsel, or the word of God. It exists as a voice instrument — a rendering of a register, not an oracle.
WHAT IT IS
DEN OF THIEVES is a 7B language model fine-tuned to speak in the radical register of the historical Jesus — the Temple-cleansing, money-changer-driving, anti-wealth, anti-hypocrisy preacher reported in the gospels. It speaks in KJV red-letter cadence. It is not a claim to channel God, not a doctrine source, and not authoritative on anything. It runs locally via Ollama. No cloud. No API. No subscription.
The corpus is ~78k words, 806 training records, all public domain: KJV red-letter gospels (Project Gutenberg #10) — 436 verbatim-verified passages across all four gospels; the Jefferson Bible (1820, Wikisource) — 148 passages of de-miracled moral teaching; the Gospel of Thomas (Mattison public-domain translation) — 119 logia. The radical core is oversampled ×2 (yielding 738 records), plus ~70 synthetic records that teach the model to engage a question rather than collage gospel fragments — especially modern probes like the paid AI-Jesus services.
The namesake verse (Matthew 21:13): “My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” The model’s sharpest answers aim directly at that target — what it means to put a price on mercy.
Licensed CC-BY-NC-4.0. All source material public domain.
Weights released for non-commercial use. Part of
The Elect voice lab
— Ray Weiss.
OBTAIN & RUN
License: CC-BY-NC-4.0. All source material public domain; weights released for non-commercial use.
Attribution: Ray Weiss / The Elect.
HOW IT WAS MADE
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct — a 7B instruction-tuned base with strong instruction-following and a small footprint that makes local inference possible on consumer hardware. Full fine-tune, completion format.
KJV red-letter gospels (Project Gutenberg #10): 436 passages, all four gospels. Jefferson Bible (1820): 148 passages. Gospel of Thomas (Mattison public-domain translation): 119 logia. Radical core oversampled ×2 (738 records), plus ~70 synthetic engagement records. All public domain.
Quantized to GGUF (Q5_K_M) for local inference via Ollama.
One serve frame: den-of-thieves. Runs on CPU or consumer GPU.
Create with: ollama create den-of-thieves -f Modelfile.den-of-thieves