Theology
Essays on Scripture, read carefully.
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1 Corinthians 15: A Verse-by-Verse Covenant Exegesis
All fifty-eight verses of 1 Corinthians 15, read as Paul's own exposition of Genesis 1–3: the death destroyed at the parousia began in Adam, and so did the covenant it belonged to.
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How I Read: The Rules Behind the Exegesis Papers
The method every verse-by-verse paper on this site runs on: Scripture interprets Scripture, audience relevance, a grading scale that shows its work, and the commitments that follow from them.
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Isaiah 51: A Verse-by-Verse Covenant Exegesis
All twenty-three verses of Isaiah 51 read as a second-exodus oracle: not a forecast about the sky, not a birth certificate for Sinai, but the undoing of Eden's exile.
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Zechariah 14: A Verse-by-Verse Covenant Exegesis
All twenty-one verses of Zechariah 14, read in their own Hebrew and tested against the canon's use of their own words: the end of the old covenant order and the enthronement of her King.
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Two Standards of Evidence
Michael Sullivan requires an explicit verse before a doctrine may be believed. He holds the Trinity, reads Deuteronomy 6:4 as compound unity by analogy, places death before the fall, and builds a covenantal heavens and earth at Sinai — none of it stated in any verse. A question about method, not about Genesis.
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One World, Two Administrations: Why the Old-Covenant World Began in Eden
Why the covenant "heaven and earth" the New Testament ends in AD 70 began not at Sinai but in the Garden, with Sinai as its national codification — one world, administered in stages.
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One Covenant, Many Cuttings: What Hebrews 8:9 Can and Can't Prove
The Sinai-origin claim for the old covenant rests on Hebrews 8:9; but Israel's own chain of covenant-cuttings, from Horeb to Nehemiah, shows that cutting marks ratification, not origin.
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Genesis 1–3: A Verse-by-Verse Covenant-Creation Exegesis
A full verse-by-verse covenant-creation exegesis of Genesis 1-3, tracing the covenant/temple reading from Eden to its AD 70 consummation.
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Genesis 1–3 Is Covenant Inauguration — The Strongest Case
The distilled, verse-by-verse case that Genesis 1-3 is covenant inauguration, not a material-origins account, written for full preterists.
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