“Sensors” are prolific in today’s electronic culture because they are vital to computerized mechanization.  For example, sensors are used to continuously monitor the operations of your automobile engine, as all kinds of sensors report back to the vehicle’s “brain” and then display those results on your dashboard.  More and more, today’s factories and businesses “employ” a variety of robotic operations in place of “employees,” and they are all dependent on a variety of intricate sensors!

Unfortunately, there is little “sensor development” taking place in the world of “words.”  Yes, there are lie detectors that are designed to sense human “physiology: (1) cardiovascular activity such as heart rate and blood pressure, (2) respiratory activity, and (3) skin conductance. . . . Most polygraph examiners also have a motion sensor attached to the chair used when a person is tested. That sensor detects subtle movements in the trunk, legs, and feet.” [1]

However, there is so much disinformation, hypocrisy, plausible deniability, excuses, justifications, rationalizations, and even bald-faced lies,  that there needs to be some serious works on the development of “a fail-safe hot-air detected.”

Therefore, I propose the following biblical specifications for such a necessary device . . . .

1 – Can detect and report the most religious-sounding excuses and explanations as “hot-air.” [2]

2 – Is fail-safe when it detects and reports the most hypocritical and disingenuous statements of those who work in the field of religion and faith. [3]

3 – Can sense the difference between words that sound selfless but are actually self-serving. [4]

4 – Able to immediately detect and report the existence of “hot-air” — first to those who are self-convinced or self-deceived (before others become aware of the absurdity of such words). [5]

5 – Can detect and report heavy-handedness disguised as orthodoxy and conviction. [6]

6 – Is inexpensive enough that religious and local church ministries can buy it. [7]

1.  Link:  https://converus.com/how-lie-detector-tests-work/
2. John 12:5 — “Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?”
3. Acts 5:2 — “And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.”
4. I Samuel 15:15 — “And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”
5. Psalm 15:2 — “He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.” — also see — Proverbs 21:2; 12:15
6. John 8:4 — “They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.”
7.  Proverbs 23:23 — “Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.”