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Author: Marc Bates
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 hope.
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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.
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My test live stream from last night (10/07) still learning the new service.
Watch Marc Bates’s October 7, 2026 test recording of the new streaming service, shared on Substack while preparations continue for weekly live Q&A.
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Exodus 23: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Exodus 23 brings together impartial justice, care for enemies and strangers, Sabbath rest, pilgrimage festivals, and the Angel bearing Yahweh’s Name as instruction for Israel’s redeemed covenant life.
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Deconstructing Pseudohistory and Esoteric Revisionism
A critical-realist appraisal of Paweł Szydłowski, Turbo-Lechitism, and esoteric biblical revisionism, emphasizing source criticism, genre, chronology, and a consistent standard of historical evidence.
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Objective Grace and the Cosmic Cruciform
A guide to Karl Barth’s doctrine of reconciliation, its Christ-centered account of objective grace, and its tensions concerning faith, historical inquiry, and universal restoration within the biblical promise-plan.
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The Architecture of Redemptive History: A Comparative Analysis of Free Grace, Classic Covenant, Classic Dispensational, and Promise-Plan Theologies Across Soteriology, Ecclesiology, and Cosmic Origins
This comparative study evaluates Free Grace, classic covenant, classic dispensational, and promise-plan theologies across salvation, Israel and the nations, creation, Torah, warning passages, and new creation. It argues for the promise-plan as a text-immanent account of canonical continuity.