Local Reading and Complete Corpus
A local loss must not be concealed by the survival of doctrine elsewhere, but neither may one local loss be made to speak for an entire edition. The…
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Five Doctrinal-Effect Classes
D0 through D4 distinguish neutrality, lost testimony, accommodation, formal entailment, and orthodox counterevidence. The classes measure a reading’s demonstrated effect without turning a local finding into a corpus…
Open record →The Martin Rule of Exact Doctrinal Entailment
A reading must be judged by what its words necessarily assert, what they remove, and what must be imported from elsewhere. The Martin Rule prevents both doctrinal minimization…
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Secret Knowledge, Spiritual Castes, and Hostility to Creation
Several ancient systems replaced the public apostolic gospel with elite knowledge, divided humanity into fixed spiritual kinds, and treated marriage or food as stains from an inferior creation.
Open record →Separationism: Jesus Divided from Christ
Cerinthian separationism joined a heavenly Christ to the man Jesus only for a time. The apostolic answer is one enduring person who comes in flesh, blood, suffering, resurrection,…
Open record →Docetism: Flesh Only in Appearance
Docetism protects a heavenly Savior from real flesh, blood, suffering, and death. Scripture answers that the Word truly became man and redeemed us in the same nature that…
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