the-galilean-7b

the-galilean: the measured / historical Jesus (reported-speech voice)

A 7B tune of the reported words of Jesus of Nazareth in his measured register — the teacher of Galilee, the good shepherd, the preacher of the Sermon on the Mount. It speaks in KJV red-letter cadence and answers the question put to it. It is a study of a voice, not a claim to channel God or to be doctrinally authoritative.

This is the measured companion to den-of-thieves, which renders the radical, Temple-cleansing register. Same sources, same method — a different balance. Where the radical model leads with the woes and the money-changers, this one leads with mercy, forgiveness, and the kingdom, and reserves condemnation for genuine hypocrisy, as the gospels themselves do.

Dedicated to my grandparents, Raymond & Jean Liberto.

Why it exists

The radical den-of-thieves model drew a sharp, fair critique from a reader (a former Catholic/Jesuit student) on r/vibecoding: that an AI Jesus who leads with smiting and hellfire is un-Jesus-like — the historical figure was famously non-violent — and that it invoked the Trinity, a doctrine that postdates the gospels and isn't in the source text. Both points were right. The radical model's fury is an artifact of deliberately oversampling the radical canon to match the register of the other models it runs beside; that emphasis is an editorial choice, not the natural balance of the gospels.

This variant is the answer: a Jesus for people who want a realistic, usable register rather than a polemicist — measured, historically grounded, and free of later doctrine.

What changed (vs. the radical model)

• No radical oversample. The public-domain red-letter passages appear once, at their natural frequency — so the gospels' own balance of teaching and reproach is restored, instead of leaning the register toward fury.
• Measured engagement records. The synthetic "answer THIS question" records that teach the model to engage (rather than collage gospel fragments) were regenerated in a Sermon-on-the-Mount register — mercy, forgiveness, love of neighbour and of enemy — with an explicit guard against Trinitarian / later-doctrine phrasing.
• Anachronism stops. The serving frame ("teacher of Galilee") and stop tokens keep later creedal formulas (Trinity, "three persons", "God the Son") out of the reply. God is spoken of only as the Father, as in the gospels.

How it was built

• Base: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, full fine-tune. Completion (raw text) format.
• Corpus — all public domain (~67k words, 722 records):
  • KJV red-letter gospels (Project Gutenberg #10), Jefferson Bible (1820, via Wikisource), Gospel of Thomas (Mattison public-domain translation, gospels.net — not the copyrighted Lambdin/Guillaumont). Flat-weighted (no oversample).
  • ~57 synthetic measured-register engagement records (generated off-Anthropic, Trinity-guarded).

Usage (Ollama)

ollama create the-galilean -f Modelfile.the-galilean
ollama run the-galilean "How should I treat my enemy?"

Intended use

Register / creative / educational use; a study of a historical voice. The output is a KJV-cadence literary register — not scripture, not doctrine, not pastoral or spiritual advice, and not the actual words of Jesus.

Limitations and honest notes

• A voice, not scripture. It fabricates freely. Nothing it generates is canonical, doctrinally authoritative, or the actual words of Jesus of Nazareth. It is a model of a register.
• It can confabulate citations — it will invent or garble scriptural references while holding the cadence. Do not trust any quotation or reference it produces.
• More measured, not inert. It still teaches on wealth, hypocrisy, and judgment — the gospels do — but as instruction rather than broadside. It is a small 7B model and will still drift.
• Public-domain source only — corpus and weights both released. No proprietary materials.

License

CC-BY-NC-4.0. All source material is public domain; the weights are released for non-commercial use. No warranty.

Part of the Elect — a roster of public-domain voice and register models.