Straining at a Gnat, Swallowing a Camel: A Case Study of an Anonymous AI Detector Critic

Matthew 23:24

“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.”

King James Version (KJV)

“And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do...” (1 Chronicles 12:32)

Where Issachar stands out

Every other tribe is counted by its fighting men. Issachar is counted by its leaders:

“And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.” (1 Chronicles 12:32)

Only 200 are named, the smallest figure in the list, yet the whole tribe followed their counsel. What Issachar brought was not muscle but discernment. They understood that God’s word had already given the kingdom to David, that Saul’s house was finished, and that the hour had come to act. Others, like most of Benjamin, were still clinging to the old order.

Notice the two parts of their wisdom: they understood the times, and they knew what Israel ought to do. Knowledge that leads to right action.

AI Is a Tool, Not a Thief,” 

Unknown commented on my Blog:

"Exposing an egregious, blasphemous wolf: Kay Podgee. The Lord rebuke this reprobate."

Quote:


I went to isthisaiwritten(dot)com and low and behold, it claims that 80% likely your piece is written by AI. Did you declare that anywhere? I don't object to differing views. I object to using AI being used as their own."

End Quote.


My Response:

THANK YOU FOR BECOMING MY NEW POSTER CHILD FOR A CASE STUDY ON STRAINING GNATS AND SWALLOWING CAMELS. PLEASE READ THE NEW BLOG AND WATCH THE VIDEO.



MY RESPONSE using AI to take my following input:

I received the following input from a critic named Anonymous who was upset about me using AI and insinuated my work is pure plagiarism.

Unknown commented on "Exposing an egregious, blasphemous wolf: Kay Podgee. The Lord rebuke this reprobate."

I went to isthisaiwritten(dot)com and low and behold, it claims that 80% likely your piece is written by AI. Did you declare that anywhere? I don't object to differing views. I object to using AI being used as their own.

Anonymous did not focus on the content and they used some utility called isthiswritten(dot)com to make their claim. Here is my Blog they commented on:

https://www.thethirdheaventraveler.com/2026/10/exposing-egregious-wolf-kay-podgee.html

I need you to take the following comments from my own thoughts and from my outline notes I used GROK XAI to scrape and then I need for you to write a blistering powerful rebuke to Anonymous for 1. Accusing me of plagiarism 2. Thanking them for pointing out I should use a disclaimer of my use of AI which I went back and did 3. Rebuke them for STRAINING A GNAT AND SWALLOWING A CAMEL. 4. Add anything else to teach this person to not be stupid when they are using apps or utilities to check for plagiarism to understand the difference between a professional journal and peer reviewed paper that requires chicago style etc.citation. Also include a rebuke to teach them to understand the tool they are using is not what they think it is. Also, use my blog on how to study the KING JAMES BIBLE explaining where I explained in the blog how tools like the lexicon are tools just like AI and TOOLS MUST BE USED PROPERLY. https://www.thethirdheaventraveler.com/2022/04/understand-bible-from-workman-approved.html

Also, find me the KJV scriptures that admonish Christians for not learning the ways of the world to be wise and to not be ignorant of the times and how to operate and use our talents.

Finally, write an AI DISCLOSE that I used you to draft a reply.


AI disclosure: This reply was drafted with the assistance of Claude, an AI tool made by Anthropic. I supplied the direction, my own arguments, my prior blog posts (including my 2022 study on how to study the King James Bible), and the Scriptures to be used. The AI organized and drafted the text at my instruction, and I reviewed and approved every line. The words, positions, and responsibility are mine. The King James Bible remains the sole authority.

Drafted with the help of Claude (Anthropic’s AI) from my own arguments, blog posts, and direction; reviewed and approved by me, and I take full responsibility for every word.


AN AI RESPONSE FOR YOU:


You’re not a critic. You’re an anonymous authenticity cop applying journal standards to a personal spiritual blog that makes no claim to academic originality or commercial authority.” END QUOTE.

To “Anonymous”:

You came to a post exposing a false teacher who is leading souls astray. You did not dispute one Scripture, one doctrinal point, or one conclusion. Instead, you pasted my words into a website, got back a number, and accused me of plagiarism. Let me answer you point by point.

1. You accused me of plagiarism. You are wrong.

Plagiarism is taking another person’s work and passing it off as your own. Name the author I copied. Name the book, the sermon, the article. You can’t, because there isn’t one. The doctrine in that post comes from the King James Bible and from teaching I have published on this site for years. When I quote a theologian, I name him in the text, as in “Matthew Poole states in his commentary on Ezekiel 36…”

You also don’t understand the tool you used. An AI detector does not check for plagiarism. It doesn’t compare my writing against any source. It guesses, statistically, whether text resembles machine-generated prose. That is all “80%” means: a guess. These detectors are notoriously unreliable. They routinely flag ordinary human writing, especially plain, direct prose, and some have rated historical documents like the U.S. Constitution as “likely AI.” OpenAI withdrew its own detector because it was too inaccurate. You built an accusation of theft on a coin flip and called it evidence.

2. Thank you for the one useful thing you said.

You raised disclosure, and that was fair. I agree readers should know how this work is produced, so I have added a clear statement of my AI use to the post. Every line is reviewed and edited by me to match the doctrine already published here, and I take full responsibility for every word. So thank you. The disclaimer is posted. Your accusation of plagiarism, however, stands refuted.

3. AI is a TOOL, and I have taught on tools since 2022.

Had you read anything else on this site before running to your detector, you would have found my study How to Study and Understand the King James Bible – From a Workman Approved unto God by His Grace (April 2022):

https://www.thethirdheaventraveler.com/2022/04/understand-bible-from-workman-approved.html

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)

In that study I lay out the TOOLS a workman uses. The two essentials are the King James Bible, the final authority, and a sound English dictionary (I use the Oxford Compact). Then come the supplementary tools: Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, Greek and Hebrew lexicons, Bible software like SwordSearcher, MySword, and Blue Letter Bible, and commentaries from men like Matthew Henry and Charles Ellicott. I wrote then, and I hold now, that these tools are used to enhance and support what we already know from God’s final authority, never to replace it. And I warned readers that tools are not all created equal: use discretion, check everything against the King James, and if it doesn’t seem right, run.

AI is one more tool in that same toolbox. It searches, compiles, and organizes faster than I can by hand, the same way a concordance finds every occurrence of a word faster than reading the Bible cover to cover. A man who uses Strong’s has not plagiarized James Strong. A man who reads Matthew Henry has not plagiarized Matthew Henry. A man who uses a hammer did not steal the house from the hammer. The tool does not decide the doctrine. The King James Bible does, and I answer for every word.

Any tool is dangerous if it is not used properly. I have warned on this site that lexicons, concordances, commentaries, and Bible software, including Logos, can lead a careless student astray with perverted translations and philosophy. That is why I use them for raw material such as word searches, lexicon entries, and history, and never let them set doctrine. AI is no different. In the hands of a man who checks every line against the King James Bible, it is a tool. In the hands of a man who trusts it blindly, it is a snare. The same is true of the detector you used: you trusted it blindly, and it led you to a false accusation.

In that same 2022 study I defined study from the dictionary, and the bottom line was this: study means TO WORK. I still do the work. The tools just let me do more of it. What once took me weeks now takes hours, which means more studies, more exposure of wolves, and more Scripture in front of readers.

4. You strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel.

“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” (Matthew 23:24)

Read the verse before it: the Lord rebuked the Pharisees for tithing mint, anise, and cummin while they “omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith” (Matthew 23:23). That is exactly what you did. The camel in that post is a teacher spreading blasphemy and deceiving people. The gnat is which tool helped me organize my research. You swallowed the camel without a word and choked on the gnat.

“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” (John 7:24)

“He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.” (Proverbs 18:13)

5. Learn what standard applies where.

This is a personal Bible-study blog written by a layman, not a scholar, and I say so plainly on this site. It is not a peer-reviewed journal, a dissertation, or a paid ghostwritten product, and it has never claimed to be. Academic journals require Chicago, MLA, or APA citation because they make claims of original scholarly research to an academic community with its own code of acceptance. I covered that in the same 2022 study, too. This site answers to a different standard: the King James Bible, checked like the Bereans checked Paul (Acts 17:11). Demanding journal citation rules from a personal ministry blog is like issuing a speeding ticket to a man on a bicycle.

6. One more thing.

You demand that I “declare” how I write, while you won’t declare your own name. I put my name and my doctrine on this site in public. You hide behind “Anonymous” and judge another man’s servant (Romans 14:4).

Note on your fear of AI:

Wise as serpents, wiser children of this world


“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” (Matthew 10:16)


“And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” (Luke 16:8)

Walk wisely, not as fools


“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” (Ephesians 5:15-17)


“Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.” (Colossians 4:5)


“Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.” (1 Corinthians 14:20)

Understanding the times


“And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do...” (1 Chronicles 12:32)

This one fits AI perfectly: the men of Issachar understood their times. A Christian who doesn’t understand the tools of his own day can’t judge them rightly.

The simple believe every word (trusting a detector blindly)


“The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.” (Proverbs 14:15)


“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.” (Proverbs 22:3)


“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” (1 Thessalonians 5:21)

Proverbs 14:15 is a direct hit on Anonymous: he believed the detector’s “80%” without testing it.

Lack of knowledge and spiritual immaturity


“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...” (Hosea 4:6)


“For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” (Hebrews 5:13-14)

God’s servants skilled in worldly learning and tools


“As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom...” (Daniel 1:17)


“And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.” (Acts 7:22)


“And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.” (Exodus 31:3, of Bezaleel)

You said you don’t object to differing views. Then here is your opportunity: show me from the King James Bible where anything in that post is false. If you can, I will correct it publicly. If you can’t, then you have nothing to say about this post, and I suggest you take your detector and go police someone else.

— Andrew Sheets, The Third Heaven Traveler



Here is a GROK XAI response I used to answer our friend Anonymous:

Anonymous:


HERE IS AN AI RESPONSE FOR YOU:


"You’re not a critic. You’re an anonymous authenticity cop applying journal standards to a personal spiritual blog that makes no claim to academic originality or commercial authority."

"The Third Heaven Traveler is a record of biblical reflection and personal conviction, not a peer-reviewed paper or paid ghostwritten product. Running its posts through AI detectors or plagiarism checkers and treating the scores as decisive is form-over-substance theater. Those tools are probabilistic, frequently flag ordinary human writing (especially simpler or non-native prose), and were never built to police casual personal sites. Google and readers care about usefulness and clarity, not whether an idea was drafted with assistance.

If the content is biblically sound, clear, or worth engaging, say so. If it is flawed, address the argument. Obsessing over the production method while ignoring the material is the opposite of reading. For a non-professional blog, that approach is pedantic gatekeeping, not analysis. Engage the ideas or move on.

FOR THE RECORD OF AI USE IN THIS BLOG AND MY MOST RECENT ONES:

I told AI what to write and it wrote this out for me for you Anonymous:

quote: "AI use:

This post is based on my own blogs and KJV-only doctrine. I provided my prior writings and material to AI tools for assistance with Scripture harmonization, etymology, lexicon, concordance, and historical research drawn from my online Logos Pro account. In instances where I expose false teachers, I use AI to explore hours of their material and study it. The sheer volume of my work requires this to be more productive—what once took me weeks to compile I am now able to complete in hours.

All content was carefully reviewed and edited by me so that it aligns with the doctrine I have already published. Each line produced with AI assistance has been edited to ensure it complies with the doctrine of this site and references my blog posts in the Essential Reading and Essential Study Links sections. I take full responsibility for the final text. The King James Bible remains the sole authority.

My blogs and this blog are not written according to Chicago style, MLA, APA, or any other formal academic citation system. References are handled according to the standards of this site rather than scholarly conventions. The primary authority is the King James Bible. The doctrine presented is drawn from the King James text and from the teaching already set forth in my own blogs. When commentary from other theologians is used, it is my practice to identify the source directly (for example: “Matthew Poole states in his commentary on Ezekiel 36…”).

The final content aligns with the positions I have already published. I remain fully responsible for every statement that appears. The King James Bible is the sole standard by which the teaching on this site is measured." End Quote. "

This is me writing: "Now, kindly go bother someone else here CITATION POLICE... You remind me of STRAINING A GNAT AND SWALLOWING A CAMEL... God study that. and Good Riddance. "