Jev front door: install at serve(), two witnesses to decline, code-owned verse lookup
d40befd verified | r"""TAV'IEL-CONTRAST -- a thing is understood by what it is NOT. | |
| Elan'iel: "one fact of answering a question thoroughly and true understanding is | |
| being able to point out clear examples of its opposite, and what it is not. God is | |
| a spirit, man is flesh and bone. God is not man, because man is not just a spirit." | |
| Contrast draws the EDGE of a definition. "God is a Spirit" (John 4:24) is a claim | |
| a hearer can still fill with his own imagining; "a spirit hath not flesh and | |
| bones, as ye see me have" (Luke 24:39) closes the door on the wrong picture, and | |
| does it in Christ's own words after the resurrection. | |
| DISCIPLINE. Every contrast is verse-backed on BOTH sides -- the affirmation and | |
| the denial -- and every verse is checked word-for-word against watchman.db by | |
| `taviel_verify` before it may be emitted. A contrast with no record is NOT | |
| invented: the system simply says less. An opposite asserted without scripture is | |
| exactly the failure this module exists to prevent. | |
| Shape of a record: | |
| subject the thing being defined | |
| is what it IS, in the product's own voice | |
| is_not what it is NOT -- the wrong picture, named | |
| because the distinguishing property that makes the denial true | |
| verses_is [(ref, quote)] for the affirmation | |
| verses_not [(ref, quote)] for the denial | |
| """ | |
| from __future__ import annotations | |
| CONTRASTS = { | |
| "god_is_spirit": { | |
| "subject": "what God is", | |
| "is": "God is Spirit -- not a thing among things.", | |
| "is_not": "He is not a man, and not flesh and bone.", | |
| "because": ("a spirit has no flesh and bones; a man is not only spirit, " | |
| "so what is true of a man is not therefore true of God"), | |
| "verses_is": [ | |
| ("John 4:24", "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must " | |
| "worship him in spirit and in truth."), | |
| ], | |
| "verses_not": [ | |
| ("Luke 24:39", "handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and " | |
| "bones, as ye see me have."), | |
| ("Numbers 23:19", "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the " | |
| "son of man, that he should repent"), | |
| ], | |
| }, | |
| "god_is_light": { | |
| "subject": "God as light", | |
| "is": "God is light.", | |
| "is_not": "There is no darkness in Him at all -- not a mixture, not a shadow.", | |
| "because": "light and darkness are not blended in Him; the denial is absolute", | |
| "verses_is": [ | |
| ("1 John 1:5", "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."), | |
| ], | |
| "verses_not": [ | |
| ("1 John 1:5", "in him is no darkness at all"), | |
| ], | |
| }, | |
| "god_is_love": { | |
| "subject": "God as love", | |
| "is": "God is love.", | |
| "is_not": "He is not the author of confusion.", | |
| "because": ("love and confusion do not proceed from the same source; " | |
| "what sows disorder is not from Him"), | |
| "verses_is": [ | |
| ("1 John 4:8", "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."), | |
| ], | |
| "verses_not": [ | |
| ("1 Corinthians 14:33", "For God is not the author of confusion, but " | |
| "of peace, as in all churches of the saints."), | |
| ], | |
| }, | |
| "kingdom_within": { | |
| "subject": "where the kingdom is", | |
| "is": "The kingdom of God is within you.", | |
| "is_not": "It does not come by observation, and is not 'lo here' or 'lo there'.", | |
| "because": ("what is within is not found by looking outward; a place " | |
| "cannot be pointed to when the thing is not in a place"), | |
| "verses_is": [ | |
| ("Luke 17:21", "behold, the kingdom of God is within you."), | |
| ], | |
| "verses_not": [ | |
| ("Luke 17:21", "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there!"), | |
| ], | |
| }, | |
| "flesh_and_spirit": { | |
| "subject": "flesh and spirit", | |
| "is": "That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.", | |
| "is_not": "That which is born of the flesh is flesh -- the two are not one kind.", | |
| "because": "each begets after its own kind; birth does not cross the two", | |
| "verses_is": [ | |
| ("John 3:6", "that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."), | |
| ], | |
| "verses_not": [ | |
| ("John 3:6", "That which is born of the flesh is flesh"), | |
| ], | |
| }, | |
| "faith_and_works": { | |
| "subject": "faith", | |
| "is": "Faith is shown alive by works.", | |
| "is_not": "Faith without works is not living faith -- it is dead.", | |
| "because": "as a body without the spirit is dead, so is faith without works", | |
| "verses_is": [ | |
| ("James 2:26", "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith " | |
| "without works is dead also."), | |
| ], | |
| "verses_not": [ | |
| ("James 2:26", "faith without works is dead also."), | |
| ], | |
| }, | |
| "gods_ways": { | |
| "subject": "God's thoughts and ways", | |
| "is": "His thoughts and ways are His own.", | |
| "is_not": "They are not ours -- He is not a larger version of a man's reasoning.", | |
| "because": "the difference is in kind, not only in degree", | |
| "verses_is": [ | |
| ("Psalms 103:14", "For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we " | |
| "are dust."), | |
| ], | |
| "verses_not": [ | |
| ("Isaiah 55:8", "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are " | |
| "your ways my ways, saith the LORD."), | |
| ], | |
| }, | |
| "man_looks_outward": { | |
| "subject": "how God sees a man", | |
| "is": "The LORD looketh on the heart.", | |
| "is_not": "He does not see as man sees -- not the countenance, not the stature.", | |
| "because": "outward appearance is what man can reach; the heart is what God reads", | |
| "verses_is": [ | |
| ("1 Samuel 16:7", "the LORD looketh on the heart."), | |
| ], | |
| "verses_not": [ | |
| ("1 Samuel 16:7", "Look not on his countenance, or on the height of " | |
| "his stature"), | |
| ], | |
| }, | |
| } | |
| # question-side triggers -> record key. Deliberately narrow: contrast fires only | |
| # where a RECORD exists, never by inference. | |
| _TRIGGERS = [ | |
| (("what is god", "what god is", "is god a man", "god a spirit", | |
| "is god physical", "does god have a body"), "god_is_spirit"), | |
| (("god is light", "darkness in god", "is god dark"), "god_is_light"), | |
| (("god is love", "is god loving", "author of confusion"), "god_is_love"), | |
| (("where is the kingdom", "kingdom of god is", "kingdom of heaven is within", | |
| "when will the kingdom"), "kingdom_within"), | |
| (("born again", "born of the flesh", "flesh and spirit"), "flesh_and_spirit"), | |
| (("faith without works", "is faith enough", "faith alone"), "faith_and_works"), | |
| (("god's ways", "gods ways", "why does god think", "god's thoughts"), "gods_ways"), | |
| (("does god judge appearance", "looketh on the heart", "outward appearance"), | |
| "man_looks_outward"), | |
| ] | |
| def _verified(pairs): | |
| """Keep only (ref, quote) pairs the mechanical checker accepts.""" | |
| try: | |
| import taviel_verify as TV | |
| except Exception: | |
| return [] | |
| out = [] | |
| for ref, quote in pairs: | |
| text = TV.verse_of(ref) | |
| if text and TV._quote_faithful(quote, text): | |
| out.append((ref, quote)) | |
| return out | |
| def contrast_for(key_or_question): | |
| """The verified contrast record, or None. Never invents an opposite.""" | |
| rec = CONTRASTS.get(key_or_question) | |
| if rec is None: | |
| q = " ".join(str(key_or_question).lower().split()) | |
| for needles, key in _TRIGGERS: | |
| if any(n in q for n in needles): | |
| rec = CONTRASTS[key] | |
| break | |
| if rec is None: | |
| return None | |
| vis, vnot = _verified(rec["verses_is"]), _verified(rec["verses_not"]) | |
| if not vis or not vnot: | |
| return None # a half-verified contrast is not a contrast | |
| out = dict(rec) | |
| out["verses_is"], out["verses_not"] = vis, vnot | |
| return out | |
| def clause(key_or_question, with_refs=True): | |
| """One short paragraph: what it is NOT, and why. Progressive disclosure -- | |
| the affirmation has already been given by the caller, so this adds only the | |
| edge, never a second full teaching.""" | |
| rec = contrast_for(key_or_question) | |
| if not rec: | |
| return "" | |
| ref, quote = rec["verses_not"][0] | |
| tail = f' -- "{quote}" ({ref})' if with_refs else "" | |
| return f"And what He is not: {rec['is_not']} {rec['because'].capitalize()}{tail}" | |