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Author: Marc Bates
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The Momentous Sacrifice: Typology, Substitutionary Ransom, and the Promise-Plan of Redemption in Christian–Muslim Polemics
The Qurʾānic “momentous sacrifice” is examined alongside Genesis 22 and the canonical trajectory of substitution, ransom, and messianic fulfillment.
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Recovering the Canonical Text: Exegetical Fallacies, the Divine Council Worldview, and the Organic Unity of the Promise-Plan
Recovering Scripture’s organic unity requires rejecting common exegetical fallacies, restoring its ancient supernatural worldview, and following the canon’s unfolding promise-plan.
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The Ethical Reign of God and the Re-Engineering of Soteriology: Albrecht Ritschl’s Liberal Theology in Canonical, Historical, and Biblical-Theological Perspective
Albrecht Ritschl recast salvation around the ethical Kingdom of God, practical value judgments, and humanity’s organization through love after Kant’s critique of metaphysics.
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Psalm 12: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Psalm 12 confronts a crisis of truth, covenant loyalty, predatory speech, and social decay while grounding hope in Yahweh’s pure and dependable words.
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Exodus 11: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Exodus 11 announces the final plague as the climactic judgment that fulfills God’s covenant promise, distinguishes Israel from Egypt, and prepares the Passover exodus.
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Proclaiming the Kingdom: Reclaiming the Theological Referent of Jesus’ Parables in Homiletics and Biblical Theology
Jesus’ parables derive their force from their theological referent—the active reign of God—rather than from literary mechanics or metaphorical novelty alone.
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Paul’s Monotheistic Mission: The Shema as the Theological Engine of Gentile Inclusion within the Promise-Plan of God
Paul’s mission to the nations emerges from Jewish monotheism and the Shema, not from abandoning Torah or founding a Gentile religion detached from Israel.
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The Abrahamic Gospel: Covenantal Lineage, Typological Atonement, and the Textual Dialectic in Christian–Muslim Polemics
The Abrahamic promise is an advance announcement of the gospel, joining justification by faith, covenantal lineage, messianic seed, substitution, and blessing for the nations.
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Christ, the Uncreated Creator: A Canonical, Exegetical, and Promise-Plan Defense against Arian and Unitarian Subversions
The biblical canon places Christ on the uncreated Creator side of reality’s fundamental divide, despite Arian and Unitarian appeals to Proverbs 8, Colossians 1, and Revelation 3.
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Salt, Light, and Deeds: The Triadic Public Witness of the Church within the Promise-Plan of God
Matthew 5:13–16 presents salt, light, and good deeds as a unified pattern for the church’s public witness. This study relates covenant distinctiveness, visible mercy, and non-coercive justice to Israel’s royal-priestly vocation and the unfolding promise-plan of God.