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― The Foundations ―

The Foundations

A handful of arguments turn up in study after study. Rather than answer each one from scratch every time, each is set down once here, in full — the deeper reading the studies point back to.

Read these, and many of the studies fall open on their own.

    I

    Common Is Not Unclean

    Two Greek words that look alike in English, and the whole table argument resting on the difference.

    In progress · 19 verses
    II

    Which Law Is Under Discussion

    The word law does not always name the same thing, and the argument depends on nobody checking.

    In progress · 29 verses
    III

    Under the Law Means Under the Sentence

    What a man is under when he is under the law, and what he is delivered from.

    In progress · 15 verses
    IV

    Entry by Blood, Walk by Bread

    How a man comes in, and how he walks once he is inside. Two questions, never one.

    In progress · 30 verses
    V

    The Abolition Vocabulary

    Abolished, blotted out, done away, made old — the words behind the words.

    In progress · 10 verses
    VI

    A Covenant Is Not Its Terms

    An agreement can be replaced without the standard inside it changing at all.

    In progress · 17 verses
    VII

    What Actually Changed at the Tree

    Something real changed. Naming it precisely removes the need to overstate it.

    In progress · 17 verses
    VIII

    The Shadow Proves the Body

    A shadow is cast by something solid. It does not vanish when the body arrives.

    In progress · 4 verses
    IX

    Identify Who Is Doing the Judging

    Before answering a warning about judgment, find out who was holding the gavel.

    In progress · 7 verses
    X

    Commandments of Yahuah, Traditions of Men

    The standing difference between what was written and what men added to it.

    In progress · 19 verses
    XI

    The Eight First-Day Texts

    Every passage said to move the Sabbath, read for what it actually reports.

    In progress · 8 verses
    XII

    Sabbatismos and the Four Sabbaths

    The rest that remains, and the four Sabbaths the calendar actually holds.

    In progress · 3 verses
    XIII

    Till Heaven and Earth Pass Away

    He gave the expiry date Himself, and it has not arrived.

    In progress · 12 verses
    XIV

    One Law for the Stranger

    The nations were never given a second standard to walk by.

    In progress · 25 verses
    XV

    Dispensational Vocabulary

    Ages, economies, and administrations — a system read back into the text.

    In progress · 5 verses
    XVI

    Prophetic Indictment Is Not Repeal

    A prophet condemning empty worship is not a prophet cancelling the command.

    In progress · 6 verses