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Category: Studies
Topical biblical theology, apologetics, Christology, history, and ethics.
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The Structural, Relational, and Theological Architecture of Matthew’s Apostolic List: Relational Networks, Textual Verisimilitude, and Promise-Plan Horizons in Matthew 10:2–4
Matthew’s apostolic list is examined through name patterns, relational pairings, historical plausibility, and the Twelve’s place in the promise-plan.
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Wheat, Weeds, and the Ambiguity of Inaugurated Eschatology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Ethical Analysis of Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43
The parable of wheat and weeds frames patient kingdom witness in a mixed world, reserving the final separation for God’s judgment.
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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.