{
  "version": "2026-08-06",
  "method": {
    "scope": "Same-question, source-explicit incompatibilities only",
    "behavior": "Advisory warning when the two strongest incompatible sides exceed 100% combined credence",
    "crossQuestionLocks": false
  },
  "rules": [
    {
      "id": "ANT-004-A-v-C",
      "issueId": "ANT-004",
      "sides": [["ANT-004.A"], ["ANT-004.C"]],
      "qualifier": "This is a contradiction only when guilt is held constant."
    },
    {
      "id": "ELEC-002-A-v-B",
      "issueId": "ELEC-002",
      "sides": [["ELEC-002.A"], ["ELEC-002.B"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict concerns the stipulated basis of election."
    },
    {
      "id": "CONV-001-A-v-C",
      "issueId": "CONV-001",
      "sides": [["CONV-001.A"], ["CONV-001.C"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict assumes the same account of the decisive differentiating cause."
    },
    {
      "id": "CONV-002-A-v-B",
      "issueId": "CONV-002",
      "sides": [["CONV-002.A"], ["CONV-002.B"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict concerns logical or causal priority, not necessarily clock time."
    },
    {
      "id": "JUS-001-A-v-D",
      "issueId": "JUS-001",
      "sides": [["JUS-001.A"], ["JUS-001.D"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict concerns the definition of justification."
    },
    {
      "id": "PER-001-A-B-C",
      "issueId": "PER-001",
      "sides": [["PER-001.A"], ["PER-001.B"], ["PER-001.C"]],
      "qualifier": "The catalog treats these three positions as mutually incompatible under the same definitions."
    },
    {
      "id": "SAN-002-C-v-D",
      "issueId": "SAN-002",
      "sides": [["SAN-002.C"], ["SAN-002.D"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict concerns whether sustained freedom from all actual sin is possible."
    },
    {
      "id": "LAW-002-A-v-C",
      "issueId": "LAW-002",
      "sides": [["LAW-002.A"], ["LAW-002.C"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict concerns whether an Adamic covenant existed."
    },
    {
      "id": "LAW-004-A-v-C",
      "issueId": "LAW-004",
      "sides": [["LAW-004.A"], ["LAW-004.C"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict concerns formal covenant structure."
    },
    {
      "id": "LAW-009-first-v-seventh",
      "issueId": "LAW-009",
      "sides": [["LAW-009.A"], ["LAW-009.D"]],
      "qualifier": "The positions specify different divinely binding days."
    },
    {
      "id": "LAW-009-binding-v-none",
      "issueId": "LAW-009",
      "sides": [["LAW-009.A", "LAW-009.D"], ["LAW-009.C"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict is a continuing moral day-obligation versus no morally binding Sabbath day."
    },
    {
      "id": "ECC-08-papal-jurisdiction",
      "issueId": "ECC-08",
      "sides": [
        ["PAPAL-UNIVERSAL-ORDINARY-JURISDICTION-AND-DEFINED-INFALLIBILITY"],
        [
          "PRIMACY-OF-HONOR-WITHOUT-UNIVERSAL-JURISDICTION",
          "EPISCOPAL-COLLEGIALITY-WITHOUT-UNIQUE-PETRINE-SUCCESSOR",
          "PETER-AS-REPRESENTATIVE-APOSTLE-NO-PERMANENT-ROMAN-OFFICE"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Universal jurisdiction conflicts with an explicit denial of that jurisdiction."
    },
    {
      "id": "BAP-01-profession-v-infants",
      "issueId": "BAP-01",
      "sides": [["CREDOBAPTISM"], ["PAEDOBAPTISM-COVENANTAL", "PAEDOBAPTISM-SACRAMENTAL"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict assumes profession is always required versus infants being proper ordinary subjects."
    },
    {
      "id": "BAP-02-immersion-required",
      "issueId": "BAP-02",
      "sides": [
        ["IMMERSION-REQUIRED"],
        ["IMMERSION-NORMATIVE-NOT-REQUIRED", "POURING-OR-SPRINKLING-VALID", "MODE-ADIAPHORON"]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Required immersion conflicts with the validity of non-immersion."
    },
    {
      "id": "SUP-01-substance-v-symbol",
      "issueId": "SUP-01",
      "sides": [["SUBSTANTIAL-CHANGE"], ["MEMORIAL-SYMBOLIC-PRESENCE"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict is substantial change versus no change beyond communal symbolism."
    },
    {
      "id": "GOV-01-bishop-v-congregation",
      "issueId": "GOV-01",
      "sides": [["EPISCOPAL"], ["CONGREGATIONAL-ELDER-LED", "CONGREGATIONAL-DIRECT"]],
      "qualifier": "This applies where each position claims exclusive final jurisdiction in the same dispute."
    },
    {
      "id": "GEN-01-office-eligibility",
      "issueId": "GEN-01",
      "sides": [["MALE-ELDERS-REQUIRED"], ["EGALITARIAN-ALL-OFFICES"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict is universal male-only qualification versus women being eligible for the same office."
    },
    {
      "id": "SAC-01-two-v-seven",
      "issueId": "SAC-01",
      "sides": [["TWO-ORDINANCES"], ["SEVEN-SACRAMENTS"]],
      "qualifier": "This applies when each number is intended as exhaustive."
    },
    {
      "id": "PNE-01-cessation-v-continuation",
      "issueId": "PNE-01",
      "sides": [
        ["HARD-CESSATIONISM", "CLASSICAL-CESSATIONISM"],
        ["CONTINUATIONISM", "PENTECOSTAL-EXPECTATION", "THIRD-WAVE-CHARISMATIC"]
      ],
      "qualifier": "The conflict concerns whether the same gifts ordinarily continue; providential miracles remain compatible with cessationism."
    },
    {
      "id": "PNE-04-conversion-v-subsequent",
      "issueId": "PNE-04",
      "sides": [["CONVERSION-INITIATION"], ["SUBSEQUENT-SECOND-BLESSING", "PENTECOSTAL-INITIAL-EVIDENCE"]],
      "qualifier": "This applies only when Spirit baptism is used in the same technical sense."
    },
    {
      "id": "WOR-05-icons",
      "issueId": "WOR-05",
      "sides": [["ICON-VENERATION"], ["NO-RELIGIOUS-IMAGES-IN-WORSHIP", "NO-DEPICTIONS-OF-CHRIST"]],
      "qualifier": "Mandated or fitting veneration conflicts with those gestures being prohibited."
    },
    {
      "id": "SAB-01-binding-v-none",
      "issueId": "SAB-01",
      "sides": [["CHRISTIAN-SABBATH-CONTINUES", "SEVENTH-DAY-CONTINUES"], ["SABBATH-FULFILLED-NOT-BINDING"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict is a morally binding Sabbath day versus no binding day."
    },
    {
      "id": "SAB-02-saturday-v-sunday",
      "issueId": "SAB-02",
      "sides": [["SEVENTH-DAY-SATURDAY"], ["FIRST-DAY-LORDS-DAY", "APOSTOLIC-CHURCH-TRANSFER"]],
      "qualifier": "This applies where each position claims the exclusive divinely required day."
    },
    {
      "id": "ESC-PAR-01-fulfilled-v-future",
      "issueId": "ESC-PAR-01",
      "sides": [["ESC-PAR-01.FULFILLED"], ["ESC-PAR-01.FINAL", "ESC-PAR-01.PLURAL"]],
      "qualifier": "The conflict is all parousia language being fulfilled versus a still-future visible bodily return."
    }
  ]
}
