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Category: Studies
Topical biblical theology, apologetics, Christology, history, and ethics.
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The Unique Jesus
The essay compares the distinctive prerogatives attributed to Jesus in Scripture and the Qurʾān, including virginal conception, purity, life-giving signs, and eschatological honor. It argues that shared titles coexist with substantial differences in divine identity, revelation, and salvation.
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Proclaiming the Inbreaking Reign: The Wicked Tenants and the Doorkeeper
This study pairs Mark 12:1–12 with Mark 13:32–37 as complementary witnesses to God’s inbreaking reign. The vineyard story is read through the Messiah’s rejection and vindication; the doorkeeper’s charge turns eschatological expectation into faithful vigilance.
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The Problem Of Sin
The essay compares Islamic fiṭra and repentance with biblical accounts of Adamic solidarity, moral rupture, and death. It argues that diagnosis precedes remedy: a comparison of salvation must examine what each tradition says has gone wrong before asking…
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The Architecture of Kingdom Law
The essay reads Matthew 5–7 as covenantal instruction embodied and authoritatively interpreted by Jesus. Its analysis of Matthew 5:17–20 challenges a simple opposition between law and grace, locating kingdom righteousness within the continuing biblical promise-plan.
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Restorative Justice and the Kingdom Ethic
This essay argues that biblical justice seeks the healing of injured relationships and the vindication of the vulnerable. It reads restorative justice through the Sermon on the Mount, emphasizing victim healing, offender accountability, and covenantal repair rather than…
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Breaking Eschatological Systems
The essay reconstructs Michael S. Heiser’s reading of Revelation as telescopic recapitulation. Shared imagery from Ezekiel 38–39 in Revelation 16, 19, and 20 challenges a strictly linear timetable while leaving the public return of Messiah, bodily resurrection, and…
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The Word Made Flesh and the Word Made Book
The study argues that the incarnation expresses God’s promised presence rather than diminishing divine majesty. It distinguishes the eternal Son’s assumption of complete human nature from a change of deity into humanity, reading John 1 within the covenantal…
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The Rationality of Revelation
Logic serves the reception of revelation without becoming a standard above God. This study distinguishes mystery from contradiction and rationality from rationalism while locating valid reasoning within the Logos and the biblical promise-plan.
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The Sinless Christ: Exegetical Foundations, Islamic Polemics, and the Canonical Architecture of Promise-Plan Soteriology
Christ’s sinlessness carries both Christological and atoning significance in the biblical canon. This study compares New Testament testimony with Qurʾānic and hadith portrayals while distinguishing textual evidence from later doctrines of prophetic impeccability.
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Adam’s Royal Mandate: The Creation Blueprint, Cosmic Sanctuary, and the Teleological Arc of the Promise-Plan
Genesis 1:26–28 establishes humanity’s royal and priestly vocation within God’s creation. This study traces blessing, seed, and land through the promise-plan to the Last Adam while preserving the dignity of every image-bearer.