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Author: Marc Bates
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Recovering the Hebraic Logic of Substitutionary Atonement
This study examines the historical evolution of Christian atonement theology, contrasting prevailing Western juridical frameworks— specifically Anselmian satisfaction and Reformed penal substitution— with the ancient Hebraic cognitive environment of the biblical text.
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Linguistic Paradoxes, Textual Philology, and the Origins of the Qurʾān: A Historical-Critical and Biblical-Theological Assessment
The Standard Islamic Narrative asserts that the Qurʾān was revealed verbatim in the seventh-century Meccan dialect of the Quraysh, standardized under Caliph ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, and preserved with letterperfect uniformity.
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Matthew 14: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Matthew 14 marks a pivotal turning point within the Gospel’s macro-structure, bridging the parabolic revelation of the kingdom mysteries in Matthew 13 with the expanding messianic authority and escalating conflict of the central narrative.
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The Two Trees in the Cosmic Temple: Royal Priesthood, Moral Autonomy, and the Architecture of the Promise-Plan
Contemporary Christian systematic theology frequently interprets the primeval narratives of Genesis 1 3 through post-biblical Western categories, reducing the cosmic architecture of creation and the drama of human failure to legal contracts or biological mechanics.
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The Sacredness of Life as a Cardinal Ethical Norm: An Incarnational, Ontological, and Promise-Plan Synthesis
This study constructs a biblical-theological defense of the sacredness of human life as a cardinal ethical norm in Christian ethics. Grounded primarily in Chapter 8 (“So Much Value: The Sacredness of Life”) of David P. Gushee and Glen…
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The Petra Genesis and the Revisionist Revision of Islamic Origins: A Historical-Critical and Biblical-Theological Appraisal
This essay examines historical-critical challenges to the Standard Islamic Narrative S.I.N.) regarding the origins of Islam, focusing on geographical, archaeological, and textual arguments that situate early Islamic sanctuaries in northern Arabia and the Levant—particularly the Nabataean region around…
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Matthew 13: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Matthew 13 constitutes the third of five major discourse blocks structuring the First Gospel (Matt 5–7; 10; 13; 18; 24–25), each concluding with the characteristic formulaic colophon, “when Jesus had finished” (Matt 13:53).
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The Unified Gospel: Reconciling Jesus and Paul
For more than a century, New Testament scholarship and popular Christian discourse have frequently posited a fundamental theological rupture between Jesus of Nazareth and the Apostle Paul.
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Internal Bridges: Using the Qurʾān to Defend Christ’s Divinity within the Architecture of the Promise-Plan
This essay examines the apologetic method of “internal bridges,” often paired with the so-called Islamic Dilemma, as a text-immanent strategy in contemporary Christian–Muslim encounter.
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Genesis of Genealogy
The Gospel of Matthew opens not with a static civic registry but with a carefully engineered theological overture. Tracing the genealogy and birth narrative of Jesus (Matt. 1:1–25) and the Gospel’s larger instructional architecture, this essay argues that…