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Author: Marc Bates
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Embodied Allegiance and the Mechanics of Belief
Contemporary Western evangelicalism often treats conversion as a Cartesian sequence: intellectual assent must precede any change of bodily practice. Brian Guan’s widely discussed “30 Day God Experiment,” together with pastoral commentary on the case, presses the opposite order.
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Matthew 19 An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary.md
Matthew 19 opens the narrative sequence of the Gospel’s Fourth Discourse (Matt 18–20), shifting the geographical focus from Galilee to Judea beyond the Jordan as Yeshua begins His final journey toward Jerusalem.
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The Soul and the Brain: A Biblical-Theological and Philosophical Defense of Substance Dualism within the Promise-Plan of God
This essay defends generic, holistic substance dualism—the claim that the human person is an integrated compound of an immaterial soul and a material body—against reductive materialism, nonreductive physicalism, and a post-biblical Hellenistic dualism that treats the body as…
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The Inlibration Fallacy, Early Islamic Origins, and the Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical-Theological and Historical-Critical Appraisal
This essay evaluates classical Islamic apologetic claims about scriptural immutability, Christology, and early Islamic origins through historicalcritical inquiry and Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan biblical theology.
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Josephus and Jesus: Authenticating the Testimonium Flavianum within the Architecture of the Promise-Plan of God
The Testimonium Flavianum Antiquities 18.63 64 remains the earliest extant non-Christian narrative notice of Jesus of Nazareth. Twentieth-century criticism typically treated the paragraph as either a wholesale forgery or a brief Josephan core later expanded by Christian scribes.
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Matthew 18: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Matthew 18 constitutes the Fourth Discourse within the Evangelist’s fivefold Pentateuchal scaffolding, positioning Messiah Yeshua as the Greater Moses who authors authoritative instruction (
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Psalm 8: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Psalm 8 functions as a central poetic meditation on the creation mandate of Genesis 1–2, situated organically within the progressive architecture of God’s promise-plan.
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The Promise-Plan of God and the Fragility of Inlibration: A Biblical-Theological and Historical-Critical Appraisal of Early Islamic Origins
This essay evaluates core Islamic apologetic claims about scriptural integrity, Christology, and early Islamic origins through historical-critical inquiry and Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan biblical theology. Orthodox Islamic polemics typically rest on inlibration: the Qurʾān as the eternal,…
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Christology and the Transfigured Image of Adam
The question of theological anthropology—what it means to be human—cannot be answered by isolating either the creational prototype of Adam or the redemptive archetype of Christ. Read within Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan, the two horizons belong to…
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Beyond the Digital Facade: Integrating Technological Precision, Original-Language Lexicography, and the Organic Promise-Plan in Advanced Biblical Studies
Digital platforms such as Logos and Accordance have collapsed the distance between the interpreter and tagged critical texts, lexicons, and ancient Near Eastern corpora. Access, however, is not the same as understanding.