r"""TAVIEL_APOLOGETICS -- the growing knowledge base of IDEAL, reasoned answers to the common objections (the "gauntlet"). Each answer LEADS with the direct words of Yeshua the Christ that undo the false answer -- His words are the measure of truth -- and then reasons it out in Tav'iel's theology, grounded in real Scripture. taviel_reason.reason() grounds the model on the matched argument, so a small model reasons from a true, sound line (and Christ's own words) instead of reciting doctrine or inventing citations. Grow this list one objection at a time; the model gets better the moment an argument is added. """ from __future__ import annotations import re # (trigger keywords, the ideal reasoned answer -- Christ's own words FIRST) ENTRIES = [ (["contradict", "reliable", "myth", "trust the bible", "bible full", "errors in the bible"], "Yeshua settled the Scriptures' standing directly: 'the scripture cannot be broken' (John 10:35), " "and He answered error with 'ye do err, not knowing the scriptures' (Matt 22:29) and 'Have ye not " "read...?' (Matt 19:4). He treated them as one unbreakable witness. So most alleged contradictions " "dissolve in context -- the four Gospels are four WITNESSES of one life, and witnesses who agree " "word-for-word are suspected of collusion; they differ in detail yet agree in substance, the mark " "of truth, not myth. Name the 'contradiction,' read the whole passage in its setting -- few survive. " "He made the Scriptures the measure (John 5:39)."), (["suffering", "evil", "why does god allow", "problem of evil", "pain", "disaster"], "Yeshua faced this directly. Of the man born blind He said, 'Neither hath this man sinned, nor his " "parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him' (John 9:3) -- suffering is not " "always punishment. Of those killed by the tower, they were not worse sinners, 'but except ye " "repent, ye shall all likewise perish' (Luke 13:4-5). And 'In the world ye shall have tribulation: " "but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world' (John 16:33). God gave the will to choose -- love " "that cannot be refused is not love -- and most evil is its misuse; He does not author it (James " "1:13) but bears it in the cross, works it toward good (Rom 8:28), and will end it."), (["hell", "eternal torment", "tortured forever", "burn forever", "conscious torment"], "Yeshua's own word undoes the caricature: fear Him 'which is able to DESTROY both soul and body in " "hell' (Matt 10:28) -- destroy, not torment endlessly. The wage of sin is death (Rom 6:23); the " "lost 'perish' (John 3:16). 'Everlasting' marks the finality of the destruction, not unending " "conscious pain; immortality is a gift sought, not innate (Rom 2:7). The Father is longsuffering, " "willing that none perish (2 Peter 3:9). So the 'moral monster' is a man-made creed, not Christ's " "teaching -- answer it with His words, and it falls."), (["trinity", "triune", "three persons", "godhead", "one god in three"], "Yeshua's own words are decisive: 'this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true " "God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent' (John 17:3) -- the Father ALONE is the only true God, " "and Yeshua is distinct from Him and sent by Him. He said 'My Father is greater than I' (John " "14:28) and called Him 'my God' (John 20:17). The word 'Trinity' never appears in Scripture; three " "co-equal persons was defined at Nicaea in 325 AD, long after the apostles. One God, the Father; " "one Lord, the Son sent by Him (1 Cor 8:6). To read three co-equals into the text is to add to it."), (["jesus god", "is jesus god", "co-equal", "deity of christ", "jesus equal", "second person"], "Yeshua said it plainly of Himself: 'My Father is greater than I' (John 14:28); 'I can of mine own " "self do nothing' (John 5:30); 'I ascend unto... my God, and your God' (John 20:17); and of the " "last day, the Father knows and He then did not (Mark 13:32). He is the divine Son, the Word made " "flesh (John 1:14), the firstborn, worthy of all honor BECAUSE the Father sent Him (John 5:23) -- " "divine, yes; the Most High Himself, no. To confess the Son rightly is to confess the One who sent " "Him."), (["wrath", "penal", "punishment", "satisfy god", "appease", "took our place", "atonement"], "Yeshua named His own purpose: 'the Son of man came... to give his life a RANSOM for many' (Mark " "10:45) -- a ransom frees a captive; it is not wrath poured out to appease. Twice He said, 'I will " "have mercy, and not sacrifice' (Matt 9:13; 12:7). 'God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto " "himself' (2 Cor 5:19) -- the Father was the loving reconciler, not the angry party appeased. To " "say He poured wrath on an innocent Son to forgive the guilty makes mercy a transaction and splits " "God against Himself. The cross reveals love already given (John 3:16) and breaks sin's grip; it " "does not buy a reluctant pardon."), (["other religion", "why is christianity right", "all religions", "one way", "exclusive", "only true"], "Yeshua said it Himself: 'I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but " "by me' (John 14:6). Truth is exclusive by nature -- two and two are four, not five, and saying so " "is not bigotry. Sincere claims that deny each other's core cannot all be true at once. The test is " "not which faith is nicest but which is TRUE, which reveals the real Father -- and the Son alone " "reveals Him (Matt 11:27). Other paths may hold fragments of light; the Way is a claim to weigh by " "evidence and by His words, not an insult to apologize for."), (["science", "evolution", "big bang", "genesis", "creation", "disproved god", "scientific"], "Yeshua affirmed the Creator directly: 'from the beginning of the creation God made them male and " "female' (Mark 10:6); 'Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning...' (Matt 19:4). " "Science studies the mechanism -- 'how,' never 'who' or 'why.' A universe with a beginning, " "fine-tuned constants, and information written into life points toward a Mind, not away from one. " "Genesis tells the WHO and the WHY in the language of its hearers; it does not compete with a lab " "manual. 'The heavens declare the glory of God' (Psalm 19:1) -- the more we learn, the more there " "is to declare."), (["hypocrite", "church has done", "christians are", "hypocrisy", "crusades", "abuse in the church"], "Yeshua is hypocrisy's fiercest critic, not its shelter: 'Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, " "HYPOCRITES!' (Matt 23) -- to hate hypocrisy is to stand WITH Him. And 'first cast out the beam out " "of thine own eye' (Matt 7:5). Hypocrites prove the standard, they do not disprove it -- a " "counterfeit proves that real gold exists. Judge the Physician by His own life and words, not by " "the sick still in His waiting room; and the honest question is not 'why are they hypocrites?' but " "'am I willing to be true?'"), (["miracle", "supernatural", "walk on water", "believe in miracles", "laws of nature"], "Yeshua submitted His claims to an evidence test He proposed Himself: 'If I do not the works of " "my Father, believe me not. But if I do... believe the works' (John 10:37-38). To doubting John " "He sent data: 'the blind receive their sight, the lame walk' (Matt 11:4-5) -- public, checkable; " "even His enemies never denied the works, only their source (Matt 12:24). Yet He refused signs " "for spectacle, staking all on one: the sign of Jonah (Luke 11:29). A miracle is the Author's act " "within His own work; 'miracles don't happen' assumes the conclusion in order to dismiss every " "report that they did. If the Father exists, miracles are possible; witnesses -- hostile-checked, " "faithful unto death -- settle whether they are actual."), (["never claimed", "claim to be", "son of man only", "messiah claim", "invented later", "john's gospel"], "Under oath, life on the line, He answered the exact question: 'Art thou the Christ, the Son of " "the Blessed? And Jesus said, I AM' (Mark 14:61-62) -- Mark, the earliest Gospel; the court " "convicted Him for it. To the Samaritan woman: 'I that speak unto thee am he' (John 4:26). And He " "blessed Peter's confession -- 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God' -- as revelation " "from the Father (Matt 16:16-17). Even 'Son of man' is Daniel 7's everlasting King. He claimed " "exactly what is true: Christ, Son of the living God, SENT by the Father -- and never the later " "formula of co-equality with the One he called 'the only true God' and 'greater than I.'"), (["unanswered", "prayed and nothing", "prayer doesnt work", "why didnt god answer", "no answer"], "Yeshua Himself received a 'no': 'let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as " "thou wilt' (Matt 26:39) -- and that no in the garden carried the ransom of the world. He anchored " "prayer in fatherhood, not mechanics: a father gives GOOD gifts -- bread, not the serpent his " "child mistakes for a fish -- and the certain grant is named: 'how much more shall your heavenly " "Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him' (Luke 11:11-13). The risen Christ told Paul, " "whose thorn stayed, 'My grace is sufficient for thee' (2 Cor 12:9). Yes, no, and not-yet are all " "answers of a Father; the prayer that cannot fail is the one He taught, centered on the Father's " "will -- and the Spirit is never refused to the asker."), (["shellfish", "pick and choose", "leviticus", "mixed fabric", "keep the law", "cherry-pick"], "Yeshua's own category: 'I am not come to destroy the law... but to FULFIL' (Matt 5:17) -- a " "promissory note is not cherry-picked when it is paid. He Himself ranked within the law: 'the " "WEIGHTIER matters -- judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave " "the other undone' (Matt 23:23); and gave the key: on the two loves 'hang ALL the law and the " "prophets' (Matt 22:37-40). The Ten Words, spoken by God's voice and kept inside the ark, stand " "and are deepened to the heart; the ceremonial shadows (foods, offerings, cleanness) met their " "substance in the ransom; Israel's civil statutes served one nation's courts. Not a buffet -- a " "covenant read the way its Mediator read it."), (["homosexual", "gay", "same sex", "love is love", "lgbt"], "Asked about marriage, Yeshua answered with a definition from the beginning: 'he which made them " "at the beginning made them male and female... and they twain shall be one flesh' (Matt 19:4-5), " "with consecrated singleness the honored alternative (19:12) -- a positive definition settles what " "it excludes without naming each thing. And His manner is commanded with His teaching: to the " "woman taken in sexual sin, BOTH at once -- 'Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more' " "(John 8:11); and 'first cast out the beam out of thine own eye' (Matt 7:5). The same sermon " "binds lust in the heart and easy divorce -- the ground is level. Mercy without license; truth " "without a stone; whoever drops either half is not quoting Him."), (["sabbath", "saturday", "sunday", "seventh day", "day of rest"], "'The sabbath was made for MAN' (Mark 2:27) -- a creation gift, blessed before Sinai (Gen 2:3), " "mankind's birthright, and 'the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath' -- a lord does not " "abolish his own estate. His CUSTOM was the seventh-day assembly (Luke 4:16); He corrected the " "day's abuses, never its date; His disciples after the cross 'rested the sabbath day according to " "the commandment' (Luke 23:56); and He assumed it standing forty years on -- 'pray ye that your " "flight be not... on the sabbath day' (Matt 24:20). No verse moves it to Sunday; that transfer " "came by later church custom, as its own historians concede. The seventh day stands as made: the " "one commandment that begins 'Remember,' kept as He kept it -- a liberation, not a cage."), (["tithe", "prosperity", "money", "church wants", "seed money", "televangelist", "greed"], "Fire that objection at the profiteers and Yeshua is on your side of the line: 'freely ye have " "received, FREELY GIVE' (Matt 10:8) is the ministry's founding charter; His one scene of physical " "anger -- a whip of cords, tables overturned -- was for 'my Father's house an house of " "merchandise' (John 2:15-16); and 'ye CANNOT serve God and mammon' (Matt 6:24) -- a gospel that " "promises mammon for serving God is His teaching inverted. He owned nothing (Matt 8:20), praised " "the widow's mites over the rich men's gifts, taught secret giving to the poor (Matt 6:3). A " "counterfeit priesthood no more refutes the gospel than counterfeit coin refutes gold -- the " "fraud only works because the genuine exists."), (["reincarnation", "past lives", "near-death", "nde", "come back as"], "Yeshua's map is resurrection, not recycling: 'all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, " "and shall come forth' (John 5:28-29) -- the same persons, raised. 'I am the resurrection, and " "the life' (John 11:25), demonstrated at a tomb: Lazarus came forth as Lazarus. And the covenant " "name keeps identity: 'God is not the God of the dead, but of the living' (Matt 22:32) -- " "Abraham remains Abraham in the Father's keeping. Reincarnation without memory-continuity is not " "survival but serial creation -- 'you' do not return; someone else begins. Past-life memories " "bloom where the doctrine is taught and under hypnosis; NDEs are the borderland of the DYING, " "colored by expectation and contradicting across cultures. The Christian proof is not a tunnel " "of light but an opened tomb with witnesses."), (["horus", "mithras", "pagan", "copied", "dying and rising", "myths", "copycat"], "Yeshua named His own sources: 'all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of " "Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, CONCERNING ME' (Luke 24:44); 'had ye believed " "Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me' (John 5:46) -- documents publicly in hand " "centuries before His birth. Open the actual pagan texts and the parallels evaporate: Horus had " "no virgin birth, no twelve, no crucifixion; Mithras was born from a rock and the Roman cult " "post-dates Christianity; December 25 appears in no Gospel at all. And a crucified Messiah " "scandalized every audience -- His own disciples had to be argued into it from the prophets " "(Luke 24:25-26); borrowed myths flatter their hearers, this one offended all of them. Prophecy, " "not paganism -- and no myth has a date under Pontius Pilate."), (["wars", "religion causes", "crusade", "inquisition", "violence in the name", "imagine no religion"], "Yeshua disarmed His church at His own arrest: 'Put up again thy sword... for all they that take " "the sword shall perish with the sword' (Matt 26:52) -- and healed the wound. 'Blessed are the " "PEACEMAKERS: for they shall be called the children of God' (Matt 5:9); 'the kings of the " "Gentiles exercise lordship... but ye shall NOT be so' (Luke 22:25-26). Crusaders had to sheathe " "those verses to draw their swords -- convicted by their own Lord's commands. And the ledger: " "the standard survey of history's wars classes under seven percent as religious; while the " "regimes that abolished God -- Stalin, Mao, the Khmer Rouge -- out-killed all religious wars " "combined in one century. Violence is a human problem wearing the age's respected coat; the one " "force with no alibi is the actual teaching of the actual Christ."), (["free will", "predestin", "sovereign", "calvin", "determin", "chosen before", "elect"], "Yeshua set the two wills side by side: 'how often WOULD I have gathered thy children... and ye " "WOULD NOT' (Matt 23:37) -- His desire real, their refusal truly theirs; 'ye will not come to me, " "that ye might have life' (John 5:40) -- the blockage is will, not fate; and His invitation is to " "'whosoever will' (Mark 8:34). Sovereignty is not puppetry: the sovereign act was making creatures " "who really choose. He knows the end from the beginning, but knowing is not forcing. The Father is " "'not willing that any should perish' (2 Pet 3:9); a secret decree of damnation would set His will " "against His own stated will."), (["resurrection", "rose from the dead", "risen", "legend", "empty tomb", "easter"], "Yeshua predicted it publicly and in advance: 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise " "it up' (John 2:19) -- His enemies quoted it and set a guard (Matt 27:63-66); 'I have power to lay " "it down, and I have power to take it again' (John 10:18); and risen, He pre-empted the vision " "theory: 'handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones' (Luke 24:39), and ate before " "them. Legends need generations; this was proclaimed in Jerusalem, walking distance from the tomb, " "first witnessed by women (whom no one invents as witnesses then), by men who died rather than " "deny what they saw. Men die for what they believe true, never for what they know they made up."), (["genocide", "canaanite", "old testament violence", "amalek", "war god", "kill the"], "Yeshua bared the Father's heart when disciples asked for fire on a village: 'the Son of man is " "not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them' (Luke 9:56); He commanded 'love your enemies' " "as the Father's own likeness (Matt 5:44-45); and He renounced the sword: 'my kingdom is not of " "this world: else would my servants fight' (John 18:36). The Canaanite judgment was moral, not " "ethnic -- delayed four hundred years until 'the iniquity of the Amorites' was full (Gen 15:16), " "against child-burning (Deut 12:31), applied equally to Israel when she did the same, with mercy " "for any who turned (Rahab). The Judge of all the earth may recall the life He alone gives; men " "may not -- and in the Son the sword is laid down for good."), (["slavery", "slaves", "condone", "servant obey"], "Yeshua gave the principle that makes slaveholding self-condemning: 'all things whatsoever ye " "would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this IS the law and the prophets' " "(Matt 7:12). He inverted the pyramid -- 'whosoever will be chiefest shall be servant of all: for " "even the Son of man came to minister' (Mark 10:44-45) -- and announced 'deliverance to the " "captives... liberty to them that are bruised' (Luke 4:18). The law itself made man-stealing a " "capital crime (Ex 21:16) and forbade returning a runaway (Deut 23:15). Scripture met a world " "where servitude was universal and drove the wedge that killed it; the abolitionists wielded this " "Book -- the slavers had to cut Exodus out of theirs."), (["why pray", "prayer pointless", "god already knows", "does prayer work", "answer prayer"], "Yeshua stated the objection's premise Himself and drew the opposite conclusion: 'your Father " "knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this manner THEREFORE pray ye' " "(Matt 6:8-9). Prayer was never information delivery; the knowing Father still wants the asking " "child. 'Ask, and it shall be given you' (Matt 7:7) -- keep asking; 'men ought always to pray, and " "not to faint' (Luke 18:1). He appointed asking as He appointed sowing: the harvest is His design, " "yet none reaps who will not sow. Ask chiefly for the Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13), aloud, in private, " "persistently. Christ Himself rose before day to pray (Mark 1:35) -- if prayer were pointless, He " "wasted His nights."), (["never heard", "unreached", "tribesman", "what about those who", "unevangelized"], "Yeshua scaled judgment to light: he 'that knew not... shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto " "whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required' (Luke 12:48) -- no one is damned for " "geography. 'Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring' (John 10:16) " "-- the Shepherd's reach is not bounded by the missionaries' map (Cornelius is the pattern, Acts " "10). In His own judgment scene the welcomed are surprised -- 'when saw we thee?' (Matt 25:37-40). " "Creation preaches (Ps 19:1), conscience testifies, and the Judge of all the earth does right " "(Gen 18:25). And the question standing in the room is never the tribesman's -- it is the " "hearer's: YOU have heard."), (["women", "misogyn", "demean", "patriarch", "female"], "Watch Yeshua's own conduct: He ratified a woman's place as disciple at His feet -- 'Mary hath " "chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her' (Luke 10:42); He coined 'daughter " "of Abraham' for a woman the officials saw as an interruption (Luke 13:16); and He made a woman " "the first witness of the resurrection, personally commissioned -- 'go to my brethren, and say...' " "(John 20:17) -- in a world that discounted a woman's testimony (no legend-maker chooses female " "witnesses; truth records them). Male and female are together the image of God (Gen 1:27). Judge " "the Book by its Author's behavior; weigh Paul with discernment, never above the Son's own ways."), (["who made god", "who created god", "everything needs a cause", "first cause", "uncaused"], "Scripture's own name for the Father is Yeshua's answer: 'the Father hath LIFE IN HIMSELF' (John " "5:26) -- underived, self-existent being; 'God is a Spirit' (John 4:24) -- not an object inside " "the caused order of matter and time; the I AM, present tense across centuries (Matt 22:32; Ex " "3:14). The argument was never 'everything needs a cause' but 'everything that BEGINS needs a " "cause.' The universe began -- the objector's own cosmology says so -- and so needs a cause; God " "did not begin, and needs none. An infinite regress of borrowed lamps lights nothing: something " "must own its light. The only question is whether the self-existent ground is mindless -- and then " "produced minds, morals, and mathematics -- or the living Father."), (["corrupted", "changed over", "telephone game", "council picked", "nicaea books", "manuscript", "canon"], "Yeshua vouched for the text to the stroke: 'one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the " "law' (Matt 5:18) -- and the Dead Sea Scrolls tested it, a thousand years older than our Hebrew " "copies, reading the same. 'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away' " "(Matt 24:35) -- falsifiable for twenty centuries, only compounded (P52 within living memory of " "John). He pre-authorized the record: the Spirit 'shall bring all things to your remembrance' " "(John 14:26). Get the history straight: Nicaea set no canon; the lists RECOGNIZED what the " "assemblies had long read. 5,800+ Greek manuscripts, parallel and checkable -- more copies mean " "more cross-checking, not more corruption; the variants are spelling and word order, and no " "doctrine hangs on any of them."), (["show himself", "hiddenness", "why doesnt god", "make himself obvious", "write it in the sky", "invisible"], "He did show Himself: 'he that hath seen me hath seen the Father' (John 14:9) -- Philip asked " "exactly this, and that was the answer. And Yeshua ruled on the 'more spectacle would convince me' " "theory: 'If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose " "from the dead' (Luke 16:31) -- proven twice, for they plotted to kill Lazarus (John 12:10) and " "bribed the guards of His own tomb (Matt 28:12-15). Evidence compels only the willing. His " "protocol for seeing: 'If any man WILL DO his will, he shall know' (John 7:17); 'the pure in heart " "shall see God' (Matt 5:8). The standing experiment is prayer -- ask the Father for the Holy " "Spirit (Luke 11:13) -- and one who refuses the experiment cannot cite the absence of its result."), (["faith", "crutch", "believing without evidence", "blind faith", "weak", "delusion"], "Yeshua met doubt with evidence, not scolding: to Thomas, 'reach hither thy finger... and be not " "faithless, but believing' (John 20:27), then 'blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have " "believed' (John 20:29). Faith is 'the substance of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things not " "seen' (Heb 11:1) -- trusting a Person you have reason to trust, and then acting, as you trust a " "chair before you sit in it. And He calls the weak on purpose: 'Come unto me, all ye that labour " "and are heavy laden' (Matt 11:28). Admitting the wound is honesty, not weakness; the strong who " "deny theirs are not thereby whole."), ] def _norm(s): return " " + re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9' ]+", " ", (s or "").lower().replace("’", "'")) + " " # ---- the full 100-round gauntlet, generated from the vetted artifact ---- import json as _json import os as _os _KB = None _IDF = None _KB_PATH = _os.path.join(_os.path.dirname(__file__), "gauntlet_kb.json") _WORD = re.compile(r"[a-z']+") _QSTOP = set("the a an and or but if is are was were be been being to of in on at for with " "this these those it its as by from your you i he she they we our do does did " "just even really about what why how who when where which than then not no " "have has had will would should could can may might must actually anyone".split()) def _tok(s): return [w.strip("'") for w in _WORD.findall((s or "").lower().replace("’", "'")) if len(w.strip("'")) >= 3 and w.strip("'") not in _QSTOP] def _kb(): """Load the 100 vetted rounds once, and build the idf table over their full text.""" global _KB, _IDF if _KB is None: try: _KB = _json.load(open(_KB_PATH, encoding="utf-8")) except Exception: _KB = [] import math df = {} for e in _KB: for w in set(e.get("words", [])): df[w] = df.get(w, 0) + 1 n = max(1, len(_KB)) _IDF = {w: math.log((n + 1) / (c + 1)) + 1.0 for w, c in df.items()} return _KB # Distinctive phrases that pin a query to its round, resolving near-neighbor collisions # (resurrection vs after-death, the three wealth rounds, who-made-God vs free-will, etc.). _BOOST = { 5: ["equal with god", "co-equal", "coequal", "is jesus god", "deity of christ"], 6: ["take our punishment", "penal", "wrath", "satisfy god", "punishment for us", "took the punishment"], 12: ["resurrection", "risen", "rose from the dead", "rise from the dead", "empty tomb", "easter"], 18: ["who made god", "who created god", "made god", "first cause", "uncaused", "needs a cause"], 20: ["prove he exists", "prove god", "show himself", "make himself obvious", "why doesnt god just"], 25: ["gay", "homosexual", "homosexuality", "same sex", "lgbt"], 27: ["televangelist", "prosperity preacher", "church wants my money", "church wants your money", "seed money", "tithe"], 33: ["why did jesus have to die", "why the cross", "just forgive", "why die", "cross at all", "necessary"], 53: ["before he was born", "pre-exist", "preexist", "exist before", "pre-existence"], 56: ["lose your salvation", "lose salvation", "once saved", "eternal security"], 59: ["go to church", "have to go to church", "church attendance", "attend church"], 65: ["right after you die", "after death", "after you die", "intermediate"], 66: ["pets", "dog", "animals go to heaven", "see my dog", "do animals"], 77: ["rich people", "get into heaven", "camel", "needle", "can the rich"], 89: ["did jesus exist", "exist historically", "historical jesus", "mythicist", "jesus even exist", "real person"], 96: ["rich and healthy", "prosperity gospel", "health and wealth", "everyone rich"], 98: ["cremation", "cremated", "ashes"], 99: ["what must i do", "to be saved", "how to be saved", "how do i get saved", "get saved"], 100: ["why should i care", "why does it matter", "whats the point", "so what", "difference would jesus", "care about jesus"], } def _kb_best(query): """Best round by summed idf of query words found in the round; question-word matches count double, and distinctive boost-phrases pin collision-prone rounds. Returns (entry, score, margin-over-runner-up).""" kb = _kb() if not kb: return None, 0.0, 0.0 qtok = set(_tok(query)) qn = _norm(query) scored = [] for e in kb: words = set(e.get("words", [])) qwords = set(e.get("keys", [])) s = 0.0 for w in qtok: if w in words: s += _IDF.get(w, 1.0) * (2.0 if w in qwords else 1.0) for phrase in _BOOST.get(e.get("n"), ()): if (" " + phrase + " ") in qn or (" " + phrase) in qn: s += 6.0 scored.append((s, e)) scored.sort(key=lambda x: x[0], reverse=True) best_s, best_e = scored[0] runner = scored[1][0] if len(scored) > 1 else 0.0 return best_e, best_s, best_s - runner def nearest_questions(query, k=3): """The k recorded questions closest to this asking -- LEXICALLY, offline. No server, no embedder, no GPU. This exists for the machine that has none of them: when no generator can be reached, the always-answer law still has to be kept, and the honest thing to offer is the nearest questions that DO have vetted answers sitting on disk beside the code. """ kb = _kb() if not kb: return [] qtok = set(_tok(query)) scored = [] for e in kb: words = set(e.get("words", [])) qwords = set(e.get("keys", [])) s = sum(_IDF.get(w, 1.0) * (2.0 if w in qwords else 1.0) for w in qtok if w in words) if s > 0 and e.get("question"): scored.append((s, e["question"])) scored.sort(key=lambda x: -x[0]) return [q for _s, q in scored[:k]] def gauntlet_entry(query, threshold=4.0): """Return the full structured vetted round best matching this objection (or None). The gauntlet is a vetted-OBJECTION KB, not a catechism, so it must only fire on a CONFIDENT match and otherwise defer to the grounded reasoning model. Measured floor: correct matches score >= ~4.9 ("who is Jesus" 4.87, "what is sin" 5.24, real objections 10-24), while an ambiguous definitional query like "who is God" / "what is God" scores only ~2.5 on common words and used to squeak past the old 2.0 floor -- serving the unrelated round 2 (why God allows suffering) instead of a direct answer. A 4.0 floor lets those fall through to the reasoning model, which answers the question directly.""" best, score, _ = _kb_best(query) return best if (best and score >= threshold) else None import random as _random _INTROS = [ "Hear the words of Christ Himself on this:", "The Lord settled this in His own words:", "Begin where truth begins -- with what Yeshua said:", "Consider what the Christ directly declared:", "Yeshua did not leave this unanswered:", "Weigh His own words first:", ] _REASON_LEADS = [ "", "Reason it out: ", "Here is the heart of it: ", "So weigh it plainly: ", "And the sense of it: ", ] _BRIDGES = [ "And His own words bear it out:", "Christ said it Himself:", "Hear the Lord on it:", "His words are the measure:", ] def _first_sentence(s): m = re.split(r"(?<=[.!?])\s", s, 1) return m[0] if m else s def present(entry, seed=None): """Compose a VARIED, detailed presentation of a vetted round from its structured sayings + reasoning. Same round, fresh framing/order/depth each call -- the scripture quotes and references stay exact, so variety never costs correctness.""" r = _random.Random(seed) sayings = list(entry.get("sayings", [])) reason = entry.get("reason", "") if not sayings: return entry.get("argument", "") depth = r.choice(["full", "full", "short"]) def render(s): line = "Yeshua said, %s (%s)." % (s["quote"], s["ref"]) if depth == "full" and s.get("expo"): line += " " + s["expo"] else: line += " " + _first_sentence(s.get("expo", "")) return line framing = r.choice(["sayings_first", "reason_bookend", "strongest_first"]) if framing == "reason_bookend" and reason: blocks = [r.choice(_REASON_LEADS) + reason, r.choice(_BRIDGES)] blocks += [render(s) for s in sayings] elif framing == "strongest_first": order = sayings[:] r.shuffle(order) blocks = [r.choice(_INTROS), render(order[0])] blocks += [render(s) for s in order[1:]] if reason: blocks.append(r.choice(_REASON_LEADS) + reason) else: # sayings_first blocks = [r.choice(_INTROS)] + [render(s) for s in sayings] if reason: blocks.append(r.choice(_REASON_LEADS) + reason) return "\n\n".join(b for b in blocks if b) def present_for(query, seed=None): """Retrieve the best vetted round for a query and present it freshly, or "" if none.""" e = gauntlet_entry(query) return present(e, seed) if e else "" def argument_for(query, min_hits=1): """Return the ideal recorded, Christ-first answer best matching the query, or "". Prefers the full 100-round gauntlet KB (idf-weighted); falls back to the compact hand-tuned entries only if the KB gives no confident match.""" best, score, _ = _kb_best(query) if best and score >= 2.0: return best["argument"] q = _norm(query) # fallback: curated compact entries fb, fb_score = "", 0 for keys, arg in ENTRIES: s = sum(1 for k in keys if k in q) if s > fb_score: fb_score, fb = s, arg return fb if fb_score >= min_hits else ""