This index covers topics substantively discussed in each chapter. Chapter numbers refer to Chapters 1-30. Other abbreviations: Prologue, Preface, Epilogue, App. A through App. G.
Absolute predestination - Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 14, Ch. 19
Accountability vs. responsibility - Ch. 19, App. F
Active obedience of Christ - Ch. 15
Adoption - Ch. 15
Already/not-yet distinction (experiential, not actual) - Ch. 15
Amillennialism - Ch. 27
Annihilationism (rejected as false dilemma) - Ch. 28
Antichrist (many, not one future figure) - App. A
Antinomianism (redefined: lowering the law, not resting in Christ) - Ch. 20
Atonement, particular/limited - Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 19
Author of evil, God as - Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 13, App. A
Baptism of the Holy Spirit (equals regeneration) - Ch. 22, App. A
Campless theology (belonging to no camp) - Preface, Ch. 30
Common grace (denied) - Ch. 19, App. A, App. B, App. F
Condemnation of the gospel vs. curse of the law - Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Conscience - App. A
Continuous sanctification - see Sanctification, positional/continuous
Covenant of grace - Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9
Covenant of redemption - Ch. 7, App. B
Covenant of works (at Sinai) - Ch. 8, Ch. 20
Covenant theology, standard (critique of) - Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, App. B
Covenants as personal promises, not contracts - Ch. 1, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 10
Creation, doctrine of - Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 4
Decrees of God - Ch. 2, Ch. 5, App. C
Deism (rejected) - Ch. 1, Ch. 6
Demons (created evil, not fallen angels) - Ch. 13, App. A
Depravity, total - Ch. 11, Ch. 14
Dichotomy (body and soul) - App. A
Dispensationalism (critique of) - Ch. 5, Ch. 27, App. A, App. B
Dreams - App. A
Elect angels (created impeccable) - Ch. 12, Ch. 28, App. A
Election, unconditional - Ch. 5, Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 30, App. C
Equal ultimacy - Ch. 5, Ch. 12
Eternal justification - see Justification from eternity
Eternity (nature of, as absence of time) - Ch. 2
Evil spirit from the Lord (1 Samuel 16:14) - Ch. 13
Exorcisms (previews of higher-resolution rendering) - App. A
Faith as gift, not duty - Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 19, Ch. 30
Federal headship (rejected) - Ch. 7, Ch. 11, App. A, App. B
Filling of the Spirit (distinct from baptism) - App. A
Glorification - Ch. 15, Ch. 28, Ch. 29
God’s holiness and evil - Ch. 13
Grace, irresistible - Ch. 16, Ch. 25
Hardening of hearts (Pharaoh) - App. A
Historicism (eschatological) - Ch. 27
Hypostatic union - Ch. 6
Idealism (mind precedes matter) - Ch. 1, Ch. 3
Image of God (elect only) - Ch. 12, Ch. 17, App. A
Imputation of Christ’s righteousness - Ch. 15
Incarnation - Ch. 6
Infralapsarianism (critique of) - Ch. 5, Ch. 12, App. C
Intelligent design (critique of, distinguished from authorship) - Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 4
Intermediate state - App. A
“It is finished” - Ch. 15, Ch. 19
Justification from eternity - Ch. 2, Ch. 10, Ch. 15
Kenosis (emptying of Christ) - Ch. 6
Kingdom of God (spiritual, not physical) - Ch. 27
Law of Plato - see Plato, law of
Means and regeneration (debate assessed) - App. A
Millennium (present age) - Ch. 27
Miracles (previews of higher-resolution rendering) - Ch. 29
Monergism - Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 19, Ch. 30
Natural disasters (authored, not punishment for specific sins) - App. A
New Covenant Theology (critique of) - Ch. 5, Ch. 8, App. B
Ordo salutis (MCT) - Ch. 15
Original sin (without federal headship) - Ch. 7, Ch. 11
Pantheism (rejected) - Ch. 1
Partial preterism - Ch. 27
Permission, divine (rejected as concept) - Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Perseverance/preservation of the saints - Ch. 15, App. A
Plato, law of - Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 10, Ch. 13, Ch. 18
Posse peccare (ability to sin, critique of) - Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Postmillennialism (critique of) - Ch. 27
Predestination - Prologue, Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 14
Premillennialism (critique of) - Ch. 27
Progressive revelation - see Progressive rendering
Progressive rendering (not progressive covenant) - Ch. 9, Ch. 22
Prophet, Priest, King (offices of Christ) - Ch. 6
Providence - Ch. 5
Rapture (pretribulational, rejected) - App. A
Regeneration - Ch. 15, Ch. 16
Reprobation - Ch. 5, Ch. 12, Ch. 19, Ch. 28
Resurrection body - Ch. 29
Sabbath - Ch. 20, App. A
Sanctification, positional/continuous - Ch. 15, Ch. 18, App. B
Sanctification, progressive (rejected) - Ch. 18
Second coming of Christ - Ch. 27, App. A
Sin, nature of - Ch. 1, Ch. 11, Ch. 14
Sovereignty of God - Prologue, Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 14, Ch. 21, Ch. 30
Spiritual warfare (demons as authored instruments, not rogue agents) - Ch. 13, App. A
Supralapsarianism - Ch. 5, Ch. 6, App. B, App. C
Theodicy / problem of evil - Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 13, App. A
Three divisions of the law (moral/ceremonial/civil, rejected) - Ch. 20
Time (as rendering constraint) - Ch. 2, Ch. 4
Tribulation (largely fulfilled in AD 70) - Ch. 27, App. A
Trinity - Ch. 6, Ch. 7
TULIP - Ch. 5, Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 19
Two wills of God (rejected) - App. A
Unforgivable sin - App. A
Virgin birth - Ch. 6
Application layer (conscious mind) - Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 25, App. E
Boot parameters - Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 25, App. E
Caterpillar/butterfly analogy (elect sinner to glorified saint) - Ch. 12, Ch. 29
Collapsed thought - Ch. 2, Ch. 15
Consciousness as fundamental, not emergent - Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 25
Filmstrip analogy (eternity and time) - Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 21
Firmware flash (regeneration) - Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 25
Four-layer model (hardware, firmware, OS, application) - Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 28, App. E
Hardware interrupt (Spirit’s direct intervention) - Ch. 17, App. E
Higher resolution (rendering upgrade) - Ch. 6, Ch. 9, Ch. 28, Ch. 29
Law of Plato - Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 10, Ch. 13, Ch. 18
Modified Covenant Theology (MCT) - Preface, Ch. 5, Ch. 8, Ch. 15, Ch. 22, App. B
Operational idealism - Preface, Ch. 1, Ch. 10, Ch. 20
Pre-propositional information (feelings) - Ch. 17, App. E
Rendering (physical world as rendering of God’s thought) - Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 9, Ch. 29
Rendering engine analogy (video game rendering) - Ch. 3, Ch. 28, Ch. 29
Root access (Spirit only) - Ch. 16, Ch. 25, App. A
The sentence - Prologue, Ch. 1, Epilogue, App. A
Three channels to the conscious mind - Ch. 17, App. E
Three groups in final creation (elect angels, elect humans, reprobate) - Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) as divine pedagogy - Ch. 16
The Curse and the Condemnation (curse of law vs. condemnation of gospel) - Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Two seeds - Ch. 8, Ch. 12, Ch. 14, Ch. 28, Ch. 30, App. D
Author and characters (God and creation) - Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 11
Calculator and mathematician (AI and image of God) - App. A
Caterpillar and butterfly (elect sinner to glorified saint) - Ch. 12, Ch. 29
Cave (Dead Sea Scrolls hidden in caves) - Prologue
Computer architecture (four layers of the soul) - Ch. 16, Ch. 17, App. E
Director’s chair (Christ’s session at the right hand) - Ch. 6
Donkey (Balaam’s donkey as temporary rendering upgrade) - App. A
Filmstrip (eternity and time) - Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 21
Firmware flash (regeneration) - Ch. 16
Hospital (church as hospital, “I’m a patient too”) - Ch. 23
Malware and quarantine (demons and Satan’s fate) - App. A
Mechanic vs. manufacturer (therapy vs. regeneration) - Ch. 17
Novel/story (God as Author of reality) - Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Painter and painting (Creator and creation) - Ch. 1
Photograph coming into focus (progressive rendering) - Ch. 9
Pig pen / prodigal son (elect before conversion) - Ch. 15, Ch. 16
Potter and clay (Romans 9) - Ch. 11, Ch. 12
Rendering engine (video game) - Ch. 3, Ch. 28, Ch. 29
Rock and apple (elect vs. reprobate, per Higby) - Ch. 12
Root access (Spirit’s exclusive access to firmware) - Ch. 16, Ch. 25
Same sun melts wax and hardens clay - Ch. 28
Schoolmaster (law as tutor) - Ch. 8, Ch. 20
Shadow and substance (ceremony and covenant) - Ch. 10, Ch. 22, Ch. 29
Simulation hypothesis (secular version of idealism) - Ch. 1, Ch. 3
Television and signal (brain and consciousness) - Ch. 17
Trip planning (supralapsarianism) - Ch. 5
Watch/watchmaker (deism, rejected) - Ch. 1
Whitewashed tombs (Pharisees) - Ch. 14
Abortion - Ch. 14
AI and eschatology (speculation, clearly labeled) - Ch. 27
AI consciousness - App. A
Alcohol - Ch. 21
Altar calls / decisionism (rejected) - Ch. 19
Antinomianism (redefined) - Ch. 20
Apostasy (elect cannot) - App. A
Baptism (infant vs. believer) - Ch. 22
Baptism, mode of - Ch. 22
Baptism of the Holy Spirit - App. A
Baptismal regeneration (rejected) - Ch. 22
Capital punishment - App. A
Cessationism / continuationism - App. A
Charismatic gifts - App. A
Church government / polity - Ch. 23
Clerical titles / “Reverend” (rejected for men) - App. A
Common grace (denied) - Ch. 19, App. A, App. B, App. F
Communion / Lord’s Supper - Ch. 10
Corporal punishment / the rod (shepherd’s guide, not beating stick) - App. A
Creeds and confessions (unsigned) - App. A
Degrees of reward in heaven (rejected, Christ is the reward) - App. A
Divorce and remarriage - App. A
Duty faith (rejected) - Ch. 19, App. F
Egalitarianism (rejected) - Ch. 24
Evangelism / preaching - Ch. 16, Ch. 19, Ch. 25, App. A
Evolution / natural selection (critique of) - Ch. 3, Ch. 4
Free will (rejected in libertarian sense) - Ch. 2, Ch. 11, Ch. 19
Full preterism (rejected as heresy) - App. A
Head coverings (hair as the covering, conscience) - Ch. 24
Homosexuality - Ch. 14, App. A
Human responsibility (rejected; accountability affirmed) - Ch. 19
Hyper-Calvinism (label addressed) - Prologue, Ch. 19, App. F
Infants who die (all go to heaven) - App. A
Lord’s Day / Sabbath - Ch. 20, App. A
Lordship salvation (critique of) - Ch. 26
Mentally disabled - App. A
Music in worship - App. A
Nephilim - App. A
Offer of the gospel (rejected; proclamation affirmed) - Ch. 19, App. F
One-man pulpit (unbiblical) - Ch. 23, Ch. 24
Ordained does not mean approved - Ch. 14
Ordination - App. A
Other religions - App. A
Prosperity gospel (rejected) - App. A
Religious relics and physical worship (rejected) - App. A
Second ransom (rejected) - Ch. 12
Simulation hypothesis - Ch. 1, Ch. 3
Suicide - App. A
Those who never hear the gospel - App. A
Tithing (not required) - App. A
Tongues (languages, not ecstatic utterance) - App. A
Transubstantiation (rejected) - Ch. 10
War and pacifism - App. A
Well-meant offer of the gospel (rejected) - Ch. 19, App. F
Women in ministry / women preaching - Ch. 24
Young earth vs. old earth - Ch. 4
Apple IIc (Brandan’s first computer) - Preface, Ch. 3
Arminius / Arminianism - Ch. 7, Ch. 19, Ch. 30
Augustine - Ch. 1, Ch. 13, Ch. 21
Bahnsen, Greg - Ch. 25
Bradford, John - Ch. 12
Calvin, John - Ch. 27
Clark, Gordon - Prologue, Ch. 5, Ch. 16, App. C
Darby, John Nelson - Ch. 27
Dead Sea Scrolls / Qumran / Essenes - Prologue, Ch. 5, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, App. D
Erkel, Darryl - Ch. 23
Fortner, Don - Ch. 30
Gadsby, William - Preface
Gill, John - Prologue, Preface, Ch. 30
Gnosticism (rejected) - Ch. 1, Ch. 29, App. A
Higby, Bob - Prologue, Preface, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 12, Ch. 22, App. B, App. C, App. D
Huss, Jan - Ch. 27
Johnson, Phil - Prologue, Ch. 5, Ch. 19, App. F
Knox, John - Ch. 27
Lindsey, Hal (Late Great Planet Earth) - Ch. 27
Luther, Martin - Prologue, Ch. 12, Ch. 26, Ch. 27
MacArthur, John - Prologue, App. F
Mahan, Henry - Ch. 6, Ch. 23
Manichaeism (rejected) - Ch. 12
Milton, John - Ch. 13
Neoplatonism (Augustine’s background) - Ch. 13
Patristic fathers (importing Plato) - Ch. 13
Pharisees - Prologue, Ch. 9, Ch. 12, Ch. 14, Ch. 30, App. D
Plato - Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 10, Ch. 13
Scofield Reference Bible - Ch. 27
Spurgeon, Charles - Ch. 30
Teacher of Righteousness - Prologue, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, App. D
Toplady, Augustus - Preface, Ch. 30
Tyndale, William - Ch. 27
Van Til, Cornelius - Ch. 16, Ch. 25
Westminster Confession - Ch. 20, App. A
Wheeler, John Archibald (“it from bit”) - Ch. 3
Wycliffe, John - Ch. 27
Zwingli (memorialism) - Ch. 10
Canons of Dort - App. A (referenced indirectly via “Dort on particular redemption”)
Heidelberg Catechism - App. A
London Baptist Confession - App. A
Westminster Confession - Ch. 20, App. A
Note: The author signs no confession (Preface, App. A). All major confessions are referenced as useful but incomplete. The “campless” identity is a core theme.
Abraham - Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 15, App. A
Adam - Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 24
Balaam - Ch. 15, App. A
David - Ch. 2, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 11, Ch. 15, App. A
Esther - Ch. 26
Eve - Ch. 11, Ch. 24
Isaac and Rebekah - Ch. 10
Isaiah - Ch. 8, Ch. 9
Jacob - Ch. 15
Jeremiah - Ch. 11, Ch. 14
Jesus Christ - throughout; see Incarnation, Hypostatic union, Prophet Priest King, Active obedience, Resurrection body, etc.
Job - Ch. 14, App. A
Joseph (Genesis) - App. A (referenced in dreams section)
Judas - App. A
Mary Magdalene (at the tomb) - Ch. 29
Moses - Ch. 8, Ch. 20
Nebuchadnezzar - Ch. 13, App. A (referenced in dreams section)
Noah - Ch. 8, App. A
Paul (apostle) - Preface, Ch. 9, Ch. 15, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 24, Ch. 30
Peter - Ch. 9, Ch. 23
Pharaoh - App. A
Philippian jailer - Ch. 30
Phebe (Phoebe) - Ch. 24
Priscilla - Ch. 24
Prodigal son - Ch. 15, Ch. 16
Publican (Luke 18) - Ch. 14
Samson - App. A
Satan - Ch. 12, Ch. 13, App. A
Thief on the cross - Ch. 22, Ch. 23, Ch. 30
Thomas (doubting) - Ch. 29
Anger - Ch. 17 (old firmware channel)
Animals in the new creation - App. A
Apologetics (limited role of) - Ch. 25
Assurance of salvation - Ch. 2, Ch. 15, Ch. 21, App. A
Church discipline - App. A
Church membership (formality, not substance) - Ch. 23
Classical education / trivium - Ch. 16
Complementarianism - Ch. 24
Tenderness (as greater gift, women carry naturally, Christ modeled) - Ch. 24
Dating / relationships - Ch. 10 (marriage as covenant)
Depression / anxiety - Ch. 17 (feelings architecture; therapy discussion)
Doubt - Ch. 2, Ch. 26
Evangelism / preaching - Ch. 16, Ch. 19, Ch. 25, App. A
Feelings and faith - Ch. 17, App. E
Forgiveness - App. A (Lord’s Prayer; divorce and remarriage)
Gender roles - Ch. 24
Giving (voluntary, not mandated) - App. A
Government and politics - App. A
Grace, extending to other believers - Ch. 30
Heaven and hell (same reality, different firmware) - Ch. 28
Humility - Ch. 12, Ch. 14, Ch. 30
Liberty, Christian - Ch. 20, Ch. 21
Lord’s Prayer - App. A
Love as final word - Ch. 30, Epilogue
Marriage - Ch. 10, Ch. 29, App. A
Marital sexuality (the bed undefiled) - Ch. 10, App. A
Mental health / therapy - Ch. 17
Music (Brandan plays trombone in three bands) - Preface
No marriage in heaven - Ch. 29
Parenting - Ch. 16 (trivium, Cole’s classical education), App. A
Participatory ecclesiology - Ch. 23, Ch. 24
Pastoral care for the struggling - Ch. 2, Ch. 14, Ch. 18, Ch. 20
Patriarchy - Ch. 24 (creation order; complementarianism)
Political engagement - App. A
Pornography / lust - Ch. 14, Ch. 17 (old firmware channel)
Prayer - Ch. 2, Ch. 21
Pride and self-righteousness - Ch. 14, Ch. 18, Ch. 30
Programming / software development (author’s career) - Preface, Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 16, Ch. 17
Psychology (in the framework) - Ch. 17
Rewards in heaven - see Degrees of reward in heaven
Saints reigning with Christ - Ch. 28
Song of Solomon - Ch. 10, App. A
Stewardship / wealth - App. A
Suffering - Ch. 2, App. A
Technology - Preface, Ch. 3, Ch. 27 (AI speculation)
Theology without love (critique of) - Ch. 14, Ch. 30
Tribal loyalty vs. truth - Preface, Ch. 30
Work / vocation - Preface (Brandan’s career as a programmer)
Genesis 1-3 - Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, App. A
Genesis 2:7 (dichotomy) - App. A
Genesis 2:24 (one flesh) - Ch. 10
Genesis 3:15 (the two seeds) - Ch. 8, Ch. 12
Genesis 6 (Nephilim / flood) - App. A
Genesis 9 (Noahic covenant, animals) - Ch. 8, App. A
Genesis 17 (Abrahamic covenant) - Ch. 8
Genesis 24 (Isaac and Rebekah) - Ch. 10
Numbers 22:28 (Balaam’s donkey) - App. A
Numbers 23:19 (God is not a man that He should lie) - Ch. 7
Numbers 23:21 (no iniquity beheld in Jacob) - Ch. 15
Deuteronomy 30:6 (circumcision of the heart) - Ch. 22
Joshua 22 (altar misunderstanding) - Ch. 30
Judges 16:30 (Samson) - App. A
1 Samuel 2:7 (the Lord makes rich and poor) - App. A
1 Samuel 16:14 (evil spirit from the Lord) - Ch. 13
2 Samuel 7 (Davidic covenant) - Ch. 8
2 Samuel 12:23 (David’s child) - App. A
Job - Ch. 14, App. A
Psalms - Ch. 2, Ch. 4, Ch. 11, Ch. 15, Ch. 18, Ch. 26, Ch. 28
Psalm 14:1 (the fool) - Ch. 25
Psalm 22 (crucifixion prophecy) - Ch. 26
Psalm 32:2 (blessed is the man) - Ch. 15
Psalm 33:6 (by the word of the Lord) - Ch. 3, Ch. 4
Psalm 51:5 (shapen in iniquity) - Ch. 7, Ch. 11
Psalm 90:2 (from everlasting to everlasting) - Ch. 2
Psalm 92:7 (wicked flourish to be destroyed) - Ch. 19
Psalm 119:130 (entrance of thy words) - Ch. 26
Psalm 139 (known before birth) - Ch. 11, Ch. 14, Ch. 28
Psalm 147:4 (he names the stars) - Ch. 4
Proverbs - Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 14
Proverbs 4:18 (path of the just) - Ch. 9
Proverbs 16:4 (wicked for the day of evil) - Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Proverbs 16:18 (pride before destruction) - Ch. 14
Proverbs 23:7 (as a man thinketh) - Ch. 25
Ecclesiastes - Ch. 4, Ch. 26
Song of Solomon - Ch. 10, App. A
Isaiah 9:7 (increase of his government) - Ch. 8
Isaiah 11:6-9 (wolf and lamb) - App. A
Isaiah 14 (king of Babylon, not Satan) - Ch. 13
Isaiah 45:7 (God creates evil) - Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Isaiah 46:10 (declaring the end from the beginning) - Ch. 1, Ch. 5
Isaiah 53 - Ch. 9, Ch. 26
Isaiah 64:6 (filthy rags) - Ch. 21
Jeremiah 1:5 (known before formation) - Ch. 11, Ch. 14
Jeremiah 17:9 (deceitful heart) - Ch. 17
Jeremiah 31:33 (new covenant) - Ch. 1, Ch. 7, Ch. 21
Lamentations 3:38 (evil and good from the Most High) - Ch. 5, Ch. 13
Ezekiel 28 (king of Tyre, not Satan) - Ch. 13
Daniel - Ch. 26, Ch. 28
Daniel 9 (timeline to the Messiah) - Ch. 26
Daniel 12:2 (everlasting shame and contempt) - Ch. 28
Amos 3:6 (evil in a city) - Ch. 5, Ch. 13
Micah 5:2 (Bethlehem) - Ch. 26
Zechariah 11:12 (thirty pieces of silver) - Ch. 26
Matthew 5-7 (Sermon on the Mount) - Ch. 11, Ch. 20, App. A
Matthew 5:26 (uttermost farthing) - Ch. 28
Matthew 5:48 (be ye perfect) - Ch. 20
Matthew 6:8-9 (Lord’s Prayer) - Ch. 21, App. A
Matthew 7:16-18 (good tree, evil fruit) - Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Matthew 10:29 (sparrows) - Ch. 5, App. A
Matthew 11:24 (more tolerable for Sodom) - Ch. 14
Matthew 13 (wheat and tares) - Ch. 12, App. A
Matthew 18:15-17 (church discipline) - App. A
Matthew 22:30 (no marriage in heaven) - Ch. 29
Matthew 23:27 (whitewashed tombs) - Ch. 14
Matthew 24 (Olivet Discourse) - Ch. 27
Matthew 24:34 (this generation) - Ch. 27
Matthew 24:36 (no man knows the day) - Ch. 27
Matthew 26:24 (woe to Judas) - App. A
Matthew 28:18 (all power given) - Ch. 27
Mark 16:16 (he that believeth not) - Ch. 12
Luke 13:4-5 (tower of Siloam) - App. A
Luke 17:21 (kingdom within you) - Ch. 27
Luke 18 (Pharisee and publican) - Ch. 14
Luke 22:19 (Lord’s Supper) - Ch. 10
Luke 23 (thief on the cross) - Ch. 22, Ch. 23, Ch. 30
Luke 24 (resurrection appearances) - Ch. 29
John 1 - Ch. 1, Ch. 6
John 1:14 (Word made flesh) - Ch. 6
John 1:18 (only begotten declared Him) - Ch. 6
John 3:8 (wind blows where it wills) - Ch. 30, App. A
John 5:17 (My Father worketh hitherto) - App. A
John 5:39 (ye search the Scriptures) - Ch. 30
John 6 - Ch. 25, App. A
John 6:44 (no man can come except the Father draw him) - Ch. 25
John 6:70 (one of you is a devil) - App. A
John 8:44 (seed of the serpent) - Ch. 12
John 8:56 (Abraham saw my day) - Ch. 8, Ch. 9
John 10 (the Good Shepherd) - Ch. 15, App. A
John 13:35 (love one another) - Ch. 30
John 16:12-13 (guide you into all truth) - Ch. 9
John 18:36 (kingdom not of this world) - Ch. 27
John 19:30 (“It is finished”) - Ch. 15, Ch. 19
John 20 (Thomas, Mary) - Ch. 29
Acts 1:9 (ascension) - Ch. 29
Acts 1:11 (He shall so come) - App. A
Acts 2 - Ch. 5, Ch. 14, App. A
Acts 2:23 (determinate counsel) - Ch. 5, Ch. 14
Acts 2:38 (baptism and forgiveness, low resolution) - Ch. 9
Acts 5:29 (obey God rather than men) - App. A
Acts 15:18 (known unto God from the beginning) - Ch. 2
Acts 16:30-31 (Philippian jailer) - Ch. 30
Acts 17:28 (in him we live and move) - Ch. 1
Acts 18:26 (Priscilla and Apollos) - Ch. 24
Romans 1-2 - Ch. 4, Ch. 14
Romans 2:1 (thou that judgest) - Ch. 14
Romans 2:15 (conscience) - App. A
Romans 2:28-29 (circumcision of the heart) - Ch. 22
Romans 3:10 (none righteous) - Ch. 7
Romans 3:23 (all have sinned) - Ch. 14
Romans 4-5 - Ch. 2, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 11, Ch. 15
Romans 4:5 (worketh not but believeth) - Ch. 26
Romans 5:12-14 (sin entered by one man) - Ch. 7, Ch. 11
Romans 5:19 (obedience of one) - Ch. 15
Romans 5:20 (law entered that offence might abound) - Ch. 20
Romans 7-8 - Ch. 11, Ch. 15, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, App. A
Romans 7:4 (dead to the law) - Ch. 20
Romans 7:7 (thou shalt not covet) - Ch. 20
Romans 8:2 (law of the Spirit of life) - Ch. 20
Romans 8:15 (Spirit of adoption) - Ch. 15
Romans 8:18 (sufferings not worthy to be compared) - App. A
Romans 8:19-22 (creation groaning) - App. A
Romans 8:28 (all things work together) - Ch. 2
Romans 8:29 (conformed to the image) - Ch. 12, Ch. 17
Romans 8:38-39 (nothing can separate) - Ch. 20, App. A
Romans 9 - Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Romans 9:17 (Pharaoh raised up) - App. A
Romans 9:20-23 (potter and clay) - Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Romans 10:4 (Christ the end of the law) - Ch. 20
Romans 10:17 (faith by hearing) - Ch. 25
Romans 12 - Ch. 16, Ch. 17
Romans 12:2 (renewing of the mind) - Ch. 16, Ch. 17
Romans 13 (government and the sword) - App. A
Romans 14 - Ch. 21, Ch. 30
Romans 14:4 (who art thou that judgest) - Ch. 30
Romans 14:17 (kingdom: righteousness, peace, joy) - Ch. 21
1 Corinthians 1:30 (Christ our sanctification) - Ch. 18
1 Corinthians 2:9 (eye hath not seen) - Ch. 28, Ch. 29
1 Corinthians 2:14 (natural man) - Ch. 16, Ch. 25, Ch. 26
1 Corinthians 2:16 (mind of Christ) - Ch. 16
1 Corinthians 3:6-7 (God gives the increase) - Ch. 16, Ch. 19
1 Corinthians 4:7 (what hast thou not received) - Ch. 30
1 Corinthians 6:2-3 (saints judge the world) - Ch. 28
1 Corinthians 11:26 (show the Lord’s death) - Ch. 10
1 Corinthians 12-14 (body, gifts, participation) - Ch. 23, Ch. 24, App. A
1 Corinthians 12:13 (baptized into one body) - Ch. 22, Ch. 23
1 Corinthians 13 (love) - Ch. 30
1 Corinthians 13:12 (glass darkly) - Ch. 9
1 Corinthians 14:26 (every one of you hath) - Ch. 23
1 Corinthians 15 (resurrection) - Ch. 19, Ch. 29, App. A
1 Corinthians 15:19 (if only in this life) - App. A
1 Corinthians 15:42-44 (sown natural, raised spiritual) - Ch. 29
2 Corinthians 2:15-16 (savour of life/death) - Ch. 12, Ch. 28
2 Corinthians 5 - Ch. 19, Ch. 20
2 Corinthians 5:14 (love of Christ constraineth) - Ch. 20, Ch. 21
2 Corinthians 5:20 (be ye reconciled) - Ch. 19
2 Corinthians 9:7 (cheerful giver) - App. A
2 Corinthians 10:4 (weapons not carnal) - App. A
2 Corinthians 12:9 (grace sufficient) - App. A
Galatians 1:6-8 (another gospel, anathema) - Ch. 9, Ch. 21
Galatians 3-5 (law, liberty, Spirit) - Ch. 8, Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21
Galatians 3:13 (Christ made a curse) - Ch. 8, Ch. 12, Ch. 20
Galatians 3:19 (law was added) - Ch. 8, Ch. 20
Galatians 3:24-25 (schoolmaster) - Ch. 8, Ch. 20
Galatians 3:28 (neither male nor female) - Ch. 24
Galatians 4:6 (because ye are sons) - Ch. 15
Galatians 4:9 (weak and beggarly elements) - Ch. 21
Galatians 5:1 (stand fast in liberty) - Ch. 20, Ch. 21
Galatians 5:12 (cut off which trouble you) - Ch. 21
Galatians 5:17 (flesh against Spirit) - Ch. 17
Galatians 5:22 (fruit of the Spirit, including faith) - Ch. 15, Ch. 19, Ch. 25
Ephesians 1-2 - Ch. 7, Ch. 15, Ch. 18, Ch. 19
Ephesians 1:4-5 (chosen before the foundation) - Ch. 7, Ch. 15, Ch. 18
Ephesians 2:3-4 (children of wrath, but God) - Ch. 15
Ephesians 2:8-9 (by grace through faith) - Ch. 15, Ch. 19, Ch. 21
Ephesians 2:10 (created unto good works) - Ch. 18
Ephesians 5 (marriage and Christ) - Ch. 10, Ch. 29
Ephesians 5:18 (be filled with the Spirit) - App. A
Ephesians 6:12 (wrestle not against flesh and blood) - App. A
Philippians 1:6 (He which hath begun a good work) - Ch. 21
Philippians 2 - Ch. 6, Ch. 16, Ch. 21
Philippians 2:10-11 (every knee shall bow) - Ch. 28
Philippians 2:13 (God worketh in you) - Ch. 2, Ch. 16, Ch. 18, Ch. 21, Ch. 25
Philippians 3:20-21 (fashioned like His glorious body) - Ch. 29, App. A
Philippians 4:6-7 (prayer and peace) - Ch. 2, Ch. 21
Colossians 1 - Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 5, Ch. 6
Colossians 1:15 (image of the invisible God) - Ch. 6
Colossians 1:16-17 (by him all things consist) - Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 5
Colossians 2:9 (fullness of the Godhead bodily) - Ch. 6
Colossians 2:10 (complete in Him) - Ch. 20
Colossians 2:11-12 (Spirit baptism, not water) - Ch. 22
Colossians 3:16 (psalms, hymns, spiritual songs) - App. A
1 Timothy 1:15 (chief of sinners, present tense) - Ch. 18
1 Timothy 2:5-6 (ransom for all) - Ch. 12
1 Timothy 2:12-13 (women not to teach, creation order) - Ch. 24
1 Timothy 3:15 (pillar and ground of truth) - Ch. 23
1 Timothy 4:2 (seared conscience) - App. A
2 Timothy 1:9 - Ch. 11, Ch. 19
2 Timothy 2:16-18 (Hymenaeus error) - App. A
2 Timothy 3:1 (perilous times) - Ch. 27
2 Timothy 3:16 (all Scripture given by inspiration) - Ch. 26
Hebrews 1, 4, 9-11 - Ch. 1, Ch. 6, Ch. 15, Ch. 18, App. A
Hebrews 1:3 (upholding all things) - Ch. 1
Hebrews 1:14 (ministering spirits) - App. A
Hebrews 4:3-10 (entering His rest) - App. A
Hebrews 8:10 (laws written on hearts) - Ch. 20
Hebrews 9:12 (eternal redemption) - Ch. 2, Ch. 6, Ch. 15
Hebrews 10:14 (perfected for ever) - Ch. 18
Hebrews 10:29 (sorer punishment) - Ch. 12
Hebrews 11:3 (things seen not made of things visible) - Ch. 1, Ch. 3
Hebrews 12:14 (follow holiness) - Ch. 18
Hebrews 13:8 (Jesus Christ the same) - Ch. 18
Hebrews 13:17 (obey leaders, hegeomai) - Ch. 23
James (antilegomenon) - Ch. 12, Ch. 21, Ch. 26
James 2:17 (faith without works) - Ch. 21, Ch. 26
James 3:9 (made after similitude of God) - Ch. 12, Ch. 26
1 Peter 1:20 (foreordained before the foundation) - Ch. 15
1 Peter 2:24 (bare our sins) - Ch. 15
1 Peter 5:1-3 (elders, not lording) - Ch. 23
2 Peter 1:20-21 (moved by the Holy Ghost) - Ch. 26
2 Peter 3:18 (grow in grace and knowledge) - Ch. 18
1 John - Ch. 14, Ch. 30
1 John 1:7 (blood cleanseth from all sin) - Ch. 14
1 John 2:18 (many antichrists) - App. A
1 John 2:27 (anointing teaches you) - Ch. 20
1 John 3:14 (passed from death, love the brethren) - Ch. 30
1 John 4:4 (greater is He) - App. A
1 John 4:7-8 (God is love) - Ch. 30
1 John 5:13 (that ye may know) - App. A
Jude 1:1 - Ch. 15, Ch. 18
Revelation 5:10 (kings and priests, reign on earth) - Ch. 28
Revelation 5:13 (every creature praising) - App. A
Revelation 13-14 (mark, torment in God’s presence) - Ch. 27, Ch. 28
Revelation 13:8 (Lamb slain from the foundation) - Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 15
Revelation 13:17 (no man might buy or sell) - Ch. 27
Revelation 14:10 (tormented in presence of the Lamb) - Ch. 28
Revelation 18:6 (according to her works) - Ch. 28
Revelation 19-21 (new creation, saints reign) - Ch. 28, Ch. 29
Revelation 19:1-3 (Alleluia over judgment) - Ch. 28
Revelation 20:2 (Satan bound) - App. A
Revelation 20:6 (first resurrection, reign) - Ch. 28
Revelation 20:10 (lake of fire, forever) - App. A
Revelation 21:1 (new heaven and new earth) - Ch. 28
Angie (wife) - Preface, Ch. 10
Ashland, Kentucky - Ch. 23
Brandan’s career (computer programmer since age 10) - Preface, Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 16, Ch. 25
Cole (son) - Ch. 16, Preface
“Enough for Me” (song) - Ch. 30
OJ (the cat) - Preface
Predestinarian.net - Prologue
Pristine Grace / pristinegrace.org - Prologue, Preface, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 12, Ch. 19, Ch. 22, Ch. 30, App. D, App. F
Trombone (three community bands) - Preface
“As we established in Chapter 1” - referenced in Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 11, Ch. 25
“As we established in Chapter 2” - referenced in Ch. 4, Ch. 6, Ch. 10, Ch. 15, Ch. 28
“As we established in Chapter 5” - referenced in Ch. 7, Ch. 11, Ch. 14
“As we established in Chapter 7” (federal headship) - referenced in Ch. 11
“As we established in Chapter 8” - referenced in Ch. 9, Ch. 20, Ch. 22
“As we established in Chapter 11” - referenced in Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14
“As we established in Chapter 12” (two seeds, image of God) - referenced in Ch. 17, Ch. 26, Ch. 28
“As we established in Chapter 16” (firmware) - referenced in Ch. 17, Ch. 25
“As we discussed in Chapter 17” - referenced in App. E
“As we established in Chapter 20” - referenced in Ch. 21, App. A
Framework predicts its own limits - Ch. 6, Ch. 27, Ch. 28, Ch. 29, App. A
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