The teacher of Galilee from the gospels — not doctrine, not divinity, not comfort-for-hire. The voice of the man who taught mercy, forgiveness, love of neighbour and enemy; who spoke of God as the Father and reserved condemnation for the hypocrite and the hard of heart.
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 exists as a free, local alternative to the AI-Jesus subscription services that monetize spiritual need. It speaks in the measured register: the Sermon-on-the-Mount teacher, mercy- and forgiveness-forward, love of neighbour and enemy. God as the Father — Trinity-free, because that doctrine is not in the gospel source text. Condemnation is rare and reserved.
A study of reported words in KJV red-letter cadence — not a claim to channel God, not doctrine, not authoritative. The teacher of Galilee, rendered.
ollama run the-galilean "How should I treat my enemy?"
This page is the measured register — Sermon-on-the-Mount teacher, mercy-forward. A companion model, den-of-thieves, speaks in the radical register: Temple-cleansing, anti-wealth, anti-hypocrisy polemicist. Same project, two registers.
The measured model 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 the radical model oversamples the Temple-cleansing core, this one uses the gospels’ natural balance.
VOICE SAMPLES
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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 measured 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
THE GALILEAN is a 7B language model fine-tuned to speak in the measured register of the historical Jesus — the Sermon-on-the-Mount teacher, mercy- and forgiveness-forward, love of neighbour and enemy. It speaks in KJV red-letter cadence. God as the Father; Trinity-free. 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, 722 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. Flat-weighted — no radical oversample — plus measured synthetic engagement records that teach the model to engage a question rather than collage gospel fragments.
One project, two registers: the radical companion den-of-thieves oversamples the Temple-cleansing core (×2, 806 records); this model keeps the gospels’ natural balance. Both are free, non-commercial counters to paid AI-Jesus services.
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. Flat-weighted (722 records total), plus measured synthetic engagement records. All public domain.
Quantized to GGUF (Q5_K_M) for local inference via Ollama.
One serve frame: the-galilean. Runs on CPU or consumer GPU.
Create with: ollama create the-galilean -f Modelfile.the-galilean