The Organic Unity of the Promise-Plan: A Synthesis of Biblical Coherence

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This article argues that the sixty-six books of the Protestant canon constitute a single, organic unity, aptly described as the “Promise-Plan of God.” Drawing on Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s biblical theology, the early church fathers’ defense of scriptural harmony against Gnostic and Marcionite fragmentation, and recent developments in Hebraic thought (Johnson) and ancient Near Eastern cosmology (Walton, Heiser), the essay maintains that…