RABBIT ROOM APOLOGETICS · MARC BATES
Pull Up a Chair.
Serious Theology. Open Conversation.
A quieter place for bigger questions—where Scripture is studied in its ancient context and serious biblical scholarship becomes conversation.
Welcome to the Rabbit Room
A brief introduction to the questions, scholarship, and conversation you’ll find here.
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Welcome to Rabbit Room Apologetics. I’m Marc Bates. This is a place for Christians who want deeper answers and for anyone willing to ask serious questions with care and honesty.
Too often, Scripture is reduced to isolated verses, modern assumptions, or arguments designed merely to win. Here we take a different approach: Scripture first, interpreted within its ancient world and the unfolding story of God’s redemptive purpose.
That means taking the Jewishness of Jesus and Paul seriously, recovering the world of Second Temple Judaism, recognizing Scripture’s supernatural Divine Council worldview, and tracing God’s Promise-Plan from Genesis to renewed creation.
You’ll find chapter-by-chapter biblical commentary, sustained theological studies, apologetics, and careful engagement with Islam, history, ethics, and competing interpretations.
The goal is not to replace Scripture with historical sources or manufacture certainty through slogans. It is to clarify the text, explain the available evidence, and help you understand how the pieces fit together.
Use this site as your searchable map. Explore by Scripture, subject, or question, then continue to the complete articles, videos, and conversations.
Serious theology, open conversation. Pull up a chair and ask one more question.
Choose How You Want to Engage
The same scholarship, approached in the format that fits the moment.
READ
The academic paper: full argumentation, citations, references, and the details behind the conclusion.
WATCH
A concise visual explainer that makes the central argument accessible without flattening the scholarship.
LISTEN
A conversational audio discussion for working through the ideas wherever you happen to be.
Explore the Library
Enter through a question, a biblical book, or a sustained line of argument.
Studies
Biblical theology, apologetics, Christology, history, ethics, and more.
Biblical Commentary
Chapter-by-chapter study across the whole biblical canon.
Islam, Politics & Polemics
Historically grounded, textually rigorous engagement with religious and public claims.
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Latest Articles
The five newest article guides, updated automatically.
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The Cross, the Text, and the Dilemma: An Academic and Exegetical Evaluation of Islamic Crucifixion Views, Covenantal Promise-Plan Theology, and Historical Apologetics
A comparative study of Qurʾānic crucifixion passages, substitution traditions, historical evidence, and the cross within the biblical promise-plan. Open the article guide
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The Incarnation Explained
A promise-plan defense of the hypostatic union that contrasts incarnation and inlibration, examines Islamic objections, and clarifies the limits of lexical arguments. Open the article guide
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The Historical Bedrock of the Crucifixion
A source-critical examination of Jesus’ death by Roman crucifixion, combining historical attestation, medical cautions, and the promise-plan’s grounding in public events. Open the article guide
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Between Mortality and New Creation
An exegetical and philosophical defense of a conscious intermediate state that preserves personal identity while keeping bodily resurrection and renewed creation central to Christian… Open the article guide
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Exodus 24: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Exodus 24 joins covenant blood, Israel’s embodied allegiance, the elders’ meal, and Moses’ ascent into the glory-cloud within the unfolding promise-plan. Open the article guide
Why the Rabbit Room?
Some of the best theological conversations happen after the formal lecture ends—around a table, with time to ask another question. Rabbit Room Apologetics is built in that spirit: serious scholarship without the distance of the lecture hall.