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Authority, canon, and hermeneutics", "optionSetType": "exclusive_with_hybrid", "responseGeometry": "total_100", "options": [ { "id": "symbolic_recapitulation_default", "label": "Symbolic recapitulation default", "description": "Symbolic recapitulation default", "definition": "Apocalyptic visions primarily communicate through symbolic scenes that repeatedly portray the same redemptive conflict and consummation from different angles. 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Symbolism therefore affects how events are portrayed without eliminating chronological progression.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Daniel:7::12:", "Revelation:20::22:" ], "rationale": "These passages combine symbolic visions with discernible movement toward successive climactic events.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "referentially_literal_futurist_default", "label": "Referentially literal futurist default", "description": "Referentially literal futurist default", "definition": "Apocalyptic visions ordinarily refer to identifiable future persons, events, periods, and judgments, even when presented with symbolic imagery. The symbols are expected to correspond to a largely sequential future fulfillment rather than mainly recapitulating the church age.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Matthew:24::24:", "Revelation:20::22:" ], "rationale": "These texts are commonly foregrounded as descriptions of concrete future tribulation, return, reign, and judgment.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "passage_specific_hybrid", "label": "Passage specific hybrid", "description": "Passage specific hybrid", "definition": "Some apocalyptic units recapitulate symbolically while others move forward chronologically or refer to concrete future events. 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Human actions can remain voluntary and responsible, but their future truth is grounded in God’s sovereign plan rather than undetermined libertarian choice.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "simple_foreknowledge_of_libertarian_acts", "label": "Simple foreknowledge of libertarian acts", "description": "Simple foreknowledge of libertarian acts", "definition": "God timelessly or infallibly knows the actual future choices of libertarian creatures without causing or counterfactually selecting those choices. The choices ground what God knows about the future even though his knowledge cannot be mistaken.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "middle_knowledge_molinism", "label": "Middle knowledge molinism", "description": "Middle knowledge molinism", "definition": "Before decreeing which world to create, God knows what every possible free creature would choose in every possible circumstance. 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Claims of sinlessness therefore remain possible but unproven from the biblical evidence alone.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "Genesis 3:15; Luke 1:28, 35, 46–49; Romans 3:23 and 5:12–19; Hebrews 4:15; Revelation 12. 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Such invocation is directed to fellow members of Christ’s body and is distinguished from the worship owed to God alone.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Revelation:5:8:5:8", "Hebrews:12:22:12:24" ], "rationale": "The heavenly saints’ participation in worship and presentation of prayers is read as compatible with asking their intercession.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "possible_but_not_scripturally_warranted", "label": "Possible but not scripturally warranted", "description": "Possible but not scripturally warranted", "definition": "Glorified saints may know of and pray for the church, so invocation is not necessarily idolatrous or impossible, but Scripture gives no sufficient command or example for addressing them. Christians should therefore ordinarily refrain without condemning every instance as worship.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Revelation:5:8:5:8", "1Timothy:2:1:2:5" ], "rationale": "Heavenly participation may make invocation possible, while the absence of a direct command and the stress on Christ’s unique mediation counsel restraint.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "prayer_should_be_addressed_to_God_alone", "label": "Prayer should be addressed to god alone", "description": "Prayer should be addressed to god alone", "definition": "Religious petitions should be addressed only to God through Christ, while intercession should be requested only from living persons with whom communication is given. This treats invocation of departed saints as unwarranted and potentially compromising Christ’s unique mediation, even when worship is verbally denied.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Timothy:2:1:2:5", "Isaiah:8:19:8:19" ], "rationale": "Christ’s unique mediatorship and the warning against consulting the dead are the strongest cited reasons to direct prayer to God alone.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "underdetermined", "label": "Underdetermined", "description": "Underdetermined", "definition": "The heavenly saints may intercede, but Scripture does not clearly disclose whether they hear earthly requests or whether Christians should address them. The practice’s permissibility therefore cannot be confidently resolved from the cited texts.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Hebrews:12:1:12:1", "Revelation:8:3:8:4" ], "rationale": "The communion of heavenly witnesses and heavenly presentation of prayer suggest participation without clearly settling whether Christians should address saints.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "1 Timothy 2:1–5; Hebrews 12:1, 22–24; Revelation 5:8 and 8:3–4; Luke 15:7, 10; Deuteronomy 18:9–14; Isaiah 8:19; ordinary requests for living believers’ prayers." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Determine whether heavenly presentation of prayers implies awareness and intercession, whether asking differs from necromancy or worship, and whether Christ’s unique mediation permits subordinate intercession as it does among living believers." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "exclusive_plus_evidence_scope", "relationConfidence": "source_typed", "normalization": "allocation_options_sum_100", "optionRoles": { "permissible_and_fitting_invocation": "substantive", "possible_but_not_scripturally_warranted": "substantive", "prayer_should_be_addressed_to_God_alone": "substantive", "underdetermined": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "permissible_and_fitting_invocation", "possible_but_not_scripturally_warranted", "prayer_should_be_addressed_to_God_alone", "underdetermined" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [ "underdetermined" ], "allocationOptionIds": [ "permissible_and_fitting_invocation", "possible_but_not_scripturally_warranted", "prayer_should_be_addressed_to_God_alone" ], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "underdetermined" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 2:1–5", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 12:1", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 12:22–24", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 5:8", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 8:3–4", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 15:7", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 15:10", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 18:9–14", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Isaiah", "file": "Isaiah", "label": "Isaiah 8:19", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 19 } ] }, { "id": "CREA-01", "canonicalId": "CREA-01", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "CREA-01" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Genre and chronology of Genesis 1", "shortLabel": "Genre and chronology of Genesis 1", "question": "What temporal/genre claim do the six creation days make?", "domain": "III. 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More than one feature may operate together without one model exhausting the account.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "Genesis 1:1–2:3; Exodus 20:8–11 and 31:12–17; Psalm 104; Proverbs 8:22–31; Hebrews 4:1–11; the sequence and literary parallels within Genesis 1." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Evaluate yom with numbered evenings/mornings, the force of the Sabbath analogy, the relation between days 1–3 and 4–6, and whether divine work/rest is analogical. 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Romans 5 is therefore read as addressing specifically human death.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ordinary_biological_death_with_spiritual_and_covenantal_death_from_fall", "label": "Ordinary biological death with spiritual and covenantal death from fall", "description": "Ordinary biological death with spiritual and covenantal death from fall", "definition": "Biological mortality, including human mortality, belonged to created life before sin, while the fall brought spiritual alienation, condemnation, and loss of access to life with God. Death “through sin” refers chiefly to this covenantal human condition rather than the first occurrence of organismal death.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "underdetermined", "label": "Underdetermined", "description": "Underdetermined", "definition": "The texts connect human death decisively to sin but do not clearly settle animal mortality or the exact biological condition of humans before the fall. 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A historical core is retained without requiring every universal expression to correspond directly to physical scope.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "underdetermined", "label": "Underdetermined", "description": "Underdetermined", "definition": "The account clearly presents catastrophic divine judgment and Noah’s deliverance but does not permit a confident reconstruction of the flood’s geographic or demographic extent. 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The image is expressed in covenantal relationship rather than located only in an individual faculty.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "functional_royal_vocation_and_dominion", "label": "Functional royal vocation and dominion", "description": "Functional royal vocation and dominion", "definition": "To bear God’s image is chiefly to represent his rule within creation through responsible stewardship and dominion. The image names an office entrusted to all humanity, not merely a set of inner abilities.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "embodied_representation", "label": "Embodied representation", "description": "Embodied representation", "definition": "The whole embodied human person serves as God’s visible representative in the material world. Embodiment is integral to imaging God even though God is not a body.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "Christological_destiny", "label": "Christological destiny", "description": "Christological destiny", "definition": "Humanity’s image-bearing is defined and completed in conformity to Christ, the perfect image of God. The image is therefore both a present gift and an eschatological vocation toward renewed likeness.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "Genesis 1:26–28; 5:1–3; 9:6; Psalm 8; 1 Corinthians 11:7; 2 Corinthians 3:18 and 4:4; Colossians 1:15 and 3:10; James 3:9." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "The text can support multiple complementary dimensions. 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The category is narrower than divorce for general unhappiness and requires serious evidence and protective pastoral judgment.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "case_specific_underdetermined", "label": "Case specific underdetermined", "description": "Case specific underdetermined", "definition": "Jesus’ prohibition establishes a strong presumption for marital permanence, but the scope of the exception clauses and their application to complex harms cannot be reduced to one exhaustive rule. 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This looks to the genuine death of the marital relationship rather than only a narrow list of legal exceptions.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "penitential_case_by_case", "label": "Penitential case by case", "description": "Penitential case by case", "definition": "Remarriage questions should be judged through the validity and history of the former union, responsibility for its breakdown, repentance, reconciliation prospects, and present obligations. 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Moral theology and public theology", "optionSetType": "exclusive_with_hybrid", "responseGeometry": "total_100", "options": [ { "id": "mutual_submission_without_unilateral_spousal_authority", "label": "Mutual submission without unilateral spousal authority", "description": "Mutual submission without unilateral spousal authority", "definition": "Husband and wife share equal authority and responsibility in marriage, submitting to one another and making decisions through mutual discernment rather than a sex-based final decision-maker. Differentiated gifts or arrangements may exist without a permanent hierarchy.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "husband_servant_headship_with_asymmetrical_final_responsibility", "label": "Husband servant headship with asymmetrical final responsibility", "description": "Husband servant headship with asymmetrical final responsibility", "definition": "The husband bears a distinctive responsibility to lead, protect, and answer for the household through self-sacrificial service, while husband and wife possess equal dignity and jointly seek wisdom. In unresolved decisions this role includes an asymmetrical final responsibility, not license for domination.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "head_as_source_or_covenant_unity_without_governing_authority", "label": "Head as source or covenant unity without governing authority", "description": "Head as source or covenant unity without governing authority", "definition": "Calling the husband “head” describes source, representative unity, or responsibility for Christlike self-giving rather than authority to govern his wife. The marriage remains a fully mutual partnership while preserving the text’s head-body imagery.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "broad_patriarchal_household_governance", "label": "Broad patriarchal household governance", "description": "Broad patriarchal household governance", "definition": "The husband or father holds governing authority over the household as a continuing feature of created order, extending beyond a narrow tie-breaking role. His authority remains morally bounded by love and justice but structures the family more comprehensively than servant-headship models.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "underdetermined_or_mixed", "label": "Underdetermined or mixed", "description": "Underdetermined or mixed", "definition": "Marriage requires mutual self-giving and may include sex-differentiated responsibilities, but Scripture does not clearly specify whether those differences amount to unilateral authority. Couples may embody stable forms of leadership and mutuality without one universal governance rule.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "Genesis 1:26–28; 2:18–25; 3:16–19; Proverbs 31:10–31; 1 Corinthians 7:1–5 and 11:3, 8–12; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 5:21–33; Colossians 3:18–19; 1 Peter 3:1–7." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Determine whether Ephesians 5:21 grammatically governs every following household relation, what kephalē (“head”) contributes, whether creation order establishes authority or interdependence, and whether the husband’s Christlike self-giving includes a final governing responsibility. 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The account distinguishes social recognition from a claim that reproductive anatomy has literally changed.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "medical_transition_can_be_morally_permissible", "label": "Medical transition can be morally permissible", "description": "Medical transition can be morally permissible", "definition": "Puberty suppression, hormones, or surgery may in some cases be morally permissible treatments for severe gender dysphoria after careful assessment of benefits, harms, age, consent, and alternatives. This is a case-sensitive medical judgment, not a claim that every transition request should be approved.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "dysphoria_calls_for_compassion_without_reclassifying_embodied_sex", "label": "Dysphoria calls for compassion without reclassifying embodied sex", "description": "Dysphoria calls for compassion without reclassifying embodied sex", "definition": "Gender dysphoria warrants patience, protection, friendship, and clinically responsible care, while social or medical responses should not redefine a person’s embodied sex. Compassion and disagreement about identity claims are treated as compatible obligations.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "Scripture_leaves_some_modern_clinical_questions_underdetermined", "label": "Scripture leaves some modern clinical questions underdetermined", "description": "Scripture leaves some modern clinical questions underdetermined", "definition": "Scripture supplies broad truths about embodiment, truthfulness, suffering, and care but does not directly answer every modern question about diagnosis, pronouns, hormones, or surgery. 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Unitive and procreative goods are assessed across the marriage rather than required together in each act.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "method_and_motive_require_case_specific_judgment", "label": "Method and motive require case specific judgment", "description": "Method and motive require case specific judgment", "definition": "The morality of family planning depends on how a method works, its effects on health and nascent life, the couple’s reasons, mutual consent, existing responsibilities, and overall openness to generosity. No simple distinction between artificial and natural methods resolves every case.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "Genesis 1:28; 2:24; 38:8–10; Psalm 127:3–5; Malachi 2:15; 1 Corinthians 7:2–5; 1 Timothy 5:8. No passage directly classifies modern contraceptive methods." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Ask whether Onan is judged for contraception as such or refusal of levirate duty, whether procreation is an end of every act or of marriage generally, and how stewardship and mutual consent apply." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "overlapping_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_typed", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "each_marital_act_must_remain_procreatively_open": "substantive", "nonabortifacient_contraception_can_be_permissible_with_responsible_motives": "substantive", "periodic_abstinence_or_natural_family_planning_can_be_permissible": "substantive", "procreative_openness_applies_to_marriage_as_a_whole_not_each_act": "substantive", "method_and_motive_require_case_specific_judgment": "substantive_hybrid" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "each_marital_act_must_remain_procreatively_open", "nonabortifacient_contraception_can_be_permissible_with_responsible_motives", "periodic_abstinence_or_natural_family_planning_can_be_permissible", "procreative_openness_applies_to_marriage_as_a_whole_not_each_act", "method_and_motive_require_case_specific_judgment" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "each_marital_act_must_remain_procreatively_open", "nonabortifacient_contraception_can_be_permissible_with_responsible_motives", "periodic_abstinence_or_natural_family_planning_can_be_permissible", "procreative_openness_applies_to_marriage_as_a_whole_not_each_act", "method_and_motive_require_case_specific_judgment" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 1:28", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 28, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 2:24", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 38:8–10", "startChapter": 38, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 38, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Psalm", "file": "Psalm", "label": "Psalm 127:3–5", "startChapter": 127, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 127, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Malachi", "file": "Malachi", "label": "Malachi 2:15", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 7:2–5", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 5:8", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 8 } ] }, { "id": "ETH-05", "canonicalId": "ETH-05", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ETH-05" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Alcohol", "shortLabel": "Alcohol", "question": "Does biblical wisdom require abstinence from beverage alcohol or permit moderate use?", "domain": "IV. 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Permission is not a duty to drink and remains subject to prudence.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "contextual_abstinence_required_by_love_conscience_or_vocation", "label": "Contextual abstinence required by love conscience or vocation", "description": "Contextual abstinence required by love conscience or vocation", "definition": "Alcohol can be permissible in itself yet become wrong for a particular person or setting because of addiction risk, another’s conscience, public responsibility, or a vocational promise. 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Christians may protect others through nonviolent means and accept suffering rather than kill.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Matthew:5:38:5:48", "Romans:12:14:12:21" ], "rationale": "Enemy love, nonretaliation, and overcoming evil with good are the clearest pacifist anchors.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "just_war_and_strictly_limited_force_permitted", "label": "Just war and strictly limited force permitted", "description": "Just war and strictly limited force permitted", "definition": "Christians may serve in public roles that use proportionate force when a legitimate authority acts for a just cause, with right intention, discrimination, necessity, and a reasonable hope of peace. 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Decisions require case-specific moral scrutiny rather than an unrestricted just-war permission or absolute rule against every use of force.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Romans:12:14:12:21", "Romans:13:1:13:7" ], "rationale": "These adjacent texts hold peaceable Christian agency and limited public coercion in deliberate tension.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "Exodus 20:13; Matthew 5:38–48 and 26:51–54; Luke 3:14 and 22:35–38; John 18:36; Acts 10; Romans 12:14–21 and 13:1–7; 1 Peter 2:13–23; Revelation 13:10." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Determine whether enemy-love commands prohibit all lethal force or govern personal retaliation, whether Romans 13 authorizes Christian participation or merely describes the state, and how soldiers’ conversions without recorded resignation function." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "exclusive_exhaustive", "relationConfidence": "source_typed", "normalization": "allocation_options_sum_100", "optionRoles": { "Christian_pacifism_nonresistance": "substantive", "just_war_and_strictly_limited_force_permitted": "substantive", "policing_permitted_but_warfare_rejected": "substantive", "case_specific_or_just_peacemaking_hybrid": "substantive_hybrid" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "Christian_pacifism_nonresistance", "just_war_and_strictly_limited_force_permitted", "policing_permitted_but_warfare_rejected", "case_specific_or_just_peacemaking_hybrid" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [ "Christian_pacifism_nonresistance", "just_war_and_strictly_limited_force_permitted", "policing_permitted_but_warfare_rejected", "case_specific_or_just_peacemaking_hybrid" ], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 20:13", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 5:38–48", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 48 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 26:51–54", "startChapter": 26, "startVerse": 51, "endChapter": 26, "endVerse": 54 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 3:14", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 22:35–38", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 35, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 38 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 18:36", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 36, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 36 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 12:14–21", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 13:1–7", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 2:13–23", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 13:10", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 10 } ] }, { "id": "ETH-07", "canonicalId": "ETH-07", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ETH-07" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Capital punishment", "shortLabel": "Capital punishment", "question": "Does civil government retain authority to execute murderers or other offenders?", "domain": "IV. 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A society may abolish it because of error, inequity, limited deterrence, or a judgment that nonlethal punishment better serves justice.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "superseded_or_incompatible_with_new_covenant_ethic", "label": "Superseded or incompatible with new covenant ethic", "description": "Superseded or incompatible with new covenant ethic", "definition": "The death penalty should no longer be used because Christ’s ethic of mercy, the finality of execution, and the availability of nonlethal restraint make intentional state killing morally impermissible. Civil punishment remains legitimate without including execution.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "underdetermined", "label": "Underdetermined", "description": "Underdetermined", "definition": "Scripture recognizes grave retributive justice and civil authority while also intensifying mercy, but it does not clearly determine the death penalty’s continuing status in modern states. Its permissibility may therefore remain a prudential and theological uncertainty.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "Genesis 9:5–6; Exodus 21; John 8:1–11 with textual-status caution; Romans 13:1–7; Acts 25:11; Matthew 5:38–48." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Ask whether Genesis 9 is a universal creation covenant, what “sword” denotes in Romans 13, and whether mercy/turn-the-other-cheek governs state punishment." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "exclusive_plus_evidence_scope", "relationConfidence": "source_typed", "normalization": "allocation_options_sum_100", "optionRoles": { "retained_and_sometimes_required_for_murder": "substantive", "permitted_in_principle_but_never_mandated_and_prudentially_abolishable": "substantive", "superseded_or_incompatible_with_new_covenant_ethic": "substantive", "underdetermined": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "retained_and_sometimes_required_for_murder", "permitted_in_principle_but_never_mandated_and_prudentially_abolishable", "superseded_or_incompatible_with_new_covenant_ethic", "underdetermined" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [ "underdetermined" ], "allocationOptionIds": [ "retained_and_sometimes_required_for_murder", "permitted_in_principle_but_never_mandated_and_prudentially_abolishable", "superseded_or_incompatible_with_new_covenant_ethic" ], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "underdetermined" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 9:5–6", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 21", "startChapter": 21, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 21, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 8:1–11", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 13:1–7", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 25:11", "startChapter": 25, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 25, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 5:38–48", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 48 } ] }, { "id": "ETH-08", "canonicalId": "ETH-08", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ETH-08" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Tithing", "shortLabel": "Tithing", "question": "Are new-covenant Christians obligated to give ten percent?", "domain": "IV. 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Circumstances may justify giving less or call for substantially more.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "free_proportionate_generous_giving", "label": "Free proportionate generous giving", "description": "Free proportionate generous giving", "definition": "New-covenant giving should be willing, generous, planned, and proportionate to a person’s means without a fixed percentage. The moral obligation is real even though its amount cannot be reduced to a universal tithe.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "church_or_clergy_tithe_model", "label": "Church or clergy tithe model", "description": "Church or clergy tithe model", "definition": "The tithe principally supports the church’s ministry and those who labor in teaching, continuing the support logic of Israel’s provision for sacred service. Other charitable giving may be additional rather than counted as the tithe itself.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "Genesis 14:18–20 and 28:20–22; Leviticus 27:30–33; Deuteronomy 14:22–29; Malachi 3:8–10; Matthew 23:23; 1 Corinthians 9:6–14 and 16:1–2; 2 Corinthians 8–9." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Determine whether pre-Mosaic tithes establish creation norms, whether Jesus’ words address people under Mosaic law, and how apostolic proportionate/cheerful giving relates to a fixed percentage." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "exclusive_exhaustive", "relationConfidence": "source_typed", "normalization": "allocation_options_sum_100", "optionRoles": { "binding_ten_percent_minimum": "substantive", "wisdom_baseline_not_legal_requirement": "substantive", "free_proportionate_generous_giving": "substantive", "church_or_clergy_tithe_model": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "binding_ten_percent_minimum", "wisdom_baseline_not_legal_requirement", "free_proportionate_generous_giving", "church_or_clergy_tithe_model" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [ "binding_ten_percent_minimum", "wisdom_baseline_not_legal_requirement", "free_proportionate_generous_giving", "church_or_clergy_tithe_model" ], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 14:18–20", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 28:20–22", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "Leviticus", "file": "Leviticus", "label": "Leviticus 27:30–33", "startChapter": 27, "startVerse": 30, "endChapter": 27, "endVerse": 33 }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 14:22–29", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Malachi", "file": "Malachi", "label": "Malachi 3:8–10", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 23:23", "startChapter": 23, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 23, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 9:6–14", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 16:1–2", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 8–9", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": null } ] }, { "id": "ETH-09", "canonicalId": "ETH-09", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ETH-09" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Head coverings in gathered worship", "shortLabel": "Head coverings in gathered worship", "question": "Does 1 Corinthians 11 require a physical head covering for women in worship today?", "domain": "IV. 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Churches should preserve the underlying meaning through symbols appropriate to their setting rather than necessarily reproducing the garment.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "hair_itself_is_covering", "label": "Hair itself is covering", "description": "Hair itself is covering", "definition": "The woman’s long hair is the covering Paul ultimately identifies as her glory and the relevant visible sex distinction. No separate veil or garment is therefore required.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "passage_specific_underdetermined", "label": "Passage specific underdetermined", "description": "Passage specific underdetermined", "definition": "The passage clearly concerns honor, sexual distinction, and worship, but its references to hair, covering, custom, creation, and angels do not decisively establish a present dress requirement. Communities should avoid claiming more certainty than the difficult text supports.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "1 Corinthians 11:2–16; Genesis 1–2; Numbers 5:18; possible Greco-Roman and Jewish background." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Decide whether Paul grounds the practice in creation/angels or decorum, whether the final hair argument identifies or analogizes the covering, and what “custom” in verse 16 rejects." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "exclusive_exhaustive", "relationConfidence": "source_typed", "normalization": "allocation_options_sum_100", "optionRoles": { "universal_physical_covering": "substantive", "culturally_variable_symbol_of_enduring_sex_distinction": "substantive", "hair_itself_is_covering": "substantive", "passage_specific_underdetermined": "substantive_hybrid" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "universal_physical_covering", "culturally_variable_symbol_of_enduring_sex_distinction", "hair_itself_is_covering", "passage_specific_underdetermined" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [ "universal_physical_covering", "culturally_variable_symbol_of_enduring_sex_distinction", "hair_itself_is_covering", "passage_specific_underdetermined" ], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:2–16", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 1–2", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Numbers", "file": "Numbers", "label": "Numbers 5:18", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 18 } ] }, { "id": "ETH-10", "canonicalId": "ETH-10", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ETH-10" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Beginning of individual human life and abortion", "shortLabel": "Beginning of individual human life and abortion", "question": "At what point should the developing human be treated as a human neighbor with the ordinary protection owed to innocent life?", "domain": "IV. 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The interval before implantation is treated differently because of twinning, natural loss, or the absence of an established maternal relationship.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "from_formation_quickening_or_brain_development", "label": "From formation quickening or brain development", "description": "From formation quickening or brain development", "definition": "Early embryonic life deserves respect, but full personal protection emerges with an organized bodily form, felt movement, significant neural development, or a comparable developmental threshold. The view distinguishes biological humanity from the onset of morally decisive personal capacities or ensoulment.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "from_viability_or_birth", "label": "From viability or birth", "description": "From viability or birth", "definition": "Full legal or moral personhood begins when the fetus can survive independently of the pregnant body or at live birth. Earlier fetal interests may carry increasing weight without being equal to the claims of a born person.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "underdetermined", "label": "Underdetermined", "description": "Underdetermined", "definition": "Scripture affirms God’s knowledge and care of prenatal life but does not clearly identify fertilization, implantation, neural development, viability, or birth as the moment of full moral status. In that uncertainty, precaution may still justify strong protection without pretending the threshold is proved.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Text clusters", "items": [ "Genesis 1:26–27 and 9:6; Exodus 21:22–25; Job 3:3 and 10:8–12; Psalm 51:5 and 139:13–16; Jeremiah 1:5; Luke 1:15, 41–44; Galatians 1:15. 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Unlike views that treat prosperity as variable providence, this position sees tangible flourishing as a normal covenant expectation, though it need not imply that every hardship proves personal unfaithfulness.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "contentment_and_generosity_with_variable_providence", "label": "Contentment and generosity with variable providence", "description": "Contentment and generosity with variable providence", "definition": "Christians are called to contentment and generous stewardship whether God gives abundance or deprivation, since faithful disciples may experience either. 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Then ask whether drawing merely invites/convicts or restores libertarian capacity. Resisted Spirit texts raise B/D only if they concern saving grace in the same sense as effectual call." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "ANT-007.A": "substantive", "ANT-007.B": "substantive", "ANT-007.C": "substantive", "ANT-007.D": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "ANT-007.A", "ANT-007.B", "ANT-007.C", "ANT-007.D" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "ANT-007.A", "ANT-007.B", "ANT-007.C", "ANT-007.D" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 6:3", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 3 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 1:9", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 6:44", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 44, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 44 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 12:32", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 32, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 32 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 16:8–11", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 7:51", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 51, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 51 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 17:26–30", "startChapter": 17, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 17, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 1:18–32", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 32 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 2:4", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 2:11", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 2:4–6", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "2 Peter", "file": "2Peter", "label": "2 Peter 3:9", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 9 } ] }, { "id": "ANT-008", "canonicalId": "ANT-008", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ANT-008" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Infants, diminished capacity, and moral accountability", "shortLabel": "Infants, diminished capacity, and moral accountability", "question": "On what basis may there be hope for the salvation of infants and people never capable of ordinary profession?", "domain": "V. Salvation, grace, justification, and sanctification", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "ANT-008.A", "label": "Elect-infants agnosticism", "description": "God certainly saves those infants whom he elects, while Scripture does not disclose the extent.", "definition": "God certainly saves those infants whom he elects, while Scripture does not disclose the extent.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "ANT-008.B", "label": "Universal infant salvation through Christ", "description": "all who die without moral capacity are graciously saved by Christ.", "definition": "all who die without moral capacity are graciously saved by Christ.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "ANT-008.C", "label": "Covenant-child presumption", "description": "children of believers have a distinctive covenant promise/status; claims about others remain more guarded.", "definition": "children of believers have a distinctive covenant promise/status; claims about others remain more guarded.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "ANT-008.D", "label": "Baptismal incorporation with extraordinary divine freedom", "description": "ordinarily God grants new birth through baptism, yet is not bound by the sacrament.", "definition": "ordinarily God grants new birth through baptism, yet is not bound by the sacrament.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "ANT-008.E", "label": "Age/state of accountability", "description": "inherited effects are real, but personal condemnation attaches when a person becomes morally accountable and sins knowingly.", "definition": "inherited effects are real, but personal condemnation attaches when a person becomes morally accountable and sins knowingly.", "definitionSource": "catalog" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts", "items": [ "Genesis 17:7; Deuteronomy 1:39; 2 Samuel 12:22–23; Isaiah 7:15–16; Jonah 4:11; Matthew 18:1–14; 19:13–15; Mark 10:13–16; Romans 5:12–21; 7:9; 1 Corinthians 7:14; Acts 2:39." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Interpretive fork", "items": [ "Decide whether kingdom-reception texts concern exemplary humility, actual salvific belonging, or both. Decide whether David’s “I shall go to him” expresses reunion or merely death. Determine whether covenant-child holiness in 1 Corinthians 7 is salvific, ecclesial, or relational. Combine with the meaning of inherited guilt rather than treating one tender passage as an independent proof." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "ANT-008.A": "substantive", "ANT-008.B": "substantive", "ANT-008.C": "substantive", "ANT-008.D": "substantive", "ANT-008.E": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "ANT-008.A", "ANT-008.B", "ANT-008.C", "ANT-008.D", "ANT-008.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [ "ANT-008.A" ], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "ANT-008.A", "ANT-008.B", "ANT-008.C", "ANT-008.D", "ANT-008.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 17:7", "startChapter": 17, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 17, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 1:39", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 39, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "2 Samuel", "file": "2Samuel", "label": "2 Samuel 12:22–23", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Isaiah", "file": "Isaiah", "label": "Isaiah 7:15–16", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Jonah", "file": "Jonah", "label": "Jonah 4:11", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 18:1–14", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 19:13–15", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Mark", "file": "Mark", "label": "Mark 10:13–16", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 5:12–21", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 7:9", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 7:14", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:39", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 39, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 39 } ] }, { "id": "PROV-001", "canonicalId": "GOD-03", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GOD-03", "PROV-001" ], "mirrorNote": "Divine foreknowledge.", "isMirrorRecord": true, "title": "Divine foreknowledge and counterfactual knowledge", "shortLabel": "Divine foreknowledge and counterfactual knowledge", "question": "What is the logical basis and scope of God’s knowledge of future free acts?", "domain": "V. Salvation, grace, justification, and sanctification", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "PROV-001.A", "label": "Classical exhaustive foreknowledge grounded in decree/simple knowledge", "description": "God infallibly knows all actual future events; his knowing is not passive learning from creation.", "definition": "God infallibly knows all actual future events; his knowing is not passive learning from creation.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "PROV-001.B", "label": "Simple foreknowledge of libertarian acts", "description": "God infallibly knows the actual future, including undetermined creaturely choices, without that knowledge determining them.", "definition": "God infallibly knows the actual future, including undetermined creaturely choices, without that knowledge determining them.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "PROV-001.C", "label": "Middle knowledge/Molinism", "description": "before decreeing a world, God knows what every possible free creature would do in every feasible circumstance.", "definition": "before decreeing a world, God knows what every possible free creature would do in every feasible circumstance.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "PROV-001.D", "label": "Open future", "description": "God knows all possibilities exhaustively, but some future libertarian acts do not yet exist as definite truths to be known.", "definition": "God knows all possibilities exhaustively, but some future libertarian acts do not yet exist as definite truths to be known.", "definitionSource": "catalog" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts", "items": [ "1 Samuel 23:10–13; Psalm 139:1–16; Isaiah 40–48, especially 46:9–11; Jeremiah 18:1–11; Matthew 11:20–24; 24:36; Acts 2:23; Romans 8:29; 1 Peter 1:1–2,20; passages where God “regrets” or tests (Genesis 6:6; 22:12; Exodus 32:7–14)." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Interpretive fork", "items": [ "If predictive prophecy and God’s declared end from the beginning require a single exhaustively definite future, reduce D. If counterfactual statements (1 Samuel 23; Matthew 11) report truths about undetermined creaturely choices prior to decree, raise C. If regret/testing texts are accommodated or anthropomorphic, retain A–C; if they disclose genuine acquisition of knowledge, raise D." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "PROV-001.A": "substantive", "PROV-001.B": "substantive", "PROV-001.C": "substantive", "PROV-001.D": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "PROV-001.A", "PROV-001.B", "PROV-001.C", "PROV-001.D" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "PROV-001.A", "PROV-001.B", "PROV-001.C", "PROV-001.D" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "1 Samuel", "file": "1Samuel", "label": "1 Samuel 23:10–13", "startChapter": 23, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 23, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Psalm", "file": "Psalm", "label": "Psalm 139:1–16", "startChapter": 139, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 139, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Isaiah", "file": "Isaiah", "label": "Isaiah 40–48", "startChapter": 40, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 48, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Jeremiah", "file": "Jeremiah", "label": "Jeremiah 18:1–11", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 11:20–24", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 24:36", "startChapter": 24, "startVerse": 36, "endChapter": 24, "endVerse": 36 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:23", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 8:29", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 29, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 1:1–2", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 1:20", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 6:6", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 22:12", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 32:7–14", "startChapter": 32, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 32, "endVerse": 14 } ] }, { "id": "PROV-002", "canonicalId": "GOD-04", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GOD-04", "PROV-002" ], "mirrorNote": "Scope and mode of providence.", "isMirrorRecord": true, "title": "Scope of divine determination", "shortLabel": "Scope of divine determination", "question": "Does God’s eternal purpose render every event certain, or does it establish a world containing some non-determined creaturely outcomes?", "domain": "V. 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If they establish comprehensive governance but leave causal modality open, B or D remain. 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In Romans 5:18–19, decide how the two “all/many” groups correspond. Ask whether purchase of a person entails purchase of the faith by which benefits are applied." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "ATN-005.A": "substantive", "ATN-005.B": "substantive", "ATN-005.C": "substantive", "ATN-005.D": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "ATN-005.A", "ATN-005.B", "ATN-005.C", "ATN-005.D" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "ATN-005.A", "ATN-005.B", "ATN-005.C", "ATN-005.D" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 19:30", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 30, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 3:24–26", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 4:25", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 5:1", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 5:9–11", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 5:18–19", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 8:32–34", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 32, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 5:14–21", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:13–18", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 1:19–23", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 9:11–15", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 10:10–18", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 18 } ] }, { "id": "ATN-006", "canonicalId": "ATN-006", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ATN-006" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Christ’s active obedience and imputation", "shortLabel": "Christ’s active obedience and imputation", "question": "Is Christ’s lifelong obedience, as well as his death, counted to believers as the positive righteousness by which they are justified?", "domain": "V. 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If commands to make a new heart and not receive grace in vain indicate enabled cooperation at the decisive point, raise C/D. Clarify whether “cooperation” means earning grace (rejected by all options here) or freely not resisting prior grace." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "CONV-001.A": "substantive", "CONV-001.B": "substantive", "CONV-001.C": "substantive", "CONV-001.D": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "CONV-001.A", "CONV-001.B", "CONV-001.C", "CONV-001.D" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "CONV-001.A", "CONV-001.B", "CONV-001.C", "CONV-001.D" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 30:6", "startChapter": 30, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 30, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 30:11–20", "startChapter": 30, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 30, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Jeremiah", "file": "Jeremiah", "label": "Jeremiah 31:18", "startChapter": 31, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 31, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Ezekiel", "file": "Ezekiel", "label": "Ezekiel 11:19", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Ezekiel", "file": "Ezekiel", "label": "Ezekiel 18:31", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 31 }, { "book": "Ezekiel", "file": "Ezekiel", "label": "Ezekiel 36:25–27", "startChapter": 36, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 36, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 1:12–13", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 3:3–8", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 6:44", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 44, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 44 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:38", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 38 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:14", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:31", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 31 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 9:16", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 10:9–17", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 2:14", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 5:20", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 6:1", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:1–10", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 2:12–13", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 1:18", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 1:23", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 23 } ] }, { "id": "CONV-002", "canonicalId": "CONV-002", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "CONV-002" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Logical order of regeneration and faith", "shortLabel": "Logical order of regeneration and faith", "question": "Does regeneration produce faith, does faith precede regeneration as its condition, or are both inseparable aspects of union with Christ?", "domain": "V. 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In John 20:31 and Galatians 3, decide whether life/Spirit comes through faith or whether “life” is an applied benefit distinct from initial regeneration. If union is the encompassing event, C may better represent the text than a temporal sequence." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "CONV-002.A": "substantive", "CONV-002.B": "substantive", "CONV-002.C": "substantive", "CONV-002.D": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "CONV-002.A", "CONV-002.B", "CONV-002.C", "CONV-002.D" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "CONV-002.A", "CONV-002.B", "CONV-002.C", "CONV-002.D" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 1:12–13", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 3:3–8", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 3:14–16", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 5:24", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 6:44–45", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 44, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 45 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 20:31", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 31 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:14", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 6:1–11", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 10:9–17", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:2", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:26", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 1:13", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:1–10", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:12–13", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 1:18", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 1:3", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 3 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 1:23", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "1 John", "file": "1John", "label": "1 John 5:1", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 1 } ] }, { "id": "CONV-003", "canonicalId": "CONV-003", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "CONV-003" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Nature of saving faith", "shortLabel": "Nature of saving faith", "question": "What distinguishes saving faith from temporary, dead, or merely intellectual belief?", "domain": "V. 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Compare Acts’ repentance language with John’s belief language without treating one author’s preferred term as denial of the other. 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Ask whether faith unites, union generates faith, or both arise in effectual calling. Do not infer temporal order from the literary order of benefits without further evidence." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "CONV-005.A": "substantive", "CONV-005.B": "substantive", "CONV-005.C": "substantive", "CONV-005.D": "substantive", "CONV-005.E": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "CONV-005.A", "CONV-005.B", "CONV-005.C", "CONV-005.D", "CONV-005.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "CONV-005.A", "CONV-005.B", "CONV-005.C", "CONV-005.D", "CONV-005.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 15:1–11", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 5:12–21", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 6:1–11", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 8:1–17", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 1:30", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 30, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 6:17", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 5:17–21", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 2:20", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:26–29", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 1:3–14", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:4–10", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:9–13", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 3:1–4", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 4 } ] }, { "id": "CONV-006", "canonicalId": "PNE-04", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "PNE-04", "CONV-006" ], "mirrorNote": "Spirit baptism.", "isMirrorRecord": true, "title": "Spirit reception and “baptism in the Holy Spirit”", "shortLabel": "Spirit reception and “baptism in the Holy Spirit”", "question": "Is Spirit baptism identical with conversion/initiation, or a distinct normally subsequent empowering experience?", "domain": "V. 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In Acts, decide if Samaritans/Ephesian disciples were regenerate Christians before receiving the Spirit; if yes, raise B/D, and if their delay marks apostolic validation of new people-groups, raise E. Separate initial evidence (tongues) as an additional node rather than smuggling it into B." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "CONV-006.A": "substantive", "CONV-006.B": "substantive", "CONV-006.C": "substantive", "CONV-006.D": "substantive", "CONV-006.E": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "CONV-006.A", "CONV-006.B", "CONV-006.C", "CONV-006.D", "CONV-006.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "CONV-006.A", "CONV-006.B", "CONV-006.C", "CONV-006.D", "CONV-006.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 3:11", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 11:13", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 24:49", "startChapter": 24, "startVerse": 49, "endChapter": 24, "endVerse": 49 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 7:37–39", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 37, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 14:17", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 1:4–8", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:1–39", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:4–24", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 9:17", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10:44–48", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 44, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 48 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 11:15–17", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 19:1–7", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 8:9", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:2–5", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 1:13–14", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 5:18", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 18 } ] }, { "id": "BAP-001", "canonicalId": "BAP-03", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "BAP-03", "BAP-001" ], "mirrorNote": "Baptismal efficacy from ecclesiology and salvation perspectives.", "isMirrorRecord": true, "title": "Saving efficacy of water baptism", "shortLabel": "Saving efficacy of water baptism", "question": "What, if anything, does God ordinarily accomplish through water baptism?", "domain": "V. 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In 1 Peter 3:21, locate efficacy in water, Christ’s resurrection, God’s pledge, or the believer’s appeal. Acts 10 shows Spirit reception can precede water, but does not by itself prove water is merely symbolic." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "BAP-001.A": "substantive", "BAP-001.B": "substantive", "BAP-001.C": "substantive", "BAP-001.D": "substantive", "BAP-001.E": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "BAP-001.A", "BAP-001.B", "BAP-001.C", "BAP-001.D", "BAP-001.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "BAP-001.A", "BAP-001.B", "BAP-001.C", "BAP-001.D", "BAP-001.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:18–20", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Mark", "file": "Mark", "label": "Mark 16:16", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 3:5", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:38–41", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 41 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:12–17", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:36–39", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 36, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10:44–48", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 44, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 48 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:14–34", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 22:16", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 6:1–11", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 1:13–17", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 6:11", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:26–29", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:11–13", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 3:5–7", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 3:18–22", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 22 } ] }, { "id": "BAP-002", "canonicalId": "BAP-01", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "BAP-01", "BAP-002" ], "mirrorNote": "Baptismal subjects from ecclesiology and salvation/covenant perspectives.", "isMirrorRecord": true, "title": "Children, households, and baptismal-covenant status", "shortLabel": "Children, households, and baptismal-covenant status", "question": "Are believers’ children proper recipients of baptism and, if so, what status does it identify?", "domain": "V. 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Household baptisms raise paedobaptism only if household language likely includes children and if faith language applies representatively rather than to each hearer. “Promise ... to your children” must be read with “everyone whom the Lord calls.”" ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "BAP-002.A": "substantive", "BAP-002.B": "substantive", "BAP-002.C": "substantive", "BAP-002.D": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "BAP-002.A", "BAP-002.B", "BAP-002.C", "BAP-002.D" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "BAP-002.A", "BAP-002.B", "BAP-002.C", "BAP-002.D" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 17:7–14", "startChapter": 17, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 17, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 19:13–15", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:19–20", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:38–39", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:12", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10:44–48", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 44, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 48 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:14–15", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:30–34", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 30, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 18:8", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 4:9–12", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 1:16", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 7:14", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:11–13", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 13 } ] }, { "id": "JUS-001", "canonicalId": "JUS-001", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "JUS-001" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Forensic declaration and transformative renewal", "shortLabel": "Forensic declaration and transformative renewal", "question": "Is justification itself exclusively God’s forensic verdict, or does the biblical category include inward renewal?", "domain": "V. 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Decide whether “become righteousness of God” is exchange/imputation, apostolic embodiment, or participation. 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Separate ground (Christ), instrument (faith), necessary path/evidence (works), and public/final verdict rather than assigning all to one slot." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "JUS-003.A": "substantive", "JUS-003.B": "substantive", "JUS-003.C": "substantive", "JUS-003.D": "substantive", "JUS-003.E": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "JUS-003.A", "JUS-003.B", "JUS-003.C", "JUS-003.D", "JUS-003.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "JUS-003.A", "JUS-003.B", "JUS-003.C", "JUS-003.D", "JUS-003.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 15:6", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Habakkuk", "file": "Habakkuk", "label": "Habakkuk 2:4", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 7:21–27", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 19:16–30", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 25:31–46", "startChapter": 25, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 25, "endVerse": 46 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 3:16–18", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 5:24–29", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 3:21–4:25", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 8:1–17", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 2:16", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 5:6", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:8–10", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 2:12–13", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 2:14–26", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 26 } ] }, { "id": "JUS-004", "canonicalId": "JUS-004", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "JUS-004" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "“Works of the law” in Paul", "shortLabel": "“Works of the law” in Paul", "question": "What does Paul principally exclude by “works of the law”?", "domain": "V. 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Track universal indictment, Abraham before circumcision, boasting, and wage/debt logic, raising A/E. Ask whether Spirit-enabled works are excluded from ground, instrument, or only from boastful self-establishment." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "JUS-004.A": "substantive", "JUS-004.B": "substantive", "JUS-004.C": "substantive", "JUS-004.D": "substantive", "JUS-004.E": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "JUS-004.A", "JUS-004.B", "JUS-004.C", "JUS-004.D", "JUS-004.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "JUS-004.A", "JUS-004.B", "JUS-004.C", "JUS-004.D", "JUS-004.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 2:17–3:31", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 31 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 4:1–16", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 7:7–13", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 9:30–10:13", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 30, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 2:11–3:29", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 4:21–5:6", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 6:13–15", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:8–18", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 3:2–11", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 11 } ] }, { "id": "JUS-005", "canonicalId": "JUS-005", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "JUS-005" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "James 2 and the justification of Abraham/Rahab", "shortLabel": "James 2 and the justification of Abraham/Rahab", "question": "Does James teach evidential vindication, a distinct later justification by works, or justification through living faith and works together?", "domain": "V. 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Ask whether Paul’s “works” and James’s “works,” and Paul’s polemical “faith” and James’s dead “faith,” denote the same realities." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "JUS-005.A": "substantive", "JUS-005.B": "substantive", "JUS-005.C": "substantive", "JUS-005.D": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "JUS-005.A", "JUS-005.B", "JUS-005.C", "JUS-005.D" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "JUS-005.A", "JUS-005.B", "JUS-005.C", "JUS-005.D" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 15:1–6", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 22:1–19", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Joshua", "file": "Joshua", "label": "Joshua 2", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 7:21–27", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 4:1–8", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 11:8–31", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 31 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 1:19–2:26", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 26 } ] }, { "id": "JUS-006", "canonicalId": "JUS-006", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "JUS-006" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Final judgment according to works", "shortLabel": "Final judgment according to works", "question": "How do works function in the final judgment of believers?", "domain": "V. 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In judgment scenes, ask whether deeds are evidence, condition, basis, or reward metric. Distinguish “according to” from “on the meritorious ground of.”" ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "JUS-006.A": "substantive", "JUS-006.B": "substantive", "JUS-006.C": "substantive", "JUS-006.D": "substantive", "JUS-006.E": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "JUS-006.A", "JUS-006.B", "JUS-006.C", "JUS-006.D", "JUS-006.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "JUS-006.A", "JUS-006.B", "JUS-006.C", "JUS-006.D", "JUS-006.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Ecclesiastes", "file": "Ecclesiastes", "label": "Ecclesiastes 12:14", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 7:21–23", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 12:36–37", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 36, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 37 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 16:27", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 25:31–46", "startChapter": 25, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 25, "endVerse": 46 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 5:24–29", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 2:5–16", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 8:1", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 8:30–39", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 30, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 14:10–12", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 3:10–15", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 4:5", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 5:10", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 6:7–9", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 20:11–15", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 22:12", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 12 } ] }, { "id": "JUS-007", "canonicalId": "JUS-007", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "JUS-007" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Universal/objective and personal/subjective justification", "shortLabel": "Universal/objective and personal/subjective justification", "question": "Do resurrection/reconciliation texts teach an objective justifying verdict for all humanity prior to faith?", "domain": "V. 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Then decide whether these predicates elsewhere denote regeneration. 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Then integrate imperatives and growth language. 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In 1 John, determine whether “does not sin” means never commits an act, does not continue as a settled practice, or describes the regenerate identity eschatologically. 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Determine whether “apart from me you can do nothing” rules out cooperative agency or grounds it. Ask which practices Scripture directly names as Spirit-used means and which are later prudential extensions." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "SAN-003.A": "substantive", "SAN-003.B": "substantive", "SAN-003.C": "substantive", "SAN-003.D": "substantive", "SAN-003.E": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "SAN-003.A", "SAN-003.B", "SAN-003.C", "SAN-003.D", "SAN-003.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "SAN-003.A", "SAN-003.B", "SAN-003.C", "SAN-003.D", "SAN-003.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Psalm", "file": "Psalm", "label": "Psalm 119", "startChapter": 119, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 119, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 15:1–11", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 17:17", "startChapter": 17, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 17, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 6:11–14", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 8:13", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 12:1–2", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 9:24–27", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 15:10", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 3:18", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 5:16–25", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 4:20–5:21", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 2:12–13", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 3:1–17", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 4:7–16", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 3:12–14", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 10:19–25", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 12:1–14", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 1:19–27", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 27 } ] }, { "id": "SAN-004", "canonicalId": "SAN-004", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SAN-004" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "The speaker and condition in Romans 7:7–25", "shortLabel": "The speaker and condition in Romans 7:7–25", "question": "Whom does Paul portray in the “I do what I hate” section?", "domain": "V. 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Ask whether vivid present tense signals current autobiography or rhetorical narration." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "SAN-004.A": "substantive", "SAN-004.B": "substantive", "SAN-004.C": "substantive", "SAN-004.D": "substantive", "SAN-004.E": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "SAN-004.A", "SAN-004.B", "SAN-004.C", "SAN-004.D", "SAN-004.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "SAN-004.A", "SAN-004.B", "SAN-004.C", "SAN-004.D", "SAN-004.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 6:1–23", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 7:1–25", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 8:1–17", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 5:16–25", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 3:6–14", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 1:13–16", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 16 } ] }, { "id": "SAN-005", "canonicalId": "SAN-005", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SAN-005" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Theosis, participation, and conformity to Christ", "shortLabel": "Theosis, participation, and conformity to Christ", "question": "Should salvation be framed as participation in divine life (“theosis/deification”), and what does that mean?", "domain": "V. 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Salvation, grace, justification, and sanctification", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "LAW-001.A", "label": "Classic covenant theology", "description": "one covenant of grace is administered through multiple historical covenants, often set against a covenant of works with Adam.", "definition": "one covenant of grace is administered through multiple historical covenants, often set against a covenant of works with Adam.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-001.B", "label": "Classic dispensationalism", "description": "Israel and the church remain distinguishable peoples/programs; biblical dispensations mark changes in stewardship, with promises to national Israel retained in their ordinary sense.", "definition": "Israel and the church remain distinguishable peoples/programs; biblical dispensations mark changes in stewardship, with promises to national Israel retained in their ordinary sense.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-001.C", "label": "Progressive dispensationalism", "description": "one unfolding kingdom plan culminates in Christ, with greater Israel/church continuity while retaining a future for ethnic/national Israel.", "definition": "one unfolding kingdom plan culminates in Christ, with greater Israel/church continuity while retaining a future for ethnic/national Israel.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-001.D", "label": "Progressive covenantalism", "description": "the biblical covenants form a typological sequence fulfilled in Christ and the new-covenant people; no overarching covenant of grace needs to be posited as a separate biblical covenant.", "definition": "the biblical covenants form a typological sequence fulfilled in Christ and the new-covenant people; no overarching covenant of grace needs to be posited as a separate biblical covenant.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-001.E", "label": "New Covenant Theology", "description": "Christ’s law and the new covenant govern the church; the Mosaic covenant, including its law-code as covenant, is obsolete.", "definition": "Christ’s law and the new covenant govern the church; the Mosaic covenant, including its law-code as covenant, is obsolete.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-001.F", "label": "Lutheran law/gospel and testament framework", "description": "organizes Scripture less by a covenant-of-grace system and more by promise/gospel versus accusing law, with sacramental testament emphasis.", "definition": "organizes Scripture less by a covenant-of-grace system and more by promise/gospel versus accusing law, with sacramental testament emphasis.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-001.G", "label": "Canonical/biblical-covenant agnosticism", "description": "affirm each named covenant and fulfillment in Christ without adopting a full macro-system.", "definition": "affirm each named covenant and fulfillment in Christ without adopting a full macro-system.", "definitionSource": "catalog" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts", "items": [ "Genesis 2–3; 6–9; 12,15,17,22; Exodus 19–24; Deuteronomy 28–30; 2 Samuel 7; Jeremiah 31:31–34; Ezekiel 36–37; Luke 22:20; Romans 4; 9–11; Galatians 3–4; Ephesians 2–3; Hebrews 7–10." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Interpretive fork", "items": [ "Model first: (1) whether Genesis 2 is covenantal, (2) Abraham–Moses relation, (3) Mosaic covenant’s function, (4) Israel/church continuity, (5) new-covenant membership, (6) law continuity, and (7) fulfillment of land/kingdom promises. Derive the macro-label afterward." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "LAW-001.A": "substantive", "LAW-001.B": "substantive", "LAW-001.C": "substantive", "LAW-001.D": "substantive", "LAW-001.E": "substantive", "LAW-001.F": "substantive", "LAW-001.G": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "LAW-001.A", "LAW-001.B", "LAW-001.C", "LAW-001.D", "LAW-001.E", "LAW-001.F", "LAW-001.G" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [ "LAW-001.G" ], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "LAW-001.A", "LAW-001.B", "LAW-001.C", "LAW-001.D", "LAW-001.E", "LAW-001.F", "LAW-001.G" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 2–3", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 6–9", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 12", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 15", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 17", "startChapter": 17, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 17, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 22", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 19–24", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 24, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 28–30", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 30, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "2 Samuel", "file": "2Samuel", "label": "2 Samuel 7", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Jeremiah", "file": "Jeremiah", "label": "Jeremiah 31:31–34", "startChapter": 31, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 31, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "Ezekiel", "file": "Ezekiel", "label": "Ezekiel 36–37", "startChapter": 36, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 37, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 22:20", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 4", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 9–11", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3–4", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2–3", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 7–10", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": null } ] }, { "id": "LAW-002", "canonicalId": "LAW-002", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "LAW-002" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Covenant of works with Adam", "shortLabel": "Covenant of works with Adam", "question": "Did God enter a covenant of works/life/creation with Adam in which perfect obedience would obtain confirmed life?", "domain": "V. Salvation, grace, justification, and sanctification", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "LAW-002.A", "label": "Formal covenant of works", "description": "Adam was federal head under a covenant promising life and threatening death based on obedience.", "definition": "Adam was federal head under a covenant promising life and threatening death based on obedience.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-002.B", "label": "Covenant of life/creation with filial grace", "description": "the arrangement is covenantal and probationary, but “works” can misleadingly imply merit independent of divine generosity.", "definition": "the arrangement is covenantal and probationary, but “works” can misleadingly imply merit independent of divine generosity.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-002.C", "label": "Adamic command without covenant", "description": "Scripture narrates command, vocation, and penalty but does not identify a covenant or promised merit.", "definition": "Scripture narrates command, vocation, and penalty but does not identify a covenant or promised merit.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-002.D", "label": "Typological/protological covenant", "description": "later Scripture reads Adam covenantally and Christologically even if Genesis lacks formal covenant markers.", "definition": "later Scripture reads Adam covenantally and Christologically even if Genesis lacks formal covenant markers.", "definitionSource": "catalog" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts", "items": [ "Genesis 1:26–2:17; 3:1–24; Hosea 6:7; Romans 5:12–21; 7:7–13; 10:5; 1 Corinthians 15:21–49; Galatians 3:10–14; Revelation 2:7; 22:1–5,14." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Interpretive fork", "items": [ "Ask whether command, parties, sanction, and implied life suffice for covenant, and whether Hosea 6:7 reads “like Adam” or “at Adam.” Determine whether the Adam–Christ representative parallel entails a covenant headship or can rest on typological solidarity." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "LAW-002.A": "substantive", "LAW-002.B": "substantive", "LAW-002.C": "substantive", "LAW-002.D": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "LAW-002.A", "LAW-002.B", "LAW-002.C", "LAW-002.D" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "LAW-002.A", "LAW-002.B", "LAW-002.C", "LAW-002.D" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 1:26–2:17", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 3:1–24", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Hosea", "file": "Hosea", "label": "Hosea 6:7", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 5:12–21", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 7:7–13", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 10:5", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 15:21–49", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 49 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:10–14", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 2:7", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 22:1–5", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 22:14", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 14 } ] }, { "id": "LAW-003", "canonicalId": "LAW-003", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "LAW-003" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Character of the Mosaic covenant", "shortLabel": "Character of the Mosaic covenant", "question": "Is the Mosaic covenant fundamentally an administration of grace, a republication of works, a conditional national covenant, or a mixed/typological arrangement?", "domain": "V. 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Ask whether Leviticus 18:5 promises eschatological life by perfect works, covenant life in the land, or a principle fulfilled in Christ/Spirit." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "LAW-003.A": "substantive", "LAW-003.B": "substantive", "LAW-003.C": "substantive", "LAW-003.D": "substantive", "LAW-003.E": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "LAW-003.A", "LAW-003.B", "LAW-003.C", "LAW-003.D", "LAW-003.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "LAW-003.A", "LAW-003.B", "LAW-003.C", "LAW-003.D", "LAW-003.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 19:3–8", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 20:1–24:8", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 24, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Leviticus", "file": "Leviticus", "label": "Leviticus 18:5", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Leviticus", "file": "Leviticus", "label": "Leviticus 26", "startChapter": 26, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 26, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 4–7", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 28–30", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 30, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Jeremiah", "file": "Jeremiah", "label": "Jeremiah 31:31–34", "startChapter": 31, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 31, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 10:25–28", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 3:19–20", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 7:7–13", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 9:30–10:13", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 30, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 3:6–18", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:10–25", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 4:21–31", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 31 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 3–4", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 7–10", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": null } ] }, { "id": "LAW-004", "canonicalId": "LAW-004", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "LAW-004" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "One covenant of grace across the canon", "shortLabel": "One covenant of grace across the canon", "question": "Is there one post-fall covenant of grace substantively uniting all saved people before and after Christ?", "domain": "V. 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Salvation, grace, justification, and sanctification", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "LAW-005.A", "label": "Stable tripartite distinction", "description": "moral law continues, ceremonial law is fulfilled, civil law expires except for general equity.", "definition": "moral law continues, ceremonial law is fulfilled, civil law expires except for general equity.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-005.B", "label": "Useful retrospective distinction", "description": "the categories describe differing functions but are interwoven and not a directly revealed taxonomy.", "definition": "the categories describe differing functions but are interwoven and not a directly revealed taxonomy.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-005.C", "label": "Whole-covenant obsolescence with selective New Testament reauthorization", "description": "Mosaic law as a unit is obsolete; commands bind Christians insofar as carried into Christ’s/new-covenant law.", "definition": "Mosaic law as a unit is obsolete; commands bind Christians insofar as carried into Christ’s/new-covenant law.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "LAW-005.D", "label": "Torah continuity transformed in Christ", "description": "the whole Torah remains Scripture and is fulfilled/transposed rather than neatly partitioned.", "definition": "the whole Torah remains Scripture and is fulfilled/transposed rather than neatly partitioned.", "definitionSource": "catalog" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts", "items": [ "Exodus 20–23; Leviticus 18–20; Deuteronomy 4:1–14; 12–26; Matthew 5:17–48; 15:1–20; Mark 7:19; Acts 10–11; 15; Romans 7:7–13; 13:8–10; 1 Corinthians 5:1–13; 9:8–10; Galatians 3:19–25; 5:1–6; Colossians 2:16–23; Hebrews 7–10." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Interpretive fork", "items": [ "Determine whether Jesus/Paul identify enduring moral norms while ending cultic/boundary markers, and whether civil commands supply trans-cultural equity. Ask whether the New Testament’s reuse of Torah is continuity of the Mosaic covenant or fresh apostolic application through Christ." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "LAW-005.A": "substantive", "LAW-005.B": "substantive", "LAW-005.C": "substantive", "LAW-005.D": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "LAW-005.A", "LAW-005.B", "LAW-005.C", "LAW-005.D" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "LAW-005.A", "LAW-005.B", "LAW-005.C", "LAW-005.D" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 20–23", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 23, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Leviticus", "file": "Leviticus", "label": "Leviticus 18–20", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 4:1–14", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 12–26", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 26, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 5:17–48", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 48 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 15:1–20", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Mark", "file": "Mark", "label": "Mark 7:19", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10–11", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 15", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 7:7–13", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 13:8–10", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:1–13", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 9:8–10", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:19–25", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 5:1–6", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:16–23", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 7–10", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": null } ] }, { "id": "LAW-006", "canonicalId": "LAW-006", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "LAW-006" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Third use of the law", "shortLabel": "Third use of the law", "question": "Does God’s moral law function as a positive guide for regenerate Christian obedience?", "domain": "V. 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Salvation, grace, justification, and sanctification", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "NCV-001.A", "label": "Regenerate-only essential membership", "description": "everyone in the new covenant has forgiveness, law written on the heart, and saving knowledge; visible churches contain false professors who are not covenant members in this sense.", "definition": "everyone in the new covenant has forgiveness, law written on the heart, and saving knowledge; visible churches contain false professors who are not covenant members in this sense.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "NCV-001.B", "label": "Dual-aspect membership", "description": "the new covenant has an inward saving substance and an outward visible administration including some who break covenant.", "definition": "the new covenant has an inward saving substance and an outward visible administration including some who break covenant.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "NCV-001.C", "label": "Objective sacramental membership with possible apostasy", "description": "baptism truly brings persons into new-covenant life, which can later be repudiated/forfeited.", "definition": "baptism truly brings persons into new-covenant life, which can later be repudiated/forfeited.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "NCV-001.D", "label": "Corporate membership conditioned on persevering faith", "description": "the covenant people is elect in Christ; individuals participate genuinely while remaining by faith.", "definition": "the covenant people is elect in Christ; individuals participate genuinely while remaining by faith.", "definitionSource": "catalog" }, { "id": "NCV-001.E", "label": "Already/not-yet mixed realization", "description": "Jeremiah’s unbreakable universal knowledge is inaugurated now but reaches exhaustive membership only in consummation.", "definition": "Jeremiah’s unbreakable universal knowledge is inaugurated now but reaches exhaustive membership only in consummation.", "definitionSource": "catalog" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts", "items": [ "Deuteronomy 30:1–6; Jeremiah 31:31–34; 32:37–41; Ezekiel 11:19–20; 36:22–32; Luke 22:20; John 6:45; Acts 2:38–39; Romans 11:17–22; 1 Corinthians 10:1–22; 11:25–32; 2 Corinthians 3; Hebrews 6:4–8; 8:6–13; 10:14–39; 12:18–29." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Interpretive fork", "items": [ "Determine whether Jeremiah’s “they shall all know me” describes every member now, the eschatological ideal, or the covenant’s saving substance. Then classify Hebrews’ warned subjects. Decide whether a branch “in” the olive tree or participant in holy things is covenantally in Christ without being regenerate." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "NCV-001.A": "substantive", "NCV-001.B": "substantive", "NCV-001.C": "substantive", "NCV-001.D": "substantive", "NCV-001.E": "substantive_hybrid" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "NCV-001.A", "NCV-001.B", "NCV-001.C", "NCV-001.D", "NCV-001.E" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "NCV-001.A", "NCV-001.B", "NCV-001.C", "NCV-001.D", "NCV-001.E" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 30:1–6", "startChapter": 30, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 30, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Jeremiah", "file": "Jeremiah", "label": "Jeremiah 31:31–34", "startChapter": 31, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 31, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "Jeremiah", "file": "Jeremiah", "label": "Jeremiah 32:37–41", "startChapter": 32, "startVerse": 37, "endChapter": 32, "endVerse": 41 }, { "book": "Ezekiel", "file": "Ezekiel", "label": "Ezekiel 11:19–20", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Ezekiel", "file": "Ezekiel", "label": "Ezekiel 36:22–32", "startChapter": 36, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 36, "endVerse": 32 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 22:20", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 6:45", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 45, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 45 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:38–39", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 11:17–22", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 10:1–22", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:25–32", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 32 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 3", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 6:4–8", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 8:6–13", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 10:14–39", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 12:18–29", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 29 } ] }, { "id": "ECC-01", "canonicalId": "ECC-01", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ECC-01" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Primary referent of *ekklesia*: local assembly, universal church, or both", "shortLabel": "Primary referent of *ekklesia*: local assembly, universal church, or both", "question": "Does New Testament church language refer primarily to a concrete local assembly, to the one translocal body of Christ, or analogically to both?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "LOCAL-PRIORITY", "label": "Local priority", "description": "Local priority", "definition": "In ordinary New Testament usage, a church is chiefly a concrete, gathered congregation that can worship, discipline, and exercise authority. A universal assembly may exist spiritually or eschatologically, but it is not a present governing institution parallel to the local church.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "UNIVERSAL-PRIORITY", "label": "Universal priority", "description": "Universal priority", "definition": "The one translocal body united to Christ is the primary reality of which local congregations are particular expressions. This gives universal-church language more than an aggregate or future meaning without necessarily assigning it a single worldwide administration.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "BOTH-NONCOMPETITIVE", "label": "Both noncompetitive", "description": "Both noncompetitive", "definition": "The universal body created by union with Christ and the local assembly with visible governance are both proper senses of church. They answer different questions, so affirming universal communion does not diminish local authority.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "VISIBLE-INSTITUTIONAL-UNIVERSAL", "label": "Visible institutional universal", "description": "Visible institutional universal", "definition": "The universal church is a presently identifiable, organized communion with visible structures of ministry and authority across local congregations. Unlike a merely spiritual universal body, its unity has institutional expression.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 16:18; Ephesians 1:22–23; 5:25–32; Hebrews 12:22–24 → one church transcending place: presently instantiated spiritual reality, eschatological assembly, or visible catholic institution?", "Matthew 18:17; Acts 5:11; 14:23; 20:17, 28; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 5:4–13; Revelation 2–3 → ordinarily a local body with identifiable leaders, gathering, and discipline.", "Acts 9:31 (textual number variation notwithstanding); 1 Corinthians 12:28; Galatians 1:13 → can a regional or universal body be called “church” institutionally?" ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If universal-body texts denote a presently organized visible society, update toward VISIBLE-INSTITUTIONAL-UNIVERSAL.", "If authority-bearing acts always terminate in a gathered local body, update toward LOCAL-PRIORITY.", "If union with Christ creates one universal organism while governance remains local, update toward BOTH-NONCOMPETITIVE." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“Only local churches exist” is incompatible with a presently existing universal church in the same ontological sense, but not with an eschatological universal assembly." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "LOCAL-PRIORITY": "substantive", "UNIVERSAL-PRIORITY": "substantive", "BOTH-NONCOMPETITIVE": "substantive", "VISIBLE-INSTITUTIONAL-UNIVERSAL": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "LOCAL-PRIORITY", "UNIVERSAL-PRIORITY", "BOTH-NONCOMPETITIVE", "VISIBLE-INSTITUTIONAL-UNIVERSAL" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "LOCAL-PRIORITY", "UNIVERSAL-PRIORITY", "BOTH-NONCOMPETITIVE", "VISIBLE-INSTITUTIONAL-UNIVERSAL" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 16:18", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 1:22–23", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 5:25–32", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 32 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 12:22–24", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 18:17", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 5:11", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 14:23", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:17", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:28", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 28, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 1:2", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:4–13", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 2–3", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 9:31", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 31 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:28", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 28, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 1:13", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 13 } ] }, { "id": "ECC-02", "canonicalId": "ECC-02", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ECC-02" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Visible and invisible church", "shortLabel": "Visible and invisible church", "question": "Is the one church adequately distinguished as visible profession/community and invisible company of the regenerate or elect?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "VISIBLE-INVISIBLE-DISTINCTION", "label": "Visible invisible distinction", "description": "Visible invisible distinction", "definition": "The visible church consists of professing communities known to human judgment, while the invisible church is the complete company of the regenerate or elect known infallibly to God. The distinction explains how real churches can contain false professors without identifying visible membership with salvation.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "VISIBLE-MIXED-ONE-CHURCH", "label": "Visible mixed one church", "description": "Visible mixed one church", "definition": "Scripture speaks of one identifiable covenant church whose visible membership is spiritually mixed, rather than of visible and invisible churches as two parallel entities. God alone knows each member's final condition, but the mixed community is genuinely the church.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "VISIBLE-SACRAMENTAL-IDENTITY", "label": "Visible sacramental identity", "description": "Visible sacramental identity", "definition": "Valid sacramental incorporation gives a person an objective place in the visible church even when that person lacks final saving faith. Membership is therefore more than an external profession, though it does not guarantee perseverance.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "REGENERATE-LOCAL-IDEAL", "label": "Regenerate local ideal", "description": "Regenerate local ideal", "definition": "A local church should admit those who credibly appear regenerate through profession and fruit. The standard is an accountable admission ideal, not a claim that church leaders can identify regeneration without error.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43, 47–50 → mixture in the kingdom, the church, or the world?", "Matthew 7:21–23; Romans 9:6; 2 Timothy 2:19 → profession and saving reality can diverge.", "Acts 2:41–47; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 5:1–13 → churches address professing saints while containing hypocrites and offenders.", "Ephesians 5:25–27; Hebrews 12:23; Revelation 21:2 → perfected elect church now invisibly real, or only eschatologically pure?" ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If “church” can name the elect known perfectly only to God, update toward VISIBLE-INVISIBLE-DISTINCTION.", "If biblical usage reserves church for identifiable covenant assemblies despite mixed spiritual condition, update toward VISIBLE-MIXED-ONE-CHURCH.", "If valid sacramental incorporation objectively makes one a church member even without final salvation, update toward VISIBLE-SACRAMENTAL-IDENTITY.", "If local membership should require credible regeneration while allowing fallible admission, update toward REGENERATE-LOCAL-IDEAL." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Perfectly pure visible membership before the judgment conflicts with the pervasive presence of false professors, but “regenerate membership” normally claims an admission standard, not infallibility." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "VISIBLE-INVISIBLE-DISTINCTION": "substantive", "VISIBLE-MIXED-ONE-CHURCH": "substantive", "VISIBLE-SACRAMENTAL-IDENTITY": "substantive", "REGENERATE-LOCAL-IDEAL": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "VISIBLE-INVISIBLE-DISTINCTION", "VISIBLE-MIXED-ONE-CHURCH", "VISIBLE-SACRAMENTAL-IDENTITY", "REGENERATE-LOCAL-IDEAL" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "VISIBLE-INVISIBLE-DISTINCTION", "VISIBLE-MIXED-ONE-CHURCH", "VISIBLE-SACRAMENTAL-IDENTITY", "REGENERATE-LOCAL-IDEAL" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 13:24–30", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 13:36–43", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 36, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 43 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 13:47–50", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 47, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 50 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 7:21–23", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 9:6", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "2 Timothy", "file": "2Timothy", "label": "2 Timothy 2:19", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:41–47", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 41, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 47 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 1:2", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:1–13", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 5:25–27", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 12:23", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 21:2", "startChapter": 21, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 21, "endVerse": 2 } ] }, { "id": "ECC-03", "canonicalId": "ECC-03", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ECC-03" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Israel and the church as covenant people", "shortLabel": "Israel and the church as covenant people", "question": "How continuous are Israel and the New Testament church?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "ONE-PEOPLE-STRONG-CONTINUITY", "label": "One people strong continuity", "description": "One people strong continuity", "definition": "Israel and the church are successive administrations of one covenant people, with the church receiving and expanding Israel's covenant identity in Christ. Strong continuity normally preserves substantial features of Abrahamic membership unless the New Testament revokes them.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ONE-PEOPLE-ADMINISTRATIVE-DISTINCTION", "label": "One people administrative distinction", "description": "One people administrative distinction", "definition": "All who are saved belong to one people of God, while Israel and the church remain distinct historical administrations with differing signs, laws, and missions. This preserves spiritual unity without assuming that every feature of Israel's covenant order transfers to the church.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ISRAEL-CHURCH-DISTINCTION", "label": "Israel church distinction", "description": "Israel church distinction", "definition": "The church participates in Israel's promises through Christ, yet ethnic or national Israel retains a distinguishable role in God's plan, often including a future corporate restoration. The distinction need not imply two ways of salvation or a permanent separation of redeemed peoples.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "TWO-PEOPLES-OR-DESTINIES", "label": "Two peoples or destinies", "description": "Two peoples or destinies", "definition": "Israel and the church have substantially distinct covenant identities and prophetic destinies, including promises to national Israel not fulfilled in the church. Both may be saved through Christ, but their roles are not collapsed into one ecclesial administration.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "RECAPITULATION-IN-CHRIST", "label": "Recapitulation in christ", "description": "Recapitulation in christ", "definition": "Jesus fulfills and embodies Israel's calling, and all who are united to him become the renewed people of God. Continuity is therefore centered in Christ rather than carried forward by reproducing Israel's national or household structures.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Genesis 12:1–3; 17:1–14; Romans 4:9–17; Galatians 3:6–29 → Abrahamic covenant expanded to Gentile believers, transformed in Christ, or still containing distinct national promises?", "Jeremiah 31:31–34; Hebrews 8:6–13; 10:15–18 → new covenant membership entirely regenerate, progressively realized, or externally mixed like prior administrations?", "Romans 9–11, especially 11:17–29 → one olive tree with future ethnic-Israel ingrafting, two distinguishable groups, or remnant language fulfilled within the church?", "Ephesians 2:11–22; 1 Peter 2:9–10 → Gentiles incorporated into Israel’s privileges, a new third people, or typological recapitulation?", "Acts 15:13–18; Amos 9:11–12 → church as restored Davidic people now, initial fulfillment awaiting Israel, or both?" ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Abrahamic membership structure remains unless explicitly revoked, update ONE-PEOPLE-STRONG-CONTINUITY and indirectly paedobaptism.", "If Jeremiah 31 makes all new-covenant members savingly know God, update RECAPITULATION-IN-CHRIST, credobaptism, and regenerate membership.", "If Romans 11 requires a corporate future for ethnic Israel not exhausted by the church, update ISRAEL-CHURCH-DISTINCTION; this does not by itself establish dispensationalism.", "If land, nation, and throne promises retain non-typological national fulfillment, update TWO-PEOPLES-OR-DESTINIES." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“The church simply replaces Israel with no continuing significance for ethnic Israel” conflicts with models that require Romans 11:25–29 to predict corporate ethnic restoration; neither is identical to the often-polemical label “replacement theology.”" ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "ONE-PEOPLE-STRONG-CONTINUITY": "substantive", "ONE-PEOPLE-ADMINISTRATIVE-DISTINCTION": "substantive", "ISRAEL-CHURCH-DISTINCTION": "substantive", "TWO-PEOPLES-OR-DESTINIES": "substantive", "RECAPITULATION-IN-CHRIST": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "ONE-PEOPLE-STRONG-CONTINUITY", "ONE-PEOPLE-ADMINISTRATIVE-DISTINCTION", "ISRAEL-CHURCH-DISTINCTION", "TWO-PEOPLES-OR-DESTINIES", "RECAPITULATION-IN-CHRIST" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "ONE-PEOPLE-STRONG-CONTINUITY", "ONE-PEOPLE-ADMINISTRATIVE-DISTINCTION", "ISRAEL-CHURCH-DISTINCTION", "TWO-PEOPLES-OR-DESTINIES", "RECAPITULATION-IN-CHRIST" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 12:1–3", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 3 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 17:1–14", "startChapter": 17, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 17, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 4:9–17", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:6–29", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Jeremiah", "file": "Jeremiah", "label": "Jeremiah 31:31–34", "startChapter": 31, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 31, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 8:6–13", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 10:15–18", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 9–11", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:11–22", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 2:9–10", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 15:13–18", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Amos", "file": "Amos", "label": "Amos 9:11–12", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 12 } ] }, { "id": "ECC-04", "canonicalId": "ECC-04", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ECC-04" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Marks and minimum conditions of a true church", "shortLabel": "Marks and minimum conditions of a true church", "question": "Which features are constitutive of a church rather than signs of its health?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "WORD-SACRAMENTS-DISCIPLINE", "label": "Word sacraments discipline", "description": "Word sacraments discipline", "definition": "A church exists where the gospel is rightly preached, the sacraments are duly administered, and discipline is exercised. These marks distinguish constitutive ecclesial acts from other important signs of health.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "WORD-ORDINANCES", "label": "Word ordinances", "description": "Word ordinances", "definition": "A community becomes a church through faithful gospel proclamation and Christ's ordinances of baptism and the Supper. Discipline and ordered leadership may be necessary for maturity without being separate conditions of ecclesial existence.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "GOSPEL-PEOPLE-LEADERS", "label": "Gospel people leaders", "description": "Gospel people leaders", "definition": "A true church is a gospel-confessing people gathered under biblically qualified leaders. This definition emphasizes the community and its ordered oversight rather than making sacramental validity or succession the threshold.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "APOSTOLIC-SUCCESSION-SACRAMENTS", "label": "Apostolic succession sacraments", "description": "Apostolic succession sacraments", "definition": "A church is constituted through communion with apostolic ministry, especially an authorized succession of bishops or presbyters who celebrate valid sacraments. Faithful preaching alone cannot replace the ministerial and sacramental continuity required by this account.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "GATHERED-COVENANT-COMMUNITY", "label": "Gathered covenant community", "description": "Gathered covenant community", "definition": "A church arises when professing disciples covenant together to obey Christ and exercise the responsibilities of membership, worship, and the keys. Its constitutive act is the accountable gathering of the people, not incorporation into a translocal hierarchy.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 2:41–42; 14:21–23 → teaching, baptism, meal, fellowship, prayers, and elders: descriptive pattern or constitutive checklist?", "Matthew 18:15–20; 1 Corinthians 5:1–13 → discipline and keys essential to church identity or duties a true but disordered church may neglect?", "1 Timothy 3; Titus 1:5 → elders/deacons necessary for mature order, but can a newly planted or temporarily leaderless body be a church?", "Galatians 1:6–9; 1 John 4:1–3; Revelation 2–3 → at what degree of doctrinal corruption does lampstand status cease?", "Matthew 28:18–20 → baptizing and teaching commissioned to the church as institution, to apostles, or to all disciples?" ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Treat features as separate variables: constitutive, normally necessary, health mark, or merely common.", "If valid ordinances require authorized ministry and succession, update APOSTOLIC-SUCCESSION-SACRAMENTS.", "If the keys belong to the assembled congregation, update GATHERED-COVENANT-COMMUNITY or WORD-ORDINANCES.", "Distinguish “defective church” from “no church”; thresholds should carry ranges, not a single binary." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "If episcopal succession is strictly constitutive, a body without it cannot be a church in that specified sense; this directly conflicts with succession-independent definitions." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "WORD-SACRAMENTS-DISCIPLINE": "substantive", "WORD-ORDINANCES": "substantive", "GOSPEL-PEOPLE-LEADERS": "substantive", "APOSTOLIC-SUCCESSION-SACRAMENTS": "substantive", "GATHERED-COVENANT-COMMUNITY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "WORD-SACRAMENTS-DISCIPLINE", "WORD-ORDINANCES", "GOSPEL-PEOPLE-LEADERS", "APOSTOLIC-SUCCESSION-SACRAMENTS", "GATHERED-COVENANT-COMMUNITY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "WORD-SACRAMENTS-DISCIPLINE", "WORD-ORDINANCES", "GOSPEL-PEOPLE-LEADERS", "APOSTOLIC-SUCCESSION-SACRAMENTS", "GATHERED-COVENANT-COMMUNITY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:41–42", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 41, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 42 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 14:21–23", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 18:15–20", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:1–13", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 3", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 1:5", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 1:6–9", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "1 John", "file": "1John", "label": "1 John 4:1–3", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 3 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 2–3", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:18–20", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 20 } ] }, { "id": "ECC-05", "canonicalId": "ECC-05", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ECC-05" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Catholicity, denominationalism, and visible unity", "shortLabel": "Catholicity, denominationalism, and visible unity", "question": "What degree and form of visible unity does Scripture require among faithful churches?", "domain": "VI. 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Unity is institutional without requiring all Christians to be governed from one center.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DENOMINATIONAL-PLURALISM-AS-PERMISSIBLE", "label": "Denominational pluralism as permissible", "description": "Denominational pluralism as permissible", "definition": "Multiple denominations can be a permissible response to serious doctrinal and practical differences while still recognizing one another as Christian churches. Division is not celebrated, but organizational plurality need not itself violate catholic unity.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "LOCAL-AUTONOMY-WITH-FELLOWSHIP", "label": "Local autonomy with fellowship", "description": "Local autonomy with fellowship", "definition": "Each congregation retains final earthly jurisdiction while seeking visible fellowship, cooperation, and mutual recognition with other churches. Unity is covenantal and relational rather than enforced by a superior court.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "RESTORATIONIST-NONDENOMINATIONAL", "label": "Restorationist nondenominational", "description": "Restorationist nondenominational", "definition": "Denominational structures institutionalize divisions that churches should overcome by returning to a simpler biblical identity and common Christian name. 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Continuity of doctrine is decisive, so a break in an ordination chain need not sever apostolicity.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "2Timothy:2:2:2:2", "Ephesians:2:20:2:20" ], "rationale": "These texts foreground transmission of apostolic teaching and the apostles’ enduring foundational witness.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "EPISCOPAL-SUCCESSION", "label": "Episcopal succession", "description": "Episcopal succession", "definition": "Apostolic ministry continues through bishops ordained in historical succession from the apostles. The succession ordinarily carries authority to ordain and oversee, not merely a record of doctrinal agreement.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "John:20:21:20:23", "Titus:1:5:1:5" ], "rationale": "Commissioned authority and appointment of ordered overseers are central texts for episcopal succession.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PRESBYTERAL-SUCCESSION", "label": "Presbyteral succession", "description": "Presbyteral succession", "definition": "Continuity of ordained ministry is transmitted through the corporate presbyterate rather than requiring a distinct monarchical episcopal line. 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It joins succession of office to Eucharistic fellowship rather than treating either institutional lineage or doctrine alone as sufficient.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "John:20:21:20:23", "2Timothy:1:6:1:6" ], "rationale": "These texts are frequently used to connect transmitted ministerial authority with a grace-bearing laying on of hands.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "CHARISMATIC-MISSIONAL-CONTINUITY", "label": "Charismatic missional continuity", "description": "Charismatic missional continuity", "definition": "The church remains apostolic by continuing the Spirit-empowered mission, gifts, and church-planting work exemplified by the apostles. This stresses functional and charismatic continuity without necessarily claiming that today's ministers possess the apostles' foundational authority.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "John:20:21:20:23", "Acts:14:23:14:23" ], "rationale": "Missionary sending and Spirit-led establishment of new churches are central to this functional account of apostolic continuity.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 16:18–19; John 20:21–23 → authority given uniquely to Peter, to the apostolic college, or through them to the whole church?", "Acts 1:15–26 → replacement of Judas establishes a continuing office or only restores the Twelve as eschatological witnesses?", "Acts 14:23; 1 Timothy 4:14; 2 Timothy 1:6; 2:2; Titus 1:5 → ordination chain and guarded deposit: succession of office, doctrine, or both?", "Ephesians 2:20; Revelation 21:14 → foundational apostles are unrepeatable.", "1 Clement and later history are important historical evidence but not biblical premises; keep them as a separate evidence channel." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If “foundation” means the apostolic office cannot recur, reduce continuing-apostle models while leaving bishop/presbyter succession open.", "If authority and sacramental validity are transmitted by episcopal laying on of hands, update EPISCOPAL-SUCCESSION.", "If faithful transmission of the apostolic deposit is the sufficient continuity condition, update DOCTRINAL-SUCCESSION." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A necessary unbroken tactile succession is incompatible with the claim that a church may fully constitute ordained ministry de novo solely by Scripture and congregational call." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "DOCTRINAL-SUCCESSION": "substantive", "EPISCOPAL-SUCCESSION": "substantive", "PRESBYTERAL-SUCCESSION": "substantive", "SACRAMENTAL-COMMUNION-SUCCESSION": "substantive", "CHARISMATIC-MISSIONAL-CONTINUITY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "DOCTRINAL-SUCCESSION", "EPISCOPAL-SUCCESSION", "PRESBYTERAL-SUCCESSION", "SACRAMENTAL-COMMUNION-SUCCESSION", "CHARISMATIC-MISSIONAL-CONTINUITY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "DOCTRINAL-SUCCESSION", "EPISCOPAL-SUCCESSION", "PRESBYTERAL-SUCCESSION", "SACRAMENTAL-COMMUNION-SUCCESSION", "CHARISMATIC-MISSIONAL-CONTINUITY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 16:18–19", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 20:21–23", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 1:15–26", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 14:23", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 4:14", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "2 Timothy", "file": "2Timothy", "label": "2 Timothy 1:6", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "2 Timothy", "file": "2Timothy", "label": "2 Timothy 2:2", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 1:5", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:20", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 21:14", "startChapter": 21, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 21, "endVerse": 14 } ] }, { "id": "ECC-07", "canonicalId": "PUBLIC-01", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "PUBLIC-01", "ECC-07" ], "mirrorNote": "Church and civil authority.", "isMirrorRecord": true, "title": "Church and civil authority", "shortLabel": "Church and civil authority", "question": "What institutional relation should obtain between the church and civil magistrate?", "domain": "VI. 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Public partnership is permitted, but doctrine, sacraments, and church discipline remain under ecclesial authority.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "TWO-KINGDOMS", "label": "Two kingdoms", "description": "Two kingdoms", "definition": "God rules both church and civil society but assigns them different means and immediate tasks: the church ministers Word and sacrament, while government preserves temporal justice and order. This is not necessarily secular neutrality, since civil rulers remain morally accountable to God.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "FREE-CHURCH-SEPARATION", "label": "Free church separation", "description": "Free church separation", "definition": "Churches should be voluntary communities institutionally independent of government, and civil law should neither establish a church nor coerce religious profession. Christians may still participate in public life and argue from their convictions.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "THEONOMIC-MAGISTRACY", "label": "Theonomic magistracy", "description": "Theonomic magistracy", "definition": "Civil rulers should order public law by the abiding norms of Scripture, often including continuing principles drawn from Israel's civil law. Theonomic accounts differ over which laws and sanctions remain applicable, so the view is broader than one fixed legal program.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ANABAPTIST-SEPARATION", "label": "Anabaptist separation", "description": "Anabaptist separation", "definition": "The church should live as a distinct, peaceable community whose witness does not depend on civil coercion or control of the magistrate. Christians serve their neighbors and speak publicly, but the state's sword is not treated as an instrument of the church's mission.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Psalm 2:10–12; Isaiah 49:23; 60:10–16 → rulers as patrons/enforcers of true worship, typological kingdom imagery, or eschatological conversion?", "Matthew 22:15–22; John 18:36; 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 → jurisdictional distinction, political quietism, or only rejection of coercive kingdom advance?", "Romans 13:1–7; 1 Peter 2:13–17 → magistrate’s task limited to civil justice or normed by the whole moral law?", "1 Timothy 2:1–4 → political peace for mission, not necessarily establishment.", "Revelation 13; 17–18 → perennial warning about sacralized empire." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If old-covenant civil laws continue as standards for modern states, update THEONOMIC-MAGISTRACY.", "If the new covenant gives church and state distinct sanctions and memberships, update TWO-KINGDOMS or FREE-CHURCH-SEPARATION.", "If converted rulers retain positive duties to protect and materially support true worship without controlling doctrine, update COOPERATIVE-DISTINCTION or ESTABLISHMENT." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Coercive civil penalties for heresy are incompatible with principled equal civil liberty for all religious profession, as those claims are ordinarily defined." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "ESTABLISHMENT": "substantive", "COOPERATIVE-DISTINCTION": "substantive", "TWO-KINGDOMS": "substantive", "FREE-CHURCH-SEPARATION": "substantive", "THEONOMIC-MAGISTRACY": "substantive", "ANABAPTIST-SEPARATION": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "ESTABLISHMENT", "COOPERATIVE-DISTINCTION", "TWO-KINGDOMS", "FREE-CHURCH-SEPARATION", "THEONOMIC-MAGISTRACY", "ANABAPTIST-SEPARATION" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "ESTABLISHMENT", "COOPERATIVE-DISTINCTION", "TWO-KINGDOMS", "FREE-CHURCH-SEPARATION", "THEONOMIC-MAGISTRACY", "ANABAPTIST-SEPARATION" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Psalm", "file": "Psalm", "label": "Psalm 2:10–12", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Isaiah", "file": "Isaiah", "label": "Isaiah 49:23", "startChapter": 49, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 49, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Isaiah", "file": "Isaiah", "label": "Isaiah 60:10–16", "startChapter": 60, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 60, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 22:15–22", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 18:36", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 36, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 36 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 10:3–5", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 13:1–7", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 2:13–17", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 2:1–4", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 13", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 17–18", "startChapter": 17, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": null } ] }, { "id": "ECC-08", "canonicalId": "ECC-08", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "ECC-08" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Petrine primacy, papal jurisdiction, and infallibility", "shortLabel": "Petrine primacy, papal jurisdiction, and infallibility", "question": "Did Christ give Peter an office that continues uniquely in the bishop of Rome, and if so, what authority does that office possess?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "PAPAL-UNIVERSAL-ORDINARY-JURISDICTION-AND-DEFINED-INFALLIBILITY", "label": "Papal universal ordinary jurisdiction and defined infallibility", "description": "Papal universal ordinary jurisdiction and defined infallibility", "definition": "The bishop of Rome succeeds Peter in an office with immediate pastoral jurisdiction throughout the universal church and can teach infallibly under defined ex cathedra conditions. This does not claim that every papal judgment is infallible or that the pope is morally impeccable.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Matthew:16:13:16:20", "John:21:15:21:19" ], "rationale": "Christ’s commission to Peter as rock, key-bearer, and shepherd is the principal biblical basis claimed for a continuing universal Petrine office.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PETRINE-ROMAN-PRIMACY-WITH-CONCILIAR-CONSTRAINTS", "label": "Petrine roman primacy with conciliar constraints", "description": "Petrine roman primacy with conciliar constraints", "definition": "The Roman bishop inherits a distinctive Petrine primacy for serving the church's unity, but exercises it within the episcopal college and conciliar tradition. Rome has more than ceremonial honor, yet not unrestricted supremacy over councils and fellow bishops.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Luke:22:24:22:32", "Acts:15:1:15:29" ], "rationale": "Peter’s charge to strengthen his brothers is read alongside the council’s genuinely corporate deliberation and judgment.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PRIMACY-OF-HONOR-WITHOUT-UNIVERSAL-JURISDICTION", "label": "Primacy of honor without universal jurisdiction", "description": "Primacy of honor without universal jurisdiction", "definition": "Rome may hold first place among historic sees as a focus of honor and coordination without possessing divinely instituted jurisdiction over every church. Primacy is relational and canonical rather than a universal governing office.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Peter:5:1:5:4", "1Peter:5:13:5:13" ], "rationale": "Peter identifies himself as a fellow elder and writes from Babylon, supporting honor and historical prominence without an explicit universal jurisdiction.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "EPISCOPAL-COLLEGIALITY-WITHOUT-UNIQUE-PETRINE-SUCCESSOR", "label": "Episcopal collegiality without unique petrine successor", "description": "Episcopal collegiality without unique petrine successor", "definition": "Apostolic oversight continues collectively in the body of bishops, with no single bishop uniquely inheriting Peter's authority. Particular sees may have precedence, but universal authority belongs to the episcopal college or councils.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Matthew:18:18:18:18", "Acts:15:1:15:29" ], "rationale": "Binding authority is given to the gathered disciples, and the Jerusalem council exercises authority collegially rather than through Peter alone.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PETER-AS-REPRESENTATIVE-APOSTLE-NO-PERMANENT-ROMAN-OFFICE", "label": "Peter as representative apostle no permanent roman office", "description": "Peter as representative apostle no permanent roman office", "definition": "Peter's promises concern him personally or represent the authority shared by the apostles and the confessing church, not a transmissible Roman office. The apostolic foundation remains authoritative through its witness rather than through a permanent universal successor.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Matthew:18:18:18:18", "Galatians:2:1:2:14" ], "rationale": "Authority shared with the apostolic body and Paul’s public correction of Peter weigh against deriving a permanent, indefectible Roman office.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "UNDETERMINED-HYBRID", "label": "Undetermined hybrid", "description": "Undetermined hybrid", "definition": "Peter may have a continuing representative significance and Rome a legitimate primacy while the evidence underdetermines the later claims of universal jurisdiction or defined infallibility. This names a specific intermediate judgment rather than treating uncertainty itself as a church office.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Matthew:16:13:16:20", "Acts:15:1:15:29" ], "rationale": "These texts preserve both Peter’s conspicuous role and the conciliar shape of apostolic judgment, leaving room for qualified hybrids.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 16:13–20 → Peter personally as rock and key-bearer, Peter’s confession, Christ, or Peter as representative of the apostolic church; determine how this relates to Matthew 18:18.", "Luke 22:24–32 → a unique commission to strengthen the brothers, pastoral restoration, or temporary apostolic role.", "John 21:15–19 → universal shepherding office, Peter’s restoration and martyrdom, or a representative pastoral charge shared with other elders.", "Acts 1–12; 15:1–29 → Peter’s real prominence alongside James and conciliar discernment; ask whether Acts 15 depicts papal judgment, council presidency, or collegial apostolic authority.", "Galatians 1:18; 2:1–14 → recognized Petrine importance together with Paul’s public correction; determine whether correction is compatible with defined infallibility, which is limited to particular teaching acts.", "1 Peter 5:1–4, 13 → Peter as fellow elder and the debated “Babylon”/Rome reference; neither by itself establishes later jurisdiction." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Separate six claims often collapsed into “the pope”: Peter’s personal prominence, a continuing Petrine office, Roman succession to that office, universal jurisdiction, supremacy over councils, and infallibility under defined conditions.", "If the singular promises to Peter establish a transmissible universal office and historical reception identifies Rome as its seat, update PAPAL-UNIVERSAL-ORDINARY-JURISDICTION-AND-DEFINED-INFALLIBILITY.", "If the promises establish primacy while Acts 15 and the episcopal college constrain unilateral rule, update a conciliar primacy model.", "If Matthew 18, Ephesians 2:20, and the unrepeatable apostolic foundation distribute or terminate the relevant authority, update collegial or no-permanent-office models.", "Patristic testimony, Roman succession lists, conciliar canons, and later definitions are essential evidence channels but must remain distinct from direct biblical inference." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Universal ordinary jurisdiction by divine institution conflicts with the claim that no continuing bishop possesses jurisdiction over every church. 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Believers' children are loved and instructed by the church but are not baptized solely because of their parents' covenant standing.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:8:12:8:12", "Acts:8:36:8:38" ], "rationale": "These narratives directly sequence hearing, believing, and personal baptism.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PAEDOBAPTISM-COVENANTAL", "label": "Paedobaptism covenantal", "description": "Paedobaptism covenantal", "definition": "Believers and their infant children belong to the visible covenant community, so children receive baptism as the new-covenant sign before personal profession. The rite marks covenant inclusion without necessarily asserting that every baptized infant is regenerate.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:2:38:2:39", "Colossians:2:11:2:12" ], "rationale": "Promise-to-children language and the circumcision–baptism relation are central covenantal texts.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PAEDOBAPTISM-SACRAMENTAL", "label": "Paedobaptism sacramental", "description": "Paedobaptism sacramental", "definition": "The church baptizes infants because baptism itself ordinarily incorporates them into Christ and the church and communicates regenerating or covenantal grace. This gives the rite stronger efficacy than a sign of household status alone.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:2:38:2:39", "Acts:16:30:16:34" ], "rationale": "These passages are often read as joining baptism, household inclusion, forgiveness, and covenantal grace.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "HOUSEHOLD-PRESUMPTION", "label": "Household presumption", "description": "Household presumption", "definition": "When a household enters the Christian community, its dependents are presumptively included in baptism unless a reason for delay appears. This is broader than baptizing only infants of already established covenant members and may include catechumenal households.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:16:14:16:15", "Acts:16:30:16:34" ], "rationale": "The two household baptisms in Acts are the principal narratives foregrounded by this presumption.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "BELIEVER-PLUS-EXCEPTIONAL-INFANT", "label": "Believer plus exceptional infant", "description": "Believer plus exceptional infant", "definition": "Personal faith is the ordinary prerequisite for baptism, while narrowly defined exceptional cases may justify baptizing an infant or other nonprofessing dependent. Unlike covenantal paedobaptism, the exception does not establish a general right of believers' children.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:10:44:10:48", "1Corinthians:7:14:7:14" ], "rationale": "These texts preserve faith-and-Spirit priority while supplying a possible exceptional household-holiness rationale.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 28:18–20 → “make disciples” then baptize professing learners, or disciple nations by baptizing and teaching them, including covenant households?", "Acts 2:38–39 → promise to children as covenant inclusion or to all whom God calls, with calling controlling reception?", "Acts 8:12, 36–38; 10:44–48; 16:14–15, 30–34; 18:8 → normative faith-before-baptism pattern; do household baptisms imply, permit, or exclude infants?", "Romans 4:9–12; Colossians 2:11–12 → baptism succeeds circumcision covenantally, or the parallel is spiritual circumcision and union with Christ rather than subject continuity?", "1 Corinthians 7:14 → children’s “holy” status is covenantal inclusion, legitimacy/relational holiness, or household consecration short of baptism?", "Jeremiah 31:31–34; Hebrews 8 → new-covenant membership entirely regenerate or mixed in external administration?" ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If covenant membership of believers’ children continues absent revocation, strongly update PAEDOBAPTISM-COVENANTAL.", "If every baptism narrative and baptism’s stated meaning presuppose personal repentance/faith, update CREDOBAPTISM.", "If baptism itself ordinarily incorporates and regenerates infants, update PAEDOBAPTISM-SACRAMENTAL.", "Household texts are weak alone because the presence and status of infants are unstated; their weight depends heavily on covenant priors." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“Personal credible profession is always a necessary precondition” conflicts with ordinary infant baptism. Both can agree that adult converts must profess faith." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "CREDOBAPTISM": "substantive", "PAEDOBAPTISM-COVENANTAL": "substantive", "PAEDOBAPTISM-SACRAMENTAL": "substantive", "HOUSEHOLD-PRESUMPTION": "substantive", "BELIEVER-PLUS-EXCEPTIONAL-INFANT": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "CREDOBAPTISM", "PAEDOBAPTISM-COVENANTAL", "PAEDOBAPTISM-SACRAMENTAL", "HOUSEHOLD-PRESUMPTION", "BELIEVER-PLUS-EXCEPTIONAL-INFANT" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "CREDOBAPTISM", "PAEDOBAPTISM-COVENANTAL", "PAEDOBAPTISM-SACRAMENTAL", "HOUSEHOLD-PRESUMPTION", "BELIEVER-PLUS-EXCEPTIONAL-INFANT" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:18–20", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:38–39", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:12", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:36–38", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 36, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 38 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10:44–48", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 44, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 48 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:14–15", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:30–34", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 30, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 18:8", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 4:9–12", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:11–12", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 7:14", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Jeremiah", "file": "Jeremiah", "label": "Jeremiah 31:31–34", "startChapter": 31, "startVerse": 31, "endChapter": 31, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 8", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": null } ] }, { "id": "BAP-02", "canonicalId": "BAP-02", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "BAP-02" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Mode: immersion, pouring, or sprinkling", "shortLabel": "Mode: immersion, pouring, or sprinkling", "question": "Is full-body immersion required, normally preferred, or one valid mode among several?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "IMMERSION-REQUIRED", "label": "Immersion required", "description": "Immersion required", "definition": "Valid baptism requires full bodily immersion because the command and its burial imagery prescribe that ritual form. Pouring or sprinkling may symbolize cleansing but does not satisfy the instituted act on this account.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "IMMERSION-NORMATIVE-NOT-REQUIRED", "label": "Immersion normative not required", "description": "Immersion normative not required", "definition": "Immersion is the ordinary and clearest biblical mode, especially as a sign of burial and resurrection, but other applications of water can still constitute baptism when necessity or pastoral circumstances warrant.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "POURING-OR-SPRINKLING-VALID", "label": "Pouring or sprinkling valid", "description": "Pouring or sprinkling valid", "definition": "Pouring and sprinkling are valid modes because baptism also signifies cleansing and the outpouring of the Spirit, and Scripture does not make submersion a validity condition. Immersion may remain permissible without being privileged.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "TRINE-IMMERSION", "label": "Trine immersion", "description": "Trine immersion", "definition": "Baptism should immerse the candidate three times in relation to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It differs from single immersion by treating the threefold action, not merely immersion itself, as the received ritual pattern.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MODE-ADIAPHORON", "label": "Mode adiaphoron", "description": "Mode adiaphoron", "definition": "Immersion, pouring, and sprinkling can all faithfully enact water baptism, so no one mode is divinely required or inherently normative. The church may choose according to context while preserving water and the baptismal meaning.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Mark 1:9–10; Acts 8:38–39 → “into/out of water” implies immersion or merely approach/departure?", "Romans 6:3–4; Colossians 2:12 → burial imagery enacted by immersion or union-with-Christ reality signified independently of mode?", "Acts 2:17–18, 33; 10:44–48; Titus 3:5–6; Hebrews 9:10, 13, 19–22 → Spirit poured out and cleansing sprinkled: relevant baptismal imagery or distinct metaphors?", "Ezekiel 36:25–27 → sprinkled water plus Spirit as new-covenant background.", "1 Corinthians 10:1–2; 1 Peter 3:20–21 → typological “baptisms” do not straightforwardly settle mode." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If baptizō lexically requires submersion and burial is ritual form, update IMMERSION-REQUIRED.", "If baptism primarily signifies cleansing/Spirit outpouring and biblical washings use multiple applications, update POURING-OR-SPRINKLING-VALID.", "Distinguish lexical default from necessary ritual rule; a likely default does not entail invalidity of other modes." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "IMMERSION-REQUIRED conflicts with claims that non-immersive baptism is valid, not with claims that immersion is pastorally preferable." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "IMMERSION-REQUIRED": "substantive", "IMMERSION-NORMATIVE-NOT-REQUIRED": "substantive", "POURING-OR-SPRINKLING-VALID": "substantive", "TRINE-IMMERSION": "substantive", "MODE-ADIAPHORON": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "IMMERSION-REQUIRED", "IMMERSION-NORMATIVE-NOT-REQUIRED", "POURING-OR-SPRINKLING-VALID", "TRINE-IMMERSION", "MODE-ADIAPHORON" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "IMMERSION-REQUIRED", "IMMERSION-NORMATIVE-NOT-REQUIRED", "POURING-OR-SPRINKLING-VALID", "TRINE-IMMERSION", "MODE-ADIAPHORON" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Mark", "file": "Mark", "label": "Mark 1:9–10", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:38–39", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 6:3–4", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:12", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:17–18", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:33", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 33, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 33 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10:44–48", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 44, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 48 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 3:5–6", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 9:10", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 9:13", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 9:19–22", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "Ezekiel", "file": "Ezekiel", "label": "Ezekiel 36:25–27", "startChapter": 36, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 36, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 10:1–2", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 3:20–21", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 21 } ] }, { "id": "BAP-03", "canonicalId": "BAP-03", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "BAP-03", "BAP-001" ], "mirrorNote": "Baptismal efficacy from ecclesiology and salvation perspectives.", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Baptismal efficacy and the relation of sign to grace", "shortLabel": "Baptismal efficacy and the relation of sign to grace", "question": "What does baptism do, and under what conditions?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "ORDINARY-INSTRUMENT-OF-REGENERATION", "label": "Ordinary instrument of regeneration", "description": "Ordinary instrument of regeneration", "definition": "God ordinarily uses water baptism as an instrument through which regeneration, forgiveness, or saving incorporation is given. Its efficacy is not a mechanical human achievement, and accounts differ over exceptional salvation and later apostasy.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:2:38:2:38", "1Peter:3:21:3:21" ], "rationale": "These are the strongest direct baptism–forgiveness and baptism–salvation predications in the set.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "OBJECTIVE-COVENANT-INCORPORATION", "label": "Objective covenant incorporation", "description": "Objective covenant incorporation", "definition": "Baptism objectively places a person within the covenant community and its promises, even when saving benefit is not finally received through persevering faith. This grants the rite a real status-changing effect without equating every baptism with final regeneration.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Romans:6:3:6:4", "Galatians:3:27:3:27" ], "rationale": "These texts describe baptism as an objective incorporation into Christ and his covenant identity.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "MEANS-OF-GRACE-BY-FAITH", "label": "Means of grace by faith", "description": "Means of grace by faith", "definition": "In baptism God truly offers and communicates grace to recipients who receive the promise in faith. The rite is more than public testimony, but its saving benefit is not automatically possessed apart from faith.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Colossians:2:12:2:12", "1Peter:3:21:3:21" ], "rationale": "These passages closely join baptism’s saving significance with faith and an appeal toward God.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "SIGN-AND-SEAL", "label": "Sign and seal", "description": "Sign and seal", "definition": "Baptism visibly represents and confirms God's covenant promise, assuring believers of cleansing and union with Christ. As a seal it strengthens faith without making the water itself the ordinary cause of regeneration.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Romans:6:3:6:4", "Colossians:2:12:2:12" ], "rationale": "These texts make baptism a visible participation-sign of burial and resurrection with Christ.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PUBLIC-SYMBOL-AND-OBEDIENCE", "label": "Public symbol and obedience", "description": "Public symbol and obedience", "definition": "Baptism publicly portrays the believer's prior union with Christ and obediently confesses faith before the church. Its principal effect is testimonial and communal rather than the conferral of regenerating grace.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:1:14:1:17", "Acts:10:44:10:48" ], "rationale": "These passages foreground the distinction between gospel reception and the subsequent commanded rite.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "SAVING-BAPTISM-AS-SPIRIT-REALITY", "label": "Saving baptism as spirit reality", "description": "Saving baptism as spirit reality", "definition": "The New Testament's strongest saving language refers ultimately to Spirit baptism, union with Christ, or the inward reality signified by water. Water baptism witnesses to that saving event but must not be identified with it.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:12:13:12:13", "Titus:3:5:3:5" ], "rationale": "These texts foreground the Spirit’s incorporative and regenerating work as the saving baptismal reality.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "John 3:5 → water baptism and Spirit, natural birth and Spirit, or Ezekiel 36’s unified cleansing?", "Acts 2:38; 22:16 → baptism instrumentally remits/washes sins, sacramentally expresses faith, or metonymically invokes Christ?", "Romans 6:3–4; Galatians 3:27; Colossians 2:12 → water rite effects union, signifies an already-real union, or speaks of Spirit baptism?", "1 Corinthians 12:13; Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 3:21 → one Spirit incorporation; baptism saves through resurrection and appeal/pledge, explicitly not mere external washing.", "1 Corinthians 1:14–17; Luke 23:39–43 → baptism ordinarily important without being an exceptionless condition of salvation." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If baptismal predications are direct instrumental claims about the rite, update ORDINARY-INSTRUMENT-OF-REGENERATION.", "If covenant status changes objectively but saving benefit requires persevering faith, update OBJECTIVE-COVENANT-INCORPORATION.", "If Scripture joins sign and grace sacramentally while distinguishing them, update MEANS-OF-GRACE-BY-FAITH or SIGN-AND-SEAL.", "If faith/Spirit baptism fully explains salvation texts and water baptism follows as testimony, update PUBLIC-SYMBOL-AND-OBEDIENCE.", "Avoid the false binary “baptism saves automatically” versus “baptism does nothing.”" ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Unqualified automatic regeneration of every baptized person conflicts with any view making saving efficacy depend on faith/election; ordinary instrumentality can include exceptions and later apostasy models." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "ORDINARY-INSTRUMENT-OF-REGENERATION": "substantive", "OBJECTIVE-COVENANT-INCORPORATION": "substantive", "MEANS-OF-GRACE-BY-FAITH": "substantive", "SIGN-AND-SEAL": "substantive", "PUBLIC-SYMBOL-AND-OBEDIENCE": "substantive", "SAVING-BAPTISM-AS-SPIRIT-REALITY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "ORDINARY-INSTRUMENT-OF-REGENERATION", "OBJECTIVE-COVENANT-INCORPORATION", "MEANS-OF-GRACE-BY-FAITH", "SIGN-AND-SEAL", "PUBLIC-SYMBOL-AND-OBEDIENCE", "SAVING-BAPTISM-AS-SPIRIT-REALITY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "ORDINARY-INSTRUMENT-OF-REGENERATION", "OBJECTIVE-COVENANT-INCORPORATION", "MEANS-OF-GRACE-BY-FAITH", "SIGN-AND-SEAL", "PUBLIC-SYMBOL-AND-OBEDIENCE", "SAVING-BAPTISM-AS-SPIRIT-REALITY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 3:5", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Ezekiel", "file": "Ezekiel", "label": "Ezekiel 36", "startChapter": 36, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 36, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:38", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 38 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 22:16", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 6:3–4", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:27", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:12", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 3:5", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 3:21", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 1:14–17", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 23:39–43", "startChapter": 23, "startVerse": 39, "endChapter": 23, "endVerse": 43 } ] }, { "id": "BAP-04", "canonicalId": "BAP-04", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "BAP-04" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Baptism, profession, membership, and the keys", "shortLabel": "Baptism, profession, membership, and the keys", "question": "Is baptism necessarily the church-administered entrance into visible membership, and may an unbaptized believer be a member?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "BAPTISM-STRICT-PREREQUISITE", "label": "Baptism strict prerequisite", "description": "Baptism strict prerequisite", "definition": "Valid water baptism is required before a person may be admitted to formal church membership. An unbaptized believer may be treated pastorally as a Christian, but not enrolled while the initiatory command remains unmet.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "BAPTISM-NORMATIVE-WITH-EXCEPTIONS", "label": "Baptism normative with exceptions", "description": "Baptism normative with exceptions", "definition": "Baptism is the normal entrance into visible membership, yet unusual ignorance, disability, persecution, or a remediable disagreement may justify temporary admission. Exceptions are pastoral irregularities rather than an alternate norm.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "BAPTISM-INCORPORATES-BY-ITS-NATURE", "label": "Baptism incorporates by its nature", "description": "Baptism incorporates by its nature", "definition": "Valid baptism itself incorporates a person into the visible church, so membership follows from the sacrament rather than from a separate congregational act. Later registration recognizes an ecclesial status baptism has already conferred.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MEMBERSHIP-BY-PROFESSION-FIRST", "label": "Membership by profession first", "description": "Membership by profession first", "definition": "A credible profession and the church's recognition can establish membership before baptism, although baptism should follow promptly in obedience. Membership identifies the believer before it records completion of the initiatory rite.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "NO-FORMAL-MEMBERSHIP-SEQUENCE", "label": "No formal membership sequence", "description": "No formal membership sequence", "definition": "The New Testament does not prescribe a formal enrollment process whose order relative to baptism must be fixed. Baptism, fellowship, and pastoral belonging should normally cohere without turning their sequence into a validity rule.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 2:41–42, 47 → received word, baptized, added: fixed sequence or missionary-era pattern?", "Matthew 28:19–20 → baptism is public discipling boundary entrusted to church.", "1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:27 → Spirit incorporation, water incorporation, or sacramental union of both.", "1 Corinthians 5:12–13 → identifiable inside/outside boundary, but does baptism define it?" ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If water baptism is the objective initiatory rite of the visible church, update BAPTISM-STRICT-PREREQUISITE or BAPTISM-INCORPORATES-BY-ITS-NATURE.", "If membership recognizes credible discipleship and baptism is a commanded but remediable irregularity, update BAPTISM-NORMATIVE-WITH-EXCEPTIONS.", "Different baptism definitions create hidden disagreement: a paedobaptized adult may count as baptized under one model and unbaptized under another." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "If valid baptism is strictly constitutive of membership, “recognized member while knowingly unbaptized” is incoherent by definition." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "BAPTISM-STRICT-PREREQUISITE": "substantive", "BAPTISM-NORMATIVE-WITH-EXCEPTIONS": "substantive", "BAPTISM-INCORPORATES-BY-ITS-NATURE": "substantive", "MEMBERSHIP-BY-PROFESSION-FIRST": "substantive", "NO-FORMAL-MEMBERSHIP-SEQUENCE": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "BAPTISM-STRICT-PREREQUISITE", "BAPTISM-NORMATIVE-WITH-EXCEPTIONS", "BAPTISM-INCORPORATES-BY-ITS-NATURE", "MEMBERSHIP-BY-PROFESSION-FIRST", "NO-FORMAL-MEMBERSHIP-SEQUENCE" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "BAPTISM-STRICT-PREREQUISITE", "BAPTISM-NORMATIVE-WITH-EXCEPTIONS", "BAPTISM-INCORPORATES-BY-ITS-NATURE", "MEMBERSHIP-BY-PROFESSION-FIRST", "NO-FORMAL-MEMBERSHIP-SEQUENCE" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:41–42", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 41, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 42 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:47", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 47, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 47 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:19–20", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:13", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:27", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:12–13", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 13 } ] }, { "id": "BAP-05", "canonicalId": "BAP-05", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "BAP-05" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Rebaptism and recognition of prior baptism", "shortLabel": "Rebaptism and recognition of prior baptism", "question": "When, if ever, should someone receive water baptism after a previous rite?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "NEVER-REPEAT-VALID-BAPTISM", "label": "Never repeat valid baptism", "description": "Never repeat valid baptism", "definition": "A valid baptism permanently marks Christian initiation and must not be repeated. A later profession or return to faith may be affirmed by other rites, but not by treating the first baptism as temporary.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "REPEAT-IF-SUBJECT-INVALID", "label": "Repeat if subject invalid", "description": "Repeat if subject invalid", "definition": "A prior rite administered to someone who did not meet the required subject condition, such as an infant under a credobaptist account, was not baptism and should be followed by a valid baptism. The later act is understood as a first baptism, not a second valid one.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "REPEAT-IF-MODE-INVALID", "label": "Repeat if mode invalid", "description": "Repeat if mode invalid", "definition": "A prior rite using a form judged not to satisfy the instituted mode, ordinarily non-immersion, should be followed by baptism in the valid form. Sincerity and formula cannot compensate for a mode considered constitutive.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "REPEAT-IF-FORMULA-OR-MINISTER-INVALID", "label": "Repeat if formula or minister invalid", "description": "Repeat if formula or minister invalid", "definition": "A prior rite lacking the required Trinitarian confession or authorized administrator may be judged no baptism and administered validly afterward. This distinguishes defects that invalidate the rite from merely irregular circumstances.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "REPEAT-AFTER-GENUINE-CONVERSION", "label": "Repeat after genuine conversion", "description": "Repeat after genuine conversion", "definition": "Baptism received before genuine conversion should be administered after saving faith so that the rite expresses an authentic believer's response. Unlike views of objective baptism, this makes the recipient's spiritual condition central to the first rite's validity.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CONDITIONAL-BAPTISM", "label": "Conditional baptism", "description": "Conditional baptism", "definition": "When serious doubt about a previous baptism cannot be resolved, the church may baptize conditionally rather than declare with certainty that no baptism occurred. The condition protects the once-for-all character of a valid first baptism.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Ephesians 4:5 → “one baptism” as once-only water rite, common Christian initiation, or Spirit baptism.", "Acts 19:1–7 → Christian rebaptism after defective baptism, or first Christian baptism after John’s preparatory baptism?", "Acts 8:9–24 → Simon’s defective response does not result in recorded rebaptism.", "Hebrews 6:1–6; 10:26–29 → initiation is not endlessly repeatable; exact referent disputed.", "Matthew 28:19 → Trinitarian formula as validity condition or theological summary." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "First assess whether the earlier act met the model’s subject, mode, intent, formula, and authorized-minister conditions.", "If infant baptism is valid, later believer’s baptism is repetition; if infant baptism is not baptism, the same act is first baptism. Store these as different propositions, not contradictory descriptions of one fact.", "If sacramental character is indelible, update NEVER-REPEAT-VALID-BAPTISM plus CONDITIONAL-BAPTISM in doubtful cases." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A rite cannot simultaneously be a valid once-for-all baptism and require repetition as though invalid, though pastoral reaffirmation is a distinct category." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "NEVER-REPEAT-VALID-BAPTISM": "substantive", "REPEAT-IF-SUBJECT-INVALID": "substantive", "REPEAT-IF-MODE-INVALID": "substantive", "REPEAT-IF-FORMULA-OR-MINISTER-INVALID": "substantive", "REPEAT-AFTER-GENUINE-CONVERSION": "substantive", "CONDITIONAL-BAPTISM": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "NEVER-REPEAT-VALID-BAPTISM", "REPEAT-IF-SUBJECT-INVALID", "REPEAT-IF-MODE-INVALID", "REPEAT-IF-FORMULA-OR-MINISTER-INVALID", "REPEAT-AFTER-GENUINE-CONVERSION", "CONDITIONAL-BAPTISM" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "NEVER-REPEAT-VALID-BAPTISM", "REPEAT-IF-SUBJECT-INVALID", "REPEAT-IF-MODE-INVALID", "REPEAT-IF-FORMULA-OR-MINISTER-INVALID", "REPEAT-AFTER-GENUINE-CONVERSION", "CONDITIONAL-BAPTISM" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 4:5", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 19:1–7", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:9–24", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 6:1–6", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 10:26–29", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:19", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 19 } ] }, { "id": "BAP-06", "canonicalId": "BAP-06", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "BAP-06" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Authorized administrator and formula", "shortLabel": "Authorized administrator and formula", "question": "Must baptism be administered by ordained clergy, by a church-authorized representative, or may any Christian baptize?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "BISHOP-OR-PRIEST-NORMALLY", "label": "Bishop or priest normally", "description": "Bishop or priest normally", "definition": "A bishop or priest is the ordinary administrator of baptism because the sacrament belongs to the church's ordained ministry. Other administration may be valid in emergency or by delegation without becoming the norm.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ORDAINED-MINISTER-REQUIRED", "label": "Ordained minister required", "description": "Ordained minister required", "definition": "Baptism must be administered by a duly ordained minister as part of the church's public teaching and sacramental office. A well-intentioned private baptism by an unauthorized Christian is not treated as fully valid.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CHURCH-AUTHORIZED-ADMINISTRATOR", "label": "Church authorized administrator", "description": "Church authorized administrator", "definition": "The church may authorize a suitable representative to baptize without requiring that person to hold ordained office. Ecclesial commission, rather than ordination alone or private initiative, makes the act a church baptism.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ANY-DISCIPLE-MAY-BAPTIZE", "label": "Any disciple may baptize", "description": "Any disciple may baptize", "definition": "Any Christian disciple may validly baptize because the commission is not restricted to an ordained class. Church order and accountability remain prudent even though they are not validity conditions.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "EMERGENCY-LAY-BAPTISM", "label": "Emergency lay baptism", "description": "Emergency lay baptism", "definition": "An unordained Christian may validly baptize when death, persecution, or lack of clergy creates genuine necessity, while ordained administration remains the ordinary rule. This is an exception grounded in urgency rather than a general lay prerogative.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "TRINITARIAN-FORMULA-REQUIRED", "label": "Trinitarian formula required", "description": "Trinitarian formula required", "definition": "Valid Christian baptism must name the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, expressing the triune identity into which disciples are baptized. Invoking Jesus may accompany the rite but does not replace this instituted confession.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "JESUS-NAME-FORMULA-REQUIRED", "label": "Jesus name formula required", "description": "Jesus name formula required", "definition": "Baptism should be administered explicitly in the name of Jesus Christ, taking the language of Acts as the required apostolic formula. Versions differ over whether this supplements Trinitarian faith or rejects the threefold wording.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 28:18–20 → commission to apostles as office-holders, to the church, or to all disciples.", "Acts 2:38; 8:12–17, 36–38; 9:18; 10:47–48; 1 Corinthians 1:14–17 → named administrators are apostles/evangelists or sometimes unspecified.", "Acts 2:38; 8:16; 10:48; 19:5 → “in the name of Jesus” as spoken formula or theological allegiance.", "1 Corinthians 14:40; pastoral epistles → order and authorization by inference rather than explicit baptismal rule." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Matthew 28 attaches baptism to a continuing teaching office, update ministerial restrictions.", "If no text makes office a validity condition and the commission extends to all disciples, update ANY-DISCIPLE-MAY-BAPTIZE.", "Trinitarian-versus-Jesus-name debates turn on whether Acts reports a liturgical formula or distinguishes Christian from other baptisms." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Oneness rejection of the triune identity is incompatible with Nicene Trinitarianism; merely saying “in Jesus’ name” is not by itself such a rejection." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "BISHOP-OR-PRIEST-NORMALLY": "substantive", "ORDAINED-MINISTER-REQUIRED": "substantive", "CHURCH-AUTHORIZED-ADMINISTRATOR": "substantive", "ANY-DISCIPLE-MAY-BAPTIZE": "substantive", "EMERGENCY-LAY-BAPTISM": "substantive", "TRINITARIAN-FORMULA-REQUIRED": "substantive", "JESUS-NAME-FORMULA-REQUIRED": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "BISHOP-OR-PRIEST-NORMALLY", "ORDAINED-MINISTER-REQUIRED", "CHURCH-AUTHORIZED-ADMINISTRATOR", "ANY-DISCIPLE-MAY-BAPTIZE", "EMERGENCY-LAY-BAPTISM", "TRINITARIAN-FORMULA-REQUIRED", "JESUS-NAME-FORMULA-REQUIRED" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "BISHOP-OR-PRIEST-NORMALLY", "ORDAINED-MINISTER-REQUIRED", "CHURCH-AUTHORIZED-ADMINISTRATOR", "ANY-DISCIPLE-MAY-BAPTIZE", "EMERGENCY-LAY-BAPTISM", "TRINITARIAN-FORMULA-REQUIRED", "JESUS-NAME-FORMULA-REQUIRED" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:18–20", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:38", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 38 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:12–17", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:36–38", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 36, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 38 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 9:18", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10:47–48", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 47, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 48 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 1:14–17", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:16", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10:48", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 48, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 48 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 19:5", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:40", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 40, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 40 } ] }, { "id": "SUP-01", "canonicalId": "SUP-01", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SUP-01" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Mode of Christ’s presence", "shortLabel": "Mode of Christ’s presence", "question": "In what sense are Christ’s body and blood present in the Supper?", "domain": "VI. 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Christ is therefore substantially present, not merely present through the recipient's faith or remembrance.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Matthew:26:26:26:29", "John:6:25:6:71" ], "rationale": "The institution’s direct identification and John 6’s strong eating language are central to substantial-change readings.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "SACRAMENTAL-UNION", "label": "Sacramental union", "description": "Sacramental union", "definition": "Christ's true body and blood are sacramentally united with the bread and wine so that communicants receive both. The elements do not cease to be bread and wine, distinguishing this from substantial change.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Matthew:26:26:26:29", "1Corinthians:10:16:10:21" ], "rationale": "These texts foreground bread and cup together with real participation in Christ’s body and blood.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "REAL-SPIRITUAL-PRESENCE", "label": "Real spiritual presence", "description": "Real spiritual presence", "definition": "By the Holy Spirit, believers truly partake of Christ and are nourished by his body and blood while his human body remains in heaven. Spiritual presence is an objective communion with Christ, not a synonym for mental recollection.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "John:6:25:6:71", "1Corinthians:10:16:10:21" ], "rationale": "These passages support real nourishment and communion with Christ without by themselves defining a material change.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "OBJECTIVE-MYSTERY-PRESENCE", "label": "Objective mystery presence", "description": "Objective mystery presence", "definition": "Christ is really and objectively present in the consecrated meal, though the church should not define the metaphysical mechanism. This affirms more than symbolism while declining both substantial-change and sacramental-union explanations.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:10:16:10:21", "1Corinthians:11:23:11:32" ], "rationale": "The objective communion and severe consequences of reception ground a real presence left metaphysically undefined.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "DYNAMIC-RECEPTION-BY-FAITH", "label": "Dynamic reception by faith", "description": "Dynamic reception by faith", "definition": "Christ becomes present to communicants in the act of faithful reception rather than by a settled change in the elements themselves. The promise and the Spirit make eating and drinking effective as faith receives them.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "John:6:25:6:71", "1Corinthians:10:16:10:21" ], "rationale": "These texts are often read as locating the life-giving participation in faithful reception.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "MEMORIAL-SYMBOLIC-PRESENCE", "label": "Memorial symbolic presence", "description": "Memorial symbolic presence", "definition": "Bread and cup symbolize Christ's absent body and blood and call the church to remember and proclaim his once-for-all work. Christ is present through his Spirit and gathered people, but not bodily in or with the elements.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Luke:22:19:22:20", "1Corinthians:11:23:11:32" ], "rationale": "Remembrance and proclamation are the explicit meal-actions most strongly foregrounded by memorial accounts.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 26:26–29; Mark 14:22–25; Luke 22:19–20 → “this is” identity, sacramental predication, covenant-symbolic language, or performative gift?", "John 6:25–71 → Eucharistic realism, faith in Christ’s incarnate sacrifice, or both with layered fulfillment?", "1 Corinthians 10:16–21 → real participation/communion in body and blood; spiritual participation, sacramental realism, or covenant identification parallel to idol feasts?", "1 Corinthians 11:23–32 → discerning “the body” means sacramental body, ecclesial body, or both; judgment implies objective holiness of the meal.", "Acts 2:42, 46; 20:7 → meal practice does not itself define metaphysics." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If institution words require change of elements’ substance, update SUBSTANTIAL-CHANGE.", "If body and bread coexist under sacramental union, update SACRAMENTAL-UNION.", "If participation is real but Christ’s human body remains in heaven and believers ascend by the Spirit, update REAL-SPIRITUAL-PRESENCE.", "If “remembrance” and covenant symbolism exhaust the act’s objective content, update MEMORIAL-SYMBOLIC-PRESENCE.", "Treat John 6’s Eucharistic relevance as a parent variable; do not count its verses repeatedly as independent evidence." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A change in underlying substance and no change beyond communal symbolism are incompatible. 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Its efficacy is more than subjective memory, yet saving benefit is not automatically conveyed to every participant.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "COVENANT-RENEWAL-MEAL", "label": "Covenant renewal meal", "description": "Covenant renewal meal", "definition": "In the Supper the church corporately renews its covenant allegiance and receives God's reaffirmed promises. The meal shapes an ongoing covenant relationship rather than initiating it anew.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ASSURANCE-AND-NOURISHMENT", "label": "Assurance and nourishment", "description": "Assurance and nourishment", "definition": "Christ uses the tangible signs to assure believers of the gospel and spiritually nourish perseverance. The emphasis falls on strengthening existing faith rather than conferring a new ecclesial status.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MEMORIAL-AND-PROCLAMATION", "label": "Memorial and proclamation", "description": "Memorial and proclamation", "definition": "The meal chiefly enables the church to remember Christ's death and publicly proclaim it until he returns. Its benefit lies in obedient recollection and gospel witness rather than an intrinsic sacramental efficacy.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PRIMARILY-HORIZONTAL-UNITY", "label": "Primarily horizontal unity", "description": "Primarily horizontal unity", "definition": "Sharing one bread chiefly enacts and deepens the reconciliation, mutual belonging, and equality of Christ's body. Vertical remembrance remains present, but the meal's distinctive benefit is communal unity.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "1 Corinthians 10:16–17 → participation in Christ and one body: grace conferred, covenant communion enacted, or social unity signified?", "1 Corinthians 11:26–32 → proclamation and self-examination; divine judgment indicates objective efficacy or covenant seriousness.", "Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:24–25 → remembrance as mental recollection, liturgical memorial before God, or covenant-renewal action.", "John 6:53–58, if Eucharistic → sacramental nourishment; if not, faith in Christ’s death." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If unworthy reception can objectively bring judgment, this raises objective holiness but does not alone specify how worthy reception gives grace.", "If the Supper is a divine promise attached to signs, update MEANS-BY-FAITH or OBJECTIVE-MEANS-OF-GRACE.", "If its explicit verbs are remember and proclaim, update memorial/proclamation, but these may coexist with means-of-grace claims." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“The rite has no divinely appointed efficacy beyond participants’ thoughts” conflicts with objective means-of-grace models." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "OBJECTIVE-MEANS-OF-GRACE": "substantive", "MEANS-BY-FAITH": "substantive", "COVENANT-RENEWAL-MEAL": "substantive", "ASSURANCE-AND-NOURISHMENT": "substantive", "MEMORIAL-AND-PROCLAMATION": "substantive", "PRIMARILY-HORIZONTAL-UNITY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "OBJECTIVE-MEANS-OF-GRACE", "MEANS-BY-FAITH", "COVENANT-RENEWAL-MEAL", "ASSURANCE-AND-NOURISHMENT", "MEMORIAL-AND-PROCLAMATION", "PRIMARILY-HORIZONTAL-UNITY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "OBJECTIVE-MEANS-OF-GRACE", "MEANS-BY-FAITH", "COVENANT-RENEWAL-MEAL", "ASSURANCE-AND-NOURISHMENT", "MEMORIAL-AND-PROCLAMATION", "PRIMARILY-HORIZONTAL-UNITY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 10:16–17", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:26–32", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 32 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 22:19", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:24–25", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 6:53–58", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 53, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 58 } ] }, { "id": "SUP-03", "canonicalId": "SUP-03", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SUP-03" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Admission: open, close, closed, or baptized-only communion", "shortLabel": "Admission: open, close, closed, or baptized-only communion", "question": "Who may receive the Supper?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "OPEN-ALL-PROFESSING-CHRISTIANS", "label": "Open all professing christians", "description": "Open all professing christians", "definition": "Any person who credibly professes Christian faith may receive, regardless of congregation or denomination. The table is fenced by basic Christian identity rather than prior verification of baptism or full doctrinal agreement.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "BAPTIZED-BELIEVERS", "label": "Baptized believers", "description": "Baptized believers", "definition": "Communion is ordinarily for professing believers who have received valid Christian baptism, since initiation precedes the covenant meal. The standard does not by itself require membership in the hosting church.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "SAME-DENOMINATION-OR-DOCTRINE", "label": "Same denomination or doctrine", "description": "Same denomination or doctrine", "definition": "Admission requires shared confession or membership in a church of substantially the same faith and order. Communion visibly expresses doctrinal fellowship, so profession and baptism alone are not sufficient.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "SAME-LOCAL-CHURCH", "label": "Same local church", "description": "Same local church", "definition": "The meal is ordinarily restricted to members of the particular congregation, or to guests admitted after explicit pastoral examination. Because communion enacts accountable local membership, a generic Christian profession does not establish table fellowship.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "EPISCOPAL-COMMUNION-ONLY", "label": "Episcopal communion only", "description": "Episcopal communion only", "definition": "Reception belongs to baptized members in communion with the church's recognized bishops and sacramental order. The boundary is ecclesial communion, not simply personal belief or local familiarity.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PASTORALLY-FENCED-SELF-EXAMINATION", "label": "Pastorally fenced self examination", "description": "Pastorally fenced self examination", "definition": "The church states biblical qualifications and pastors warn or counsel where needed, while communicants bear primary responsibility to examine themselves. This is more supervised than an unrestricted invitation but less jurisdictionally closed than membership-only models.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 2:41–42 → baptism before breaking bread as mandatory sequence or narrative order.", "1 Corinthians 5:6–13 → exclude the disciplined immoral; local church or all recognized Christians?", "1 Corinthians 10:16–22 → table fellowship expresses ecclesial and doctrinal communion, not merely private devotion.", "1 Corinthians 11:27–32 → self-examination, ministerial fencing, or both?", "Romans 14:1–15:7 → receive disputing believers; does this govern table admission?" ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If the Supper visibly declares one church body and shared doctrine, update tighter communion.", "If baptism is universally the initiatory rite, update BAPTIZED-BELIEVERS; disagreement then shifts to which baptisms are valid.", "If self-examination is the principal biblical fence, update PASTORALLY-FENCED-SELF-EXAMINATION or open communion.", "Distinguish close (like-faith/order), closed (local members), and open; users often collapse them." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Unrestricted invitation regardless of Christian profession conflicts with every model that treats the meal as covenantal Christian communion." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "OPEN-ALL-PROFESSING-CHRISTIANS": "substantive", "BAPTIZED-BELIEVERS": "substantive", "SAME-DENOMINATION-OR-DOCTRINE": "substantive", "SAME-LOCAL-CHURCH": "substantive", "EPISCOPAL-COMMUNION-ONLY": "substantive", "PASTORALLY-FENCED-SELF-EXAMINATION": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "OPEN-ALL-PROFESSING-CHRISTIANS", "BAPTIZED-BELIEVERS", "SAME-DENOMINATION-OR-DOCTRINE", "SAME-LOCAL-CHURCH", "EPISCOPAL-COMMUNION-ONLY", "PASTORALLY-FENCED-SELF-EXAMINATION" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "OPEN-ALL-PROFESSING-CHRISTIANS", "BAPTIZED-BELIEVERS", "SAME-DENOMINATION-OR-DOCTRINE", "SAME-LOCAL-CHURCH", "EPISCOPAL-COMMUNION-ONLY", "PASTORALLY-FENCED-SELF-EXAMINATION" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:41–42", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 41, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 42 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:6–13", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 10:16–22", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:27–32", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 32 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 14:1–15:7", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 7 } ] }, { "id": "SUP-04", "canonicalId": "SUP-04", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SUP-04" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Paedocommunion and age of first reception", "shortLabel": "Paedocommunion and age of first reception", "question": "May baptized infants or young covenant children receive before an articulate profession or confirmation?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "PAEDOCOMMUNION", "label": "Paedocommunion", "description": "Paedocommunion", "definition": "Baptized infants and young children may receive because baptism fully includes them in the covenant body and the meal nourishes all its members. Articulate profession is not made a universal prerequisite.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DISCERNMENT-REQUIRED", "label": "Discernment required", "description": "Discernment required", "definition": "Each recipient must possess age-appropriate ability to discern the body and participate intentionally, so infants should wait. The threshold may be reached before a formal membership profession or confirmation.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PROFESSION-REQUIRED", "label": "Profession required", "description": "Profession required", "definition": "Communion follows a credible personal profession of faith, not baptism alone or cognitive maturity by itself. The meal marks professing communicant membership.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CONFIRMATION-OR-CATECHESIS-REQUIRED", "label": "Confirmation or catechesis required", "description": "Confirmation or catechesis required", "definition": "Baptized children should receive after completing the church's prescribed catechesis, examination, or confirmation. Admission is ecclesially supervised rather than determined only by family judgment or a child's stated desire.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "HOUSEHOLD-DISCRETION", "label": "Household discretion", "description": "Household discretion", "definition": "Parents and pastors may decide when a baptized child should begin receiving based on maturity and household discipleship. This rejects both automatic infant reception and a single universal age or ceremony.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Exodus 12:3–4, 24–27 → Passover household participation as precedent, or participation conditioned by ability and old-covenant form?", "1 Corinthians 10:1–4 → all Israel shared sacramental types, including children; typology supports communal inclusion or warns against presumption?", "1 Corinthians 11:27–32 → “examine himself” and “discern the body” universally require cognitive capacity, address culpable adults only, or regulate households through heads?", "Matthew 19:13–15; Acts 2:39 → kingdom/covenant inclusion, but not direct meal commands." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If baptism fully initiates and the Supper sustains all members, update PAEDOCOMMUNION.", "If each recipient must personally examine and discern, update DISCERNMENT-REQUIRED.", "If profession, not mere cognitive ability, marks communicant membership, update PROFESSION-REQUIRED." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Infant reception conflicts with a universal articulate-profession prerequisite, not with age-appropriate pastoral examination." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "PAEDOCOMMUNION": "substantive", "DISCERNMENT-REQUIRED": "substantive", "PROFESSION-REQUIRED": "substantive", "CONFIRMATION-OR-CATECHESIS-REQUIRED": "substantive", "HOUSEHOLD-DISCRETION": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "PAEDOCOMMUNION", "DISCERNMENT-REQUIRED", "PROFESSION-REQUIRED", "CONFIRMATION-OR-CATECHESIS-REQUIRED", "HOUSEHOLD-DISCRETION" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "PAEDOCOMMUNION", "DISCERNMENT-REQUIRED", "PROFESSION-REQUIRED", "CONFIRMATION-OR-CATECHESIS-REQUIRED", "HOUSEHOLD-DISCRETION" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 12:3–4", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 12:24–27", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 10:1–4", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:27–32", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 32 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 19:13–15", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:39", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 39, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 39 } ] }, { "id": "SUP-05", "canonicalId": "SUP-05", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SUP-05" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Frequency and placement in worship", "shortLabel": "Frequency and placement in worship", "question": "How often should the church celebrate the Supper?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "EVERY-LORDS-DAY", "label": "Every lords day", "description": "Every lords day", "definition": "The Supper belongs to the ordinary purpose of each Lord's Day gathering and should be celebrated weekly. Less frequent practice is treated as a departure from the apostolic pattern, not simply another prudent schedule.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:20:7:20:7", "1Corinthians:16:2:16:2" ], "rationale": "Breaking bread and regular church practice on the first day support weekly celebration.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "FREQUENT-NORM", "label": "Frequent norm", "description": "Frequent norm", "definition": "Churches should celebrate often, ordinarily weekly or at similarly close intervals, because the meal is a central means of worship and grace. The norm is strong without making every Sunday a divine minimum.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:2:42:2:42", "Acts:2:46:2:46" ], "rationale": "The earliest church devotes itself to breaking bread and does so with notable frequency.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "MONTHLY-OR-PERIODIC", "label": "Monthly or periodic", "description": "Monthly or periodic", "definition": "A regular monthly or periodic schedule can honor the command while preserving preparation and avoiding routinization. Frequency is important, but weekly observance is not considered necessary.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:11:18:11:26", "Acts:2:42:2:42" ], "rationale": "Paul commands faithful observance whenever the church eats without setting an exact interval, permitting an orderly periodic schedule.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "ANNUAL-PASSOVER-PATTERN", "label": "Annual passover pattern", "description": "Annual passover pattern", "definition": "The Supper should be observed annually in relation to Passover and the timing of Jesus' final meal. This treats the founding calendar, rather than weekly gathering practice, as the governing pattern.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Luke:22:14:22:20", "1Corinthians:5:7:5:8" ], "rationale": "The meal’s institution in Passover and Paul’s paschal framing support an annual commemorative pattern.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PASTORAL-DISCRETION", "label": "Pastoral discretion", "description": "Pastoral discretion", "definition": "Christ commands continued celebration but leaves its frequency to the church's pastoral judgment and circumstances. Weekly, monthly, or other regular schedules can therefore be faithful.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:11:18:11:26", "Luke:22:14:22:20" ], "rationale": "The institution and apostolic instructions specify meaning and manner but do not explicitly mandate a universal frequency.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 2:42, 46 → daily/common meals, Eucharist, or overlapping practice?", "Acts 20:7 → weekly Sunday purpose of gathering or one notable farewell service?", "1 Corinthians 11:18–26; 16:2 → “when you come together” and first-day rhythm suggest weekly practice or only regulate occasions.", "Luke 22:14–20; 1 Corinthians 5:7–8 → Passover continuity supports annual pattern or typology fulfilled in recurring Eucharist." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Acts 20:7 states the ordinary purpose of Lord’s Day assembly, update EVERY-LORDS-DAY.", "If “as often” grants latitude, update PASTORAL-DISCRETION; it does not imply infrequency.", "Means-of-grace views raise expected frequency, but this is a prudential update rather than entailment." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "An explicit divinely mandated weekly minimum conflicts with fully discretionary timing." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "EVERY-LORDS-DAY": "substantive", "FREQUENT-NORM": "substantive", "MONTHLY-OR-PERIODIC": "substantive", "ANNUAL-PASSOVER-PATTERN": "substantive", "PASTORAL-DISCRETION": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "EVERY-LORDS-DAY", "FREQUENT-NORM", "MONTHLY-OR-PERIODIC", "ANNUAL-PASSOVER-PATTERN", "PASTORAL-DISCRETION" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "EVERY-LORDS-DAY", "FREQUENT-NORM", "MONTHLY-OR-PERIODIC", "ANNUAL-PASSOVER-PATTERN", "PASTORAL-DISCRETION" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:42", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 42, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 42 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:46", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 46, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 46 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:7", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:18–26", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 16:2", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 22:14–20", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:7–8", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 8 } ] }, { "id": "SUP-06", "canonicalId": "SUP-06", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SUP-06" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Eucharistic sacrifice, memorial, and once-for-all atonement", "shortLabel": "Eucharistic sacrifice, memorial, and once-for-all atonement", "question": "May the Supper be called a sacrifice, and in what sense?", "domain": "VI. 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Calling it sacrifice describes the church's liturgical access to that one event, not another atonement.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MEMORIAL-OFFERING-OF-PRAISE", "label": "Memorial offering of praise", "description": "Memorial offering of praise", "definition": "The church offers thanksgiving, praise, gifts, and itself to God while memorializing Christ's unique sacrifice. The sacrificial language applies to the congregation's response, not to a propitiatory offering of Christ.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "NO-SACRIFICIAL-SENSE-BEYOND-THANKSGIVING", "label": "No sacrificial sense beyond thanksgiving", "description": "No sacrificial sense beyond thanksgiving", "definition": "The Supper is a remembrance and thanksgiving, and should not be described as a sacrifice except in the broad sense that all Christian praise is sacrificial. 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Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "BREAD-AND-WINE-ESSENTIAL", "label": "Bread and wine essential", "description": "Bread and wine essential", "definition": "Bread and fermented wine are the matter instituted by Christ and are essential to a valid Supper, not merely preferred historical symbols. Necessity cases may raise pastoral questions but do not redefine the elements.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "GRAPE-JUICE-PERMISSIBLE", "label": "Grape juice permissible", "description": "Grape juice permissible", "definition": "Unfermented grape juice can validly serve the cup because the sign depends on fruit of the vine rather than alcoholic content. Wine may remain historically normative without being essential.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "LEAVENED-OR-UNLEAVENED-OPEN", "label": "Leavened or unleavened open", "description": "Leavened or unleavened open", "definition": "Either leavened or unleavened bread can faithfully serve the Supper because the New Testament does not make leaven content a validity condition. Churches may follow their liturgical inheritance without condemning the other form.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ORDAINED-PRESIDER-REQUIRED", "label": "Ordained presider required", "description": "Ordained presider required", "definition": "A duly ordained minister must preside because the Supper is an official act of the church's sacramental ministry. A gathering of believers cannot constitute the rite solely through shared intention.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ELDER-OR-CHURCH-DELEGATE", "label": "Elder or church delegate", "description": "Elder or church delegate", "definition": "An elder should ordinarily oversee the meal, but the church may authorize another suitable person to administer it. Ecclesial authorization is decisive rather than sacerdotal ordination alone.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ANY-GATHERED-BELIEVERS", "label": "Any gathered believers", "description": "Any gathered believers", "definition": "A gathered company of Christians may celebrate the Supper without an ordained or formally delegated presider. Christ's command to the community and its shared remembrance are sufficient for the act.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 26:26–29; 1 Corinthians 10:16; 11:23–26 → bread and “fruit of the vine”; ordinary fermented wine, generic grape product, or symbol allowing substitutes?", "Exodus 12:15–20; 1 Corinthians 5:7–8 → unleavened Passover requirement continues sacramentally or is typological/moralized?", "Acts 2:42, 46; 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11 → no presider explicitly named; ecclesial order inferred from apostolic oversight and pastoral office.", "1 Corinthians 11:20–22, 33–34 → common meal context versus distinct ritual meal." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If institution by Christ fixes matter strictly, update BREAD-AND-WINE-ESSENTIAL.", "If symbol function rather than chemical identity controls, update substitutes in necessity but not ordinary preference.", "Administrator rules depend more on ecclesiology and sacrament validity than on an explicit Supper text." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "If wine is essential matter, intentional juice-only celebration is invalid; if validity lies in faithful obedience under available means, it may be irregular but valid." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "BREAD-AND-WINE-ESSENTIAL": "substantive", "GRAPE-JUICE-PERMISSIBLE": "substantive", "LEAVENED-OR-UNLEAVENED-OPEN": "substantive", "ORDAINED-PRESIDER-REQUIRED": "substantive", "ELDER-OR-CHURCH-DELEGATE": "substantive", "ANY-GATHERED-BELIEVERS": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "BREAD-AND-WINE-ESSENTIAL", "GRAPE-JUICE-PERMISSIBLE", "LEAVENED-OR-UNLEAVENED-OPEN", "ORDAINED-PRESIDER-REQUIRED", "ELDER-OR-CHURCH-DELEGATE", "ANY-GATHERED-BELIEVERS" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "BREAD-AND-WINE-ESSENTIAL", "GRAPE-JUICE-PERMISSIBLE", "LEAVENED-OR-UNLEAVENED-OPEN", "ORDAINED-PRESIDER-REQUIRED", "ELDER-OR-CHURCH-DELEGATE", "ANY-GATHERED-BELIEVERS" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 26:26–29", "startChapter": 26, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 26, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 10:16", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:23–26", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 12:15–20", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:7–8", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:42", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 42, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 42 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:46", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 46, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 46 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:7", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:20–22", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:33–34", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 33, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 34 } ] }, { "id": "GOV-01", "canonicalId": "GOV-01", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GOV-01" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Basic polity", "shortLabel": "Basic polity", "question": "Where does ordinary final earthly jurisdiction reside?", "domain": "VI. 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Authority is personal and regional rather than vested finally in each congregation.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Titus:1:5:1:7", "1Timothy:5:17:5:22" ], "rationale": "These texts foreground translocal appointment and oversight of ordained leaders.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PRESBYTERIAN-CONNECTIONAL", "label": "Presbyterian connectional", "description": "Presbyterian connectional", "definition": "Church authority is exercised through graded councils of elders, with presbyteries and synods able to review and bind local sessions. No single bishop rules the connection, and no congregation is fully autonomous.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:15:1:15:35", "Acts:16:4:16:4" ], "rationale": "A binding council of apostles and elders issuing decisions to multiple churches is the key connectional pattern.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "CONGREGATIONAL-ELDER-LED", "label": "Congregational elder led", "description": "Congregational elder led", "definition": "The congregation holds final earthly authority while qualified elders lead, teach, and ordinarily direct its decisions. Elder leadership is real but remains accountable to the assembled membership in matters assigned to the church.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Matthew:18:17:18:20", "Acts:20:17:20:17", "Acts:20:28:20:28" ], "rationale": "These passages hold together gathered-church authority and substantive elder oversight.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "CONGREGATIONAL-DIRECT", "label": "Congregational direct", "description": "Congregational direct", "definition": "The gathered membership directly exercises the church's final authority through deliberation and decision rather than normally deferring to an elder body. Leaders serve and facilitate without possessing a distinct governing jurisdiction.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:5:4:5:5", "2Corinthians:2:6:2:6" ], "rationale": "These texts foreground the assembled church and the action of the majority in discipline.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "APOSTOLIC-NETWORK", "label": "Apostolic network", "description": "Apostolic network", "definition": "Local churches receive translocal oversight from recognized apostolic or network leaders whose relational authority crosses congregational boundaries. This differs from fixed diocesan or presbyterial courts by grounding authority chiefly in calling, mission, and relationship.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:14:23:14:23", "Hebrews:13:17:13:17" ], "rationale": "These passages are often used to support translocal missionary appointment and relational spiritual oversight.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "HYBRID", "label": "Hybrid", "description": "Hybrid", "definition": "Final authority is distributed by domain among congregation, elders, and translocal overseers rather than located wholly in one body. This is a defined mixed polity only when those jurisdictions and appeal paths are specified.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:15:1:15:35", "Matthew:18:17:18:20" ], "rationale": "These texts place real authority at both wider conciliar and gathered local levels.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 16:18–19; 18:17–20 → keys entrusted to Peter, apostolic officers, elders, or assembled congregation?", "Acts 14:23; 20:17, 28; Philippians 1:1; Titus 1:5–7 → local plural overseers; does translocal supervision emerge elsewhere?", "Acts 15:1–35; 16:4 → binding council of apostles and elders, unique apostolic settlement, or permanent connectional precedent?", "1 Corinthians 5:4–5, 12–13; 2 Corinthians 2:6 → assembled congregation executes discipline, assents to leaders’ act, or follows apostolic judgment?", "1 Timothy 5:17–22; Titus 1:5 → Timothy/Titus as temporary delegates, local pastors, or proto-bishops?", "Hebrews 13:7, 17; 1 Peter 5:1–5 → real leader authority under the chief Shepherd." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Peter/apostolic authority descends through a singular regional overseer, update EPISCOPAL.", "If Acts 15 supplies continuing elder courts with binding authority over churches, update PRESBYTERIAN-CONNECTIONAL.", "If Matthew 18 and 1 Corinthians 5 place final keys in the assembled body, update a congregational option.", "Elder leadership and congregational final authority can coexist; do not encode them as opposites." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Final jurisdiction cannot simultaneously be exclusively vested in a diocesan bishop and exclusively in each local congregation in the same dispute." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "EPISCOPAL": "substantive", "PRESBYTERIAN-CONNECTIONAL": "substantive", "CONGREGATIONAL-ELDER-LED": "substantive", "CONGREGATIONAL-DIRECT": "substantive", "APOSTOLIC-NETWORK": "substantive", "HYBRID": "substantive_hybrid" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "EPISCOPAL", "PRESBYTERIAN-CONNECTIONAL", "CONGREGATIONAL-ELDER-LED", "CONGREGATIONAL-DIRECT", "APOSTOLIC-NETWORK", "HYBRID" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "EPISCOPAL", "PRESBYTERIAN-CONNECTIONAL", "CONGREGATIONAL-ELDER-LED", "CONGREGATIONAL-DIRECT", "APOSTOLIC-NETWORK", "HYBRID" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 16:18–19", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 18:17–20", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 14:23", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:17", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:28", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 28, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 1:1", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 1:5–7", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 15:1–35", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 35 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:4", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:4–5", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:12–13", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 2:6", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 5:17–22", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 1:5", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 13:7", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 13:17", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 5:1–5", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 5 } ] }, { "id": "GOV-02", "canonicalId": "GOV-02", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GOV-02" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Are elder, overseer/bishop, and pastor one office?", "shortLabel": "Are elder, overseer/bishop, and pastor one office?", "question": "Do New Testament terms name one office from different angles or distinct ranks?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "ONE-OFFICE-THREE-DESCRIPTIONS", "label": "One office three descriptions", "description": "One office three descriptions", "definition": "Elder, overseer, and pastor name the same continuing office from the angles of status, oversight, and shepherding. Differences among ministers are functional rather than separate ranks established by these terms.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "BISHOP-DISTINCT-FROM-PRESBYTER", "label": "Bishop distinct from presbyter", "description": "Bishop distinct from presbyter", "definition": "Bishop and presbyter are distinct ranks, with bishops possessing oversight of presbyters and multiple congregations. This may be read as apostolic structure or as an authorized early development rather than interchangeable titles.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PASTOR-DISTINCT-FROM-RULING-ELDER", "label": "Pastor distinct from ruling elder", "description": "Pastor distinct from ruling elder", "definition": "Pastors or ministers form a distinct teaching office alongside ruling elders who govern with them. The distinction rests on vocation to Word and sacrament, not simply on some elders spending more time teaching.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DEVELOPING-PATTERN-NOT-FIXED", "label": "Developing pattern not fixed", "description": "Developing pattern not fixed", "definition": "The New Testament reflects fluid or developing use of ministerial titles rather than prescribing one permanent relation among pastor, elder, and bishop. Churches may order these functions in more than one faithful form.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 20:17, 28 → the same men are elders and overseers charged to shepherd; strong evidence for terminological overlap.", "Titus 1:5–7 → elder and overseer appear interchangeable.", "1 Peter 5:1–4 → elders shepherd and exercise oversight.", "1 Timothy 3:1–13; Philippians 1:1 → overseers and deacons named, with no separate presbyter list.", "1 Timothy 5:17; Ephesians 4:11 → ruling/teaching distinctions may imply functional specializations or distinct offices.", "2–3 John; Revelation 2–3 → “the elder” and “angel” have disputed institutional significance." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Direct interchange in Acts/Titus strongly updates ONE-OFFICE-THREE-DESCRIPTIONS for the apostolic period.", "A distinct later episcopate requires either development authorized by apostolic principle or reinterpretation of singular oversight texts; it is not established merely by the English word “bishop.”", "If some elders labor especially in word/teaching, update functional differentiation; additional premises are needed for two offices." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Strict divine-right monarchical episcopacy conflicts with the claim that Scripture makes all bishops and presbyters the same rank permanently." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "ONE-OFFICE-THREE-DESCRIPTIONS": "substantive", "BISHOP-DISTINCT-FROM-PRESBYTER": "substantive", "PASTOR-DISTINCT-FROM-RULING-ELDER": "substantive", "DEVELOPING-PATTERN-NOT-FIXED": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "ONE-OFFICE-THREE-DESCRIPTIONS", "BISHOP-DISTINCT-FROM-PRESBYTER", "PASTOR-DISTINCT-FROM-RULING-ELDER", "DEVELOPING-PATTERN-NOT-FIXED" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "ONE-OFFICE-THREE-DESCRIPTIONS", "BISHOP-DISTINCT-FROM-PRESBYTER", "PASTOR-DISTINCT-FROM-RULING-ELDER", "DEVELOPING-PATTERN-NOT-FIXED" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:17", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:28", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 28, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 1:5–7", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 5:1–4", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 3:1–13", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 1:1", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 5:17", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 4:11", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 2–3", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": null } ] }, { "id": "GOV-03", "canonicalId": "GOV-03", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GOV-03" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Number and nature of continuing church offices", "shortLabel": "Number and nature of continuing church offices", "question": "Which offices continue after the apostolic age?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "TWO-OFFICES-ELDER-DEACON", "label": "Two offices elder deacon", "description": "Two offices elder deacon", "definition": "The continuing ordained offices are elder or overseer and deacon, with pastor describing the elder's shepherding work. Apostles and prophets were foundational or are functions rather than additional ordinary offices.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "THREE-OFFICES-MINISTER-ELDER-DEACON", "label": "Three offices minister elder deacon", "description": "Three offices minister elder deacon", "definition": "Minister of Word and sacrament, governing elder, and deacon are three continuing offices with distinct responsibilities. This differentiates teaching ministry from ruling eldership rather than treating all elders as one office.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "THREEFOLD-BISHOP-PRIEST-DEACON", "label": "Threefold bishop priest deacon", "description": "Threefold bishop priest deacon", "definition": "The church's enduring ordained ministry has three orders: bishops, presbyters or priests, and deacons. Bishops possess a distinct oversight and ordination role above presbyters.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "FIVEFOLD-MINISTRY", "label": "Fivefold ministry", "description": "Fivefold ministry", "definition": "Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers remain operative ministries for equipping the church. Accounts differ over whether all five are formal offices, but the apostolic and prophetic functions are not confined to the first generation.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "NO-FIXED-OFFICE-SCHEMA", "label": "No fixed office schema", "description": "No fixed office schema", "definition": "Scripture identifies necessary gifts and leadership functions without imposing one exhaustive office structure for every church and era. Communities may develop offices suited to mission while remaining accountable to biblical qualifications and purposes.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Philippians 1:1; 1 Timothy 3:1–13 → overseers and deacons as two-office pattern.", "Acts 6:1–6 → institution of deacons, prototype of diaconal service, or unique Seven with preaching roles?", "1 Timothy 5:17; Romans 12:6–8 → teaching/ruling specializations.", "Ephesians 4:11–13; 1 Corinthians 12:28 → apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherd-teachers: offices, gifts, foundational ministries, or continuing fivefold structure?", "1 Peter 2:5, 9; Revelation 1:6 → priesthood of all believers; does this exclude a distinct ministerial priesthood or define its context?" ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Ephesians 4 roles continue “until” mature unity, update continuing functions, but not necessarily five juridical offices.", "If pastor/elder/overseer are one and Philippians/1 Timothy name only that office plus deacons, update TWO-OFFICES-ELDER-DEACON.", "If word-and-sacrament ministry differs in order from governing elders, update THREE-OFFICES-MINISTER-ELDER-DEACON." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A closed two-office claim is incompatible with a divinely mandated continuing office of apostle distinct from elder." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "TWO-OFFICES-ELDER-DEACON": "substantive", "THREE-OFFICES-MINISTER-ELDER-DEACON": "substantive", "THREEFOLD-BISHOP-PRIEST-DEACON": "substantive", "FIVEFOLD-MINISTRY": "substantive", "NO-FIXED-OFFICE-SCHEMA": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "TWO-OFFICES-ELDER-DEACON", "THREE-OFFICES-MINISTER-ELDER-DEACON", "THREEFOLD-BISHOP-PRIEST-DEACON", "FIVEFOLD-MINISTRY", "NO-FIXED-OFFICE-SCHEMA" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "TWO-OFFICES-ELDER-DEACON", "THREE-OFFICES-MINISTER-ELDER-DEACON", "THREEFOLD-BISHOP-PRIEST-DEACON", "FIVEFOLD-MINISTRY", "NO-FIXED-OFFICE-SCHEMA" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 1:1", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 3:1–13", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 6:1–6", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 5:17", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 12:6–8", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 4:11–13", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:28", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 28, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 2:5", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 2:9", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 1:6", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 6 } ] }, { "id": "GOV-04", "canonicalId": "GOV-04", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GOV-04" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Plurality of elders and the senior/solo pastor", "shortLabel": "Plurality of elders and the senior/solo pastor", "question": "Is a plurality of qualified elders in every local church divinely required, ordinarily normative, or optional?", "domain": "VI. 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The pattern is strong without becoming an absolute condition.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "SINGLE-PASTOR-PERMISSIBLE", "label": "Single pastor permissible", "description": "Single pastor permissible", "definition": "Scripture permits one pastor or elder to exercise primary local oversight, with plurality being useful but not required or presumptively normative. Accountability may be supplied by congregation or outside relationships.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "SENIOR-PASTOR-AMONG-ELDERS", "label": "Senior pastor among elders", "description": "Senior pastor among elders", "definition": "A plurality may include a senior or lead pastor with genuine coordinating authority among fellow elders. Leadership prominence is compatible with shared eldership so long as it does not erase collective oversight.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CONGREGATIONAL-LEADERSHIP-WITHOUT-ELDERS-TEMPORARILY", "label": "Congregational leadership without elders temporarily", "description": "Congregational leadership without elders temporarily", "definition": "A congregation may continue worship and responsible decision-making during a temporary absence of qualified elders while it seeks and trains leaders. 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Consent constrains leadership without making the membership the ordinary court of final jurisdiction.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ELDERS-HOLD-KEYS", "label": "Elders hold keys", "description": "Elders hold keys", "definition": "The elder body possesses final local authority for doctrine, membership, discipline, and oversight as the church's appointed shepherds. Members participate and may appeal, but congregational votes do not constitute the keys.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "BISHOP-OR-COURT-HOLDS-KEYS", "label": "Bishop or court holds keys", "description": "Bishop or court holds keys", "definition": "Final jurisdiction lies with a bishop or a translocal ecclesial court rather than the local congregation or its elders alone. Local decisions remain subject to authoritative external review.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DOMAIN-SPLIT", "label": "Domain split", "description": "Domain split", "definition": "Different bodies possess final authority in different domains, such as elders in teaching and operations and the congregation in membership or officer selection. The position requires an explicit allocation rather than a vague balance of powers.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 18:17–20 → “tell it to the church” gives congregation final adjudication or publicizes an elder decision?", "Acts 6:2–6 → congregation selects servants and apostles appoint; shared jurisdiction or unique event?", "Acts 14:23 → cheirotoneō means congregational election or apostolic appointment.", "1 Corinthians 5:4–5, 12–13; 2 Corinthians 2:6 → assembly disciplines and “majority” acts.", "Galatians 1:6–9; 1 John 4:1 → whole church judges teaching.", "Hebrews 13:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12–13 → leaders genuinely govern; congregationalism is not leaderlessness." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If church in Matthew 18 refers to the gathered membership and “majority” is operative in restoration, update CONGREGATION-HOLDS-KEYS.", "If selection/discipline texts reflect consent under apostolic or elder governance, update CONGREGATION-CONSENTS.", "Separate domains; a church may give elders teaching/operational authority but members final membership and officer authority." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Sole final authority of the congregation and sole final authority of an external bishop are jurisdictionally incompatible." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "CONGREGATION-HOLDS-KEYS": "substantive", "CONGREGATION-CONSENTS": "substantive", "ELDERS-HOLD-KEYS": "substantive", "BISHOP-OR-COURT-HOLDS-KEYS": "substantive", "DOMAIN-SPLIT": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "CONGREGATION-HOLDS-KEYS", "CONGREGATION-CONSENTS", "ELDERS-HOLD-KEYS", "BISHOP-OR-COURT-HOLDS-KEYS", "DOMAIN-SPLIT" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "CONGREGATION-HOLDS-KEYS", "CONGREGATION-CONSENTS", "ELDERS-HOLD-KEYS", "BISHOP-OR-COURT-HOLDS-KEYS", "DOMAIN-SPLIT" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 18:17–20", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 6:2–6", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 14:23", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:4–5", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:12–13", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 2:6", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 1:6–9", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "1 John", "file": "1John", "label": "1 John 4:1", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 13:17", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Thessalonians", "file": "1Thessalonians", "label": "1 Thessalonians 5:12–13", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 13 } ] }, { "id": "GOV-06", "canonicalId": "GOV-06", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GOV-06" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Translocal councils, denominations, and local autonomy", "shortLabel": "Translocal councils, denominations, and local autonomy", "question": "Can a synod, presbytery, diocese, or network issue binding decisions for a local church?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "BINDING-COUNCILS", "label": "Binding councils", "description": "Binding councils", "definition": "Properly constituted councils of churches may issue doctrinal and disciplinary decisions that bind participating congregations. Their authority is genuinely ecclesial even when councils remain fallible and reformable.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CONNECTIONAL-COURTS", "label": "Connectional courts", "description": "Connectional courts", "definition": "Sessions, presbyteries, and higher assemblies form graded courts with authority to hear appeals and govern churches within the connection. Binding power arises from a shared polity rather than occasional interchurch advice.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "EPISCOPAL-JURISDICTION", "label": "Episcopal jurisdiction", "description": "Episcopal jurisdiction", "definition": "A bishop exercises ordinary jurisdiction over clergy and congregations in a diocese, with wider episcopal structures providing further accountability. Local churches therefore do not possess final autonomy.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ADVISORY-ASSOCIATIONS", "label": "Advisory associations", "description": "Advisory associations", "definition": "Churches should cooperate in associations or councils that offer counsel, resources, and moral persuasion but cannot compel a local congregation. Fellowship is structured without creating a superior court.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "STRICT-LOCAL-AUTONOMY", "label": "Strict local autonomy", "description": "Strict local autonomy", "definition": "No external synod, bishop, or network may bind a local church's decisions because the congregation is the highest earthly authority for its own affairs. Other churches may admonish or withdraw fellowship, but not govern.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "COVENANTAL-NETWORK-AUTHORITY", "label": "Covenantal network authority", "description": "Covenantal network authority", "definition": "Churches may voluntarily enter a network whose leaders and processes acquire defined authority through covenantal commitment. This is stronger than advice but rests on relational agreement rather than territorial episcopacy or a full presbyterial court system.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 15:1–35; 16:4 → translocal decree binding churches; grounded in unique apostles or continuing conciliar authority?", "Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5 → outside ministers appoint local elders during mission; temporary church-planting authority or lasting hierarchy?", "2 Corinthians 8:16–24 → interchurch representatives and financial accountability without obvious jurisdiction.", "Revelation 2–3 → Christ addresses distinct churches, supporting local accountability but not necessarily autonomy.", "1 Corinthians 14:33; Colossians 4:16 → common interchurch practice and shared letters." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Acts 15’s authority rests on apostles’ revelatory office, its post-apostolic analogue may be persuasive but not infallible.", "If elders as one regional presbytery govern multiple congregations, update CONNECTIONAL-COURTS.", "If no body may exercise keys outside the local assembly, update STRICT-LOCAL-AUTONOMY." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A local church cannot be both finally autonomous and subject to compulsory external adjudication in the same domain." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "BINDING-COUNCILS": "substantive", "CONNECTIONAL-COURTS": "substantive", "EPISCOPAL-JURISDICTION": "substantive", "ADVISORY-ASSOCIATIONS": "substantive", "STRICT-LOCAL-AUTONOMY": "substantive", "COVENANTAL-NETWORK-AUTHORITY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "BINDING-COUNCILS", "CONNECTIONAL-COURTS", "EPISCOPAL-JURISDICTION", "ADVISORY-ASSOCIATIONS", "STRICT-LOCAL-AUTONOMY", "COVENANTAL-NETWORK-AUTHORITY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "BINDING-COUNCILS", "CONNECTIONAL-COURTS", "EPISCOPAL-JURISDICTION", "ADVISORY-ASSOCIATIONS", "STRICT-LOCAL-AUTONOMY", "COVENANTAL-NETWORK-AUTHORITY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 15:1–35", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 35 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:4", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 14:23", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 1:5", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 8:16–24", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 2–3", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:33", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 33, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 33 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 4:16", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 16 } ] }, { "id": "GOV-07", "canonicalId": "GOV-07", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GOV-07" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Ordination: recognition, conferral, or sacramental character", "shortLabel": "Ordination: recognition, conferral, or sacramental character", "question": "What happens in ordination and who may perform it?", "domain": "VI. 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Their corporate authorization, rather than a congregational vote or episcopal succession, establishes the office.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PRESBYTERIAL-CONFERRAL", "label": "Presbyterial conferral", "description": "Presbyterial conferral", "definition": "The regional presbytery authoritatively admits a person to ordained ministry through examination and laying on of hands. A local church may call the minister, but cannot independently confer the office.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "EPISCOPAL-SACRAMENT", "label": "Episcopal sacrament", "description": "Episcopal sacrament", "definition": "A bishop sacramentally ordains the candidate into a continuing order of ministry and confers grace or character for that office. Ordination is therefore more than appointment or public recognition.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CHARISMATIC-CALL-RATIFIED", "label": "Charismatic call ratified", "description": "Charismatic call ratified", "definition": "A Spirit-given calling and gifting constitute the ministry in substance, while church leaders ratify and release the person for service. Institutional recognition tests the call but does not create it.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "FUNCTIONAL-APPOINTMENT", "label": "Functional appointment", "description": "Functional appointment", "definition": "Ordination is the church's practical appointment of a qualified person to a role and authority that can later end. It carries no indelible character and need not imply a ministry status beyond the assigned function.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 6:3–6; 13:1–3; 14:23 → selection, prayer, fasting, laying on hands, appointment.", "1 Timothy 4:14; 2 Timothy 1:6 → gift given “through/by” prophecy and laying on hands: sacramental conferral, charismatic confirmation, or commissioning?", "1 Timothy 5:22; Titus 1:5 → guarded appointment authority.", "Numbers 27:18–23 as background → representative transfer/commissioning, but covenantal continuity must be argued." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If laying on hands instrumentally confers office and grace through an episcopal chain, update EPISCOPAL-SACRAMENT.", "If a preexisting divine call/gifting is publicly tested and recognized, update CONGREGATIONAL-RECOGNITION or CHARISMATIC-CALL-RATIFIED.", "Separate validity, regularity, and prudence: an irregular ordination need not be no ordination." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Indelible sacramental character conflicts with purely revocable functional appointment as complete accounts of the same act." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "CONGREGATIONAL-RECOGNITION": "substantive", "ELDER-COLLEGE-COMMISSIONING": "substantive", "PRESBYTERIAL-CONFERRAL": "substantive", "EPISCOPAL-SACRAMENT": "substantive", "CHARISMATIC-CALL-RATIFIED": "substantive", "FUNCTIONAL-APPOINTMENT": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "CONGREGATIONAL-RECOGNITION", "ELDER-COLLEGE-COMMISSIONING", "PRESBYTERIAL-CONFERRAL", "EPISCOPAL-SACRAMENT", "CHARISMATIC-CALL-RATIFIED", "FUNCTIONAL-APPOINTMENT" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "CONGREGATIONAL-RECOGNITION", "ELDER-COLLEGE-COMMISSIONING", "PRESBYTERIAL-CONFERRAL", "EPISCOPAL-SACRAMENT", "CHARISMATIC-CALL-RATIFIED", "FUNCTIONAL-APPOINTMENT" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 6:3–6", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 13:1–3", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 3 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 14:23", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 4:14", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "2 Timothy", "file": "2Timothy", "label": "2 Timothy 1:6", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 5:22", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 1:5", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Numbers", "file": "Numbers", "label": "Numbers 27:18–23", "startChapter": 27, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 27, "endVerse": 23 } ] }, { "id": "GOV-08", "canonicalId": "GOV-08", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GOV-08" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Deacons: office, service, and governing authority", "shortLabel": "Deacons: office, service, and governing authority", "question": "What is the deacon’s role?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "MERCY-AND-ADMINISTRATION", "label": "Mercy and administration", "description": "Mercy and administration", "definition": "Deacons lead practical service, care for material needs, and administer resources so elders can concentrate on prayer and teaching. They hold a true office without serving as the church's governing board.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "LITURGICAL-ASSISTANT", "label": "Liturgical assistant", "description": "Liturgical assistant", "definition": "Deacons assist ordained ministers in worship, sacramental administration, and care of the congregation. Their role is formally ecclesial and liturgical rather than chiefly a facilities or finance function.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "GOVERNING-BOARD", "label": "Governing board", "description": "Governing board", "definition": "Deacons share substantial governing or trustee authority over the congregation, finances, and institutional decisions. This assigns the office more jurisdiction than service-focused accounts.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "WORD-AND-MISSION-MINISTRY", "label": "Word and mission ministry", "description": "Word and mission ministry", "definition": "Deacons are commissioned for proclamation, evangelism, and mission as well as practical service, following figures such as Stephen and Philip. Teaching is treated as characteristic of the office, not merely a gift an individual deacon may happen to exercise.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "FLEXIBLE-SERVICE-OFFICE", "label": "Flexible service office", "description": "Flexible service office", "definition": "The diaconate is an adaptable office for whatever organized service the church's needs require under its governing leaders. No single ministry such as mercy, liturgy, or administration exhausts its biblical purpose.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 6:1–6 → deacon prototype focused on distribution, or the Seven as unique commissioned evangelists?", "Philippians 1:1; 1 Timothy 3:8–13 → recognized office distinct from overseers.", "Romans 16:1–2 → Phoebe as officeholder/deacon or generic servant/patron.", "1 Timothy 3:12 → household-management qualification implies church governance or general character." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Acts 6 defines the office, update mercy/administration; if not technically diaconal, weight 1 Timothy 3 more heavily.", "Stephen and Philip’s preaching shows deacons may teach by gift, but does not entail preaching is constitutive of the office.", "A governing deacon board requires inference; no text plainly gives deacons authority over elders." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Deacons as final governors over elders conflicts with elder-oversight models unless “deacon” is being used non-biblically as a corporate title." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "MERCY-AND-ADMINISTRATION": "substantive", "LITURGICAL-ASSISTANT": "substantive", "GOVERNING-BOARD": "substantive", "WORD-AND-MISSION-MINISTRY": "substantive", "FLEXIBLE-SERVICE-OFFICE": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "MERCY-AND-ADMINISTRATION", "LITURGICAL-ASSISTANT", "GOVERNING-BOARD", "WORD-AND-MISSION-MINISTRY", "FLEXIBLE-SERVICE-OFFICE" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "MERCY-AND-ADMINISTRATION", "LITURGICAL-ASSISTANT", "GOVERNING-BOARD", "WORD-AND-MISSION-MINISTRY", "FLEXIBLE-SERVICE-OFFICE" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 6:1–6", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 1:1", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 3:8–13", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 16:1–2", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 3:12", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 12 } ] }, { "id": "GEN-01", "canonicalId": "GEN-01", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GEN-01" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Women as elders, overseers, or senior pastors", "shortLabel": "Women as elders, overseers, or senior pastors", "question": "May a qualified woman hold the authoritative teaching/governing office of elder/overseer?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "MALE-ELDERS-REQUIRED", "label": "Male elders required", "description": "Male elders required", "definition": "The elder or overseer office is reserved to qualified men as a continuing creation-grounded order for authoritative teaching and governance. This restriction does not imply lesser dignity or exclude women from every form of ministry.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Timothy:2:8:2:15", "1Timothy:3:1:3:7" ], "rationale": "These texts supply the principal restriction and the male-framed overseer qualifications used by this view.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "EGALITARIAN-ALL-OFFICES", "label": "Egalitarian all offices", "description": "Egalitarian all offices", "definition": "Women and men are equally eligible for every church office when they meet the same gifts and character qualifications. Texts that appear to restrict women are read as addressing local conditions rather than a universal office rule.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Romans:16:1:16:7", "Galatians:3:28:3:28" ], "rationale": "These passages foreground prominent female ministry and equal standing in Christ as grounds for full office eligibility.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "LOCAL-AUTHORITY-RESTRICTED-BUT-OTHER-MINISTRIES-OPEN", "label": "Local authority restricted but other ministries open", "description": "Local authority restricted but other ministries open", "definition": "The governing elder office is male, while women may exercise a broad range of teaching, leadership, diaconal, and missionary ministries outside that office. It distinguishes office jurisdiction from the use of spiritual gifts.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Timothy:3:1:3:7", "Romans:16:1:16:7" ], "rationale": "These texts naturally support a male-framed governing office alongside broad and significant ministries by women.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "TRAJECTORY-OR-REDEMPTIVE-MOVEMENT", "label": "Trajectory or redemptive movement", "description": "Trajectory or redemptive movement", "definition": "Scripture's redemptive movement toward restored partnership and Spirit-gifted ministry supports opening offices to women beyond the social restrictions reflected in some texts. The conclusion rests on the canon's direction, not solely on treating each restriction as meaningless.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Genesis:1:26:1:28", "Galatians:3:28:3:28" ], "rationale": "Shared creation vocation and restored equality in Christ are central trajectory texts.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "CONTEXTUAL-RESTRICTION-ONLY", "label": "Contextual restriction only", "description": "Contextual restriction only", "definition": "New Testament prohibitions address particular false teaching, disorder, or social circumstances and do not establish a continuing sex-based limit on elder office. Once the local problem is absent, qualified women may teach and govern.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Timothy:2:8:2:15", "Romans:16:1:16:7" ], "rationale": "The apparent restriction and the canon’s examples of authoritative female coworkers form the key contextual-reading tension.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "1 Timothy 2:8–15 → transcultural restriction grounded in creation/fall, local response to false teaching, restriction on domineering/false teaching, or temporary Ephesian condition?", "1 Timothy 3:1–7; Titus 1:5–9 → “husband of one wife” male office requirement, idiom for marital fidelity, or presumptive case grammar?", "1 Corinthians 11:2–16 → women pray/prophesy in assembly under headship; proves public speech but not necessarily elder office.", "1 Corinthians 14:33b–35 → absolute silence, judging-prophecy restriction, disruptive questioning, or textual/discourse issue?", "Romans 16:1–7; Philippians 4:2–3 → Phoebe, Priscilla, Junia, and female coworkers: significant ministry; exact offices disputed.", "Genesis 1:26–28; 2:18–25; 3:16; Galatians 3:28 → creation equality/order, fall distortion, and new-creation implications." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If 1 Timothy 2’s rationale in Adam and Eve makes the rule universal and authentein concerns ordinary authority, strongly update MALE-ELDERS-REQUIRED.", "If the passage addresses a local false-teaching pattern and women may otherwise teach with authority, update CONTEXTUAL-RESTRICTION-ONLY.", "Examples of female ministry update ministry breadth, but only examples plausibly identifying women as overseers directly update office eligibility.", "Equal worth and salvation status do not by themselves entail identical offices; creation order does not by itself specify which offices are restricted." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Universal male-only elder qualification and women’s eligibility for that same office are incompatible. “Woman may preach under elder oversight” is not necessarily incompatible with male eldership." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "MALE-ELDERS-REQUIRED": "substantive", "EGALITARIAN-ALL-OFFICES": "substantive", "LOCAL-AUTHORITY-RESTRICTED-BUT-OTHER-MINISTRIES-OPEN": "substantive", "TRAJECTORY-OR-REDEMPTIVE-MOVEMENT": "substantive", "CONTEXTUAL-RESTRICTION-ONLY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "MALE-ELDERS-REQUIRED", "EGALITARIAN-ALL-OFFICES", "LOCAL-AUTHORITY-RESTRICTED-BUT-OTHER-MINISTRIES-OPEN", "TRAJECTORY-OR-REDEMPTIVE-MOVEMENT", "CONTEXTUAL-RESTRICTION-ONLY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "MALE-ELDERS-REQUIRED", "EGALITARIAN-ALL-OFFICES", "LOCAL-AUTHORITY-RESTRICTED-BUT-OTHER-MINISTRIES-OPEN", "TRAJECTORY-OR-REDEMPTIVE-MOVEMENT", "CONTEXTUAL-RESTRICTION-ONLY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 2:8–15", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 3:1–7", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 1:5–9", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:2–16", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:33", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 33, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 33 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 16:1–7", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 4:2–3", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 3 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 1:26–28", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 2:18–25", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 3:16", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:28", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 28, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 28 } ] }, { "id": "GEN-02", "canonicalId": "GEN-02", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GEN-02" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Women deacons and deaconesses", "shortLabel": "Women deacons and deaconesses", "question": "May women hold the diaconal office?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "WOMEN-DEACONS", "label": "Women deacons", "description": "Women deacons", "definition": "Women may hold the same diaconal office as men under the office's common qualifications and responsibilities. References to female diakonoi and women in the qualification list are read as officeholders, not merely helpers or spouses.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DEACONESSES-DISTINCT-ORDER", "label": "Deaconesses distinct order", "description": "Deaconesses distinct order", "definition": "Women may be appointed to a recognized order of deaconesses with ministries suited to women, mercy, or pastoral care, while remaining distinct from male deacons. This grants formal status without making the two orders identical.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MALE-DEACONS-ONLY", "label": "Male deacons only", "description": "Male deacons only", "definition": "The continuing office of deacon is reserved to qualified men, commonly because its qualifications or authority parallel male eldership. Women may perform diaconal service without holding the office.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "GENERIC-FEMALE-SERVANTS-NOT-OFFICERS", "label": "Generic female servants not officers", "description": "Generic female servants not officers", "definition": "New Testament references to women as servants describe valuable ministry in the ordinary sense of service rather than appointment to a formal diaconate. This does not deny organized female ministry, only the office inference.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Romans 16:1–2 → Phoebe is “deacon of the church,” an official title or generic servant; patron/protector language increases her recognized role.", "1 Timothy 3:11 → “women” means female deacons, deacons’ wives, or women assistants.", "1 Timothy 3:12 → “husband of one wife” applies to all deacons or male cases only.", "Acts 6 → male Seven are descriptive selection, not explicit universal sex qualification." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Romans 16 uses diakonos as it does for recognized ministers and 1 Timothy 3:11 is a parallel qualification section, update WOMEN-DEACONS.", "If verse 11 interrupts male-deacon qualifications to address wives, update MALE-DEACONS-ONLY.", "Eligibility depends partly on whether deacons exercise governing/authoritative teaching functions." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“Every ordained office is male-only and deacon is ordained office” conflicts with women deacons; changing either premise resolves it." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "WOMEN-DEACONS": "substantive", "DEACONESSES-DISTINCT-ORDER": "substantive", "MALE-DEACONS-ONLY": "substantive", "GENERIC-FEMALE-SERVANTS-NOT-OFFICERS": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "WOMEN-DEACONS", "DEACONESSES-DISTINCT-ORDER", "MALE-DEACONS-ONLY", "GENERIC-FEMALE-SERVANTS-NOT-OFFICERS" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "WOMEN-DEACONS", "DEACONESSES-DISTINCT-ORDER", "MALE-DEACONS-ONLY", "GENERIC-FEMALE-SERVANTS-NOT-OFFICERS" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 16:1–2", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 3:11", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 3:12", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 6", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": null } ] }, { "id": "GEN-03", "canonicalId": "GEN-03", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GEN-03" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Women teaching or preaching to mixed adult assemblies", "shortLabel": "Women teaching or preaching to mixed adult assemblies", "question": "Apart from holding elder office, what teaching speech may women exercise?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "NO-AUTHORITATIVE-MIXED-TEACHING", "label": "No authoritative mixed teaching", "description": "No authoritative mixed teaching", "definition": "Women should not deliver the congregation's authoritative doctrinal instruction to mixed adult assemblies, since that act belongs to male elders or those exercising their teaching office. Other speech such as prayer, testimony, or teaching women and children may remain open.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PREACHING-UNDER-ELDER-AUTHORITY", "label": "Preaching under elder authority", "description": "Preaching under elder authority", "definition": "A gifted woman may preach or teach a mixed gathering when the elders authorize and oversee her ministry. The elders retain governing responsibility, so delivering a sermon does not by itself place the speaker in elder office.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "OCCASIONAL-TESTIMONY-OR-EXHORTATION", "label": "Occasional testimony or exhortation", "description": "Occasional testimony or exhortation", "definition": "Women may address mixed gatherings through testimony, reports, brief exhortation, or other occasional speech without assuming the church's regular teaching office. This permits public contribution while distinguishing it from sustained doctrinal preaching.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ALL-GIFTED-TEACHING", "label": "All gifted teaching", "description": "All gifted teaching", "definition": "Any qualified Christian may teach or preach according to gifting and calling, without a sex-based restriction on mixed audiences. Eligibility may still be regulated by doctrine, character, and church order.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PROPHECY-BUT-NOT-DOCTRINAL-GOVERNANCE", "label": "Prophecy but not doctrinal governance", "description": "Prophecy but not doctrinal governance", "definition": "Women may prophesy, pray, and deliver Spirit-prompted exhortation in the assembly while the church's settled doctrinal governance remains with its appointed elders. The view distinguishes charismatic speech from authoritative teaching office.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "1 Timothy 2:11–12 → one combined act “teach-and-exercise authority,” two prohibited acts, or abuse-specific verb?", "1 Corinthians 11:5; Acts 2:17–18; 21:9 → women pray and prophesy publicly; prophecy’s relation to sermon/teaching is contested.", "1 Corinthians 14:26–35 → participatory speech under order; women’s silence has scoped or universal readings.", "Acts 18:24–26 → Priscilla and Aquila instruct Apollos privately or in a less formal setting.", "Colossians 3:16; Titus 2:3–5 → mutual and sex/age-specific teaching." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If preaching the gathered church is definitionally the elder’s authoritative teaching act, male eldership strongly updates NO-AUTHORITATIVE-MIXED-TEACHING.", "If authority belongs to the elders while a nonelder speaker ministers under delegation, update PREACHING-UNDER-ELDER-AUTHORITY.", "If New Testament prophecy is authoritative congregational speech, women prophets strongly update broad public speaking; it still may not settle elder office." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A blanket rule that women may never speak to a mixed gathering conflicts with 1 Corinthians 11 unless that passage concerns a different gathering or nonverbal action." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "NO-AUTHORITATIVE-MIXED-TEACHING": "substantive", "PREACHING-UNDER-ELDER-AUTHORITY": "substantive", "OCCASIONAL-TESTIMONY-OR-EXHORTATION": "substantive", "ALL-GIFTED-TEACHING": "substantive", "PROPHECY-BUT-NOT-DOCTRINAL-GOVERNANCE": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "NO-AUTHORITATIVE-MIXED-TEACHING", "PREACHING-UNDER-ELDER-AUTHORITY", "OCCASIONAL-TESTIMONY-OR-EXHORTATION", "ALL-GIFTED-TEACHING", "PROPHECY-BUT-NOT-DOCTRINAL-GOVERNANCE" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "NO-AUTHORITATIVE-MIXED-TEACHING", "PREACHING-UNDER-ELDER-AUTHORITY", "OCCASIONAL-TESTIMONY-OR-EXHORTATION", "ALL-GIFTED-TEACHING", "PROPHECY-BUT-NOT-DOCTRINAL-GOVERNANCE" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 2:11–12", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:5", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:17–18", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 21:9", "startChapter": 21, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 21, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:26–35", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 35 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 18:24–26", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 3:16", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 2:3–5", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 5 } ] }, { "id": "GEN-04", "canonicalId": "GEN-04", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GEN-04" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Headship, veiling, and head coverings", "shortLabel": "Headship, veiling, and head coverings", "question": "Does 1 Corinthians 11 require a physical head covering, culturally equivalent symbolism, long hair, or no continuing practice?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "PHYSICAL-COVERING-REQUIRED", "label": "Physical covering required", "description": "Physical covering required", "definition": "Women should wear, and men should not wear, an additional physical head covering during the worship activities addressed in 1 Corinthians 11. Hair is distinguished from the covering, and the creation and angelic reasons make the practice trans-cultural.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CULTURAL-SYMBOL-REQUIRED", "label": "Cultural symbol required", "description": "Cultural symbol required", "definition": "The enduring command is to display the appropriate public symbol of sex, marital order, or headship, while the specific symbol may vary by culture. A veil may fulfill it in one setting without being universally prescribed.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "LONG-HAIR-IS-COVERING", "label": "Long hair is covering", "description": "Long hair is covering", "definition": "The covering Paul requires is the woman's long hair itself rather than a separate garment. Properly differentiated hair practices satisfy the passage's visible symbolism.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "FIRST-CENTURY-LOCAL-PRACTICE", "label": "First century local practice", "description": "First century local practice", "definition": "The covering instruction addressed honor, worship, or sexual symbolism specific to Corinth and does not impose a continuing external practice. Its local pastoral concern need not establish even a transferable headship symbol.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "HEADSHIP-PRINCIPLE-WITHOUT-SYMBOL", "label": "Headship principle without symbol", "description": "Headship principle without symbol", "definition": "The passage teaches an enduring order of headship or sex distinction, but no physical or culturally equivalent covering remains obligatory. Churches should preserve the theological principle without legislating an external sign.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "1 Corinthians 11:2–16 → “head” means authority/source/prominence; “covering” is garment, hairstyle, or both; angels and “nature” universalize or rhetorically support local decorum.", "Numbers 5:18 and Greco-Roman/Jewish customs may inform background but should be a distinct historical-evidence node.", "Genesis 1–2 → creation-grounded differentiation may support transcultural principle without fixing symbol." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If covering and hair are distinguished in the argument and creation/angels ground the command, update PHYSICAL-COVERING-REQUIRED.", "If shame/honor symbolism is culturally variable while headship remains, update CULTURAL-SYMBOL-REQUIRED.", "If verse 15 defines hair as the covering referenced throughout, update LONG-HAIR-IS-COVERING." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Physical-covering-as-continuing-command conflicts with a claim that no external practice is required; it need not conflict with cultural-symbol accounts if the current culture retains that symbol." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "PHYSICAL-COVERING-REQUIRED": "substantive", "CULTURAL-SYMBOL-REQUIRED": "substantive", "LONG-HAIR-IS-COVERING": "substantive", "FIRST-CENTURY-LOCAL-PRACTICE": "substantive", "HEADSHIP-PRINCIPLE-WITHOUT-SYMBOL": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "PHYSICAL-COVERING-REQUIRED", "CULTURAL-SYMBOL-REQUIRED", "LONG-HAIR-IS-COVERING", "FIRST-CENTURY-LOCAL-PRACTICE", "HEADSHIP-PRINCIPLE-WITHOUT-SYMBOL" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "PHYSICAL-COVERING-REQUIRED", "CULTURAL-SYMBOL-REQUIRED", "LONG-HAIR-IS-COVERING", "FIRST-CENTURY-LOCAL-PRACTICE", "HEADSHIP-PRINCIPLE-WITHOUT-SYMBOL" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:2–16", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Numbers", "file": "Numbers", "label": "Numbers 5:18", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 1–2", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": null } ] }, { "id": "GEN-05", "canonicalId": "GEN-05", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GEN-05" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Clergy/laity distinction and the priesthood of all believers", "shortLabel": "Clergy/laity distinction and the priesthood of all believers", "question": "Does ordained ministry form a distinct priestly order, a governing/teaching office within the common priesthood, or only a functional role?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "SACRAMENTAL-PRIESTHOOD", "label": "Sacramental priesthood", "description": "Sacramental priesthood", "definition": "Ordination establishes a distinct ministerial priesthood authorized to represent Christ and preside sacramentally, especially at the Eucharist and in absolution. This priesthood serves rather than replaces Christ's unique priesthood and the baptismal priesthood of all believers.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ORDAINED-MINISTRY-WITHIN-COMMON-PRIESTHOOD", "label": "Ordained ministry within common priesthood", "description": "Ordained ministry within common priesthood", "definition": "Pastors are set apart to teach, govern, and administer the sacraments within the one priesthood shared by all Christians. Their office is divinely ordered but does not constitute a separate sacrificing priestly class.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "FUNCTIONAL-OFFICE-NO-ONTOLOGICAL-DISTINCTION", "label": "Functional office no ontological distinction", "description": "Functional office no ontological distinction", "definition": "Ordained ministry grants public responsibility and authority for particular functions without changing the minister's spiritual status or being. The distinction from other believers is vocational and accountable, not ontological.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "RADICAL-EVERY-MEMBER-MINISTRY", "label": "Radical every member ministry", "description": "Radical every member ministry", "definition": "The Spirit's gifts and the priesthood of all believers make ministry fundamentally the work of the whole body, so permanent clergy-laity divisions should be minimized or rejected. Recognized coordinators may serve, but they do not monopolize teaching, sacraments, or mission.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "1 Peter 2:5, 9; Revelation 1:6; 5:10 → all believers are priests; exclusive sacrificial priesthood abolished or ministerial priesthood remains analogically?", "Hebrews 7–10 → Christ alone fulfills high-priestly mediation; does ordained priesthood participate ministerially without rival mediation?", "Ephesians 4:11–16; 1 Corinthians 12 → leaders equip the whole body for ministry.", "1 Timothy 4:14; 5:17–22; 2 Timothy 1:6 → formal office and ordination distinguish ministers." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Eucharistic presidency is sacrificial representation and ordination confers character, update SACRAMENTAL-PRIESTHOOD.", "If Christ’s unique priesthood and universal believer-priesthood exclude a separate sacrificing order but not pastors, update ORDAINED-MINISTRY-WITHIN-COMMON-PRIESTHOOD.", "Universal gifts do not entail absence of office; office texts prevent that shortcut." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Exclusive sacerdotal mediation necessary for access to God conflicts with direct access through Christ for all believers; ministerial representation need not." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "SACRAMENTAL-PRIESTHOOD": "substantive", "ORDAINED-MINISTRY-WITHIN-COMMON-PRIESTHOOD": "substantive", "FUNCTIONAL-OFFICE-NO-ONTOLOGICAL-DISTINCTION": "substantive", "RADICAL-EVERY-MEMBER-MINISTRY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "SACRAMENTAL-PRIESTHOOD", "ORDAINED-MINISTRY-WITHIN-COMMON-PRIESTHOOD", "FUNCTIONAL-OFFICE-NO-ONTOLOGICAL-DISTINCTION", "RADICAL-EVERY-MEMBER-MINISTRY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "SACRAMENTAL-PRIESTHOOD", "ORDAINED-MINISTRY-WITHIN-COMMON-PRIESTHOOD", "FUNCTIONAL-OFFICE-NO-ONTOLOGICAL-DISTINCTION", "RADICAL-EVERY-MEMBER-MINISTRY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 2:5", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 2:9", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 1:6", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 5:10", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 7–10", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 4:11–16", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 4:14", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 5:17–22", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "2 Timothy", "file": "2Timothy", "label": "2 Timothy 1:6", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 6 } ] }, { "id": "GEN-06", "canonicalId": "GEN-06", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "GEN-06" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Marriage, celibacy, and eligibility for ordained ministry", "shortLabel": "Marriage, celibacy, and eligibility for ordained ministry", "question": "May or must clergy marry, and may churches require celibacy?", "domain": "VI. 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This is stronger than mere permission without making marriage an absolute validity condition.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "EPISCOPAL-OR-PRIESTLY-CELIBACY-REQUIRED", "label": "Episcopal or priestly celibacy required", "description": "Episcopal or priestly celibacy required", "definition": "A church may require bishops or priests to remain celibate as a discipline of undivided service and conformity to its ministerial vocation. The rule need not teach that marriage is impure or deny that other offices may marry.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CELIBACY-CHARISM-NOT-OFFICE-RULE", "label": "Celibacy charism not office rule", "description": "Celibacy charism not office rule", "definition": "Celibacy is a personal gift and calling that the church should honor but cannot universally attach to an office. 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This does not deny their importance or Christ's command to practice them.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Matthew:28:19:28:19", "1Corinthians:11:23:11:26" ], "rationale": "These texts clearly command the practices without themselves defining a separate metaphysical sacrament category.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 28:19; Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23–26 → baptism and Supper directly instituted by Christ for repeated church use.", "Acts 8:14–17; 19:6; Hebrews 6:2 → laying on hands/confirmation as distinct rite or apostolic transition.", "John 20:22–23; James 5:14–16 → confession/absolution and anointing as sacramental channels or pastoral practices.", "Ephesians 5:22–33; Matthew 19:4–6 → marriage as mystery/sign but not necessarily church-administered sacrament.", "Acts 6:6; 1 Timothy 4:14; 2 Timothy 1:6 → ordination conveys gift or commissions office." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Define sacrament before counting: direct institution by Christ, visible sign of invisible grace, promise attached, and church administration yield different counts.", "If only rites with explicit dominical command and material sign qualify, update two.", "If apostolic rites instrumentally confer grace in recurring church practice, update a broader sacramental set." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Exactly-two-as-exhaustive and exactly-seven-as-exhaustive are incompatible; both may still recognize other sacred rites under different names." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "TWO-ORDINANCES": "substantive", "TWO-GOSPEL-SACRAMENTS-PLUS-OTHER-RITES": "substantive", "SEVEN-SACRAMENTS": "substantive", "MYSTERIES-NOT-FIXED-BY-NUMBER": "substantive", "NO-SACRAMENT-CATEGORY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "TWO-ORDINANCES", "TWO-GOSPEL-SACRAMENTS-PLUS-OTHER-RITES", "SEVEN-SACRAMENTS", "MYSTERIES-NOT-FIXED-BY-NUMBER", "NO-SACRAMENT-CATEGORY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "TWO-ORDINANCES", "TWO-GOSPEL-SACRAMENTS-PLUS-OTHER-RITES", "SEVEN-SACRAMENTS", "MYSTERIES-NOT-FIXED-BY-NUMBER", "NO-SACRAMENT-CATEGORY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:19", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 22:19", "startChapter": 22, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 22, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:23–26", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:14–17", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 19:6", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 6:2", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 20:22–23", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 5:14–16", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 5:22–33", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 33 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 19:4–6", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 6:6", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 4:14", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "2 Timothy", "file": "2Timothy", "label": "2 Timothy 1:6", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 6 } ] }, { "id": "SAC-02", "canonicalId": "SAC-02", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SAC-02" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Objective efficacy, faith, and worthy reception", "shortLabel": "Objective efficacy, faith, and worthy reception", "question": "Is sacramental grace conferred by the performed rite, by God’s promise through the rite, only through recipient faith, or only as symbolic testimony?", "domain": "VI. 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Their administration does not imply that every participant is regenerate or receives the same inward effect.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "SYMBOLIC-OBEDIENCE", "label": "Symbolic obedience", "description": "Symbolic obedience", "definition": "The rite publicly remembers, proclaims, or testifies to grace already received rather than instrumentally conveying it. Its efficacy lies in obedient witness and Spirit-enabled remembrance, not an objective sacramental change.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "COMMUNAL-PERFORMATIVE-EFFICACY", "label": "Communal performative efficacy", "description": "Communal performative efficacy", "definition": "The rite actually enacts and renews the community's covenantal identity through a shared ecclesial performance. Its effect is not reducible either to private symbolism or to an automatic infusion of saving grace.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Romans 6:3–4; Galatians 3:27; Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 3:21 → direct sacramental predication or shorthand for faith/Spirit reality.", "1 Corinthians 10:1–12 → all receive sacramental types, not all receive saving benefit.", "1 Corinthians 11:27–32 → objective judgment in unworthy reception.", "Romans 4:11 → circumcision as sign and seal of righteousness already received by faith in Abraham; applicability to all sacraments disputed.", "Hebrews 4:2 → promised word fails to benefit without faith, a possible general means-of-grace principle." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Separate valid occurrence, objective covenant effect, saving grace, fruitful reception, and perseverance.", "“Ex opere operato” in careful sacramental theology does not mean magical benefit regardless of impediment; model the technical claim, not the caricature.", "Unworthy reception supporting objective effect does not establish saving effect without faith." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Purely subjective remembrance conflicts with any objective covenant change caused or enacted by the rite." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "EX-OPERE-OPERATO-PROPERLY-QUALIFIED": "substantive", "OBJECTIVE-PROMISE-WITH-RESISTIBLE-FRUIT": "substantive", "EFFICACY-THROUGH-FAITH": "substantive", "SIGN-SEAL-TO-ELECT": "substantive", "SYMBOLIC-OBEDIENCE": "substantive", "COMMUNAL-PERFORMATIVE-EFFICACY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "EX-OPERE-OPERATO-PROPERLY-QUALIFIED", "OBJECTIVE-PROMISE-WITH-RESISTIBLE-FRUIT", "EFFICACY-THROUGH-FAITH", "SIGN-SEAL-TO-ELECT", "SYMBOLIC-OBEDIENCE", "COMMUNAL-PERFORMATIVE-EFFICACY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "EX-OPERE-OPERATO-PROPERLY-QUALIFIED", "OBJECTIVE-PROMISE-WITH-RESISTIBLE-FRUIT", "EFFICACY-THROUGH-FAITH", "SIGN-SEAL-TO-ELECT", "SYMBOLIC-OBEDIENCE", "COMMUNAL-PERFORMATIVE-EFFICACY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 6:3–4", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 3:27", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 3:5", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 3:21", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 10:1–12", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:27–32", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 32 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 4:11", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 4:2", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 2 } ] }, { "id": "SAC-03", "canonicalId": "SAC-03", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SAC-03" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Validity versus fruitfulness and the administrator’s status", "shortLabel": "Validity versus fruitfulness and the administrator’s status", "question": "Does a rite’s validity depend on correct form, matter, intent, ministerial authorization, succession, recipient faith, or minister holiness?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "FORM-MATTER-INTENT-REQUIRED", "label": "Form matter intent required", "description": "Form matter intent required", "definition": "A sacrament is valid only when its essential words, material signs, and basic sacramental intention are present. Accidental irregularities need not invalidate it, but changing what the church is doing can.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "AUTHORIZED-MINISTER-REQUIRED", "label": "Authorized minister required", "description": "Authorized minister required", "definition": "Valid administration ordinarily requires a minister who is duly ordained or otherwise authorized for that sacrament. Correct words and materials used by an unauthorized person may be sincere but do not necessarily constitute the church's sacramental act.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "SUCCESSION-REQUIRED", "label": "Succession required", "description": "Succession required", "definition": "Sacramental validity depends on a minister ordained within an unbroken episcopal or apostolic succession. Local authorization alone cannot replace the historic transmission of ministerial authority.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CHURCH-AUTHORIZATION-SUFFICIENT", "label": "Church authorization sufficient", "description": "Church authorization sufficient", "definition": "A minister or representative validly authorized by a true church may administer the rite without historic episcopal succession. The decisive authority is the church's present commission, alongside the rite's proper form.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "RECIPIENT-FAITH-FOR-FRUIT-NOT-VALIDITY", "label": "Recipient faith for fruit not validity", "description": "Recipient faith for fruit not validity", "definition": "A sacrament can validly occur even when the recipient lacks faith, but faith is necessary for its saving or sanctifying fruit. This separates whether the rite happened from whether it benefited the person.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MINISTER-HOLINESS-NOT-DETERMINATIVE", "label": "Minister holiness not determinative", "description": "Minister holiness not determinative", "definition": "A minister's personal sin does not by itself invalidate a properly administered sacrament, because its validity rests on Christ rather than the minister's worthiness. Grave misconduct can still make the act illicit and warrant discipline.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 28:19–20; 1 Corinthians 11:23–26 → fixed institution gives required form/content.", "1 Corinthians 1:12–17; 3:5–9 → sacrament/gospel does not derive power from prestigious minister.", "Philippians 1:15–18 → Christ proclaimed through bad motives still has effect; analogy to rite validity is indirect.", "Numbers 20:7–13; John 11:49–52 → God may act through sinful officeholders; again analogical.", "1 Corinthians 11:20 → disorder can make a gathering “not” truly the Lord’s Supper in functional or invalidating sense." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Do not collapse validity (the rite occurred), liceity/regularity (it was authorized), and fruitfulness (it benefited recipients).", "If efficacy rests on Christ’s promise, ministerial moral failure need not invalidate.", "Succession requirements depend on ECC-06/GOV-07; Scripture does not state them in a single validity formula." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“Any materially correct act by anyone is valid” conflicts with strict succession/authorization conditions; both can reject Donatist dependence on minister holiness." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "FORM-MATTER-INTENT-REQUIRED": "substantive", "AUTHORIZED-MINISTER-REQUIRED": "substantive", "SUCCESSION-REQUIRED": "substantive", "CHURCH-AUTHORIZATION-SUFFICIENT": "substantive", "RECIPIENT-FAITH-FOR-FRUIT-NOT-VALIDITY": "substantive", "MINISTER-HOLINESS-NOT-DETERMINATIVE": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "FORM-MATTER-INTENT-REQUIRED", "AUTHORIZED-MINISTER-REQUIRED", "SUCCESSION-REQUIRED", "CHURCH-AUTHORIZATION-SUFFICIENT", "RECIPIENT-FAITH-FOR-FRUIT-NOT-VALIDITY", "MINISTER-HOLINESS-NOT-DETERMINATIVE" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "FORM-MATTER-INTENT-REQUIRED", "AUTHORIZED-MINISTER-REQUIRED", "SUCCESSION-REQUIRED", "CHURCH-AUTHORIZATION-SUFFICIENT", "RECIPIENT-FAITH-FOR-FRUIT-NOT-VALIDITY", "MINISTER-HOLINESS-NOT-DETERMINATIVE" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:19–20", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:23–26", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 1:12–17", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 3:5–9", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 1:15–18", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Numbers", "file": "Numbers", "label": "Numbers 20:7–13", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 11:49–52", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 49, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 52 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:20", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 20 } ] }, { "id": "SAC-04", "canonicalId": "SAC-04", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SAC-04" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Foot washing as ordinance", "shortLabel": "Foot washing as ordinance", "question": "Is foot washing a continuing church ordinance, a mandatory ethical pattern expressed variably, or a first-century hospitality act?", "domain": "VI. 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Communities may use it to embody humility without placing it alongside baptism and the Supper.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "HUMBLE-SERVICE-PRINCIPLE", "label": "Humble service principle", "description": "Humble service principle", "definition": "Jesus commands the pattern of lowly, self-giving service represented by foot washing, while cultures may embody that pattern through other acts. The literal action is permitted but not itself universally binding.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CULTURAL-HOSPITALITY-ACT", "label": "Cultural hospitality act", "description": "Cultural hospitality act", "definition": "Foot washing was a culturally specific act of hospitality through which Jesus dramatized servant leadership. Its ethical lesson continues, but the ancient custom carries no independent ritual obligation.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "John 13:1–17, especially 13:14–15 → explicit “you also ought” and example: literal repeated rite or enacted paradigm of humble service?", "1 Timothy 5:10 → washing saints’ feet as recognized good work, supporting literal hospitality but not necessarily gathered ordinance.", "Luke 7:44; Genesis 18:4 → cultural hospitality background." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Christ’s explicit example-command has the same recurring ritual force as “do this” at the Supper, update CONTINUING-LITERAL-ORDINANCE.", "If the act’s culturally specific function is servanthood, update HUMBLE-SERVICE-PRINCIPLE.", "Direct command gives literal practice more weight than mere cultural reconstruction; frequency and ecclesial administration remain unstated." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Continuing literal obligation conflicts with the claim that literal foot washing has no continuing normative force." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "CONTINUING-LITERAL-ORDINANCE": "substantive", "LITERAL-PRACTICE-COMMENDED": "substantive", "HUMBLE-SERVICE-PRINCIPLE": "substantive", "CULTURAL-HOSPITALITY-ACT": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "CONTINUING-LITERAL-ORDINANCE", "LITERAL-PRACTICE-COMMENDED", "HUMBLE-SERVICE-PRINCIPLE", "CULTURAL-HOSPITALITY-ACT" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "CONTINUING-LITERAL-ORDINANCE", "LITERAL-PRACTICE-COMMENDED", "HUMBLE-SERVICE-PRINCIPLE", "CULTURAL-HOSPITALITY-ACT" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 13:1–17", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 5:10", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 7:44", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 44, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 44 }, { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 18:4", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 4 } ] }, { "id": "SAC-05", "canonicalId": "SAC-05", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SAC-05" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Anointing, confession, absolution, and healing rites", "shortLabel": "Anointing, confession, absolution, and healing rites", "question": "Are anointing the sick and confession/absolution sacramental, ordinance-like, or pastoral practices?", "domain": "VI. 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It need not be counted as a sacrament or understood to work automatically.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ANOINTING-SYMBOLIC-OR-MEDICINAL", "label": "Anointing symbolic or medicinal", "description": "Anointing symbolic or medicinal", "definition": "Oil in James functions as a symbol of consecration, an ordinary medicinal aid, or both, while healing depends on God's response to prayer. The oil does not itself sacramentally convey grace.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PRIVATE-CONFESSION-SACRAMENT", "label": "Private confession sacrament", "description": "Private confession sacrament", "definition": "Christ ordinarily grants sacramental absolution through personal confession to an authorized priest or minister. Direct prayer to God remains important, but private ministerial confession has a distinct, instituted role.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MUTUAL-CONFESSION-AND-DECLARED-ABSOLUTION", "label": "Mutual confession and declared absolution", "description": "Mutual confession and declared absolution", "definition": "Christians confess to one another where appropriate, and ministers authoritatively announce forgiveness through the gospel. The declaration assures penitents of Christ's promise without making priestly confession the exclusive route to forgiveness.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DIRECT-CONFESSION-TO-GOD-NORM", "label": "Direct confession to god norm", "description": "Direct confession to god norm", "definition": "Sinners ordinarily confess directly to God through Christ and receive forgiveness without a required priestly intermediary. Confession to another Christian can aid reconciliation and pastoral care but is not a sacrament necessary for pardon.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "James 5:14–16 → elders anoint and pray; oil sacramental sign, medicine, honor/care, or Spirit symbol?", "Mark 6:13 → apostolic healing with oil as precedent or mission sign.", "John 20:22–23; Matthew 16:19; 18:18 → ministerial power to forgive/retain, church’s declarative keys, or gospel proclamation.", "James 5:16; 1 John 1:9 → mutual confession and confession to God.", "Acts 19:18 → public confession in conversion/revival." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "James plainly supports continuing elder prayer for the sick; the open questions are the oil’s mechanism and sacramental category.", "If ordained ministers judicially absolve through the keys, update PRIVATE-CONFESSION-SACRAMENT.", "If forgiveness rests directly on Christ and ministers announce it through the gospel, update MUTUAL-CONFESSION-AND-DECLARED-ABSOLUTION." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Necessary priestly confession for forgiveness conflicts with the claim that private confession to a minister is never ordinarily required, though both may value pastoral confession." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "ANOINTING-SACRAMENT": "substantive", "ANOINTING-CONTINUING-PASTORAL-RITE": "substantive", "ANOINTING-SYMBOLIC-OR-MEDICINAL": "substantive", "PRIVATE-CONFESSION-SACRAMENT": "substantive", "MUTUAL-CONFESSION-AND-DECLARED-ABSOLUTION": "substantive", "DIRECT-CONFESSION-TO-GOD-NORM": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "ANOINTING-SACRAMENT", "ANOINTING-CONTINUING-PASTORAL-RITE", "ANOINTING-SYMBOLIC-OR-MEDICINAL", "PRIVATE-CONFESSION-SACRAMENT", "MUTUAL-CONFESSION-AND-DECLARED-ABSOLUTION", "DIRECT-CONFESSION-TO-GOD-NORM" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "ANOINTING-SACRAMENT", "ANOINTING-CONTINUING-PASTORAL-RITE", "ANOINTING-SYMBOLIC-OR-MEDICINAL", "PRIVATE-CONFESSION-SACRAMENT", "MUTUAL-CONFESSION-AND-DECLARED-ABSOLUTION", "DIRECT-CONFESSION-TO-GOD-NORM" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 5:14–16", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Mark", "file": "Mark", "label": "Mark 6:13", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 20:22–23", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 16:19", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 18:18", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 5:16", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "1 John", "file": "1John", "label": "1 John 1:9", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 19:18", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 18 } ] }, { "id": "PNE-01", "canonicalId": "PNE-01", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "PNE-01" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Continuation or cessation of revelatory and sign gifts", "shortLabel": "Continuation or cessation of revelatory and sign gifts", "question": "Do prophecy, tongues, miraculous healing gifts, and related signs continue ordinarily until Christ’s return?", "domain": "VI. 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God may still act miraculously in providence, but contemporary prophecy, tongues, and healing gifts are not genuine continuations.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Ephesians:2:20:2:20", "Hebrews:2:3:2:4" ], "rationale": "These texts tie foundational apostles and confirming signs closely to the church’s inaugural witness.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "CLASSICAL-CESSATIONISM", "label": "Classical cessationism", "description": "Classical cessationism", "definition": "Apostolic revelation and confirmatory sign gifts ceased with the foundational era and the completion of its witness. God still heals and guides providentially, but no stable revelatory or miracle-working gifts should be expected.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Ephesians:2:20:2:20", "2Corinthians:12:12:12:12" ], "rationale": "A once-laid apostolic foundation and distinctive signs of an apostle are central cessationist texts.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "OPEN-BUT-CAUTIOUS", "label": "Open but cautious", "description": "Open but cautious", "definition": "Scripture does not decisively prove that all gifts ceased, so genuine contemporary gifts remain possible, but modern claims require unusually careful testing. This posture differs from both doctrinal cessation and an expectation that gifts should be ordinary.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:13:8:13:12", "1Corinthians:12::14:" ], "rationale": "These passages leave the duration of gifts debated while demanding ordered testing and edification.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "CONTINUATIONISM", "label": "Continuationism", "description": "Continuationism", "definition": "The New Testament's spiritual gifts, including prophecy, tongues, and healing, remain available until Christ returns. Their use must be tested, ordered, and subordinated to Scripture rather than treated as new canonical authority.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:12::14:", "Acts:2:16:2:21" ], "rationale": "Detailed congregational gift instructions and the last-days outpouring are the leading continuationist texts.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PENTECOSTAL-EXPECTATION", "label": "Pentecostal expectation", "description": "Pentecostal expectation", "definition": "The church should normally expect visible charismatic gifts and empowering experiences, often including tongues, healing, and prophecy. This is stronger than merely allowing their possibility and commonly links them to Spirit baptism.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:2:16:2:21", "Acts:2:38:2:39" ], "rationale": "These passages frame charismatic outpouring as a promised last-days gift extending to later hearers.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "THIRD-WAVE-CHARISMATIC", "label": "Third wave charismatic", "description": "Third wave charismatic", "definition": "Contemporary prophecy, healing, deliverance, and other charismatic gifts should be actively practiced without requiring a separate Pentecostal second blessing or tongues as universal evidence. Conversion brings the Spirit, followed by repeatable empowerings.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Romans:12:3:12:8", "1Corinthians:12::14:" ], "rationale": "These texts place varied charismatic gifts within ordinary body life without requiring a universal second-blessing pattern.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 2:16–21, 38–39 → Joel’s “last days” outpouring extends through the church age or refers especially to apostolic inauguration?", "1 Corinthians 12–14 → instructions for continuing church life or regulation of temporary foundational gifts?", "1 Corinthians 13:8–12 → “the perfect” is canon completion, church maturity, death/beatific vision, or Christ’s return?", "Ephesians 2:20; 3:5; Hebrews 2:3–4; 2 Corinthians 12:12 → apostles/prophets and signs are foundational/attesting; does this end every analogous gift or only foundational authority?", "Romans 12:3–8; 1 Peter 4:10–11 → gift lists embedded in ordinary church exhortation.", "Revelation 11:3–6; 19:10 → prophecy appears eschatologically; genre and identity are disputed." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If prophecy is inherently infallible canonical revelation and prophets are foundation-limited, update cessation of that gift.", "If New Testament congregational prophecy can be true yet noncanonical and evaluated, foundational closure does not entail cessation.", "Lack of later canonical revelation supports closed canon but does not alone establish cessation of every miracle.", "Separate gift availability, expected frequency, office continuation, and claimed modern instances." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A claim that no post-apostolic prophecy or sign gift is divinely given conflicts with a claim that the same gifts ordinarily continue. “God may perform miracles” is compatible with cessation of miracle-workers." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "HARD-CESSATIONISM": "substantive", "CLASSICAL-CESSATIONISM": "substantive", "OPEN-BUT-CAUTIOUS": "substantive", "CONTINUATIONISM": "substantive", "PENTECOSTAL-EXPECTATION": "substantive", "THIRD-WAVE-CHARISMATIC": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "HARD-CESSATIONISM", "CLASSICAL-CESSATIONISM", "OPEN-BUT-CAUTIOUS", "CONTINUATIONISM", "PENTECOSTAL-EXPECTATION", "THIRD-WAVE-CHARISMATIC" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "HARD-CESSATIONISM", "CLASSICAL-CESSATIONISM", "OPEN-BUT-CAUTIOUS", "CONTINUATIONISM", "PENTECOSTAL-EXPECTATION", "THIRD-WAVE-CHARISMATIC" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:16–21", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:38–39", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 38, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 39 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12–14", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 13:8–12", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:20", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 3:5", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 2:3–4", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 12:12", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 12:3–8", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 4:10–11", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 11:3–6", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 19:10", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 10 } ] }, { "id": "PNE-02", "canonicalId": "PNE-02", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "PNE-02" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Nature and authority of New Testament prophecy", "shortLabel": "Nature and authority of New Testament prophecy", "question": "Is all genuine prophecy infallible revelation, or can a genuine gift involve fallible human reporting that must be sifted?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "INFALLIBLE-REVELATION", "label": "Infallible revelation", "description": "Infallible revelation", "definition": "Any genuine prophecy communicates revelation from God and is therefore true and authoritative in what it asserts. Fallible impressions may occur, but they should not be called prophecy in the same sense.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "TRUE-REVELATION-FALLIBLE-REPORT", "label": "True revelation fallible report", "description": "True revelation fallible report", "definition": "God may genuinely reveal something while a human prophet reports, interprets, or applies it imperfectly, which is why congregational prophecy must be weighed. 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Its authority remains subordinate to Scripture and subject to communal discernment.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CANONICAL-APOSTOLIC-PROPHECY-ONLY", "label": "Canonical apostolic prophecy only", "description": "Canonical apostolic prophecy only", "definition": "The revelatory gift of prophecy belonged to apostles and the church's foundational era, whose authoritative witness is preserved in Scripture. Later preaching or impressions may be Spirit-enabled but are not prophecy in that revelatory sense.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Deuteronomy 13:1–5; 18:15–22; Jeremiah 23 → false prediction or speaking for other gods marks false prophet; does this norm every new-covenant use of “prophecy”?", "Acts 11:27–30; 21:4, 10–14 → Agabus and disciples: precise infallible predictions, approximate/fallible reports, or accurately conditional warnings?", "1 Corinthians 13:9; 14:29–33 → prophecy is partial and others weigh it; weigh applicability/identity or sift mixed content?", "1 Thessalonians 5:19–22 → do not despise prophecies, test everything.", "Ephesians 2:20; 3:5 → apostolic-prophetic foundation may refer to a special class." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If “Thus says the Lord” revelation by definition cannot contain error, update INFALLIBLE-REVELATION; modern fallible impressions should receive another label.", "If congregational prophecy is commanded to be weighed because delivery can mix human error, update TRUE-REVELATION-FALLIBLE-REPORT.", "Distinguish revelation source, cognitive impression, verbal report, interpretation, and application; probability can differ at each layer.", "Inerrant Scripture should remain the final public norm in every conservative option." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A modern utterance cannot be both intrinsically God’s own errorless speech and genuinely erroneous in its asserted content. A true revelation can be misinterpreted under layered models." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "INFALLIBLE-REVELATION": "substantive", "TRUE-REVELATION-FALLIBLE-REPORT": "substantive", "SPIRIT-PROMPTED-NONREVELATORY-IMPRESSION": "substantive", "INSPIRED-EXHORTATION": "substantive", "CANONICAL-APOSTOLIC-PROPHECY-ONLY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "INFALLIBLE-REVELATION", "TRUE-REVELATION-FALLIBLE-REPORT", "SPIRIT-PROMPTED-NONREVELATORY-IMPRESSION", "INSPIRED-EXHORTATION", "CANONICAL-APOSTOLIC-PROPHECY-ONLY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "INFALLIBLE-REVELATION", "TRUE-REVELATION-FALLIBLE-REPORT", "SPIRIT-PROMPTED-NONREVELATORY-IMPRESSION", "INSPIRED-EXHORTATION", "CANONICAL-APOSTOLIC-PROPHECY-ONLY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 13:1–5", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 18:15–22", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "Jeremiah", "file": "Jeremiah", "label": "Jeremiah 23", "startChapter": 23, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 23, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 11:27–30", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 21:4", "startChapter": 21, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 21, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 21:10–14", "startChapter": 21, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 21, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 13:9", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:29–33", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 29, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 33 }, { "book": "1 Thessalonians", "file": "1Thessalonians", "label": "1 Thessalonians 5:19–22", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:20", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 3:5", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 5 } ] }, { "id": "PNE-03", "canonicalId": "PNE-03", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "PNE-03" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Tongues: human languages, heavenly speech, prayer language, and evidence", "shortLabel": "Tongues: human languages, heavenly speech, prayer language, and evidence", "question": "What is the gift of tongues and what role does it play?", "domain": "VI. 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Ecstatic or private nonlinguistic speech is not the same gift.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:2:4:2:11", "1Corinthians:14:20:14:25" ], "rationale": "Pentecost’s identifiable languages and Paul’s appeal to foreign speech as a sign favor ordinary human languages.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "HUMAN-AND-HEAVENLY-LANGUAGES", "label": "Human and heavenly languages", "description": "Human and heavenly languages", "definition": "Tongues may include both miraculously spoken human languages and Spirit-given speech not naturally understood by any human hearer. Interpretation, rather than ordinary translation alone, can make the latter intelligible to the church.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:13:1:13:1", "1Corinthians:14:2:14:2" ], "rationale": "Speech of angels and mysteries spoken to God are the strongest texts for tongues extending beyond known human languages.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PRIVATE-PRAYER-LANGUAGE", "label": "Private prayer language", "description": "Private prayer language", "definition": "Tongues can function as a Spirit-enabled personal prayer practice that edifies the speaker even when no interpretation is available. Its private use is distinguished from public speech, which must serve the congregation intelligibly.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:14:2:14:2", "1Corinthians:14:4:14:4" ], "rationale": "Speaking to God and edifying oneself are central to the case for a private devotional use of tongues.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PUBLIC-GIFT-REQUIRING-INTERPRETATION", "label": "Public gift requiring interpretation", "description": "Public gift requiring interpretation", "definition": "Tongues may be spoken in the assembly only when an interpretation makes the message intelligible and edifying to others. Without interpretation the speaker should remain silent publicly, regardless of private practice.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:14:13:14:19", "1Corinthians:14:27:14:28" ], "rationale": "Paul explicitly orders public tongues toward intelligibility and requires interpretation or silence in the assembly.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "INITIAL-EVIDENCE-OF-SPIRIT-BAPTISM", "label": "Initial evidence of spirit baptism", "description": "Initial evidence of spirit baptism", "definition": "Speaking in tongues is the normal initial outward evidence that a believer has received baptism in the Holy Spirit. This distinguishes Spirit baptism from conversion and from later gifts that not every believer exercises.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:10:44:10:48", "Acts:19:1:19:7" ], "rationale": "Tongues visibly accompany reception of the Spirit in these repeated Acts episodes.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "SIGN-OF-JUDGMENT-AND-MISSION", "label": "Sign of judgment and mission", "description": "Sign of judgment and mission", "definition": "Tongues chiefly signify God's judgment on unbelief and the gospel's movement across linguistic and ethnic boundaries. Their role is redemptive-historical and missional rather than principally a private devotional practice.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Isaiah:28:11:28:12", "Acts:2:4:2:11" ], "rationale": "Isaiah’s foreign-speech sign and Pentecost’s multilingual proclamation connect tongues with covenant judgment and worldwide mission.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 2:4–11 → identifiable human languages; normative definition or one manifestation?", "Acts 10:44–48; 19:1–7 → tongues accompany Spirit reception in some episodes, but Acts 8 is ambiguous and many conversions omit them.", "1 Corinthians 12:10, 28–30 → not all speak in tongues, apparently against universal gift; Pentecostal answers may distinguish public gift from initial evidence.", "1 Corinthians 13:1 → “tongues of angels” literal heavenly language or hyperbole.", "1 Corinthians 14:2, 4, 13–19, 27–28 → God-directed unintelligible speech, private self-edification, and public interpretation; is silent prayer permitted in assembly?", "Isaiah 28:11–12; 1 Corinthians 14:20–25 → covenant-judgment sign to unbelievers, evangelistic sign, or paradoxical rhetoric." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Acts 2 strongly establishes human languages as at least one type.", "“Not all speak in tongues” lowers universal-evidence claims unless two distinct tongue phenomena are independently supported.", "If “no one understands” means no hearer happens to know the human language, it does not prove heavenly speech; if paired with spirit praying mysteries, it updates a prayer-language model." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“Every Spirit-baptized believer necessarily speaks in tongues” conflicts with a single-category reading of 1 Corinthians 12:30 as expecting “no.”" ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "HUMAN-LANGUAGES-ONLY": "substantive", "HUMAN-AND-HEAVENLY-LANGUAGES": "substantive", "PRIVATE-PRAYER-LANGUAGE": "substantive", "PUBLIC-GIFT-REQUIRING-INTERPRETATION": "substantive", "INITIAL-EVIDENCE-OF-SPIRIT-BAPTISM": "substantive", "SIGN-OF-JUDGMENT-AND-MISSION": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "HUMAN-LANGUAGES-ONLY", "HUMAN-AND-HEAVENLY-LANGUAGES", "PRIVATE-PRAYER-LANGUAGE", "PUBLIC-GIFT-REQUIRING-INTERPRETATION", "INITIAL-EVIDENCE-OF-SPIRIT-BAPTISM", "SIGN-OF-JUDGMENT-AND-MISSION" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "HUMAN-LANGUAGES-ONLY", "HUMAN-AND-HEAVENLY-LANGUAGES", "PRIVATE-PRAYER-LANGUAGE", "PUBLIC-GIFT-REQUIRING-INTERPRETATION", "INITIAL-EVIDENCE-OF-SPIRIT-BAPTISM", "SIGN-OF-JUDGMENT-AND-MISSION" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:4–11", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10:44–48", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 44, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 48 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 19:1–7", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:10", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:28–30", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 28, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 13:1", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:2", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:4", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:13–19", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:27–28", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "Isaiah", "file": "Isaiah", "label": "Isaiah 28:11–12", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:20–25", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 25 } ] }, { "id": "PNE-04", "canonicalId": "PNE-04", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "PNE-04", "CONV-006" ], "mirrorNote": "Spirit baptism.", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Baptism in/with the Holy Spirit", "shortLabel": "Baptism in/with the Holy Spirit", "question": "Does Spirit baptism occur at conversion for every believer, as a subsequent empowering experience, or in more than one sense?", "domain": "VI. 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This preserves conversion-initiation while taking later experiences seriously without calling each a second baptism.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Corinthians:12:13:12:13", "Acts:4:31:4:31" ], "rationale": "One initiatory Spirit baptism is held together with later fillings that renew believers for bold witness.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "SACRAMENTAL-CONFIRMATION", "label": "Sacramental confirmation", "description": "Sacramental confirmation", "definition": "The gift or strengthening of the Spirit is ecclesially bestowed in confirmation through prayer, laying on of hands, and often anointing after baptism. This sacramental act is distinct from both private charismatic experience and conversion alone.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:8:12:8:17", "Acts:19:1:19:7" ], "rationale": "The apostles’ laying on of hands after baptism is the primary scriptural pattern associated with confirmation.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PENTECOSTAL-INITIAL-EVIDENCE", "label": "Pentecostal initial evidence", "description": "Pentecostal initial evidence", "definition": "Spirit baptism normally follows conversion as empowerment and is initially evidenced by speaking in tongues. Other gifts and holy living may follow, but tongues has a distinctive evidential role.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:2:1:2:4", "Acts:10:44:10:48" ], "rationale": "Tongues accompany Spirit outpouring at Pentecost and on Gentile believers, forming the principal initial-evidence pattern.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "CORPORATE-HISTORICAL-PENTECOST", "label": "Corporate historical pentecost", "description": "Corporate historical pentecost", "definition": "Pentecost was the once-for-all outpouring that baptized the new-covenant people corporately into the Spirit's era. 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Their authority is more than that of generic missionaries, though accounts differ on whether it approaches first-century apostolic authority.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CONTINUING-PROPHETS-NONSCRIPTURAL", "label": "Continuing prophets nonscriptural", "description": "Continuing prophets nonscriptural", "definition": "Prophets continue as recognized ministers who bring Spirit-given messages without adding to Scripture or possessing canonical authority. Their words must be tested and remain corrigible.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ALL-PROPHETIC-OFFICE-ENDED", "label": "All prophetic office ended", "description": "All prophetic office ended", "definition": "The continuing office of prophet ended with the apostolic foundation and the close of public revelation. Faithful preaching can be prophetic in an informal sense but does not constitute a present revelatory office.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 1:21–26; 1 Corinthians 9:1; 15:7–9 → eyewitness and direct commission qualifications for capital-A apostles.", "Romans 16:7; 2 Corinthians 8:23; Philippians 2:25 → apostolos can mean emissary/missionary beyond the Twelve; Junia’s construction disputed.", "Ephesians 2:20; 3:5 → foundational apostles and prophets.", "Ephesians 4:11–13 → gifts “until” unity/maturity; continuing functions or foundational persons whose work continues through teaching?", "2 Corinthians 12:12; Revelation 2:2 → apostolic signs and tests." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Lexical breadth allows missionary “apostles” without granting foundational authority.", "If foundation is laid once, reduce CONTINUING-GOVERNING-APOSTLES; a later emissary category remains open.", "If modern apostles claim jurisdiction equal to Paul or doctrinal revelation binding all churches, the closed-canon and foundation variables become decisive." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Unique unrepeatable foundational apostolate conflicts with contemporary equal-authority apostles, not with missionaries called apostles in a generic sense." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "TWELVE-AND-PAUL-UNREPEATABLE": "substantive", "FOUNDATIONAL-APOSTLES-ENDED-MISSIONARIES-CONTINUE": "substantive", "CONTINUING-LOWERCASE-APOSTLES": "substantive", "CONTINUING-GOVERNING-APOSTLES": "substantive", "CONTINUING-PROPHETS-NONSCRIPTURAL": "substantive", "ALL-PROPHETIC-OFFICE-ENDED": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "TWELVE-AND-PAUL-UNREPEATABLE", "FOUNDATIONAL-APOSTLES-ENDED-MISSIONARIES-CONTINUE", "CONTINUING-LOWERCASE-APOSTLES", "CONTINUING-GOVERNING-APOSTLES", "CONTINUING-PROPHETS-NONSCRIPTURAL", "ALL-PROPHETIC-OFFICE-ENDED" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "TWELVE-AND-PAUL-UNREPEATABLE", "FOUNDATIONAL-APOSTLES-ENDED-MISSIONARIES-CONTINUE", "CONTINUING-LOWERCASE-APOSTLES", "CONTINUING-GOVERNING-APOSTLES", "CONTINUING-PROPHETS-NONSCRIPTURAL", "ALL-PROPHETIC-OFFICE-ENDED" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 1:21–26", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 9:1", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 15:7–9", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 16:7", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 8:23", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 2:25", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 2:20", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 3:5", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 4:11–13", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 12:12", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 2:2", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 2 } ] }, { "id": "PNE-06", "canonicalId": "PNE-06", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "PNE-06" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Healing gifts, prayer, medicine, and atonement", "shortLabel": "Healing gifts, prayer, medicine, and atonement", "question": "Should miraculous healing be expected, guaranteed, specially gifted, or sought while ordinarily using medicine?", "domain": "VI. 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This allows contemporary miracles while denying a stable sign-gift.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "HEALING-IN-ATONEMENT-GUARANTEED-NOW", "label": "Healing in atonement guaranteed now", "description": "Healing in atonement guaranteed now", "definition": "Christ's atonement secures bodily healing for believers as a present covenant right, normally received through faith. Persistent illness is therefore not treated merely as an expected feature of the present age.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "HEALING-IN-ATONEMENT-ESCHATOLOGICALLY", "label": "Healing in atonement eschatologically", "description": "Healing in atonement eschatologically", "definition": "The atonement guarantees complete bodily healing in resurrection and may grant foretastes through healing now, but it does not promise immediate recovery from every illness. Present nonhealing can coexist with faithful prayer.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ORDINARY-PROVIDENCE-AND-MEDICINE", "label": "Ordinary providence and medicine", "description": "Ordinary providence and medicine", "definition": "Christians should ordinarily seek healing through prayer, skilled medicine, and God's providential use of natural means. Reliance on treatment is not unbelief, and exceptional miracles do not displace ordinary care.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CESSATION-OF-SIGN-HEALERS", "label": "Cessation of sign healers", "description": "Cessation of sign healers", "definition": "The apostolic gift of reliably performing sign healings ceased after its foundational purpose was fulfilled. God remains able to heal extraordinarily, but contemporary healers should not be regarded as possessing that biblical sign authority.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Isaiah 53:4–5; Matthew 8:16–17; 1 Peter 2:24 → physical healing presently guaranteed by atonement, Jesus’ ministry fulfillment, or final restoration with present foretastes?", "1 Corinthians 12:9, 28, 30 → “gifts of healings” distributed variably.", "James 5:14–18 → elders’ prayer of faith will save/raise the sick; categorical promise, providential generalization, spiritual salvation, or special faith?", "2 Corinthians 12:7–10; Galatians 4:13; Philippians 2:25–30; 1 Timothy 5:23; 2 Timothy 4:20 → faithful ministers experience unhealed illness and use ordinary means.", "Mark 16:9–20 → signs passage has major textual-critical status; do not make it the sole load-bearing premise." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If full physical healing is guaranteed now for sufficient faith, unexplained faithful nonhealing creates a serious likelihood penalty and pastoral risk.", "If atonement guarantees resurrection and sometimes anticipates it through gifts, update HEALING-IN-ATONEMENT-ESCHATOLOGICALLY.", "Medicine and prayer are not competitors unless a separate premise makes use of means unbelief." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Universal guaranteed healing now conflicts with the claim that God may purposefully leave faithful believers ill in this age." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "HEALING-GIFT-CONTINUES": "substantive", "GOD-HEALS-SOVEREIGNLY-NO-STABLE-GIFT": "substantive", "HEALING-IN-ATONEMENT-GUARANTEED-NOW": "substantive", "HEALING-IN-ATONEMENT-ESCHATOLOGICALLY": "substantive", "ORDINARY-PROVIDENCE-AND-MEDICINE": "substantive", "CESSATION-OF-SIGN-HEALERS": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "HEALING-GIFT-CONTINUES", "GOD-HEALS-SOVEREIGNLY-NO-STABLE-GIFT", "HEALING-IN-ATONEMENT-GUARANTEED-NOW", "HEALING-IN-ATONEMENT-ESCHATOLOGICALLY", "ORDINARY-PROVIDENCE-AND-MEDICINE", "CESSATION-OF-SIGN-HEALERS" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "HEALING-GIFT-CONTINUES", "GOD-HEALS-SOVEREIGNLY-NO-STABLE-GIFT", "HEALING-IN-ATONEMENT-GUARANTEED-NOW", "HEALING-IN-ATONEMENT-ESCHATOLOGICALLY", "ORDINARY-PROVIDENCE-AND-MEDICINE", "CESSATION-OF-SIGN-HEALERS" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Isaiah", "file": "Isaiah", "label": "Isaiah 53:4–5", "startChapter": 53, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 53, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 8:16–17", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 2:24", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:9", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:28", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 28, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:30", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 30, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 5:14–18", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 12:7–10", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 4:13", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 2:25–30", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 5:23", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "2 Timothy", "file": "2Timothy", "label": "2 Timothy 4:20", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Mark", "file": "Mark", "label": "Mark 16:9–20", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 20 } ] }, { "id": "PNE-07", "canonicalId": "PNE-07", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "PNE-07" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Demons, deliverance, and territorial spiritual warfare", "shortLabel": "Demons, deliverance, and territorial spiritual warfare", "question": "How should churches understand demonic influence in believers and the practice of deliverance?", "domain": "VI. 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Prayer and resistance address real influence without treating the believer as demon-indwelt.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "BELIEVERS-MAY-NEED-DELIVERANCE", "label": "Believers may need deliverance", "description": "Believers may need deliverance", "definition": "Christians can experience forms of demonic attachment or influence serious enough to require direct deliverance ministry. This need not mean total ownership, but goes beyond ordinary temptation or general oppression.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "EXORCISM-AS-SPECIALIST-MINISTRY", "label": "Exorcism as specialist ministry", "description": "Exorcism as specialist ministry", "definition": "Some Christians are specially gifted and trained to discern demonic influence and conduct exorcism or deliverance safely. The practice should remain accountable to the church rather than improvised by every believer.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ORDINARY-RESISTANCE-THROUGH-TRUTH-PRAYER", "label": "Ordinary resistance through truth prayer", "description": "Ordinary resistance through truth prayer", "definition": "The ordinary response to demonic opposition is faith, repentance, scriptural truth, prayer, and the church's shared life rather than specialized diagnostic techniques. Exceptional exorcism may occur without defining normal pastoral care.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "TERRITORIAL-SPIRITS-STRATEGIC-WARFARE", "label": "Territorial spirits strategic warfare", "description": "Territorial spirits strategic warfare", "definition": "Spiritual beings exercise influence over regions or social structures, and mission may involve targeted prayer and strategic confrontation of those powers. This goes beyond acknowledging such beings by claiming a practical method of territorial warfare.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Mark 1:21–28; 5:1–20; Luke 10:17–20; Acts 8:5–8; 16:16–18; 19:11–20 → deliverance in Jesus/apostolic mission; continuing model or kingdom-attesting concentration?", "1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 John 4:4; 5:18 → Spirit’s indwelling and divine protection exclude possession, not necessarily influence.", "Ephesians 6:10–20; James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8–9 → ordinary resistance by truth, righteousness, faith, prayer, sobriety.", "2 Corinthians 10:3–6 → spiritual warfare against arguments/thoughts, or broader demonic strongholds?", "Daniel 10:12–21; Deuteronomy 32:8–9 (textual tradition); Psalm 82 → territorial powers, salvation-historical imagery, or heavenly council without prescribed mapping practice." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Define “possession,” “demonization,” oppression, temptation, and indwelling; translation-driven binaries create false disagreement.", "Narrative examples prove real deliverance but do not automatically establish elaborate diagnostic methods.", "Territorial beings may exist without authorizing Christians to name, map, or directly address them." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Complete demon ownership/control of a Spirit-indwelt believer conflicts with strong indwelling-protection claims; lesser influence remains compatible." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "BELIEVERS-CANNOT-BE-DEMONIZED": "substantive", "BELIEVERS-MAY-BE-OPPRESSED-NOT-POSSESSED": "substantive", "BELIEVERS-MAY-NEED-DELIVERANCE": "substantive", "EXORCISM-AS-SPECIALIST-MINISTRY": "substantive", "ORDINARY-RESISTANCE-THROUGH-TRUTH-PRAYER": "substantive", "TERRITORIAL-SPIRITS-STRATEGIC-WARFARE": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "BELIEVERS-CANNOT-BE-DEMONIZED", "BELIEVERS-MAY-BE-OPPRESSED-NOT-POSSESSED", "BELIEVERS-MAY-NEED-DELIVERANCE", "EXORCISM-AS-SPECIALIST-MINISTRY", "ORDINARY-RESISTANCE-THROUGH-TRUTH-PRAYER", "TERRITORIAL-SPIRITS-STRATEGIC-WARFARE" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "BELIEVERS-CANNOT-BE-DEMONIZED", "BELIEVERS-MAY-BE-OPPRESSED-NOT-POSSESSED", "BELIEVERS-MAY-NEED-DELIVERANCE", "EXORCISM-AS-SPECIALIST-MINISTRY", "ORDINARY-RESISTANCE-THROUGH-TRUTH-PRAYER", "TERRITORIAL-SPIRITS-STRATEGIC-WARFARE" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Mark", "file": "Mark", "label": "Mark 1:21–28", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "Mark", "file": "Mark", "label": "Mark 5:1–20", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 10:17–20", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:5–8", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:16–18", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 19:11–20", "startChapter": 19, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 6:19", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "1 John", "file": "1John", "label": "1 John 4:4", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "1 John", "file": "1John", "label": "1 John 5:18", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 6:10–20", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 4:7", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "1 Peter", "file": "1Peter", "label": "1 Peter 5:8–9", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 10:3–6", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Daniel", "file": "Daniel", "label": "Daniel 10:12–21", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 32:8–9", "startChapter": 32, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 32, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Psalm", "file": "Psalm", "label": "Psalm 82", "startChapter": 82, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 82, "endVerse": null } ] }, { "id": "PNE-08", "canonicalId": "PNE-08", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "PNE-08" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Guidance, inner impressions, and “hearing God”", "shortLabel": "Guidance, inner impressions, and “hearing God”", "question": "How does the Spirit ordinarily guide believers after the apostolic era?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "SCRIPTURE-WISDOM-PROVIDENCE", "label": "Scripture wisdom providence", "description": "Scripture wisdom providence", "definition": "God ordinarily guides believers through Scripture's moral teaching, sanctified wisdom, counsel, and providential circumstances. Decisions need not await a private message from God when Scripture grants freedom.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ILLUMINATION-NOT-NEW-REVELATION", "label": "Illumination not new revelation", "description": "Illumination not new revelation", "definition": "The Spirit illuminates Scripture and enables believers to understand and apply what God has already revealed. This inward work is personal and active without communicating new doctrines or additional divine words.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "INNER-PROMPTINGS-FALLIBLE", "label": "Inner promptings fallible", "description": "Inner promptings fallible", "definition": "Believers may receive inward impressions that are providentially prompted by the Spirit yet remain fallible in recognition and interpretation. They should be tested and described as impressions rather than used to bind another's conscience.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DIRECT-PERSONAL-WORDS", "label": "Direct personal words", "description": "Direct personal words", "definition": "God may communicate specific personal guidance in recognizable words or impressions beyond the direct teaching of Scripture. Such guidance must agree with Scripture, even when it concerns matters Scripture leaves open.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PROPHETIC-GUIDANCE", "label": "Prophetic guidance", "description": "Prophetic guidance", "definition": "The Spirit may guide individuals or churches through contemporary prophetic messages given by others and tested in community. These messages have a role beyond ordinary wisdom but do not replace Scripture as the church's public norm.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CASTING-LOTS-OR-SIGNS-IN-EXCEPTIONAL-CASES", "label": "Casting lots or signs in exceptional cases", "description": "Casting lots or signs in exceptional cases", "definition": "In rare, prayerful circumstances believers may seek providential confirmation through lots, requested signs, or comparable means. This is an exceptional practice rather than the normal substitute for Scripture, wisdom, and counsel.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Psalm 119:105; Romans 12:1–2; James 1:5 → Scripture-renewed wisdom and prayer.", "John 10:27; 16:13 → every believer recognizes individualized guidance, sheep recognize Christ in salvation, or apostles uniquely guided into truth?", "Acts 8:29; 10:19; 13:2; 16:6–10 → direct Spirit guidance in mission; normative, exceptional, or apostolic?", "Romans 8:14 → moral/adoptive leading versus decision-specific impressions.", "Colossians 3:15 → “peace” as communal reconciliation, not necessarily private decision signal.", "Proverbs 3:5–6; 16:9, 33 → providential direction including lots, without promise of subjective certainty." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Separate normative obligation (“God commands”) from fallible guidance (“I sense it may be wise”).", "If modern impressions are fallible, language should encode confidence and remain corrigible by Scripture/community.", "Direct Acts speech supports possibility more strongly than predictable universality." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A private impression cannot bind another’s conscience as inerrant divine command while also being acknowledged as fallible." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "SCRIPTURE-WISDOM-PROVIDENCE": "substantive", "ILLUMINATION-NOT-NEW-REVELATION": "substantive", "INNER-PROMPTINGS-FALLIBLE": "substantive", "DIRECT-PERSONAL-WORDS": "substantive", "PROPHETIC-GUIDANCE": "substantive", "CASTING-LOTS-OR-SIGNS-IN-EXCEPTIONAL-CASES": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "SCRIPTURE-WISDOM-PROVIDENCE", "ILLUMINATION-NOT-NEW-REVELATION", "INNER-PROMPTINGS-FALLIBLE", "DIRECT-PERSONAL-WORDS", "PROPHETIC-GUIDANCE", "CASTING-LOTS-OR-SIGNS-IN-EXCEPTIONAL-CASES" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "SCRIPTURE-WISDOM-PROVIDENCE", "ILLUMINATION-NOT-NEW-REVELATION", "INNER-PROMPTINGS-FALLIBLE", "DIRECT-PERSONAL-WORDS", "PROPHETIC-GUIDANCE", "CASTING-LOTS-OR-SIGNS-IN-EXCEPTIONAL-CASES" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Psalm", "file": "Psalm", "label": "Psalm 119:105", "startChapter": 119, "startVerse": 105, "endChapter": 119, "endVerse": 105 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 12:1–2", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 1:5", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 10:27", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 27 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 16:13", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 13 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:29", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 29, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10:19", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 13:2", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:6–10", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 8:14", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 3:15", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Proverbs", "file": "Proverbs", "label": "Proverbs 3:5–6", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Proverbs", "file": "Proverbs", "label": "Proverbs 16:9", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Proverbs", "file": "Proverbs", "label": "Proverbs 16:33", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 33, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 33 } ] }, { "id": "PNE-09", "canonicalId": "TRIN-01", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "TRIN-01", "PNE-09" ], "mirrorNote": "The filioque.", "isMirrorRecord": true, "title": "Procession of the Spirit and the *filioque*", "shortLabel": "Procession of the Spirit and the *filioque*", "question": "Does the Spirit eternally proceed from the Father alone, from the Father through the Son, or from the Father and the Son?", "domain": "VI. 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This broadens exclusive psalmody while still excluding uninspired lyrics.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PSALMS-HYMNS-SPIRITUAL-SONGS-BROAD", "label": "Psalms hymns spiritual songs broad", "description": "Psalms hymns spiritual songs broad", "definition": "The New Testament authorizes psalms along with newly composed Christian hymns and spiritual songs. Lyrics need not quote Scripture verbatim, but must faithfully teach and praise in accord with it.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DOCTRINALLY-SOUND-SONGS", "label": "Doctrinally sound songs", "description": "Doctrinally sound songs", "definition": "Any song whose words are theologically faithful, intelligible, and edifying may be used in gathered worship. 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Contemporary style does not remove the need for theological and musical discernment.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16 → three terms are headings within the Psalter, overlapping genres including new Christian songs, or broad song categories.", "Psalm 96:1; 98:1; 149:1; Revelation 5:9; 14:3 → “new song” means newly composed song, renewed praise, or canonical eschatological song.", "Matthew 26:30; Acts 16:25; 1 Corinthians 14:15, 26; James 5:13 → singing is commanded, content sometimes unspecified.", "1 Corinthians 14:26 → a congregant “has a hymn/psalm,” potentially new contribution." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If Ephesians/Colossians’ three terms jointly denote the canonical Psalter, update EXCLUSIVE-PSALMODY.", "If “teaching and admonishing” permits freshly composed Christ-centered truth, update broader hymnody.", "Style-age labels do not map cleanly to theological options; assess text, function, and musical form separately." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Exclusive canonical-text singing conflicts with authorization of uninspired lyrics in corporate praise." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "EXCLUSIVE-PSALMODY": "substantive", "INSPIRED-CANONICAL-SONGS": "substantive", "PSALMS-HYMNS-SPIRITUAL-SONGS-BROAD": "substantive", "DOCTRINALLY-SOUND-SONGS": "substantive", "TRADITIONAL-HYMNS": "substantive", "CONTEMPORARY-WORSHIP": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "EXCLUSIVE-PSALMODY", "INSPIRED-CANONICAL-SONGS", "PSALMS-HYMNS-SPIRITUAL-SONGS-BROAD", "DOCTRINALLY-SOUND-SONGS", "TRADITIONAL-HYMNS", "CONTEMPORARY-WORSHIP" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "EXCLUSIVE-PSALMODY", "INSPIRED-CANONICAL-SONGS", "PSALMS-HYMNS-SPIRITUAL-SONGS-BROAD", "DOCTRINALLY-SOUND-SONGS", "TRADITIONAL-HYMNS", "CONTEMPORARY-WORSHIP" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 5:19", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 3:16", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Psalm", "file": "Psalm", "label": "Psalm 96:1", "startChapter": 96, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 96, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "Psalm", "file": "Psalm", "label": "Psalm 98:1", "startChapter": 98, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 98, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "Psalm", "file": "Psalm", "label": "Psalm 149:1", "startChapter": 149, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 149, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 5:9", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 14:3", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 3 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 26:30", "startChapter": 26, "startVerse": 30, "endChapter": 26, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:25", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:15", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:26", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 5:13", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 13 } ] }, { "id": "WOR-04", "canonicalId": "WOR-04", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "WOR-04" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Musical instruments, choirs, bands, and dance", "shortLabel": "Musical instruments, choirs, bands, and dance", "question": "Which musical forms are authorized in new-covenant worship?", "domain": "VI. 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Such music should serve the congregation rather than turn worship into detached performance.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CONGREGATIONAL-SONG-PRIORITY", "label": "Congregational song priority", "description": "Congregational song priority", "definition": "The assembled congregation's shared singing should remain the primary musical act of worship. Instruments, choirs, and solos may assist, but should not displace the mutual voice of the people.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DANCE-PERMITTED", "label": "Dance permitted", "description": "Dance permitted", "definition": "Reverent bodily dance may express communal praise and celebration in gathered worship. 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This is narrower than forbidding every form of art in ordinary life.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Exodus:20:4:20:6", "Deuteronomy:4:15:4:19" ], "rationale": "The prohibition of carved images and Israel’s hearing God without seeing a form provide the broadest case against religious images in worship.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "NO-DEPICTIONS-OF-CHRIST", "label": "No depictions of christ", "description": "No depictions of christ", "definition": "Jesus should not be visually depicted because any image either divides or confuses his divine and human natures and attempts to portray the divine Son. Other nondivine religious art may be permissible.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "John:1:18:1:18", "Acts:17:29:17:29" ], "rationale": "God’s invisibility and the warning against imagining the divine nature as human art are applied specifically to depictions of Christ’s person.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "IMAGES-PERMITTED-NOT-VENERATED", "label": "Images permitted not venerated", "description": "Images permitted not venerated", "definition": "Religious images and depictions of Christ may be made and displayed, but should not receive bows, kisses, incense, prayer, or other acts of veneration. Art can be lawful without becoming a devotional mediator.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Exodus:25:18:25:22", "2Kings:18:4:18:4" ], "rationale": "Commanded cherubim show that images are not intrinsically forbidden, while the destroyed bronze serpent warns against giving them devotion.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "ICON-VENERATION", "label": "Icon veneration", "description": "Icon veneration", "definition": "Sacred icons may be honored because respect shown to the image passes to the person represented, while worship belongs to God alone. The incarnation grounds the depictability of Christ rather than making paint or wood divine.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "John:1:14:1:14", "Colossians:1:15:1:15" ], "rationale": "The Word truly becoming visible flesh and Christ as the image of the invisible God ground the incarnational case for venerating holy images.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "CROSSES-ONLY-OR-NONFIGURAL-ART", "label": "Crosses only or nonfigural art", "description": "Crosses only or nonfigural art", "definition": "Crosses, symbols, architecture, and nonfigural decoration may enrich worship while depictions of divine or saintly persons remain restricted. This preserves visual expression without devotional portraiture.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Exodus:20:4:20:6", "Exodus:25:18:25:22" ], "rationale": "The combination of a serious image prohibition with divinely authorized sanctuary art motivates a narrow, nonfigural compromise.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "PEDAGOGICAL-ART", "label": "Pedagogical art", "description": "Pedagogical art", "definition": "Religious images may teach biblical history, aid memory, and form imagination without functioning as objects of veneration. Their value is educational and aesthetic rather than sacramental.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "1Kings:6:23:6:35", "Hebrews:9:23:9:24" ], "rationale": "Temple imagery and earthly copies of heavenly realities support visual art used to teach and direct attention beyond itself.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Exodus 20:4–6; Deuteronomy 4:15–19 → ban on making any divine image for worship, any religious image, or idolatrous bowing/service only?", "Exodus 25:18–22; Numbers 21:8–9; 1 Kings 6:23–35 → commanded sacred images show images per se are not forbidden; later destruction of bronze serpent in 2 Kings 18:4 warns against veneration.", "John 1:14, 18; Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3 → incarnation makes Christ depictable, or invisible divine person remains beyond image?", "Acts 17:29; Romans 1:22–25 → divine nature not represented by art.", "Hebrews 9:23–24 → sanctuary images/copies and heavenly reality." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Distinguish making, liturgical use, honor/veneration, and worship/adoration.", "Incarnation is the key pro-icon update; second-commandment and two-natures concerns are key anti-depiction updates.", "Commanded cherubim defeat a universal ban on all visual religious art but do not establish icons of God." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Veneration of icons as a mandated means of honoring prototypes conflicts with claims that all such liturgical gestures violate the second commandment." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "NO-RELIGIOUS-IMAGES-IN-WORSHIP": "substantive", "NO-DEPICTIONS-OF-CHRIST": "substantive", "IMAGES-PERMITTED-NOT-VENERATED": "substantive", "ICON-VENERATION": "substantive", "CROSSES-ONLY-OR-NONFIGURAL-ART": "substantive", "PEDAGOGICAL-ART": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "NO-RELIGIOUS-IMAGES-IN-WORSHIP", "NO-DEPICTIONS-OF-CHRIST", "IMAGES-PERMITTED-NOT-VENERATED", "ICON-VENERATION", "CROSSES-ONLY-OR-NONFIGURAL-ART", "PEDAGOGICAL-ART" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "NO-RELIGIOUS-IMAGES-IN-WORSHIP", "NO-DEPICTIONS-OF-CHRIST", "IMAGES-PERMITTED-NOT-VENERATED", "ICON-VENERATION", "CROSSES-ONLY-OR-NONFIGURAL-ART", "PEDAGOGICAL-ART" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 20:4–6", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 4:15–19", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 25:18–22", "startChapter": 25, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 25, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "Numbers", "file": "Numbers", "label": "Numbers 21:8–9", "startChapter": 21, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 21, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "1 Kings", "file": "1Kings", "label": "1 Kings 6:23–35", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 35 }, { "book": "2 Kings", "file": "2Kings", "label": "2 Kings 18:4", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 1:14", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 1:18", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 1:15", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 1:3", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 3 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 17:29", "startChapter": 17, "startVerse": 29, "endChapter": 17, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 1:22–25", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 9:23–24", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 24 } ] }, { "id": "WOR-06", "canonicalId": "WOR-06", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "WOR-06" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Charismatic contributions and order in the assembly", "shortLabel": "Charismatic contributions and order in the assembly", "question": "How should prophecy, tongues, spontaneous prayer, and congregational contributions function in worship?", "domain": "VI. 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Leaders may correct disorder, but participation is not normally restricted to preapproved speakers.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ELDER-SCREENED-CONTRIBUTIONS", "label": "Elder screened contributions", "description": "Elder screened contributions", "definition": "Spontaneous contributions may be used after elders or designated leaders assess their content and timing. Screening protects doctrine and order while preserving meaningful congregational participation.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ORDERED-CHARISMATIC-LITURGY", "label": "Ordered charismatic liturgy", "description": "Ordered charismatic liturgy", "definition": "Prophecy, tongues, healing prayer, and other charismatic gifts may be integrated into a planned service under explicit limits and communal testing. Charismatic agency and stable liturgical order are treated as compatible.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "TONGUES-ONLY-WITH-INTERPRETATION", "label": "Tongues only with interpretation", "description": "Tongues only with interpretation", "definition": "Public tongues are permitted only when an interpretation makes them intelligible to the whole assembly. Without interpretation the speaker should remain silent rather than treating private edification as sufficient for public use.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PRIVATE-NOT-CORPORATE-PRAYER-LANGUAGE", "label": "Private not corporate prayer language", "description": "Private not corporate prayer language", "definition": "A personal prayer language may be practiced privately but should not be vocalized as an uninterpreted part of gathered worship. The distinction protects corporate intelligibility without denying private devotional use.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "1 Corinthians 14:26–33, 39–40 → each brings a contribution, two or three speak, others weigh, tongues require interpretation; direct enduring rubric or temporary apostolic-era regulation?", "1 Thessalonians 5:19–22 → do not quench/despise; test and retain good.", "Ephesians 5:18–21 → Spirit-filled mutual address.", "1 Corinthians 12:7; 14:12 → gifts for common good/edification.", "1 Timothy 3:4–5; Hebrews 13:17 → leader oversight inferred." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Continuationism plus direct normativity of 1 Corinthians 14 updates ordered participation, not disorder.", "If an uninterpreted tongue edifies only the speaker, the corporate-common-good premise lowers public use.", "Elder screening may implement “weighing,” but pre-approval versus after-the-fact evaluation remains underdetermined." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Unrestricted simultaneous speech conflicts with Paul’s intelligibility and order requirements under all continuationist readings." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "GIFTS-CEASED-NO-PRACTICE": "substantive", "OPEN-MICROPHONE-PARTICIPATION": "substantive", "ELDER-SCREENED-CONTRIBUTIONS": "substantive", "ORDERED-CHARISMATIC-LITURGY": "substantive", "TONGUES-ONLY-WITH-INTERPRETATION": "substantive", "PRIVATE-NOT-CORPORATE-PRAYER-LANGUAGE": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "GIFTS-CEASED-NO-PRACTICE", "OPEN-MICROPHONE-PARTICIPATION", "ELDER-SCREENED-CONTRIBUTIONS", "ORDERED-CHARISMATIC-LITURGY", "TONGUES-ONLY-WITH-INTERPRETATION", "PRIVATE-NOT-CORPORATE-PRAYER-LANGUAGE" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "GIFTS-CEASED-NO-PRACTICE", "OPEN-MICROPHONE-PARTICIPATION", "ELDER-SCREENED-CONTRIBUTIONS", "ORDERED-CHARISMATIC-LITURGY", "TONGUES-ONLY-WITH-INTERPRETATION", "PRIVATE-NOT-CORPORATE-PRAYER-LANGUAGE" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:26–33", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 33 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:39–40", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 39, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 40 }, { "book": "1 Thessalonians", "file": "1Thessalonians", "label": "1 Thessalonians 5:19–22", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "Ephesians", "file": "Ephesians", "label": "Ephesians 5:18–21", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 21 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 12:7", "startChapter": 12, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 12, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:12", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 3:4–5", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 13:17", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 17 } ] }, { "id": "WOR-07", "canonicalId": "WOR-07", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "WOR-07" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Holy days and the church calendar", "shortLabel": "Holy days and the church calendar", "question": "May or should churches observe Christmas, Easter/Pascha, Lent, saints’ days, and an annual liturgical calendar?", "domain": "VI. 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Such festivals are permissible teaching occasions rather than holy obligations.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "HISTORIC-CALENDAR-COMMENDED", "label": "Historic calendar commended", "description": "Historic calendar commended", "definition": "The historic Christian year is a wise and formative pattern for rehearsing the gospel through seasons and feasts. Its observance is normally beneficial, though not every date or custom carries divine command.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CALENDAR-BINDING-BY-CHURCH-AUTHORITY", "label": "Calendar binding by church authority", "description": "Calendar binding by church authority", "definition": "The church may authoritatively appoint common feasts, fasts, and seasons, and members should ordinarily observe that calendar as part of ecclesial order. The obligation arises through legitimate church authority rather than a direct biblical calendar.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "INDIVIDUAL-LIBERTY-NOT-CORPORATE-INSTITUTION", "label": "Individual liberty not corporate institution", "description": "Individual liberty not corporate institution", "definition": "Individual Christians may observe religious days according to conscience, but the gathered church should not establish them as common sacred observances. Private liberty does not supply institutional authority.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Romans 14:5–6 → individual liberty over days, church authorization, or Jewish-calendar disputes only?", "Galatians 4:9–11; Colossians 2:16–17 → bondage to calendrical observance versus freedom to observe voluntarily.", "John 10:22–23 → Jesus at non-Mosaic Feast of Dedication: participation or mere location?", "Esther 9:20–32 → post-Mosaic feast instituted by covenant community; old-covenant precedent only?", "1 Corinthians 5:7–8; 16:8; Acts 20:6, 16 → Christianized feast language, chronological markers, or actual observance?" ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If regulative principle prohibits church-created sacred days, update LORDS-DAY-ONLY.", "If Romans 14 grants voluntary observance unto the Lord, update permission but not mandatory calendar.", "A church’s authority to order common worship may support calendar use without claiming divine obligation." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A divinely forbidden sacred-day innovation conflicts with mandatory calendar observance; voluntary private commemoration may be treated separately." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "LORDS-DAY-ONLY": "substantive", "REDEMPTIVE-HISTORY-FESTIVALS-PERMITTED": "substantive", "HISTORIC-CALENDAR-COMMENDED": "substantive", "CALENDAR-BINDING-BY-CHURCH-AUTHORITY": "substantive", "INDIVIDUAL-LIBERTY-NOT-CORPORATE-INSTITUTION": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "LORDS-DAY-ONLY", "REDEMPTIVE-HISTORY-FESTIVALS-PERMITTED", "HISTORIC-CALENDAR-COMMENDED", "CALENDAR-BINDING-BY-CHURCH-AUTHORITY", "INDIVIDUAL-LIBERTY-NOT-CORPORATE-INSTITUTION" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "LORDS-DAY-ONLY", "REDEMPTIVE-HISTORY-FESTIVALS-PERMITTED", "HISTORIC-CALENDAR-COMMENDED", "CALENDAR-BINDING-BY-CHURCH-AUTHORITY", "INDIVIDUAL-LIBERTY-NOT-CORPORATE-INSTITUTION" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 14:5–6", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 4:9–11", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:16–17", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 10:22–23", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Esther", "file": "Esther", "label": "Esther 9:20–32", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 32 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:7–8", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 16:8", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:6", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:16", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 16 } ] }, { "id": "WOR-08", "canonicalId": "WOR-08", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "WOR-08" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Gathered presence, online church, and multisite models", "shortLabel": "Gathered presence, online church, and multisite models", "question": "What degree of embodied co-presence is necessary for a church assembly and its ordinances?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "EMBODIED-LOCAL-GATHERING-REQUIRED", "label": "Embodied local gathering required", "description": "Embodied local gathering required", "definition": "A church assembly and its ordinances ordinarily require members to be physically present together in one place. Digital communication can assist ministry but cannot itself constitute the embodied gathering.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DIGITAL-PARTICIPATION-SUPPLEMENTAL", "label": "Digital participation supplemental", "description": "Digital participation supplemental", "definition": "Livestreams, video meetings, and online communities can genuinely support teaching, prayer, and pastoral care while remaining supplements to physical assembly. Remote access accommodates limitations without redefining the church's ordinary gathering.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "REMOTE-GATHERING-CAN-CONSTITUTE-CHURCH", "label": "Remote gathering can constitute church", "description": "Remote gathering can constitute church", "definition": "A digitally connected community can truly assemble as a church and exercise worship, membership, and potentially ordinances without regular physical co-presence. Shared interaction and accountable covenant, rather than location, are treated as constitutive.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MULTISITE-ONE-CHURCH", "label": "Multisite one church", "description": "Multisite one church", "definition": "Several simultaneous physical gatherings can constitute one church when they share elders, membership, doctrine, discipline, and mission. Geographic sites are treated as expressions of one governed body rather than separate congregations.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MULTISITE-MULTIPLE-CHURCHES", "label": "Multisite multiple churches", "description": "Multisite multiple churches", "definition": "Each regularly gathered site is functionally a distinct local church even when sites share branding, preaching, resources, and translocal leadership. The assembly itself, not the central organization, determines church identity.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "HOME-DISTRIBUTED-NETWORK", "label": "Home distributed network", "description": "Home distributed network", "definition": "A coordinated network of small household gatherings may together embody church life without a single large weekly meeting. Local tables and relationships are primary, while shared oversight and mission link the network.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 18:20; Acts 2:42–47; 20:7; 1 Corinthians 5:4; 11:17–34; 14:23 → bodily “coming together” as constitutive or technologically adaptable presence?", "Hebrews 10:24–25 → assembling entails physical gathering, any synchronous fellowship, or covenant participation.", "1 Corinthians 10:17; 11:20–22, 33 → one bread/body and waiting/eating together suggest shared place and meal.", "2 John 12; 3 John 13–14; Romans 1:11–12 → letters serve at distance, but face-to-face presence is preferred for fullness." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Digital teaching/fellowship can be genuine while not constituting the assembly; model supplement and replacement separately.", "If one eldership, membership, discipline, and Supper define one church across sites, update MULTISITE-ONE-CHURCH; if regular assemblies hold the keys, update multiple churches.", "Emergency accommodation does not establish ordinary ecclesiology." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“Physical co-presence is constitutive” conflicts with a permanently virtual church claiming full assembly status; it does not conflict with pastoral streaming." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "EMBODIED-LOCAL-GATHERING-REQUIRED": "substantive", "DIGITAL-PARTICIPATION-SUPPLEMENTAL": "substantive", "REMOTE-GATHERING-CAN-CONSTITUTE-CHURCH": "substantive", "MULTISITE-ONE-CHURCH": "substantive", "MULTISITE-MULTIPLE-CHURCHES": "substantive", "HOME-DISTRIBUTED-NETWORK": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "EMBODIED-LOCAL-GATHERING-REQUIRED", "DIGITAL-PARTICIPATION-SUPPLEMENTAL", "REMOTE-GATHERING-CAN-CONSTITUTE-CHURCH", "MULTISITE-ONE-CHURCH", "MULTISITE-MULTIPLE-CHURCHES", "HOME-DISTRIBUTED-NETWORK" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "EMBODIED-LOCAL-GATHERING-REQUIRED", "DIGITAL-PARTICIPATION-SUPPLEMENTAL", "REMOTE-GATHERING-CAN-CONSTITUTE-CHURCH", "MULTISITE-ONE-CHURCH", "MULTISITE-MULTIPLE-CHURCHES", "HOME-DISTRIBUTED-NETWORK" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 18:20", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:42–47", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 42, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 47 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:7", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 5:4", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 4, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:17–34", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:23", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 10:24–25", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 10:17", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:20–22", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 22 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 11:33", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 33, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 33 }, { "book": "2 John", "file": "2John", "label": "2 John 1:12", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "3 John", "file": "3John", "label": "3 John 1:13–14", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 1:11–12", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 12 } ] }, { "id": "SAB-01", "canonicalId": "SAB-01", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SAB-01" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Continuity of the fourth commandment", "shortLabel": "Continuity of the fourth commandment", "question": "Does the Sabbath command continue morally, continue transformed in the Lord’s Day, remain as creation rhythm without legal obligation, or find fulfillment in Christ?", "domain": "VI. 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Its precise Christian day and permitted activities may require separate judgment.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "SABBATH-FULFILLED-NOT-BINDING", "label": "Sabbath fulfilled not binding", "description": "Sabbath fulfilled not binding", "definition": "The Mosaic Sabbath was a covenantal shadow fulfilled in Christ and no longer binds Christians as a day law. Believers should gather and may practice wise rest without treating one day as morally sacred.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MORAL-PRINCIPLE-NOT-DAY-LAW", "label": "Moral principle not day law", "description": "Moral principle not day law", "definition": "The command continues as a moral pattern of worship, rest, mercy, and dependence, but not as a legal requirement tied to a specific twenty-four-hour day. It retains formative authority without full Sabbatarian continuity.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "SEVENTH-DAY-CONTINUES", "label": "Seventh day continues", "description": "Seventh day continues", "definition": "The fourth commandment continues according to its stated seventh-day pattern, so Saturday remains the divinely appointed Sabbath. First-day Christian worship does not authorize changing the commanded day.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Genesis 2:2–3; Exodus 16:22–30; 20:8–11 → creation ordinance before Sinai or retrospective foundation for Israel’s covenant sign?", "Exodus 31:12–17; Deuteronomy 5:12–15 → creation/moral command and specifically Mosaic covenant sign/redemption memorial.", "Isaiah 56:2–7; 58:13–14 → eschatological Gentile Sabbath observance or old-covenant prophetic blessing.", "Mark 2:27–28 → Sabbath for humanity and Son’s lordship imply continuity, or Jesus’ authority to fulfill/transform it.", "Romans 14:5–6; Galatians 4:10–11; Colossians 2:16–17 → day observance is liberty/shadow; whether “Sabbath” includes weekly command is decisive.", "Hebrews 4:1–11 → continuing “Sabbath-rest” as weekly observance, salvation rest, eschatological rest, or layered." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Creation grounding strongly updates some trans-Mosaic continuity.", "Identification as Mosaic covenant sign plus shadow language updates fulfillment/nonbinding.", "A moral rest-and-worship principle can remain while ceremonial day details lapse." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“No day is morally binding” conflicts with “the fourth commandment binds one day in seven,” though both can encourage Sunday worship." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "CHRISTIAN-SABBATH-CONTINUES": "substantive", "CREATION-ORDINANCE-CONTINUES": "substantive", "SABBATH-FULFILLED-NOT-BINDING": "substantive", "MORAL-PRINCIPLE-NOT-DAY-LAW": "substantive", "SEVENTH-DAY-CONTINUES": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "CHRISTIAN-SABBATH-CONTINUES", "CREATION-ORDINANCE-CONTINUES", "SABBATH-FULFILLED-NOT-BINDING", "MORAL-PRINCIPLE-NOT-DAY-LAW", "SEVENTH-DAY-CONTINUES" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "CHRISTIAN-SABBATH-CONTINUES", "CREATION-ORDINANCE-CONTINUES", "SABBATH-FULFILLED-NOT-BINDING", "MORAL-PRINCIPLE-NOT-DAY-LAW", "SEVENTH-DAY-CONTINUES" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Genesis", "file": "Genesis", "label": "Genesis 2:2–3", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 3 }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 16:22–30", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 22, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 30 }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 20:8–11", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 31:12–17", "startChapter": 31, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 31, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "file": "Deuteronomy", "label": "Deuteronomy 5:12–15", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Isaiah", "file": "Isaiah", "label": "Isaiah 56:2–7", "startChapter": 56, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 56, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Isaiah", "file": "Isaiah", "label": "Isaiah 58:13–14", "startChapter": 58, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 58, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Mark", "file": "Mark", "label": "Mark 2:27–28", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 27, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 14:5–6", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 6 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 4:10–11", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:16–17", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 17 }, { "book": "Hebrews", "file": "Hebrews", "label": "Hebrews 4:1–11", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 11 } ] }, { "id": "SAB-02", "canonicalId": "SAB-02", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SAB-02" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Which day: seventh day, first day, or no divinely fixed day", "shortLabel": "Which day: seventh day, first day, or no divinely fixed day", "question": "If a weekly sacred day continues, is it Saturday, Sunday, either by church order, or no fixed day?", "domain": "VI. 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Resurrection celebrations on Sunday do not transfer the fourth commandment.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Exodus:20:8:20:11" ], "rationale": "The fourth commandment’s explicit seventh-day specification is the decisive banner text for this view.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "FIRST-DAY-LORDS-DAY", "label": "First day lords day", "description": "First day lords day", "definition": "Sunday is the distinct new-covenant Lord's Day associated with Christ's resurrection and apostolic assembly. It may be sacred without requiring the claim that every Mosaic Sabbath rule was transferred.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:20:7:20:7", "Revelation:1:10:1:10" ], "rationale": "First-day Christian assembly and the Lord’s Day designation are the leading texts for a distinct Sunday observance.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "APOSTOLIC-CHURCH-TRANSFER", "label": "Apostolic church transfer", "description": "Apostolic church transfer", "definition": "Apostolic practice authoritatively transferred the Sabbath's one-day-in-seven obligation from the seventh day to the first. Sunday therefore carries the moral continuity of the fourth commandment.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Acts:20:7:20:7", "1Corinthians:16:1:16:2" ], "rationale": "These passages are commonly read as an apostolic first-day pattern carrying weekly covenant force.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "ANY-ONE-DAY-IN-SEVEN", "label": "Any one day in seven", "description": "Any one day in seven", "definition": "The enduring requirement is a regular one-in-seven rhythm, while the church may determine which day serves its common worship and rest. Saturday and Sunday are not intrinsically exclusive divine requirements.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Romans:14:5:14:5", "1Corinthians:16:1:16:2" ], "rationale": "These texts support liberty concerning particular days together with an orderly weekly rhythm.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } }, { "id": "NO-DIVINELY-FIXED-DAY", "label": "No divinely fixed day", "description": "No divinely fixed day", "definition": "No day of the week is now sacred by divine law, though churches wisely appoint regular times—commonly Sunday—for assembly. The schedule serves order rather than fulfilling a continuing day command.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed", "evidenceAffinity": { "bannerReferenceKeys": [ "Colossians:2:16:2:16", "Romans:14:5:14:5" ], "rationale": "These are the clearest apostolic texts resisting judgment or divine obligation concerning sacred days.", "provenance": "First-pass editorial review of the catalog’s cited passages against each option’s stated distinctive; intended for correction and refinement through the site’s suggestion process", "reviewStatus": "reviewed_editorial" } } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Matthew 28:1–10; John 20:1, 19, 26 → resurrection and appearances on first day establish pattern or are narrative facts.", "Acts 20:7 → first-day bread-breaking as ordinary worship or one exceptional meeting.", "1 Corinthians 16:1–2 → first-day financial setting aside indicates corporate gathering or private saving.", "Revelation 1:10 → “Lord’s Day” is Sunday, eschatological Day of the Lord, or imperial terminology.", "Exodus 20:8–11 → seventh day remains explicit; no New Testament verse says “the Sabbath changed.”", "Colossians 2:16; Romans 14:5 → no fixed sacred day under new covenant." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If fourth-commandment day specification continues unchanged, update Saturday.", "If resurrection plus apostolic gathering authoritatively reorients the weekly cycle, update Sunday/transfer.", "Sunday worship does not entail Sabbath transfer; model historical-resurrection gathering and moral Sabbatarianism separately." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "A divinely required seventh-day Saturday and a divinely transferred first-day obligation cannot both specify the exclusive day." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "SEVENTH-DAY-SATURDAY": "substantive", "FIRST-DAY-LORDS-DAY": "substantive", "APOSTOLIC-CHURCH-TRANSFER": "substantive", "ANY-ONE-DAY-IN-SEVEN": "substantive", "NO-DIVINELY-FIXED-DAY": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "SEVENTH-DAY-SATURDAY", "FIRST-DAY-LORDS-DAY", "APOSTOLIC-CHURCH-TRANSFER", "ANY-ONE-DAY-IN-SEVEN", "NO-DIVINELY-FIXED-DAY" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "SEVENTH-DAY-SATURDAY", "FIRST-DAY-LORDS-DAY", "APOSTOLIC-CHURCH-TRANSFER", "ANY-ONE-DAY-IN-SEVEN", "NO-DIVINELY-FIXED-DAY" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:1–10", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 20:1", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 20:19", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 20:26", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:7", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 16:1–2", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 2 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 1:10", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Exodus", "file": "Exodus", "label": "Exodus 20:8–11", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 11 }, { "book": "Colossians", "file": "Colossians", "label": "Colossians 2:16", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 14:5", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 5 } ] }, { "id": "SAB-03", "canonicalId": "SAB-03", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "SAB-03" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Permitted work, commerce, recreation, and mercy", "shortLabel": "Permitted work, commerce, recreation, and mercy", "question": "If Sabbath/Lord’s Day obligation remains, what activities are restricted?", "domain": "VI. 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Translocal coordination remains ecclesial rather than merely private.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "PARACHURCH-AGENCY-LEGITIMATE", "label": "Parachurch agency legitimate", "description": "Parachurch agency legitimate", "definition": "A voluntary mission agency may independently recruit, send, fund, and direct missionaries while cooperating with churches. It need not itself administer church membership or sacraments to exercise legitimate specialized authority.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "APOSTOLIC-TEAM-WITH-CHURCH-ACCOUNTABILITY", "label": "Apostolic team with church accountability", "description": "Apostolic team with church accountability", "definition": "Mobile missionary teams may direct field strategy with substantial freedom while remaining recognized and accountable to sending churches. This model distinguishes pioneering team leadership from either a wholly independent agency or immediate local-church control.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "BIVOCATIONAL-SELF-SENT-WITH-RECOGNITION", "label": "Bivocational self sent with recognition", "description": "Bivocational self sent with recognition", "definition": "A qualified Christian may enter mission through vocation, opportunity, and self-support without a formal agency appointment, provided churches recognize and hold the work accountable. Initiative need not mean ecclesial isolation.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 13:1–4; 14:26–28 → Antioch church/Spirit sends and receives report; church control, prayerful commendation, or partnership?", "Acts 15:36–41; 16:1–5 → mobile apostolic teams choose coworkers and act across churches.", "Philippians 4:10–18; 3 John 5–8 → churches financially partner with itinerant workers.", "2 Corinthians 8:16–24 → interchurch appointed delegates form ad hoc cooperative agency.", "Romans 15:23–29 → Paul solicits support from a church for independently directed mission." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "If baptism, discipline, doctrine, and ordination are exclusively church powers, agencies should not become quasi-churches even if logistics are delegated.", "Apostolic-team narratives support specialized translocal structures, but unique apostolic authority limits direct equivalence.", "Model sending authority, employment, funding, theological accountability, and field strategy separately." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "An agency exercising church keys while denying it is a church conflicts with definitions making those keys constitutive, unless it acts by delegated church authority." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "LOCAL-CHURCH-EXCLUSIVE-SENDING": "substantive", "DENOMINATIONAL-BOARD": "substantive", "PARACHURCH-AGENCY-LEGITIMATE": "substantive", "APOSTOLIC-TEAM-WITH-CHURCH-ACCOUNTABILITY": "substantive", "BIVOCATIONAL-SELF-SENT-WITH-RECOGNITION": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "LOCAL-CHURCH-EXCLUSIVE-SENDING", "DENOMINATIONAL-BOARD", "PARACHURCH-AGENCY-LEGITIMATE", "APOSTOLIC-TEAM-WITH-CHURCH-ACCOUNTABILITY", "BIVOCATIONAL-SELF-SENT-WITH-RECOGNITION" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "LOCAL-CHURCH-EXCLUSIVE-SENDING", "DENOMINATIONAL-BOARD", "PARACHURCH-AGENCY-LEGITIMATE", "APOSTOLIC-TEAM-WITH-CHURCH-ACCOUNTABILITY", "BIVOCATIONAL-SELF-SENT-WITH-RECOGNITION" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 13:1–4", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 14:26–28", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 26, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 28 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 15:36–41", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 36, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 41 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:1–5", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 5 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 4:10–18", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "3 John", "file": "3John", "label": "3 John 1:5–8", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 8:16–24", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 15:23–29", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 29 } ] }, { "id": "MIS-04", "canonicalId": "PUBLIC-02", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "PUBLIC-02", "MIS-04" ], "mirrorNote": "Institutional mission and social action.", "isMirrorRecord": true, "title": "Gospel proclamation and social action", "shortLabel": "Gospel proclamation and social action", "question": "Is social mercy/justice part of the church’s mission, an implication of disciple-making, or chiefly the vocation of individual Christians?", "domain": "VI. 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Deeds neither replace evangelism nor function merely as optional consequences after the real work is done.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CHURCH-MERCY-TO-ALL-WITH-PRIORITY-HOUSEHOLD", "label": "Church mercy to all with priority household", "description": "Church mercy to all with priority household", "definition": "Churches should organize material care for believers and outsiders, while giving a special priority to fellow Christians. Corporate mercy is a genuine church responsibility without making every social need an equal institutional mandate.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "INSTITUTIONAL-SPIRITUAL-MISSION-INDIVIDUAL-SOCIAL-VOCATION", "label": "Institutional spiritual mission individual social vocation", "description": "Institutional spiritual mission individual social vocation", "definition": "The church as an institution is chiefly responsible for word, sacrament, and discipline, while Christians pursue social good through family, vocation, association, and citizenship. Individual public action does not automatically become an ecclesial program.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "KINGDOM-TRANSFORMATION", "label": "Kingdom transformation", "description": "Kingdom transformation", "definition": "Mission seeks the visible transformation of communities and social structures under the reign of Christ as well as personal conversion. 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Neither wholesale importation nor uncritical accommodation is assumed.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "FUNCTIONAL-EQUIVALENCE", "label": "Functional equivalence", "description": "Functional equivalence", "definition": "Christian teaching and practice should be expressed through local forms that perform the same faithful function as inherited forms in another culture. Equivalence requires attention to communal meaning, not just a missionary's private intention.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "HIGH-CONTEXTUALIZATION", "label": "High contextualization", "description": "High contextualization", "definition": "Believers may retain extensive cultural and religiously associated forms when those forms can be reinterpreted around allegiance to Christ. Adaptation is limited where public participation necessarily communicates idolatry or denial of the gospel.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "INSIDER-MOVEMENT", "label": "Insider movement", "description": "Insider movement", "definition": "Followers of Jesus may remain socially identified within their birth religious community and use many of its forms while reorienting faith toward Christ. This differs from ordinary contextualization by resisting extraction into a visibly separate Christian identity.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "EXTRACTION-AND-VISIBLE-SEPARATION", "label": "Extraction and visible separation", "description": "Extraction and visible separation", "definition": "Conversion should normally lead believers to leave religious institutions and practices that publicly confess a rival faith and join a distinct Christian community. Visible separation protects truthful witness even at significant social cost.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 15:1–29; Galatians 2:1–14; 1 Corinthians 7:17–24 → Gentiles need not adopt Jewish culture; social continuity where possible, bounded by gospel truth.", "Acts 17:16–34; 1 Corinthians 9:19–23 → Paul uses local categories and adapts for mission without joining idolatry.", "1 Corinthians 8–10 → cultural participation assessed through idolatrous meaning, conscience, witness, and thanksgiving.", "2 Corinthians 6:14–7:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:9–10 → decisive separation from idolatry.", "2 Kings 5:17–19 and 1 Corinthians 7:20–24 → difficult cases of continued social location; not direct endorsement of insider identity.", "Revelation 2:14, 20 → accommodation can become syncretism." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Separate neutral form, socially contested symbol, explicitly false confession, and idolatrous ritual participation.", "Gospel translation requires contextualization; the dispute concerns boundaries, not whether context matters.", "High-context models gain probability when continued identity does not communicate false worship; lose probability when communal meaning necessarily affirms another lord or denies Christ." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Explicitly affirming propositions that deny Christ’s deity, death, or lordship is incompatible with faithful contextualization, even if privately redefined." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "MINIMAL-CONTEXTUALIZATION": "substantive", "CRITICAL-CONTEXTUALIZATION": "substantive", "FUNCTIONAL-EQUIVALENCE": "substantive", "HIGH-CONTEXTUALIZATION": "substantive", "INSIDER-MOVEMENT": "substantive", "EXTRACTION-AND-VISIBLE-SEPARATION": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "MINIMAL-CONTEXTUALIZATION", "CRITICAL-CONTEXTUALIZATION", "FUNCTIONAL-EQUIVALENCE", "HIGH-CONTEXTUALIZATION", "INSIDER-MOVEMENT", "EXTRACTION-AND-VISIBLE-SEPARATION" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "MINIMAL-CONTEXTUALIZATION", "CRITICAL-CONTEXTUALIZATION", "FUNCTIONAL-EQUIVALENCE", "HIGH-CONTEXTUALIZATION", "INSIDER-MOVEMENT", "EXTRACTION-AND-VISIBLE-SEPARATION" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 15:1–29", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 29 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 2:1–14", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 7:17–24", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 17:16–34", "startChapter": 17, "startVerse": 16, "endChapter": 17, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 9:19–23", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 8–10", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 6:14–7:1", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "1 Thessalonians", "file": "1Thessalonians", "label": "1 Thessalonians 1:9–10", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "2 Kings", "file": "2Kings", "label": "2 Kings 5:17–19", "startChapter": 5, "startVerse": 17, "endChapter": 5, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 7:20–24", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 2:14", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 2:20", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 20 } ] }, { "id": "MIS-06", "canonicalId": "MIS-06", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "MIS-06" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Church planting, conversion, and “belonging before believing”", "shortLabel": "Church planting, conversion, and “belonging before believing”", "question": "Is the normal missionary aim a gathered church of professing converts, gradual incorporation of seekers, renewal of existing churches, or broader networks?", "domain": "VI. 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This social belonging need not imply immediate baptism, membership, or assurance.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "HOUSEHOLD-NETWORK-CONVERSION", "label": "Household network conversion", "description": "Household network conversion", "definition": "Mission works through families and relational networks so that households encounter, respond to, and embody the gospel together. Collective pathways support personal faith rather than assuming one member's belief automatically saves all.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "RENEW-EXISTING-CHURCHES", "label": "Renew existing churches", "description": "Renew existing churches", "definition": "Mission may focus on revitalizing historically Christian but spiritually weak or compromised congregations rather than founding separate churches. Renewal of existing ecclesial life can be genuine missionary advance.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DISCIPLE-MAKING-MOVEMENTS", "label": "Disciple making movements", "description": "Disciple making movements", "definition": "Rapidly reproducing networks train ordinary believers to discover Scripture, obey Christ, make disciples, and form new churches with minimal external dependence. Multiplication and local leadership are prioritized over institution-heavy development.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "SACRAMENTAL-INCORPORATION-THEN-CATECHESIS", "label": "Sacramental incorporation then catechesis", "description": "Sacramental incorporation then catechesis", "definition": "Baptism incorporates people—often including children—into the church's sacramental life, after which sustained catechesis forms mature personal faith. Ecclesial belonging can therefore precede a fully articulated profession.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 2:37–47; 8:12; 14:21–23 → repentance/faith, baptism, addition, teaching, elders: compressed narrative or prescribed sequence.", "Matthew 28:19–20 → baptism and teaching as discipling process; order grammatically underdetermined.", "Luke 14:25–33 → count cost before claiming discipleship.", "John 1:39–46; 4:39–42; 1 Corinthians 14:23–25 → seekers encounter community before full confession.", "Acts 10; 16:14–34; 18:8 → household/social-network spread.", "1 Corinthians 3:5–10; Titus 1:5 → planting, watering, ordered maturation." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Distinguish social welcome, catechumenate, visible membership, baptism, and assurance; “belong” is otherwise ambiguous.", "Narrative sequence strongly updates CONVERT-BAPTIZE-GATHER for adult converts.", "Household-network methods gain support as social conduits, not proof that a head’s faith saves or baptizes all automatically." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Full membership without any Christian profession conflicts with regenerate/professing membership models, though nonmember belonging can be broad." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "CONVERT-BAPTIZE-GATHER": "substantive", "BELONG-BEFORE-BELIEVE": "substantive", "HOUSEHOLD-NETWORK-CONVERSION": "substantive", "RENEW-EXISTING-CHURCHES": "substantive", "DISCIPLE-MAKING-MOVEMENTS": "substantive", "SACRAMENTAL-INCORPORATION-THEN-CATECHESIS": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "CONVERT-BAPTIZE-GATHER", "BELONG-BEFORE-BELIEVE", "HOUSEHOLD-NETWORK-CONVERSION", "RENEW-EXISTING-CHURCHES", "DISCIPLE-MAKING-MOVEMENTS", "SACRAMENTAL-INCORPORATION-THEN-CATECHESIS" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "CONVERT-BAPTIZE-GATHER", "BELONG-BEFORE-BELIEVE", "HOUSEHOLD-NETWORK-CONVERSION", "RENEW-EXISTING-CHURCHES", "DISCIPLE-MAKING-MOVEMENTS", "SACRAMENTAL-INCORPORATION-THEN-CATECHESIS" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 2:37–47", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 37, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 47 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 8:12", "startChapter": 8, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 8, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 14:21–23", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:19–20", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 14:25–33", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 25, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 33 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 1:39–46", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 39, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 46 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 4:39–42", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 39, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 42 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:23–25", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 25 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 10", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:14–34", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 34 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 18:8", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 3:5–10", "startChapter": 3, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 3, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 1:5", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 5 } ] }, { "id": "MIS-07", "canonicalId": "MIS-07", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "MIS-07" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Priority: unreached peoples, local need, or strategic opportunity", "shortLabel": "Priority: unreached peoples, local need, or strategic opportunity", "question": "Should missions prioritize peoples with no viable church, all places equally, receptive fields, cities, or the poor/marginalized?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "UNREACHED-PEOPLES-PRIORITY", "label": "Unreached peoples priority", "description": "Unreached peoples priority", "definition": "Finite mission resources should favor ethnolinguistic peoples that lack a viable indigenous church capable of evangelizing its own community. The strategy addresses enduring access and church presence rather than merely low Christian percentages.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "NO-ACCESS-FIRST", "label": "No access first", "description": "No access first", "definition": "The highest priority belongs to people who have little or no realistic access to the gospel, Scripture, or a Christian witness. This criterion can cut across standard people-group boundaries and numerical definitions.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "LOCAL-AND-GLOBAL-BALANCE", "label": "Local and global balance", "description": "Local and global balance", "definition": "Churches should maintain a deliberate portfolio of nearby ministry and cross-cultural mission rather than treating one sphere as categorically prior. Allocation reflects several biblical responsibilities and providential relationships.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "STRATEGIC-CITIES", "label": "Strategic cities", "description": "Strategic cities", "definition": "Mission should prioritize influential urban centers from which churches, leaders, ideas, and resources can spread through a wider region. Strategic leverage, not simply population size, guides the choice.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "RECEPTIVE-FIELDS", "label": "Receptive fields", "description": "Receptive fields", "definition": "Workers should concentrate where people are presently responsive and opportunities yield substantial gospel fruit. This stewardship approach may redirect effort from persistently resistant settings without denying their need.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "POOR-AND-MARGINALIZED-PRIORITY", "label": "Poor and marginalized priority", "description": "Poor and marginalized priority", "definition": "Mission should give special attention to people neglected by social power and ordinary strategy, reflecting Scripture's concern for the poor and excluded. Their priority is theological and moral, not merely a forecast of receptivity.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "CHURCH-STRENGTHENING", "label": "Church strengthening", "description": "Church strengthening", "definition": "Strengthening young, vulnerable, or doctrinally weak churches is a central missionary priority alongside reaching places with no church. Long-term maturity and local leadership matter as much as pioneering entry.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Romans 15:19–24; 2 Corinthians 10:13–16 → Paul’s ambition not to build on another foundation supports pioneering priority or his unique apostolic calling.", "Matthew 24:14; 28:19; Revelation 7:9 → every nation/people represented.", "Acts 1:8 → simultaneous local-regional-global witness, not necessarily a chronological ladder.", "Acts 13–19 → strategic urban centers with regional diffusion.", "Luke 4:18; 6:20; 14:13–24; James 2:1–7 → good news and welcome to poor/marginalized; spiritual/economic senses debated.", "Acts 14:21–23; 15:36, 41; 18:23 → Paul revisits and strengthens existing churches." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "Paul supplies a strong pioneering-mission example but the body has diverse callings; do not universalize one apostolic strategy to every church.", "“Unreached” is an operational construct; separate no access, no believers, no indigenous church, and low percentage.", "Priorities should be modeled as portfolio weights under finite resources, not exclusive truth claims." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“All mission resources must go only where no church exists” conflicts with apostolic strengthening of existing churches." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "UNREACHED-PEOPLES-PRIORITY": "substantive", "NO-ACCESS-FIRST": "substantive", "LOCAL-AND-GLOBAL-BALANCE": "substantive", "STRATEGIC-CITIES": "substantive", "RECEPTIVE-FIELDS": "substantive", "POOR-AND-MARGINALIZED-PRIORITY": "substantive", "CHURCH-STRENGTHENING": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "UNREACHED-PEOPLES-PRIORITY", "NO-ACCESS-FIRST", "LOCAL-AND-GLOBAL-BALANCE", "STRATEGIC-CITIES", "RECEPTIVE-FIELDS", "POOR-AND-MARGINALIZED-PRIORITY", "CHURCH-STRENGTHENING" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "UNREACHED-PEOPLES-PRIORITY", "NO-ACCESS-FIRST", "LOCAL-AND-GLOBAL-BALANCE", "STRATEGIC-CITIES", "RECEPTIVE-FIELDS", "POOR-AND-MARGINALIZED-PRIORITY", "CHURCH-STRENGTHENING" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 15:19–24", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 10:13–16", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 24:14", "startChapter": 24, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 24, "endVerse": 14 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:19", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 19, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 19 }, { "book": "Revelation", "file": "Revelation", "label": "Revelation 7:9", "startChapter": 7, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 7, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 1:8", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 8, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 8 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 13–19", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": null, "endChapter": 19, "endVerse": null }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 4:18", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 18, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 6:20", "startChapter": 6, "startVerse": 20, "endChapter": 6, "endVerse": 20 }, { "book": "Luke", "file": "Luke", "label": "Luke 14:13–24", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 13, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 24 }, { "book": "James", "file": "James", "label": "James 2:1–7", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 14:21–23", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 21, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 23 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 15:36", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 36, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 36 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 15:41", "startChapter": 15, "startVerse": 41, "endChapter": 15, "endVerse": 41 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 18:23", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 23, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 23 } ] }, { "id": "MIS-08", "canonicalId": "MIS-08", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "MIS-08" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Missionary vocation, tentmaking, and financial support", "shortLabel": "Missionary vocation, tentmaking, and financial support", "question": "Is a special missionary call required, and should missionaries be salaried, self-supporting, or flexibly supported?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "SUBJECTIVE-CALL-PLUS-CHURCH-CONFIRMATION", "label": "Subjective call plus church confirmation", "description": "Subjective call plus church confirmation", "definition": "Missionary vocation normally includes an inward sense of God's leading that is tested and confirmed by a church. Private conviction alone is insufficient, while institutional selection without personal calling is incomplete.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "OBJECTIVE-GIFT-OPPORTUNITY-COMMISSION", "label": "Objective gift opportunity commission", "description": "Objective gift opportunity commission", "definition": "Character, gifting, desire, providential opportunity, and church commission can establish a missionary vocation without a dramatic inner voice. The call is discerned through observable fitness and responsible sending.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "DIRECT-DIVINE-CALL", "label": "Direct divine call", "description": "Direct divine call", "definition": "God may personally and recognizably direct someone to a particular missionary people, place, or task beyond ordinary vocational reasoning. The claim still requires testing rather than exemption from church accountability.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "FULL-TIME-SUPPORTED", "label": "Full time supported", "description": "Full time supported", "definition": "Missionaries should ordinarily receive sufficient church or donor support to devote their labor fully to ministry. Financial support is a legitimate gospel partnership rather than evidence of inferior faith.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "TENTMAKING", "label": "Tentmaking", "description": "Tentmaking", "definition": "Missionaries may support themselves through ordinary employment, gaining access, credibility, relationships, and reduced dependence on outside funds. Tentmaking is a valid calling and strategy, not merely a temporary funding failure.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MIXED-SUPPORT", "label": "Mixed support", "description": "Mixed support", "definition": "Missionaries may prudently combine gifts, part-time employment, business income, and local support as circumstances change. No single financial model is treated as universally superior.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "NO-DISTINCT-MISSIONARY-CALL", "label": "No distinct missionary call", "description": "No distinct missionary call", "definition": "Missionary work is one application of the church's ordinary call to witness and serve, not a vocation requiring a special divine experience. Competence, opportunity, desire, and communal wisdom are enough to pursue it.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Acts 13:1–4; 16:6–10 → Spirit/direct vision calls and church commissions; universal model or apostolic guidance?", "Romans 1:1; Galatians 1:15–16 → Paul’s exceptional apostolic call.", "Romans 10:14–15 → preachers must be sent; by God, church, or both.", "1 Corinthians 9:3–18; 2 Corinthians 11:7–9; Philippians 4:10–18 → right to support alongside voluntary nonuse.", "Acts 18:1–4; 20:33–35; 1 Thessalonians 2:9 → tentmaking for witness and nonburden.", "3 John 5–8 → churches should support workers so they take nothing from outsiders." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "A mysterious subjective call is not the only biblical route; gifting, character, opportunity, desire, and church sending can jointly ground vocation.", "Supported ministry is a right, not an exceptionless command; tentmaking is an apostolic option, not a superior spirituality.", "Financial model should update with field access, scandal risk, local economics, and church maturity." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "“Receiving support is unspiritual” conflicts with Paul’s explicit defense of the right; “all missionaries must be salaried” conflicts with his voluntary tentmaking." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "SUBJECTIVE-CALL-PLUS-CHURCH-CONFIRMATION": "substantive", "OBJECTIVE-GIFT-OPPORTUNITY-COMMISSION": "substantive", "DIRECT-DIVINE-CALL": "substantive", "FULL-TIME-SUPPORTED": "substantive", "TENTMAKING": "substantive", "MIXED-SUPPORT": "substantive_hybrid", "NO-DISTINCT-MISSIONARY-CALL": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "SUBJECTIVE-CALL-PLUS-CHURCH-CONFIRMATION", "OBJECTIVE-GIFT-OPPORTUNITY-COMMISSION", "DIRECT-DIVINE-CALL", "FULL-TIME-SUPPORTED", "TENTMAKING", "MIXED-SUPPORT", "NO-DISTINCT-MISSIONARY-CALL" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "SUBJECTIVE-CALL-PLUS-CHURCH-CONFIRMATION", "OBJECTIVE-GIFT-OPPORTUNITY-COMMISSION", "DIRECT-DIVINE-CALL", "FULL-TIME-SUPPORTED", "TENTMAKING", "MIXED-SUPPORT", "NO-DISTINCT-MISSIONARY-CALL" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 13:1–4", "startChapter": 13, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 13, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:6–10", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 6, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 1:1", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 1 }, { "book": "Galatians", "file": "Galatians", "label": "Galatians 1:15–16", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 15, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 16 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 10:14–15", "startChapter": 10, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 10, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 9:3–18", "startChapter": 9, "startVerse": 3, "endChapter": 9, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "2 Corinthians", "file": "2Corinthians", "label": "2 Corinthians 11:7–9", "startChapter": 11, "startVerse": 7, "endChapter": 11, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 4:10–18", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 10, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 18 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 18:1–4", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 4 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 20:33–35", "startChapter": 20, "startVerse": 33, "endChapter": 20, "endVerse": 35 }, { "book": "1 Thessalonians", "file": "1Thessalonians", "label": "1 Thessalonians 2:9", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "3 John", "file": "3John", "label": "3 John 1:5–8", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 8 } ] }, { "id": "MIS-09", "canonicalId": "MIS-09", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "MIS-09" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Women in cross-cultural mission", "shortLabel": "Women in cross-cultural mission", "question": "Which missionary functions may women perform, especially where church planting involves evangelism, theological teaching, or temporary leadership?", "domain": "VI. Church, ministry, sacraments, Spirit, worship, and Sabbath", "optionSetType": "untyped_do_not_normalize", "responseGeometry": "independent", "options": [ { "id": "ALL-MISSION-ROLES", "label": "All mission roles", "description": "All mission roles", "definition": "Women may serve in every missionary function, including church planting, theological teaching, team leadership, and local pastoral or elder roles. Cross-cultural setting creates no sex-based restriction beyond general qualifications.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "ALL-NONELDER-ROLES", "label": "All nonelder roles", "description": "All nonelder roles", "definition": "Women may perform any missionary work that does not constitute the governing and teaching office of local elder or pastor. Evangelism, translation, discipleship, training, and administration remain broadly open.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "WOMEN-AND-CHILDREN-MINISTRY", "label": "Women and children ministry", "description": "Women and children ministry", "definition": "Women missionaries should chiefly teach and disciple women and children rather than exercise authoritative ministry over adult men. Their field of service is substantial but defined by a restrictive reading of mixed-adult teaching.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "EVANGELISM-AND-TEAM-LEADERSHIP-NOT-LOCAL-ELDERSHIP", "label": "Evangelism and team leadership not local eldership", "description": "Evangelism and team leadership not local eldership", "definition": "Women may evangelize, plant churches, teach in many settings, and lead mission teams while the continuing local elder office remains male. Temporary or organizational leadership is distinguished from settled ecclesial oversight.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" }, { "id": "MALE-HEADSHIP-ON-MIXED-TEAMS", "label": "Male headship on mixed teams", "description": "Male headship on mixed teams", "definition": "Women may undertake diverse missionary ministries within mixed teams that remain under qualified male headship. The restriction concerns final spiritual authority over the team, not women's gifting or participation.", "definitionSource": "editorial_reviewed" } ], "evidence": [ { "label": "Key texts and interpretive forks", "items": [ "Romans 16:1–7, 12; Philippians 4:2–3 → women as deacon/patron, coworkers, laborers, and possibly Junia among/well known to apostles.", "Acts 16:14–15, 40; 18:24–26; 21:9 → Lydia hosts a church, Priscilla instructs Apollos with Aquila, daughters prophesy.", "John 4:28–42; Matthew 28:1–10 → women bear decisive witness, though not necessarily ordained office.", "1 Timothy 2:11–15; 1 Corinthians 14:33–35 → restrictions apply cross-culturally, only to settled church office, or contextually?", "Titus 1:5 → church plants should reach qualified elders." ] } ], "interpretiveNotes": [ { "label": "Decision logic", "items": [ "GEN-01 and GEN-03 are upstream; do not create a stricter rule overseas merely by applying the label “missionary.”", "If temporary missionary authority is apostolic/elder-like, male-office restrictions update limits; if it is evangelistic/team authority, the inference weakens.", "Historical necessity does not itself settle biblical permission, but examples of female coworkers carry positive weight." ] }, { "label": "Incompatibilities", "items": [ "Women serving as local elders is incompatible with a universal male-elder rule; women evangelizing or leading logistics is not inherently so." ] } ], "ontology": { "responseModel": "separate_claims", "relationConfidence": "source_untyped", "normalization": "none", "optionRoles": { "ALL-MISSION-ROLES": "substantive", "ALL-NONELDER-ROLES": "substantive", "WOMEN-AND-CHILDREN-MINISTRY": "substantive", "EVANGELISM-AND-TEAM-LEADERSHIP-NOT-LOCAL-ELDERSHIP": "substantive", "MALE-HEADSHIP-ON-MIXED-TEAMS": "substantive" }, "substantiveOptionIds": [ "ALL-MISSION-ROLES", "ALL-NONELDER-ROLES", "WOMEN-AND-CHILDREN-MINISTRY", "EVANGELISM-AND-TEAM-LEADERSHIP-NOT-LOCAL-ELDERSHIP", "MALE-HEADSHIP-ON-MIXED-TEAMS" ], "evidenceScopeOptionIds": [], "allocationOptionIds": [], "separateEstimateOptionIds": [ "ALL-MISSION-ROLES", "ALL-NONELDER-ROLES", "WOMEN-AND-CHILDREN-MINISTRY", "EVANGELISM-AND-TEAM-LEADERSHIP-NOT-LOCAL-ELDERSHIP", "MALE-HEADSHIP-ON-MIXED-TEAMS" ], "metaUncertaintyOptionIds": [] }, "references": [ { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 16:1–7", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 7 }, { "book": "Romans", "file": "Romans", "label": "Romans 16:12", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 12, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 12 }, { "book": "Philippians", "file": "Philippians", "label": "Philippians 4:2–3", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 2, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 3 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:14–15", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 14, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 16:40", "startChapter": 16, "startVerse": 40, "endChapter": 16, "endVerse": 40 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 18:24–26", "startChapter": 18, "startVerse": 24, "endChapter": 18, "endVerse": 26 }, { "book": "Acts", "file": "Acts", "label": "Acts 21:9", "startChapter": 21, "startVerse": 9, "endChapter": 21, "endVerse": 9 }, { "book": "John", "file": "John", "label": "John 4:28–42", "startChapter": 4, "startVerse": 28, "endChapter": 4, "endVerse": 42 }, { "book": "Matthew", "file": "Matthew", "label": "Matthew 28:1–10", "startChapter": 28, "startVerse": 1, "endChapter": 28, "endVerse": 10 }, { "book": "1 Timothy", "file": "1Timothy", "label": "1 Timothy 2:11–15", "startChapter": 2, "startVerse": 11, "endChapter": 2, "endVerse": 15 }, { "book": "1 Corinthians", "file": "1Corinthians", "label": "1 Corinthians 14:33–35", "startChapter": 14, "startVerse": 33, "endChapter": 14, "endVerse": 35 }, { "book": "Titus", "file": "Titus", "label": "Titus 1:5", "startChapter": 1, "startVerse": 5, "endChapter": 1, "endVerse": 5 } ] }, { "id": "MIS-10", "canonicalId": "MIS-10", "mirrorMemberIds": [ "MIS-10" ], "mirrorNote": "", "isMirrorRecord": false, "title": "Conversion, coercion, and religious liberty", "shortLabel": "Conversion, coercion, and religious liberty", "question": "May civil, familial, economic, or institutional pressure be used to bring people into Christian profession?", "domain": "VI. 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