This index covers topics substantively discussed in each chapter. Chapter numbers refer to Chapters 1-30. Other abbreviations: Prologue, Preface, Epilogue, App. A1 through App. O. (Appendixes P-S are reference tools: Scripture Index, this Topical Index, Glossary, and Bibliography.)
Abba, Father (Aramaic familiar form, cry of the adopted elect) — App. A1
Abhorring (Isaiah 66:24 — “they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh,” felt content of eschatological shame) — App. A6horring (Isaiah 66:24 — “they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh,” felt content of eschatological shame)** — App. A6
Abrahamic covenant — Ch. 8
Absolute predestination — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 14, Ch. 19
Act and potency (Aristotelian/Thomist distinction, subsumed by framework as rendering-level observation) — App. A1
Active obedience and passive obedience of Christ — Ch. 15, App. A1
Adam as picture of the elect (not substitute) — Ch. 11
Adam created sinful (not righteous then fallen) — Ch. 3, Ch. 11, App. A1
Adam, “when not if” (Genesis 2:17 presupposes the fall) — Ch. 11
Adamic covenant (Genesis 3:15, first rendering of covenant of grace) — Ch. 8
Adonai (divine name — Lord, Master) — App. A1
Adoption — Ch. 15
“All” in Romans 5 (consistency argument, elect throughout) — Ch. 11
Already/not-yet distinction (experiential, not actual) — Ch. 15
Amillennialism — Ch. 27
Ancient heresy that Christ became a sinner (distinguished from the framework’s orthodox substitution) — App. A1
Annihilationism (rejected as false dilemma) — Ch. 28
Antichrist (many, not one future figure) — App. A6
Antitype (higher-resolution rendering of an Old Testament type, fulfilled in Christ) — Ch. 9
Antilegomena (disputed books of the canon) — Ch. 12, Ch. 26, App. A5
Antinomianism (redefined: lowering the law, not resting in Christ) — Ch. 20
Apostles’ incomplete understanding (progressive rendering applied to the early church) — Ch. 9
Arminian in a TULIP sweatshirt (knowledge-Calvinist as crypto-Arminian; the Arminian move relocated from will to intellect; tribe that substitutes doctrinal literacy for faith) — Ch. 30
Attributes of God (derived from the sentence) — App. A1
Augustine and the inherited framework — App. A1, App. I, App. J
Augustine chose realism over idealism (Plotinus corruption of Plato) — App. J
Author of evil, God as — Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 13, App. A1
Baptism of the Holy Spirit (equals regeneration) — Ch. 22, App. A4
Bronze serpent (Numbers 21, type of Christ lifted up, John 3:14-15) — Ch. 9
Calling out false gospels (biblical pattern vs. tribal performance; 1 Cor. 13 as diagnostic, Gal. 1 and 2 Tim. 2:25 as apostolic model, Diotrephes as counterfeit) — Ch. 30
Credentials, irrelevance of (the fruit is the qualification) — Preface, Epilogue, App. A11
Cappadocian fathers (Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory Nazianzus — borrowed Plotinian hierarchy to articulate Trinity) — App. A1
Christ IS the covenant (not just mediator) — Ch. 6
Christ is the believer’s rule (not the Mosaic law, not the Decalogue) — Ch. 20
Christ made a curse for us (Galatians 3:13) — App. A1
Circular reasoning (all reasoning is circular) — Ch. 2, Ch. 25
Cities of refuge (Numbers 35, Joshua 20, type of Christ as refuge until the High Priest dies) — Ch. 9
Coats of skins (Genesis 3:21 — the first atonement in Scripture as a shame-covering administered by God through the blood of an innocent substitute) — App. A6
Common bounty (distinct from common grace) — Ch. 19
Condemnation of the gospel vs. curse of the law — Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Conscience — App. A4
Consequences of sin borne by Christ, not the rebellion itself (the line between orthodox substitution and the ancient heresy that Christ became a sinner) — App. A1
Continuous sanctification — see Sanctification, positional/continuous
Council of Trent (antilegomena debate buried) — App. A5
Covenant of works (at Sinai, not in the garden) — Ch. 8, Ch. 20, App. A1
Covenant of works with Adam (denied, Hosea 6:7) — Ch. 11, App. A1
Covenant theology, standard (critique of) — Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, App. C
Covering as canonical arc (Genesis 3:21 coats of skins, Revelation 3:18 white raiment — the shame-covering administered by God at the beginning and at the end, blood under the garment all the way through) — App. A6
Critique methods, Platonic (heresy-hunting, syllogism, gatekeeping, name-calling, false implication, guilt by association, refusing to read the system, pulpit sniping, whisper campaigns) — App. N (Costume 20)
Costumes, the twenty-three (Platonic errors in modern Christianity) — App. N
False implication (attributing positions the accused does not hold) — App. N (Costume 20)
Guilt by association (as Platonic critique method) — App. N (Costume 20)
Covenant before ceremony (invisible precedes visible, applied) — Ch. 10, Ch. 22, Ch. 26
Covenants as personal promises, not contracts — Ch. 1, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 10
Davidic covenant — Ch. 8
Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16, type of Christ’s propitiation and expiation) — Ch. 9
Description vs. substrate (doctrine as the saint’s description of the Author’s rendering, not the substrate itself) — Ch. 30, App. O
Doctrine as description, not substrate (where doctrine actually sits once the Platonic floor is swapped for operational idealism) — Ch. 30, App. N, App. O
Demon possession — believers cannot be possessed (possession vs. influence vs. oppression) — App. A2
Time travel (framework answer: not for creatures) — App. A12
Dreams (OS running without application-layer supervision) — App. A12
Deja vu (layers of the soul briefly desynchronized) — App. A12
Multiverses (rejected — one Mind, one thought, one reality) — App. A12
Depression (firmware/OS event, not sin) — App. A12
ADHD and neurodivergence (authored hardware variance, not moral failure) — App. A12
Discernment vs. judgment (reading patterns vs. pronouncing eternal standing) — App. A12
Gender dysphoria (suffering real, body authored, scalpel not the answer) — App. A12
New creative work in heaven (speculative — framework leans yes) — App. A12
Children who die young (safe to say they have the blood — David’s confidence, Christ’s words on children) — App. A12
Knowing each other in heaven (identity persists, knowing increases) — App. A12
“Angels that sinned” (2 Peter 2:4 / Jude 6 as false teachers, not celestial beings) — Ch. 13, App. A2
“Condemnation of the devil” (1 Timothy 3:6, genitive of source) — Ch. 13, App. A2
“Devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41, authored servants, not recruited rebels) — Ch. 13, App. A2
False teachers as “angels” (angelos = messengers) — Ch. 13, App. A2
Revelation 12:7-9 (war in heaven as gospel triumph, not pre-creation rebellion) — Ch. 13, App. A2
Revelation 12:4 (third of the stars, symbolic, not literal angel census) — App. A2
Satan as lightning (Luke 10:18, present collapse of authority, not past fall) — Ch. 13, App. A2
Dichotomy (body and soul) — App. A4
Degrees of shame in hell indexed by light received (Luke 12:47-48 many stripes vs. few stripes; Matt 11:22; Heb 10:29 sorer punishment — eschatological judgment is degreed by the light the reprobate received in life) — App. A6
Dispensationalism (critique of) — Ch. 5, Ch. 27, App. A6, App. C
Dispensationalism, origins of (first-century Jerusalem, not Darby) — App. A6
Divine names of God — App. A1
DNA as authored code (the programmer’s argument from functional information) — Ch. 1, Ch. 3
Double imputation (our sin to Christ, His righteousness to us) — Ch. 15, App. A1
Dreams — App. A12
Effectual calling (absorbed into regeneration in MCT) — Ch. 15, App. A1
Ekklesia (Greek for “called-out assembly,” not “the Lord’s house”) — Ch. 23
El, Elohim, El Shaddai, El Elyon, El Roi (compound divine names) — App. A1
Election, unconditional — Ch. 5, Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 25, Ch. 30, App. D
Emanation (Plotinian doctrine sanitized into Christian “generation”) — App. A1, App. N
Eschatology of shame (fire as shame, felt wrath of God as uncovered exposure of the conscience under the undiverted gaze of God; the covering arc from Genesis 3:21 to Revelation 3:18) — App. A6
Eternal generation of the Son (rejected as Plotinian template imported into the Godhead) — App. A1, App. N (Costume 21)
Eternal justification — see Justification from eternity
Eternity (nature of, as absence of time) — Ch. 2
Evil as privation/absence of good (Augustine, rejected) — Ch. 13
Evil spirit from the Lord (1 Samuel 16:14) — Ch. 13
Exorcisms (previews of higher-resolution rendering) — App. A7
Exposure as judgment imagery (prophetic language of discovering the hidden — Isaiah 47:3, Jeremiah 13:26, Ezekiel 16:37, Nahum 3:5; the verb across the prophets is discover) — App. A6
Faith and conversion as one step (MCT ordo salutis) — Ch. 15
Faith IS assurance (against Westminster Confession) — Ch. 21, App. A3
Fall as revelation of nature, not catastrophe — Ch. 3, Ch. 11, App. A1
“Become as one of us” (Genesis 3:22, experiential not ontological) — Ch. 11, App. A1
Creation “made subject to vanity” (Romans 8:20-21, original authorship not post-fall curse) — Ch. 11, App. A1
Father, eternal — relation, not generation — App. A1
Fatherhood of God (relational doctrine, eternal Father by relation to the Son and adoption to the elect) — App. A1
Flood, the (rendering reset, second downgrade, Noahic covenant) — Ch. 8, App. A1
Federal headship (rejected) — Ch. 7, Ch. 11, App. A3, App. C
Filioque controversy (1054 split as downstream of Plotinian template) — App. A1
Filling of the Spirit (distinct from baptism) — App. A4
Fire as God’s presence (not separate punishment) — Ch. 28
Fire as shame (the felt substance of God’s wrath on the uncovered conscience; the felt content of Scripture’s fire-language across both Testaments) — App. A6
Forensic justification (affirmed but not the whole story) — Ch. 15, App. A1
Forsakenness of Christ on the cross (My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me) — App. A1
Gehenna (Valley of Hinnom, place name of cultural shame before it became a fire metaphor in Second Temple imagination) — App. A6
Gethsemane submission (not my will, but thine, be done — proof of Christ’s perfectly submitted will even at the approach of the cross) — App. A1
Glass coming down at Calvary (Son stood under the eschatological glass in place of the elect, uncovered shame borne so they inherit covered glory) — App. A1, Ch. 28
God’s holiness and evil — Ch. 13
Goel (Hebrew kinsman-redeemer, type of Christ) — Ch. 9
Groanings and utterances (pre-linguistic prayer, Romans 8:26) — App. E
Grace preceded the fall (remedy before the disease) — Ch. 11, Ch. 15
Greater light, greater shame (the reprobate who had the most light bears the heaviest shame; the religious gatekeeper’s filmstrip is longer than the pagan’s — Luke 12:47-48, Heb 10:29) — App. A6
Guilt felt by Christ at the cross (not merely reckoned, borne as substance in His soul under the Father’s reckoning) — App. A1
He took the weight, He did not take the corruption (formula for the orthodox substitution line) — App. A1
Hermeneutical principle (the clear interprets the unclear) — Ch. 26
Hippo and Carthage, Councils of (recognized, not created, the canon) — Ch. 10, Ch. 26
Historicism (eschatological) — Ch. 27
Holy days / Christian calendar (matters of conscience) — Ch. 21
“Believe in Jesus and do as you please” (Augustine’s “love God and do what you will,” restated for Christ) — Ch. 21
Holy Spirit, Person of — App. A1
Holy Spirit’s work as epistemological (not mystical) — Ch. 16
Homologoumena (undisputed books of the canon) — Ch. 26
Honor-shame (biblical register equal to guilt-innocence, touched by recent biblical theology primarily in missiology and soteriology rather than eschatology) — App. A6
Hypostatic union — Ch. 6
Idealism, traditional (devalues the material) — App. J
Immutability of God — Ch. 2
Imprecatory Psalms (appropriate in mouths of the righteous) — Ch. 28
Imputation of Christ’s righteousness — Ch. 15
Inability, total (natural man’s lack of capacity, not just willingness) — Ch. 16, Ch. 25
Incarnation — Ch. 6
Incorrect practice does not damn — Ch. 24
Inspiration and authority of Scripture — App. A1
Intelligent design (critique of, distinguished from authorship) — Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 4
Intermediate state — App. A3
Jehovah / YHWH (the covenant redemptive name) — App. A1
Jehovah-Jireh, -Rapha, -Nissi, -Shalom, -Ra-ah, -Tsidkenu, -Shammah (compound covenant names) — App. A1
Judgment, final (ceremony/public declaration, not verdict) — Ch. 2
Justification, three frames of (cross, conversion, judgment) — Ch. 2
Kenosis (emptying of Christ) — Ch. 6
Kingdom of God (spiritual, not physical) — Ch. 27
Kinsman-Redeemer (Hebrew goel, type of Christ in Boaz) — Ch. 9
Knowledge-Calvinism (adding doctrinal precision as condition of salvation) — Ch. 30
Law of Plato — see Plato, law of
Label-slapping — see Name-calling / label-slapping
Lay theologian (Brandan as non-seminary systematic theologian, man without credentials) — Preface, Prologue
Lucifer myth (rejected) — Ch. 13
Lydia and the moment of awareness — App. A10
Made sin (2 Cor 5:21, the strongest expression of imputation) — Ch. 15, App. A1
Made-sin controversy (Brandan’s defense of Gill’s expression) — App. A1
Mass of sin (Gill’s expression on 2 Cor 5:21) — App. A1
Means and regeneration (debate assessed) — App. A3
Modalism (rejected) — Ch. 6
Modesty (heart posture, not dress code) — Ch. 21
Millennium (present age) — Ch. 27
Miracles (previews of higher-resolution rendering) — Ch. 29
Name-calling / label-slapping (as Platonic critique method, compromiser / hyper / Gnostic etc.) — Prologue, Ch. 19, Ch. 30, Acknowledgments, App. A10 (“Slapping labels” section), App. I, App. K (Phil Johnson exchange), App. L (Bob’s story), App. N (Costume 20 — master diagnosis)
Names of God — see Divine names of God
Natural disasters (authored, not punishment for specific sins) — App. A9
Neutrality, no neutral ground — Ch. 25
New Covenant IS the covenant of grace — Ch. 8
Noahic covenant — Ch. 8
Old Testament types and pictures of redemption — Ch. 9
Ontological difference (elect vs. reprobate, difference of kind not degree) — Ch. 12
Open theism (rejected) — Ch. 2
Ordo salutis (MCT) — Ch. 15
Origen (used Plotinus’s emanation language to describe the Son) — App. A1
Pantheism (rejected) — Ch. 1
Partial preterism — Ch. 27
Particular love of God (bridegroom/bride, not universal) — Ch. 19
Passover (Exodus 12, type of Christ as the Lamb) — Ch. 9
Permission, divine (rejected as concept) — Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Perpetual virginity of Mary — App. A3
Perseverance/preservation of the saints — Ch. 15, Ch. 25, App. A3
Personally sinless Son who felt what sin produces (impeccability preserved while consequences borne) — App. A1
Phenomenology of sin borne by Christ (felt weight of guilt and shame on a sinless conscience under total imputation) — App. A1
Plato, law of — Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 13, Ch. 18, Ch. 30, App. N
Plato, Republic, direct citations (II.379c, II.380b, II.380c, X.617e in Jowett’s translation embedded inline) — Ch. 1, Ch. 13, App. N (Part I and Costume 13), App. S (bibliography entry naming the public-domain edition cited)
Plotinus / Neoplatonism (the immediate philosophical source of eternal generation) — App. A1, App. N
Posse peccare (ability to sin, critique of) — Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Postmillennialism (critique of) — Ch. 27
Prayer, theology of (under absolute sovereignty; ordained means God uses; the “prayer is meaningless” objection answered; see also Christian Life section) — Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 21, App. A9, App. J
Predestination — Prologue, Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 14
Pre-incarnate appearances of Christ (theophanies) — Ch. 6
Premillennialism (critique of) — Ch. 27
Progressive revelation — see Progressive rendering
Progressive rendering (not progressive covenant) — Ch. 9, Ch. 22
Progressive sanctification produces pride or despair — Ch. 18
Prophetic hyperbole (cosmic language for political events) — Ch. 13
Ransom-to-the-devil atonement (Patristic error, rejected) — Ch. 13
Prophet, Priest, King (offices of Christ) — Ch. 6
Providence — Ch. 5
Rapture (pretribulational, rejected) — App. A6
Rebellion vs. consequences distinction (sin proper is volitional departure; Christ bore what rebellion produces in a soul, not the rebellion itself) — App. A1
Reconciliation (atoning aspect, restored fellowship) — Ch. 15, App. A1
Regeneration at the firmware level (objections and answers) — App. E
Repentance, legal vs. evangelical — App. A1
Resurrection as removal of constraints (not addition of abilities) — Ch. 29
Resurrection body — Ch. 29
Roman Catholicism (claim to have given us the Bible, rejected) — Ch. 26, Ch. 27, Ch. 28
Salvation as past event — Ch. 19
Sanctification, positional/continuous — Ch. 15, Ch. 18, App. C
Sanctification, progressive (rejected) — Ch. 18
Saving faith vs. doctrine (personal trust vs. propositions) — Ch. 30
Scapegoat (Leviticus 16, type of Christ bearing iniquity away) — Ch. 9
Seed of the serpent — Ch. 12
Shame felt by Christ at the cross (Hebrews 12:2, despising the shame, uncovered for the elect) — App. A1
Sharpest doctrine produces the widest arms (Ch. 30 thesis) — Ch. 30, Epilogue
Sign of the New Covenant (Spirit, not water) — Ch. 22
Mode of baptism (immersion/sprinkling, matter of conscience, no clear NT prescription) — Ch. 22
Paedobaptism vs. credobaptism (both miss the point; the sign is the Spirit, not the water) — Ch. 22
Sacrament (dual usage — rejected sacerdotal sense vs. affirmed Latin sense of sacred embodied rendering) — Ch. 10, Ch. 22, App. A5, App. A6, App. N (Costume 8), App. R (glossary)
Sovereignty of God — Prologue, Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 14, Ch. 21, Ch. 30
Syllogism without Scripture (as Platonic critique method) — App. N (Costume 20)
Spiritual warfare (demons as authored instruments, not rogue agents) — Ch. 13, App. A2
Study to be quiet (humility, the posture of the Spirit-led life) — Ch. 21
Substance dualism (rejected as Plato’s metaphysical baggage; framework keeps Scripture’s body-soul language without the two-stuffs claim) — App. A4, App. I, App. J, App. N
Substitutionary atonement / substitutionary work of Christ / Christ as surety (substitution as the architecture all atonement aspects sit inside) — Ch. 6, Ch. 15, App. A1
Tabernacle (type of Christ as meeting place between God and His people) — Ch. 9
Tetragrammaton (YHWH, the unspeakable Name) — App. A1
Theophanies / Angel of the LORD (pre-incarnate Christ) — Ch. 6
Three divisions of the law (moral/ceremonial/civil, rejected) — Ch. 20
Tier list of sins (rejected) — Ch. 14
Tritheism (rejected) — Ch. 6
TULIP — Ch. 5, Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 19, Ch. 25 (full mapping in “TULIP in the Framework”), App. A11
TULIP in the Framework (five points mapped to operational idealism) — Ch. 25
Two covenants running simultaneously (OT) — Ch. 8
Two wills of God (rejected) — App. A3
Type / typology (Old Testament rendering of Christ at lower resolution; antitype is the higher-resolution rendering) — Ch. 9
Unforgivable sin — App. A3
“Upright” does not mean sinless (Ecclesiastes 7:29, Job 1:8) — Ch. 11
“Very good” means purposeful, not sinless (Genesis 1:31) — Ch. 11
Vessels of wrath and vessels of mercy (both necessary) — Ch. 5, Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Virgin birth — Ch. 6
Visible church vs. invisible church distinction (rejected) — Ch. 23
Analog thought, digital rendering — App. H
Application layer (conscious mind) — Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 25, App. E
Augustinian foundation (every Reformed system since builds on it; this book lays new ground) — App. I, App. J
“Bit from God” (inversion of Wheeler’s “it from bit”) — Ch. 3
Bridge to the secular reader (scientist/programmer) — Ch. 1, Ch. 3, App. G, App. I, App. J
Caterpillar/butterfly analogy (elect sinner to glorified saint) — Ch. 12, Ch. 29
Center-and-spoke architecture (vs. Clark’s line) — App. I
Consciousness as fundamental, not emergent — Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 25
Creature IS the nature (not “has” a nature) — Ch. 14
Curator, the (application layer managing exposure) — Ch. 28, App. L
Derivation map — App. B
Discernment (which channel sent this feeling?) — App. E
Entanglement, quantum (one thought, two locations) — App. H
Epistemological vs. ontological starting point — App. I, App. J
Filmstrip analogy (eternity and time) — Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 21
Firmware flash (regeneration) — Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 25
Fortress vs. bridge (Clark’s closed system vs. the framework’s on-ramp) — App. I
Four-layer model (hardware, firmware, OS, application) — Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 21, Ch. 28, App. E, App. J
Hardware interrupt (Spirit’s direct intervention) — Ch. 17, App. E
Neuroscience mapping (amygdala 12ms, prefrontal 500ms, insula, anterior cingulate) — Ch. 17, App. E
“Held, not trapped” (operational idealism’s distinctive) — App. J
Higher resolution (rendering upgrade) — Ch. 6, Ch. 9, Ch. 28, Ch. 29
Law of Plato — Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 13, Ch. 18, Ch. 30, App. N
Materialism (rejected as ontological foundation) — App. J
Metacognition (thinking about thinking, uniquely human) — Ch. 17
Modified Covenant Theology (MCT) — Preface, Ch. 5, Ch. 8, Ch. 15, Ch. 22, App. C
MCT 13 Distinctives (comparison chart with CT, DT, NCT) — App. C
Mud and spit (John 9, the Lawgiver breaking the Pharisees’ hedge) — App. A1
Operational idealism — Preface, Ch. 1, Ch. 10, Ch. 20, App. I, App. J, App. O
Permission is sovereignty with plausible deniability — Ch. 5
Philosophy generated by theology (reversed direction) — App. J
Quantum mechanics / quantum realm (rendering engine at the micro level) — Ch. 3, App. H
Quantum realm as God’s thoughts (physics confirms but cannot prove) — Ch. 3, App. H
Realism, Reformed (critique of, the gap, secondary causes, permission language) — App. J
“This is panentheism” (Horton/Hodge objection answered: identity vs. authorship vs. extension) — App. J
“Why the rest falls apart” (materialism, realism, traditional idealism all collapse; only operational idealism holds) — App. J
The peace of zero distance (what each ontology produces: numbness, trust-across-gap, escape, or zero distance) — Ch. 1, App. J
Peace comparison chart (materialism vs. realism vs. traditional idealism vs. operational idealism) — Ch. 1, App. J
Future-readiness chart (how each metaphysical floor handles AI consciousness, mind uploading, transporter scenarios, genetic engineering, posthuman augmentation, extraterrestrial intelligence, simulation hypothesis, quantum consciousness, hard problem of consciousness; only operational idealism holds across all scenarios) — App. J (Future-Readiness section). Multiverse handled separately in App. H (Quantum Rendering).
Rendering (physical world as rendering of God’s thought) — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 9, Ch. 29
Rendering downgrade (the fall as rendering parameter change) — Ch. 3
Rendering engine analogy (video game rendering) — Ch. 3, Ch. 28, Ch. 29
Rendering parameters (death, thorns, pain, entropy) — Ch. 3
Renderingism / renderingist (anti-substantialist anthropology underneath the dichotomist label; one person, two registers, no substances to count) — App. A4
Status vs. awareness (positional perfection + deepening awareness) — Ch. 18
Substance and formality table (universal pattern) — Ch. 10
Superposition (the unrendered thought) — App. H
The Curse and the Condemnation (curse of law vs. condemnation of gospel) — Ch. 12, Ch. 28
“The field is Christ” — Epilogue
The glass (curator concept, barrier between self and world) — Preface, Ch. 28, App. L, App. A1
The verse nobody touched (tradition walking past Paul’s metaphors as illustration instead of architecture) — Ch. 28
Scriptural seeds of the framework’s vocabulary (filmstrip, rendering engine, firmware, boot parameters, glass all sitting in the text) — Ch. 2, Ch. 28, App. E
Independent precedents (Polanyi, Gendlin, Damasio, LeDoux, McGilchrist, Edwards, Smith, arrived at similar insights in separate fields) — App. E
Golden calf as preview of the reprobate final state (Exodus 32:25 miniature) — Ch. 28
The infinite loop (Author dying inside His own thought) — Ch. 6
The book as therapy (what writing it did to the author) — Epilogue
“I am a thought” (living inside the ontology, not subscribing to it; the character noticing the prose) — Epilogue
Subscribing vs. inhabiting (sovereign grace as membership card vs. air you breathe) — Epilogue
“The Gatekeepers” (parable of the final state, three saints and a gatekeeping pastor) — App. L
A New Reformation (five solas without tradition) — App. M
Five solas (derived from Scripture, no confession required) — App. M
“The Reformers said ‘sola’ and meant ‘mostly’” (the Reformation that did not finish) — App. M
Sola Scriptura without confessional override — App. M
Sola Fide without vocabulary requirements — App. M
Sola Gratia without common grace or duty faith — App. M
Solus Christus without third use of the law — App. M
Soli Deo Gloria including the authorship of evil — App. M
Reformation completed by a programmer from the post office — App. M
Three groups in final creation (elect angels, elect humans, reprobate) — Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) as divine pedagogy — Ch. 16
Uncertainty principle (rendering constraints) — App. H
Unified field theory (the sentence as) — Epilogue
Theory of everything (physics cannot find it because they’re trying to unify two layers of one rendering) — App. H
Wave function collapse — App. H
Author and characters (God and creation) — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 11
Big Bang theory — App. A1
Seed grown to tree (covenant authored in time, constraints lifted at resurrection, same covenant flourishing at full height) — Ch. 29, App. A6
Calculator and mathematician (AI and image of God) — App. A9
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
Courthouse vs. cross (not legislating regeneration) — Ch. 14
Director’s chair (Christ’s session at the right hand) — Ch. 6
Donkey (Balaam’s donkey as temporary rendering upgrade) — App. A9
Fig leaves (first act of the curator, Genesis 3) — Ch. 28
Firmware flash (regeneration) — Ch. 16
Fossil record as backstory (not deception) — Ch. 4
Hospital (church as hospital, “I’m a patient too”) — Ch. 23
Joshua 22 altar (misunderstanding between brethren) — Ch. 30
Malware and quarantine (demons and Satan’s fate) — App. A2
Mechanic vs. manufacturer (therapy vs. regeneration) — Ch. 17
Novel/story (God as Author of reality) — Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Oak tree illustration (doctrines of grace as root system) — Ch. 30
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
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
Shadow and substance (ceremony and covenant) — Ch. 10, Ch. 22, Ch. 29
Signature vs. surface (recognition in resurrection) — Ch. 29
Simulation hypothesis (secular version of idealism) — Ch. 1, Ch. 3, App. A11, App. G, App. J
Sinai overlay — Ch. 8
Television and signal (brain and consciousness) — Ch. 17
“There but for the grace of God go I” (imprecise but essential) — Ch. 12, Ch. 14
Trip planning (supralapsarianism) — Ch. 5
Watch/watchmaker (deism, rejected) — Ch. 1
Whitewashed tombs (Pharisees) — Ch. 14
AI and eschatology (speculation, clearly labeled) — Ch. 27
AI consciousness — App. A9
AI, Christianity in the age of (the machine is a frame, not the Shepherd) — App. A9
Alcohol (moderation vs. drunkenness, mastery principle) — Ch. 21, App. A7
Altar calls / decisionism (rejected) — Ch. 19
Antinomianism (redefined) — Ch. 20
Apostasy (elect cannot) — App. A3
Baptism (infant vs. believer) — Ch. 22
Baptism, mode of — Ch. 22
Baptism of the Holy Spirit — App. A4
Baptismal regeneration (rejected) — Ch. 22
Bible translation issues (NIV/ESV softening Isaiah 45:7) — Ch. 13
Bible translations (rendering events, multi-glass reading, KJV preferred but not only) — App. A1
King James Version (cadence, theological precision, good glass not THE glass) — App. A1, App. N (Costume 23)
KJV-Onlyism (rejected as one-translation Form) — App. A1, App. N (Costume 23)
Textus Receptus and critical text (both preserved what the Author meant to preserve) — App. A1, App. N (Costume 23)
Capital punishment — App. A8
Cannabis (framework’s mastery principle applied) — App. A7
Birth control (preventing conception vs. destroying life) — App. A7
Cessationism / continuationism — App. A4
Charismatic gifts — App. A4
Church government / polity — Ch. 23
Clerical titles / “Reverend” (rejected for men) — App. A5
Communication with the dead — App. A9
Communion / Lord’s Supper (as celebration, agape feast) — Ch. 10
Comforting the grieving — App. A10
Confusion vs. rebellion (Arminians using inherited language) — Ch. 30
Corporal punishment / the rod (shepherd’s guide, not beating stick) — App. A7
Tower of Babel (judgment on uniformity, scattering as mercy) — App. A1
Many thoughts and one thought (the unity of God’s mind) — App. A1
Head and heart dichotomy (rejected as artificial) — App. A4
Great Commission and itinerant preaching (not “missions” in the modern sense) — App. A5
Deriving instead of defending (the framework’s posture toward apologetics) — App. A5
Number of the beast (666, symbolic, not literal) — App. A6
Great apostasy (recurring pattern, not a single end-times event) — App. A6
Creation debate as idol — Ch. 4
Creeds and confessions (unsigned) — App. A5
Degrees of reward in heaven (rejected, Christ is the reward) — App. A3
Divorce and remarriage — App. A7
Drugs / pharmakeia (medical vs. recreational vs. spiritual) — App. A7
Drunkenness (loss of faculty, sin) — App. A7
Egalitarianism (rejected) — Ch. 24
Fatalism (distinguished from sovereignty) — Ch. 21
Free will (rejected in libertarian sense) — Ch. 2, Ch. 11, Ch. 19
Full preterism (rejected as heresy) — App. A6
Gatekeeping (sovereign grace people deciding who is in/out, doctrinal exams as replacement for Spirit’s work) — Ch. 30, App. A, App. A10, App. L (“The Gatekeepers” parable), App. N (Costume 20), App. O (why gatekeeping dissolves once doctrine is relocated beneath ontology)
Head coverings (hair as the covering, conscience) — Ch. 24
Heresy hunting (as Platonic critique method) — Ch. 30, App. A, App. A10, App. K, App. L, App. N (Costume 20)
Human responsibility (rejected; accountability affirmed) — Ch. 19
Hyper-Calvinism (label addressed) — Prologue, Ch. 19, Ch. 30, App. I, App. K, App. N (Costume 20)
Infants who die (all go to heaven) — App. A3
License vs. liberty (distinction) — Ch. 21
Lordship salvation (critique of) — Ch. 26
Mentally disabled — App. A3
Music in worship — App. A5
Nephilim — App. A2
Newspaper exegesis (critique of) — Ch. 27
Offer of the gospel (rejected; proclamation affirmed) — Ch. 19, App. K
Ordained does not mean approved — Ch. 14
Ordination — App. A5
Other religions — App. A9
Paid preachers — App. A5
Pharmakeia (drug use for spiritual experience, condemned) — App. A7
Quiverfull movement (rejected) — App. A7
Humanae Vitae (Catholic contraception position, rejected) — App. A7
Premarital sex (fornication vs. pre-ceremony covenant claim) — App. A7
Pornography (simulated intimacy, ceremony without substance) — App. A7
Masturbation (four cases, framework-derived, conscience territory) — App. A7
Onan misreading (Genesis 38 not about masturbation) — App. A7
Euthanasia (active, PAS, withdrawal, palliative care distinguished) — App. A7
Physician-assisted suicide (rejected) — App. A3
Death with dignity movement (rejected) — App. A7
Gun control and self-defense (framework position) — App. A8
Self-defense (Exodus 22, Luke 22, 1 Tim 5:8) — App. A8
Dual sword principle (state’s sword and household’s sword) — App. A8
Pacifism (progressive rejection of all force, refused) — App. A8
UFOs and aliens (interdimensional/demonic hypothesis for hard cases) — App. A8
Extraterrestrial life (framework ontology can accommodate but does not require) — App. A8
Ancient astronauts / space brothers religion (rejected) — App. A8
Tobacco use (cigarettes, cigars, vaping, pouches; mastery principle) — App. A7
Vaping and e-cigarettes (engineered for teen addiction, framework treatment) — App. A7
Nicotine pouches (mastery principle without body-destruction argument) — App. A7
Spurgeon and tobacco (historical Christian record on cigars) — App. A7
Obesity and gluttony (the sin is mastery, not body size) — App. A7
Gluttony (Scripture’s named sin, distinct from body size) — App. A7
Modern food environment (industrially engineered hyper-palatable products) — App. A7
GLP-1 medications (Ozempic and the appetite-mastery question) — App. A7
Eating disorders (bondage to food in opposite direction) — App. A7
Fat acceptance movement (rejected as denial of body’s moral weight) — App. A7
Fat-shaming (refused; size is not the moral variable) — App. A7
Prohibitionism (rejected as Platonic) — App. A7
Prosperity gospel (rejected) — App. A8
Religious relics and physical worship (rejected) — App. A5
Second ransom (rejected) — Ch. 12
Shibboleths — App. A10
Simulation theory incompatible with materialism and realism — Ch. 3, App. A11
Suicide — App. A3
Those who never hear the gospel — App. A3
Tithing (not required) — App. A8
Tongues (languages, not ecstatic utterance) — App. A4
Transubstantiation (rejected) — Ch. 10
War and pacifism — App. A8
Women in ministry / women preaching — Ch. 24
Young earth vs. old earth — Ch. 4
Almeida, Milton — Acknowledgments
Alvord, David — Acknowledgments
Aquinas, Thomas (act and potency, subsumed by framework) — App. A1
Aristotle (act and potency) — App. A1
Apologists, Greek Christian (Justin Martyr et al., identifying Christ with the Greek Logos) — App. N
Bahnsen, Greg — Ch. 25
Baker, Kyle — Acknowledgments
Beckett, Eileen (Pristine Grace contributor, the only woman published on the site, lived the tenderness Ch. 30 describes, deceased) — Acknowledgments
Bell, Donnie — Acknowledgments
Berkeley, George (subjective idealism) — App. J
Berkhof, Louis — App. I
Bishop, David — Acknowledgments
Bradford, John — Ch. 12
Brinsmead, Robert (Present Truth magazine, 1970s; freed serious men from law-based traditions) — Acknowledgments
Brown, Larry — Acknowledgments
Byrd, Jim — Acknowledgments
Calvin, John — Ch. 27, Acknowledgments
Cappadocians (fourth-century Neoplatonic theologians of the Eastern tradition) — App. N
Carpenter, Marc (Outside the Camp ministry; negative-example teacher) — Acknowledgments
Clark, Gordon — Prologue, Ch. 5, Ch. 16, App. D, Acknowledgments
Clement of Alexandria (second-to-third-century Middle Platonist Christian fusionist) — App. N
Coleman, Aaron — Acknowledgments
Collier, Monty — Acknowledgments
Covington, Mary — Acknowledgments
Crabtree, Bruce — Acknowledgments
Cunningham, Chris — Acknowledgments
Darby, John Nelson — Ch. 27
Dead Sea Scrolls / Qumran / Essenes — Prologue, Ch. 5, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, App. F
Dickmann, Mike — Acknowledgments
Dietz, Drew and Melinda (close friends, retired sovereign grace pastor) — Acknowledgments
Eastern Orthodoxy (view of hell, same presence) — Ch. 28
Damasio, Antonio (somatic marker hypothesis, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
Edwards, Jonathan (idealist leanings; Religious Affections as precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E, App. J
Ella, George (Strict Baptist historian, biographer of Gadsby) — Acknowledgments
Erkel, Darryl — Ch. 23
Fortner, Don — Ch. 30, Acknowledgments
Gadsby, William — Preface, Acknowledgments
Galatian Judaizers — Ch. 20
Gendlin, Eugene (felt sense, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
Gerety, Sean (Clarkian, Trinity Foundation) — Acknowledgments
Gill, John — Prologue, Preface, Ch. 30, Acknowledgments, App. A1 (made sin / mass of sin / 2 Cor 5:21 commentary)
Gonzalez, Gabriel — Acknowledgments
Gregory of Nyssa — Ch. 28
Grudem, Wayne — App. I
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (absolute idealism) — App. J
Hein, Rick (Jubilee Church elder, 2001 removal) — Acknowledgments
Higby, Bob (theological DNA, supralapsarian architect, ecclesiological mentor, the bricks and the cathedral) — Prologue, Preface, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 12, Ch. 22, App. A, App. C, App. D, App. F, App. K, App. R, Epilogue, Acknowledgments
Higby, Dan (Bob’s son) — Acknowledgments
Higby, Ruth (Bob’s wife) — Acknowledgments
Hoeksema, Herman — App. I
Holbrook, Tammi and Chip — Acknowledgments
Huckle, Roger — Acknowledgments
Huss, Jan — Ch. 27
Ilyasov, Renat — Acknowledgments
Isaac the Syrian — Ch. 28
James, William (Principles of Psychology, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
James, Tim — Acknowledgments
Johnson, James — Acknowledgments
Johnson, Phil — Prologue, Ch. 5, Ch. 19, App. K, Acknowledgments
Johnson, Ray — Acknowledgments
Jubilee Church (St. Louis, MO; Newfrontiers affiliate; 2001 removal of Brandan) — Acknowledgments
Justin Martyr (second-century Apologist, identified Christ with the Greek Logos) — App. N
Kahneman, Daniel (System 1 / System 2, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
Keil, Abe and Carol — Acknowledgments
Kickert, Ray — Acknowledgments
Kinney, Joe — Acknowledgments
Knox, John — Ch. 27
Krall, Mike — Acknowledgments
Lanferman, John (Jubilee Church elder, 2001 removal) — Acknowledgments
Laurienzo, Nicholas — Acknowledgments
LeDoux, Joseph (The Emotional Brain, 12ms amygdala, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
Lindsey, Hal (Late Great Planet Earth) — Ch. 27
Lovins, Nick (longtime friend and encourager) — Acknowledgments
Luther, Martin — Prologue, Ch. 12, Ch. 26, Ch. 27, Acknowledgments
Mahan, Henry (“mercy, not mechanics”) — Ch. 30
Manichaeism (rejected) — Ch. 12
McGilchrist, Iain (The Master and His Emissary, divided brain, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (Phenomenology of Perception, pre-reflective consciousness) — App. E
Miklosik, Craig — Acknowledgments
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, direct citations (I.24-26 the theodicy mission “justify the ways of God to men”; I.262-263 “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven”; V.659-666 the inherited and elaborated cause of Satan’s fall; V.710 the “third part of Heaven’s host”) — Ch. 13, App. S
Milton at the end of the fourteen-century lineage (did not invent the angelic-fall narrative; gave it its dominant literary form) — Ch. 13
Lineage of the Lucifer myth (Plato, 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, Life of Adam and Eve, Origen, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Caedmon, Anglo-Saxon Genesis B, Vita Adae et Evae, mystery plays, Aquinas, Milton) — Ch. 13, App. S
Mowrey, Bryan (Jubilee Church small group leader at 2001 removal; now Confluence/Newfrontiers US lead apostle) — Acknowledgments
Murrell, Conrad — Acknowledgments
Musk, Elon (simulation hypothesis) — App. G
Newton, John (hymnist, “Amazing Grace”) — Acknowledgments
Nibert, Todd — Acknowledgments
Nietzsche — Ch. 17
O’Nanski, Scott — Acknowledgments
Origen (third-century Middle Platonist Christian at Alexandria) — App. N
Parker, Bill (sovereign grace pastor) — Acknowledgments
Pedersen, John — Acknowledgments
Pendleton, Paula — Acknowledgments
Phillips, Stanley — Acknowledgments
Philpot, J.C. (Strict Baptist writer) — Acknowledgments
Piper, John (What We Believe About the Five Points of Calvinism — the paper Bryan handed Brandan; infralapsarian; pastoral warmth) — Acknowledgments
Poe, Sam (Jubilee Church elder, 2001 removal) — Acknowledgments
Platonic Floor, the (master diagnosis, 23 costumes, floor swap to operational idealism) — App. N; positive counterpart (the floor under this book) — App. O
Floor under this book, the (the positive counterpart to Appendix N; ontological floor of operational idealism; doctrine relocated beneath the Author’s rendering) — App. O
Plotinus (Neoplatonist, corrupted Plato’s idealism into realist hierarchy) — App. J, App. N
Polanyi, Michael (Personal Knowledge, The Tacit Dimension, closest philosophical precedent to pre-propositional) — App. E
Pseudo-Dionysius (fifth-to-sixth-century Neoplatonic systematizer of the Eastern tradition) — App. N
Potts, Ian — Acknowledgments
Poythress, Vern (information theory and theology) — App. J
Price, Scott — Acknowledgments
Primitive Baptists (oneness position, treated sympathetically) — Ch. 6
Rages, Nathan — Acknowledgments
Reagan, Cassie — Acknowledgments
Robbins, John (Trinity Foundation, Clark interpreter) — Acknowledgments
Ruell, Julie — Acknowledgments
Ryle, J.C. — Acknowledgments
Scofield Reference Bible — Ch. 27
Shepard, Gary — Acknowledgments
Shofstahl, Charles — Acknowledgments
Smith, James K. A. (Desiring the Kingdom, Imagining the Kingdom, desiring creatures) — App. E
Smith, Jason and Alissa — Acknowledgments
Smith, Mikal — Acknowledgments
Sproul, R.C. (Reformation Study Bible; example of love toward those who differ) — Acknowledgments
Spurgeon, Charles (pastoral heart, not theological influence) — Preface, Ch. 30, Acknowledgments
Swindoll, Chuck (pastoral heart, boot parameters from childhood) — Preface, Ch. 30, Acknowledgments
Tate, Frank — Acknowledgments
Terrell, Joe — Acknowledgments
Thomism / Thomist metaphysics (act and potency) — App. A1
Trav — Acknowledgments
Trinity Foundation (Gordon Clark’s legacy publisher) — Acknowledgments
Tussey, Brandon — Acknowledgments
Tyndale, William — Ch. 27
Warmack, Richard — Acknowledgments
Washer, Paul — Acknowledgments
Wells, Norm — Acknowledgments
Wetzel, John — Acknowledgments
Wiese, Chuck — Acknowledgments
Winegar, Greg (closest friend since 2005, designed the book cover, pristinegrace.org community member) — Acknowledgments
Winegar, Pam (Greg’s wife) — Acknowledgments
Wycliffe, John — Ch. 27
Zwingli (memorialism) — Ch. 10
Canons of Dort — App. A5 (referenced indirectly via “Dort on particular redemption”)
Heidelberg Catechism — App. A5
London Baptist Confession — App. A5
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.
Apollos — Ch. 24
Balaam — Ch. 15, App. A
Daughters of Philip — Ch. 24
Diotrephes (3 John — “loveth to have the preeminence… prating against us with malicious words,” model of false-teacher calling-out) — Ch. 30
Emmaus disciples — Ch. 29
Esther — Ch. 26
Hagar — Ch. 6
Isaac and Rebekah — Ch. 10
Jesus Christ — throughout; see Incarnation, Hypostatic union, Prophet Priest King, Active obedience, Resurrection body, etc.
Job — Ch. 14, App. A
Lydia — App. A
Joseph (Genesis) — App. A (referenced in dreams section)
Judas — App. A9
Manoah — Ch. 6
Mary Magdalene (at the tomb) — Ch. 29
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, Epilogue
Paul’s dungeon (2 Timothy 4:16-17, “no man stood with me”) — Epilogue
Pharaoh — App. A9
Philippian jailer — Ch. 30
Phebe (Phoebe) — Ch. 24
Priscilla — Ch. 24
Publican (Luke 18) — Ch. 14
Samson — App. A
Thomas (doubting) — Ch. 29
Anger — Ch. 17 (old firmware channel)
Animals in the framework (ontology, rendering states, eating meat, reverence) — App. A1
Apologetics (limited role of) — Ch. 25
Addiction — App. A11
Aging and losing capacity — App. A11
Anxiety about the future — App. A11
Assurance (faith IS assurance, doubt as layer conflict) — Ch. 21
Church discipline — App. A5
Church membership (formality, not substance) — Ch. 23, Epilogue
Clergy, no authority over conscience — Epilogue
Classical education / trivium — Ch. 16
Tenderness (as greater gift, women carry naturally, Christ modeled) — Ch. 24
Dating / relationships — Ch. 10 (marriage as covenant)
Child with disabilities — App. A11
Depression / anxiety — Ch. 17 (feelings architecture; therapy discussion), App. A11
Death, fear of — App. A11
Death of a child — App. A11
Degrees of punishment vs. degrees of grace — Ch. 14
Forgiveness — App. A7 (Lord’s Prayer; divorce and remarriage)
Fear of man — App. A11
Forgiveness (when they won’t apologize) — App. A11
Gender roles — Ch. 24
Giving (voluntary, not mandated) — App. A8
Government and politics — App. A8
God’s silence (when God feels silent) — App. A11
Grace, extending to other believers — Ch. 30
Guilt after sin — App. A11
Grief and lament — App. A10
Grief, comforting the grieving — App. A10
Heaven and hell (same reality, different firmware) — Ch. 28, App. J
Hurt by the church — App. A11
Liberty from institutional authority — Epilogue
Loneliness — App. A11
Lord’s Prayer — App. A9
Joy in the sovereign grace world (the missing fruit) — Preface, Ch. 21, Ch. 30, Epilogue
Marriage and submission (Eph 5:22-33, husband’s heavier burden, abuse voids the claim, direct word to men and women) — App. A7
Marriage bed mutuality (1 Cor 7:3-5, mutual obligation, mutual ownership, abstention as fraud) — App. A7
Marriage, struggling — App. A, App. A7
Marriage supper of the Lamb (the eschatological feast the Lord’s Supper renders) — Ch. 10, Ch. 28, App. L
Marital sexuality and the eschatological bed (the bed as preview of the marriage supper of the Lamb) — Ch. 10, App. A6 (in Eschatology section)
Living as worship in the new creation (heaven is bigger than throne-worship) — App. A6 (Eschatology section)
Covenant companion (the wife of thy covenant, Malachi 2:14, as the biblical term for the eternal spousal bond) — Ch. 29, App. A6 (Eschatology section), App. N (Costume 22)
Covenant companion at the feast (Ch. 29 section title; the framework’s primary reading of marriage in the new creation) — Ch. 29
Equal unto the angels (Luke 20:36, isangeloi; the framework reads the equivalence at the specified predicates of immortality and resurrection-sonship, not total state-identity with angels) — App. A6 (Harder Passages subsection)
Two Readings Compared (side-by-side chart of the traditional Reformed reading and the framework’s reading of marriage-in-the-new-creation, across Matt 22, Luke 20, Gen 2, Mal 2, Matt 19, Eph 5, Rom 7, 1 Cor 7, Rev 19; named strain points in both readings; comparative pastoral outworkings) — App. A6
Comparative exegesis / comparative strain (both readings require interpretive work; the framework names its strain; the tradition’s strain is invisible to its substrate) — App. A6 (The Two Readings Compared subsection)
Swap the floor, re-derive (the book’s master method: find the doctrine, find the ontology, swap realism for operational idealism, re-derive the doctrine on the new floor) — App. J (The Method subsection)
Method dependency (eschatology depends on marriage-under-operational-idealism; surface doctrinal disputes are ontology-depth disputes) — App. J, App. A6
Marriage persisting into the new creation (Matthew 22 answers the Sadducees’ levirate trap, not a covenant-dissolution metaphysic; now held as conviction, not speculation) — Ch. 29, App. A6 (Eschatology section), App. N (Costume 22)
Legal register vs. ontological register (in marriage; the law of marriage binds the living per Rom 7:2 / 1 Cor 7:39; the ontological one-flesh union the Author authored is not contractually terminated by death) — App. A6 (On Remarriage After the Death of a Spouse)
Remarriage after the death of a spouse (Scripture explicitly permits; first covenant persists ontologically; second covenant is real, blessed, and also persists; the Author reconciles the sequence at the feast) — App. A6
Till death do us part (the Platonic smuggle in the Christian wedding vow; medieval sacramental dissolution of the covenant at the grave; Sarum Use → Book of Common Prayer → 475 years of English-speaking catechesis) — App. N (Costume 22)
Sarum Use / Book of Common Prayer 1549 and 1662 (origin of the till-death-do-us-part language; the verb depart originally meant separate) — App. N (Costume 22)
Wedding vow, reform of (the living covenant can be amended when the framework reveals a Platonic layer in the inherited liturgy; Brandan and Angie’s April 2026 amendment) — App. N (Costume 22), App. A6
True covenant vs. legal contract (the Author’s joining is what makes a marriage a covenant; the legal certificate alone does not produce one; some legal marriages were never Author-joined and do not persist into the new creation) — App. A6 (On the Covenant Companion in the New Creation)
Non-covenant marriages (marriages of force, fraud, pure convenience, or pure social and financial arrangement; legal binding ends at death and there was nothing more to render; framework refuses to give individual saints license to declare their own marriage non-covenantal) — App. A6
Pros and cons of the covenant companion position (twenty-one-row chart of pastoral, theological, exegetical, and personal-cost categories comparing the traditional and framework readings; honest naming of strain on both sides) — App. A6 (What Each Position Offers and What Each Position Costs)
Mormon eternal marriage, distinguished from (the framework’s eternal covenant doctrine is non-sacerdotal — no temple ceremony required; the Author authors the eternity, not a priesthood holder; the difference between the two doctrines is the entire mechanism) — App. A6 (Objections and Answers)
Believing spouse and unbelieving spouse, eschatology of (the bond ends at the seam where the reprobate is excluded from the new creation; the believing spouse’s love and years are not dissolved; Rev. 21:4 as consolation; framework refuses to soften the loss while affirming the consolation) — App. A6 (Objections and Answers)
Heaven enlarged (feast, reigning, intimacy, work, throne integrated) — App. A6
God’s delight in the saints’ enjoyment — App. A6
The reduction of heaven to disembodied choir (Plato in the floorboards) — App. A6
Premarital sex (pastoral answer) — App. A7
Alcohol and drug use (pastoral, the mastery principle) — App. A7
Birth control (pastoral, stewardship vs. sovereignty) — App. A7
Singleness (as gift, Paul’s preference, Christ single) — App. A7
Pornography (redirection of the craving for intimacy) — App. A7
Masturbation (pastoral, four cases, refusing legalism and license) — App. A7
Dying well / approaching death (pastoral) — App. A11
Watching a loved one die (pastoral for the family) — App. A11
Defending the household (Paul’s 1 Tim 5:8 as physical protection) — App. A8
Paul likely married (historical note, Sanhedrin membership, 1 Cor 7:8) — App. A7
Family size / stewardship — App. A7
Infertility (God opens and closes wombs) — App. A7
Sexual shame — App. A11
Mental health / therapy — Ch. 17
Modesty — Ch. 21
Music (Brandan plays trombone in three bands) — Preface
No marriage in heaven — see Covenant companion at the feast; Matthew 22:30; Till death do us part
Parenting — Ch. 16 (trivium, Cole’s classical education), App. A7
Pastoral care for the struggling — Ch. 2, Ch. 14, Ch. 18, Ch. 20, App. A11
Practical applications of the sentence (the bedside) — App. A11 (Section XII)
Patriarchy — Ch. 24 (creation order; complementarianism), App. A7 (weaponization of Eph 5:22 critiqued)
Abuse in marriage (husband’s abuse voids his claim to submission) — App. A7
Submission in marriage — see Marriage and submission
Political engagement — App. A8
Prayer — Ch. 2, Ch. 21, App. A4, App. A7, App. A9, App. A10, App. A11, App. E
Purpose and calling — App. A11
“Why was I born this way?” (authored nature) — Ch. 11, App. A11
Present the truth softly and wait on the Lord — Preface, Prologue, Ch. 14, Ch. 19, Epilogue
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
Stewardship / wealth — App. A8
Study to be quiet (1 Thessalonians 4:11) — Ch. 21
Suffering is not punishment (Christ already bore it) — App. A11
Using theology as a weapon — App. A10
Work / vocation — Preface (Brandan’s career as a programmer)
Genesis 2:7 (dichotomy) — App. A4
Genesis 2:24 (one flesh) — Ch. 10
Genesis 2:25 (naked and were not ashamed — pre-fall absence of shame) — App. A6
Genesis 3:21 (coats of skins — the first atonement as shame-covering by blood) — App. A6
Genesis 6 (Nephilim / flood) — App. A2
Genesis 9 (Noahic covenant, animals) — Ch. 8, App. A
Genesis 17 (Abrahamic covenant) — Ch. 8
Genesis 24 (Isaac and Rebekah) — Ch. 10
Exodus 32:25 (naked unto their shame, preview of reprobate final state) — Ch. 28
Exodus 32:28 (three thousand fell that day) — Ch. 28
Numbers 22:28 (Balaam’s donkey) — App. A9
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 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 51:6 (truth in inward parts, hidden part as firmware) — App. E
Psalm 139:16 (members written in thy book, filmstrip scriptural seed) — Ch. 2, Ch. 28
Psalm 147:4 (he names the stars) — Ch. 4
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
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. 7, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13
Isaiah 46:10 (declaring the end from the beginning) — Ch. 1, Ch. 5
Isaiah 47:3 (thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen) — App. A6
Isaiah 64:6 (filthy rags) — Ch. 21
Isaiah 66:24 (worm dieth not, fire not quenched, an abhorring unto all flesh) — App. A6
Jeremiah 17:9 (deceitful heart) — Ch. 17
Jeremiah 31:33 (new covenant, law in inward parts) — Ch. 1, Ch. 7, Ch. 21, App. E
Lamentations 3:21-23 (mercies new every morning, great is thy faithfulness) — App. A
Lamentations 3:38 (evil and good from the Most High) — Ch. 5, Ch. 13
Ezekiel 28 (king of Tyre, not Satan) — Ch. 13
Daniel 9 (timeline to the Messiah) — Ch. 26
Daniel 12:2 (everlasting shame and contempt) — Ch. 28, App. A1
Micah 5:2 (Bethlehem) — Ch. 26
Zechariah 11:12 (thirty pieces of silver) — Ch. 26
Matthew 5:26 (uttermost farthing) — Ch. 28
Matthew 5:48 (be ye perfect) — Ch. 20
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. A5
Matthew 22:30 (Sadducees’ levirate trap; framework reads the verse as refusing new marriages in the resurrection, not as dissolving existing covenants) — Ch. 29, App. A6, App. N (Costume 22)
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 25:46 (everlasting punishment / life eternal — binary verdict with degreed intensity on the punishment side) — App. A6
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 12:47-48 (many stripes vs. few stripes — master text on degrees of judgment by light received) — App. A6
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 19:41-42 (Jesus weeping over Jerusalem — tears proportional to the light) — App. A6
Luke 22:19 (Lord’s Supper) — Ch. 10
Luke 22:42 (not my will, but thine, be done — perfect submission of Christ’s will) — App. A1
Luke 24 (resurrection appearances) — Ch. 29
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 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, Ch. 20, Ch. 30
John 20 (Thomas, Mary) — Ch. 29
Acts 1:9 (ascension) — Ch. 29
Acts 1:11 (He shall so come) — App. A
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 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 (worketh not but believeth) — Ch. 26
Romans 5:19 (obedience of one) — Ch. 15
Romans 5:20 (law entered that offence might abound) — Ch. 20
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 8:16 (Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, firmware-level witness) — App. E
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 8:38-39 (nothing can separate) — Ch. 20, App. A
Romans 9:13 (Jacob have I loved) — App. A11
Romans 9:17 (Pharaoh raised up) — App. A
Romans 10:4 (Christ the end of the law) — Ch. 20
Romans 10:17 (faith by hearing) — Ch. 25
Romans 13 (government and the sword) — App. A
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 2:11 (spirit of man, firmware-level knowledge) — App. E
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, two-directional, architecture of the final state) — Ch. 9, Ch. 28
1 Corinthians 14:26 (every one of you hath) — Ch. 23
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 5:14 (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 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, App. A1
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 5:12 (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 1:4-5 (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 5:18 (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 2:10-11 (every knee shall bow) — Ch. 28
Philippians 2:13 (God worketh in you, both to will and to do) — Ch. 2, Ch. 16, Ch. 18, Ch. 21, Ch. 25, App. E
Philippians 3:20-21 (fashioned like His glorious body) — Ch. 29, App. A
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 2:16-18 (Hymenaeus error) — App. A6
2 Timothy 2:25 (in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves) — Ch. 30
2 Timothy 3:1 (perilous times) — Ch. 27
2 Timothy 3:16 (all Scripture given by inspiration) — Ch. 26
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 10:14 (perfected for ever) — Ch. 18
Hebrews 11:3 (things seen not made of things visible) — Ch. 1, Ch. 3
Hebrews 12:2 (despising the shame — Christ bore the felt shame, not only the physical death) — App. A1
Hebrews 12:14 (follow holiness) — Ch. 18
Hebrews 13:8 (Jesus Christ the same) — Ch. 18
Hebrews 13:17 (obey leaders, hegeomai) — Ch. 23
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 1:7 (blood cleanseth from all sin) — Ch. 14
1 John 2:18 (many antichrists) — App. A6
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
3 John 9-10 (Diotrephes, prating against us with malicious words) — Ch. 30
Revelation 3:18 (white raiment — that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear) — App. A6
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 16:15 (behold I come as a thief — keepeth his garments lest he walk naked, and they see his shame) — App. A6
Abrahamic covenant — Ch. 8
Absolute predestination — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 14, Ch. 19
Act and potency (Aristotelian/Thomist distinction, subsumed by framework as rendering-level observation) — App. A1
Active obedience and passive obedience of Christ — Ch. 15, App. A1
Adam as picture of the elect (not substitute) — Ch. 11
Adam created sinful (not righteous then fallen) — Ch. 3, Ch. 11, App. A1
Adam, “when not if” (Genesis 2:17 presupposes the fall) — Ch. 11
Adamic covenant (Genesis 3:15, first rendering of covenant of grace) — Ch. 8
Adonai (divine name — Lord, Master) — App. A1
Adoption — Ch. 15
“All” in Romans 5 (consistency argument, elect throughout) — Ch. 11
Already/not-yet distinction (experiential, not actual) — Ch. 15
Amillennialism — Ch. 27
Ancient heresy that Christ became a sinner (distinguished from the framework’s orthodox substitution) — App. A1
Annihilationism (rejected as false dilemma) — Ch. 28
Antichrist (many, not one future figure) — App. A6
Antitype (higher-resolution rendering of an Old Testament type, fulfilled in Christ) — Ch. 9
Antilegomena (disputed books of the canon) — Ch. 12, Ch. 26, App. A5
Antinomianism (redefined: lowering the law, not resting in Christ) — Ch. 20
Apostles’ incomplete understanding (progressive rendering applied to the early church) — Ch. 9
Arminian in a TULIP sweatshirt (knowledge-Calvinist as crypto-Arminian; the Arminian move relocated from will to intellect; tribe that substitutes doctrinal literacy for faith) — Ch. 30
Attributes of God (derived from the sentence) — App. A1
Augustine and the inherited framework — App. A1, App. I, App. J
Augustine chose realism over idealism (Plotinus corruption of Plato) — App. J
Author of evil, God as — Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 13, App. A1
Baptism of the Holy Spirit (equals regeneration) — Ch. 22, App. A4
Bronze serpent (Numbers 21, type of Christ lifted up, John 3:14-15) — Ch. 9
Calling out false gospels (biblical pattern vs. tribal performance; 1 Cor. 13 as diagnostic, Gal. 1 and 2 Tim. 2:25 as apostolic model, Diotrephes as counterfeit) — Ch. 30
Credentials, irrelevance of (the fruit is the qualification) — Preface, Epilogue, App. A11
Cappadocian fathers (Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory Nazianzus — borrowed Plotinian hierarchy to articulate Trinity) — App. A1
Christ IS the covenant (not just mediator) — Ch. 6
Christ is the believer’s rule (not the Mosaic law, not the Decalogue) — Ch. 20
Christ made a curse for us (Galatians 3:13) — App. A1
Circular reasoning (all reasoning is circular) — Ch. 2, Ch. 25
Cities of refuge (Numbers 35, Joshua 20, type of Christ as refuge until the High Priest dies) — Ch. 9
Coats of skins (Genesis 3:21 — the first atonement in Scripture as a shame-covering administered by God through the blood of an innocent substitute) — App. A6
Common bounty (distinct from common grace) — Ch. 19
Condemnation of the gospel vs. curse of the law — Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Conscience — App. A4
Consequences of sin borne by Christ, not the rebellion itself (the line between orthodox substitution and the ancient heresy that Christ became a sinner) — App. A1
Continuous sanctification — see Sanctification, positional/continuous
Council of Trent (antilegomena debate buried) — App. A5
Covenant of works (at Sinai, not in the garden) — Ch. 8, Ch. 20, App. A1
Covenant of works with Adam (denied, Hosea 6:7) — Ch. 11, App. A1
Covenant theology, standard (critique of) — Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, App. C
Covering as canonical arc (Genesis 3:21 coats of skins, Revelation 3:18 white raiment — the shame-covering administered by God at the beginning and at the end, blood under the garment all the way through) — App. A6
Critique methods, Platonic (heresy-hunting, syllogism, gatekeeping, name-calling, false implication, guilt by association, refusing to read the system, pulpit sniping, whisper campaigns) — App. N (Costume 20)
Costumes, the twenty-three (Platonic errors in modern Christianity) — App. N
False implication (attributing positions the accused does not hold) — App. N (Costume 20)
Guilt by association (as Platonic critique method) — App. N (Costume 20)
Covenant before ceremony (invisible precedes visible, applied) — Ch. 10, Ch. 22, Ch. 26
Covenants as personal promises, not contracts — Ch. 1, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 10
Davidic covenant — Ch. 8
Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16, type of Christ’s propitiation and expiation) — Ch. 9
Description vs. substrate (doctrine as the saint’s description of the Author’s rendering, not the substrate itself) — Ch. 30, App. O
Doctrine as description, not substrate (where doctrine actually sits once the Platonic floor is swapped for operational idealism) — Ch. 30, App. N, App. O
Demon possession — believers cannot be possessed (possession vs. influence vs. oppression) — App. A2
Time travel (framework answer: not for creatures) — App. A12
Dreams (OS running without application-layer supervision) — App. A12
Deja vu (layers of the soul briefly desynchronized) — App. A12
Multiverses (rejected — one Mind, one thought, one reality) — App. A12
Depression (firmware/OS event, not sin) — App. A12
ADHD and neurodivergence (authored hardware variance, not moral failure) — App. A12
Discernment vs. judgment (reading patterns vs. pronouncing eternal standing) — App. A12
Gender dysphoria (suffering real, body authored, scalpel not the answer) — App. A12
New creative work in heaven (speculative — framework leans yes) — App. A12
Children who die young (safe to say they have the blood — David’s confidence, Christ’s words on children) — App. A12
Knowing each other in heaven (identity persists, knowing increases) — App. A12
“Angels that sinned” (2 Peter 2:4 / Jude 6 as false teachers, not celestial beings) — Ch. 13, App. A2
“Condemnation of the devil” (1 Timothy 3:6, genitive of source) — Ch. 13, App. A2
“Devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41, authored servants, not recruited rebels) — Ch. 13, App. A2
False teachers as “angels” (angelos = messengers) — Ch. 13, App. A2
Revelation 12:7-9 (war in heaven as gospel triumph, not pre-creation rebellion) — Ch. 13, App. A2
Revelation 12:4 (third of the stars, symbolic, not literal angel census) — App. A2
Satan as lightning (Luke 10:18, present collapse of authority, not past fall) — Ch. 13, App. A2
Dichotomy (body and soul) — App. A4
Degrees of shame in hell indexed by light received (Luke 12:47-48 many stripes vs. few stripes; Matt 11:22; Heb 10:29 sorer punishment — eschatological judgment is degreed by the light the reprobate received in life) — App. A6
Dispensationalism (critique of) — Ch. 5, Ch. 27, App. A6, App. C
Dispensationalism, origins of (first-century Jerusalem, not Darby) — App. A6
Divine names of God — App. A1
DNA as authored code (the programmer’s argument from functional information) — Ch. 1, Ch. 3
Double imputation (our sin to Christ, His righteousness to us) — Ch. 15, App. A1
Dreams — App. A12
Effectual calling (absorbed into regeneration in MCT) — Ch. 15, App. A1
Ekklesia (Greek for “called-out assembly,” not “the Lord’s house”) — Ch. 23
El, Elohim, El Shaddai, El Elyon, El Roi (compound divine names) — App. A1
Election, unconditional — Ch. 5, Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 25, Ch. 30, App. D
Emanation (Plotinian doctrine sanitized into Christian “generation”) — App. A1, App. N
Eschatology of shame (fire as shame, felt wrath of God as uncovered exposure of the conscience under the undiverted gaze of God; the covering arc from Genesis 3:21 to Revelation 3:18) — App. A6
Eternal generation of the Son (rejected as Plotinian template imported into the Godhead) — App. A1, App. N (Costume 21)
Eternal justification — see Justification from eternity
Eternity (nature of, as absence of time) — Ch. 2
Evil as privation/absence of good (Augustine, rejected) — Ch. 13
Evil spirit from the Lord (1 Samuel 16:14) — Ch. 13
Exorcisms (previews of higher-resolution rendering) — App. A7
Exposure as judgment imagery (prophetic language of discovering the hidden — Isaiah 47:3, Jeremiah 13:26, Ezekiel 16:37, Nahum 3:5; the verb across the prophets is discover) — App. A6
Faith and conversion as one step (MCT ordo salutis) — Ch. 15
Faith IS assurance (against Westminster Confession) — Ch. 21, App. A3
Fall as revelation of nature, not catastrophe — Ch. 3, Ch. 11, App. A1
“Become as one of us” (Genesis 3:22, experiential not ontological) — Ch. 11, App. A1
Creation “made subject to vanity” (Romans 8:20-21, original authorship not post-fall curse) — Ch. 11, App. A1
Father, eternal — relation, not generation — App. A1
Fatherhood of God (relational doctrine, eternal Father by relation to the Son and adoption to the elect) — App. A1
Flood, the (rendering reset, second downgrade, Noahic covenant) — Ch. 8, App. A1
Federal headship (rejected) — Ch. 7, Ch. 11, App. A3, App. C
Filioque controversy (1054 split as downstream of Plotinian template) — App. A1
Filling of the Spirit (distinct from baptism) — App. A4
Fire as God’s presence (not separate punishment) — Ch. 28
Fire as shame (the felt substance of God’s wrath on the uncovered conscience; the felt content of Scripture’s fire-language across both Testaments) — App. A6
Forensic justification (affirmed but not the whole story) — Ch. 15, App. A1
Forsakenness of Christ on the cross (My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me) — App. A1
Gehenna (Valley of Hinnom, place name of cultural shame before it became a fire metaphor in Second Temple imagination) — App. A6
Gethsemane submission (not my will, but thine, be done — proof of Christ’s perfectly submitted will even at the approach of the cross) — App. A1
Glass coming down at Calvary (Son stood under the eschatological glass in place of the elect, uncovered shame borne so they inherit covered glory) — App. A1, Ch. 28
God’s holiness and evil — Ch. 13
Goel (Hebrew kinsman-redeemer, type of Christ) — Ch. 9
Groanings and utterances (pre-linguistic prayer, Romans 8:26) — App. E
Grace preceded the fall (remedy before the disease) — Ch. 11, Ch. 15
Greater light, greater shame (the reprobate who had the most light bears the heaviest shame; the religious gatekeeper’s filmstrip is longer than the pagan’s — Luke 12:47-48, Heb 10:29) — App. A6
Guilt felt by Christ at the cross (not merely reckoned, borne as substance in His soul under the Father’s reckoning) — App. A1
He took the weight, He did not take the corruption (formula for the orthodox substitution line) — App. A1
Hermeneutical principle (the clear interprets the unclear) — Ch. 26
Hippo and Carthage, Councils of (recognized, not created, the canon) — Ch. 10, Ch. 26
Historicism (eschatological) — Ch. 27
Holy days / Christian calendar (matters of conscience) — Ch. 21
“Believe in Jesus and do as you please” (Augustine’s “love God and do what you will,” restated for Christ) — Ch. 21
Holy Spirit, Person of — App. A1
Holy Spirit’s work as epistemological (not mystical) — Ch. 16
Homologoumena (undisputed books of the canon) — Ch. 26
Honor-shame (biblical register equal to guilt-innocence, touched by recent biblical theology primarily in missiology and soteriology rather than eschatology) — App. A6
Hypostatic union — Ch. 6
Idealism, traditional (devalues the material) — App. J
Immutability of God — Ch. 2
Imprecatory Psalms (appropriate in mouths of the righteous) — Ch. 28
Imputation of Christ’s righteousness — Ch. 15
Inability, total (natural man’s lack of capacity, not just willingness) — Ch. 16, Ch. 25
Incarnation — Ch. 6
Incorrect practice does not damn — Ch. 24
Inspiration and authority of Scripture — App. A1
Intelligent design (critique of, distinguished from authorship) — Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 4
Intermediate state — App. A3
Jehovah / YHWH (the covenant redemptive name) — App. A1
Jehovah-Jireh, -Rapha, -Nissi, -Shalom, -Ra-ah, -Tsidkenu, -Shammah (compound covenant names) — App. A1
Judgment, final (ceremony/public declaration, not verdict) — Ch. 2
Justification, three frames of (cross, conversion, judgment) — Ch. 2
Kenosis (emptying of Christ) — Ch. 6
Kingdom of God (spiritual, not physical) — Ch. 27
Kinsman-Redeemer (Hebrew goel, type of Christ in Boaz) — Ch. 9
Knowledge-Calvinism (adding doctrinal precision as condition of salvation) — Ch. 30
Law of Plato — see Plato, law of
Label-slapping — see Name-calling / label-slapping
Lay theologian (Brandan as non-seminary systematic theologian, man without credentials) — Preface, Prologue
Lucifer myth (rejected) — Ch. 13
Lydia and the moment of awareness — App. A10
Made sin (2 Cor 5:21, the strongest expression of imputation) — Ch. 15, App. A1
Made-sin controversy (Brandan’s defense of Gill’s expression) — App. A1
Mass of sin (Gill’s expression on 2 Cor 5:21) — App. A1
Means and regeneration (debate assessed) — App. A3
Modalism (rejected) — Ch. 6
Modesty (heart posture, not dress code) — Ch. 21
Millennium (present age) — Ch. 27
Miracles (previews of higher-resolution rendering) — Ch. 29
Name-calling / label-slapping (as Platonic critique method, compromiser / hyper / Gnostic etc.) — Prologue, Ch. 19, Ch. 30, Acknowledgments, App. A10 (“Slapping labels” section), App. I, App. K (Phil Johnson exchange), App. L (Bob’s story), App. N (Costume 20 — master diagnosis)
Names of God — see Divine names of God
Natural disasters (authored, not punishment for specific sins) — App. A9
Neutrality, no neutral ground — Ch. 25
New Covenant IS the covenant of grace — Ch. 8
Noahic covenant — Ch. 8
Old Testament types and pictures of redemption — Ch. 9
Ontological difference (elect vs. reprobate, difference of kind not degree) — Ch. 12
Open theism (rejected) — Ch. 2
Ordo salutis (MCT) — Ch. 15
Origen (used Plotinus’s emanation language to describe the Son) — App. A1
Pantheism (rejected) — Ch. 1
Partial preterism — Ch. 27
Particular love of God (bridegroom/bride, not universal) — Ch. 19
Passover (Exodus 12, type of Christ as the Lamb) — Ch. 9
Permission, divine (rejected as concept) — Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Perpetual virginity of Mary — App. A3
Perseverance/preservation of the saints — Ch. 15, Ch. 25, App. A3
Personally sinless Son who felt what sin produces (impeccability preserved while consequences borne) — App. A1
Phenomenology of sin borne by Christ (felt weight of guilt and shame on a sinless conscience under total imputation) — App. A1
Plato, law of — Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 13, Ch. 18, Ch. 30, App. N
Plato, Republic, direct citations (II.379c, II.380b, II.380c, X.617e in Jowett’s translation embedded inline) — Ch. 1, Ch. 13, App. N (Part I and Costume 13), App. S (bibliography entry naming the public-domain edition cited)
Plotinus / Neoplatonism (the immediate philosophical source of eternal generation) — App. A1, App. N
Posse peccare (ability to sin, critique of) — Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Postmillennialism (critique of) — Ch. 27
Prayer, theology of (under absolute sovereignty; ordained means God uses; the “prayer is meaningless” objection answered; see also Christian Life section) — Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 21, App. A9, App. J
Predestination — Prologue, Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 14
Pre-incarnate appearances of Christ (theophanies) — Ch. 6
Premillennialism (critique of) — Ch. 27
Prevenient grace (Calvinistically received — the grace that precedes and prepares for saving grace, particular to the elect, operating within the decree; KJV “prevent” as “go before”; Fortner’s formulation of providential grace + preparatory grace) — App. A3
Preventing mercy — see Prevenient grace
Progressive revelation — see Progressive rendering
Progressive rendering (not progressive covenant) — Ch. 9, Ch. 22
Progressive sanctification produces pride or despair — Ch. 18
Prophetic hyperbole (cosmic language for political events) — Ch. 13
Ransom-to-the-devil atonement (Patristic error, rejected) — Ch. 13
Prophet, Priest, King (offices of Christ) — Ch. 6
Providence — Ch. 5
Rapture (pretribulational, rejected) — App. A6
Rebellion vs. consequences distinction (sin proper is volitional departure; Christ bore what rebellion produces in a soul, not the rebellion itself) — App. A1
Reconciliation (atoning aspect, restored fellowship) — Ch. 15, App. A1
Regeneration at the firmware level (objections and answers) — App. E
Repentance, legal vs. evangelical — App. A1
Resurrection as removal of constraints (not addition of abilities) — Ch. 29
Resurrection body — Ch. 29
Roman Catholicism (claim to have given us the Bible, rejected) — Ch. 26, Ch. 27, Ch. 28
Salvation as past event — Ch. 19
Sanctification, positional/continuous — Ch. 15, Ch. 18, App. C
Sanctification, progressive (rejected) — Ch. 18
Saving faith vs. doctrine (personal trust vs. propositions) — Ch. 30
Scapegoat (Leviticus 16, type of Christ bearing iniquity away) — Ch. 9
Seed of the serpent — Ch. 12
Shame felt by Christ at the cross (Hebrews 12:2, despising the shame, uncovered for the elect) — App. A1
Sharpest doctrine produces the widest arms (Ch. 30 thesis) — Ch. 30, Epilogue
Sign of the New Covenant (Spirit, not water) — Ch. 22
Mode of baptism (immersion/sprinkling, matter of conscience, no clear NT prescription) — Ch. 22
Paedobaptism vs. credobaptism (both miss the point; the sign is the Spirit, not the water) — Ch. 22
Sacrament (dual usage — rejected sacerdotal sense vs. affirmed Latin sense of sacred embodied rendering) — Ch. 10, Ch. 22, App. A5, App. A6, App. N (Costume 8), App. R (glossary)
Sovereignty of God — Prologue, Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 14, Ch. 21, Ch. 30
Syllogism without Scripture (as Platonic critique method) — App. N (Costume 20)
Spiritual warfare (demons as authored instruments, not rogue agents) — Ch. 13, App. A2
Study to be quiet (humility, the posture of the Spirit-led life) — Ch. 21
Substance dualism (rejected as Plato’s metaphysical baggage; framework keeps Scripture’s body-soul language without the two-stuffs claim) — App. A4, App. I, App. J, App. N
Substitutionary atonement / substitutionary work of Christ / Christ as surety (substitution as the architecture all atonement aspects sit inside) — Ch. 6, Ch. 15, App. A1
Tabernacle (type of Christ as meeting place between God and His people) — Ch. 9
Tetragrammaton (YHWH, the unspeakable Name) — App. A1
Theophanies / Angel of the LORD (pre-incarnate Christ) — Ch. 6
Three divisions of the law (moral/ceremonial/civil, rejected) — Ch. 20
Tier list of sins (rejected) — Ch. 14
Tritheism (rejected) — Ch. 6
TULIP — Ch. 5, Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 19, Ch. 25 (full mapping in “TULIP in the Framework”), App. A11
TULIP in the Framework (five points mapped to operational idealism) — Ch. 25
Two covenants running simultaneously (OT) — Ch. 8
Two wills of God (rejected) — App. A3
Type / typology (Old Testament rendering of Christ at lower resolution; antitype is the higher-resolution rendering) — Ch. 9
Unforgivable sin — App. A3
“Upright” does not mean sinless (Ecclesiastes 7:29, Job 1:8) — Ch. 11
“Very good” means purposeful, not sinless (Genesis 1:31) — Ch. 11
Vessels of wrath and vessels of mercy (both necessary) — Ch. 5, Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Virgin birth — Ch. 6
Visible church vs. invisible church distinction (rejected) — Ch. 23
Analog thought, digital rendering — App. H
Application layer (conscious mind) — Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 25, App. E
Augustinian foundation (every Reformed system since builds on it; this book lays new ground) — App. I, App. J
“Bit from God” (inversion of Wheeler’s “it from bit”) — Ch. 3
Bridge to the secular reader (scientist/programmer) — Ch. 1, Ch. 3, App. G, App. I, App. J
Caterpillar/butterfly analogy (elect sinner to glorified saint) — Ch. 12, Ch. 29
Center-and-spoke architecture (vs. Clark’s line) — App. I
Consciousness as fundamental, not emergent — Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 25
Creature IS the nature (not “has” a nature) — Ch. 14
Curator, the (application layer managing exposure) — Ch. 28, App. L
Derivation map — App. B
Discernment (which channel sent this feeling?) — App. E
Entanglement, quantum (one thought, two locations) — App. H
Epistemological vs. ontological starting point — App. I, App. J
Filmstrip analogy (eternity and time) — Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 21
Firmware flash (regeneration) — Ch. 12, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 25
Fortress vs. bridge (Clark’s closed system vs. the framework’s on-ramp) — App. I
Four-layer model (hardware, firmware, OS, application) — Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 21, Ch. 28, App. E, App. J
Hardware interrupt (Spirit’s direct intervention) — Ch. 17, App. E
Neuroscience mapping (amygdala 12ms, prefrontal 500ms, insula, anterior cingulate) — Ch. 17, App. E
“Held, not trapped” (operational idealism’s distinctive) — App. J
Higher resolution (rendering upgrade) — Ch. 6, Ch. 9, Ch. 28, Ch. 29
Law of Plato — Ch. 1, Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 13, Ch. 18, Ch. 30, App. N
Materialism (rejected as ontological foundation) — App. J
Metacognition (thinking about thinking, uniquely human) — Ch. 17
Modified Covenant Theology (MCT) — Preface, Ch. 5, Ch. 8, Ch. 15, Ch. 22, App. C
MCT 13 Distinctives (comparison chart with CT, DT, NCT) — App. C
Mud and spit (John 9, the Lawgiver breaking the Pharisees’ hedge) — App. A1
Operational idealism — Preface, Ch. 1, Ch. 10, Ch. 20, App. I, App. J, App. O
Permission is sovereignty with plausible deniability — Ch. 5
Philosophy generated by theology (reversed direction) — App. J
Quantum mechanics / quantum realm (rendering engine at the micro level) — Ch. 3, App. H
Quantum realm as God’s thoughts (physics confirms but cannot prove) — Ch. 3, App. H
Realism, Reformed (critique of, the gap, secondary causes, permission language) — App. J
“This is panentheism” (Horton/Hodge objection answered: identity vs. authorship vs. extension) — App. J
“Why the rest falls apart” (materialism, realism, traditional idealism all collapse; only operational idealism holds) — App. J
The peace of zero distance (what each ontology produces: numbness, trust-across-gap, escape, or zero distance) — Ch. 1, App. J
Peace comparison chart (materialism vs. realism vs. traditional idealism vs. operational idealism) — Ch. 1, App. J
Future-readiness chart (how each metaphysical floor handles AI consciousness, mind uploading, transporter scenarios, genetic engineering, posthuman augmentation, extraterrestrial intelligence, simulation hypothesis, quantum consciousness, hard problem of consciousness; only operational idealism holds across all scenarios) — App. J (Future-Readiness section). Multiverse handled separately in App. H (Quantum Rendering).
Rendering (physical world as rendering of God’s thought) — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 9, Ch. 29
Rendering downgrade (the fall as rendering parameter change) — Ch. 3
Rendering engine analogy (video game rendering) — Ch. 3, Ch. 28, Ch. 29
Rendering parameters (death, thorns, pain, entropy) — Ch. 3
Renderingism / renderingist (anti-substantialist anthropology underneath the dichotomist label; one person, two registers, no substances to count) — App. A4
Status vs. awareness (positional perfection + deepening awareness) — Ch. 18
Substance and formality table (universal pattern) — Ch. 10
Superposition (the unrendered thought) — App. H
The Curse and the Condemnation (curse of law vs. condemnation of gospel) — Ch. 12, Ch. 28
“The field is Christ” — Epilogue
The glass (curator concept, barrier between self and world) — Preface, Ch. 28, App. L, App. A1
The verse nobody touched (tradition walking past Paul’s metaphors as illustration instead of architecture) — Ch. 28
Scriptural seeds of the framework’s vocabulary (filmstrip, rendering engine, firmware, boot parameters, glass all sitting in the text) — Ch. 2, Ch. 28, App. E
Independent precedents (Polanyi, Gendlin, Damasio, LeDoux, McGilchrist, Edwards, Smith, arrived at similar insights in separate fields) — App. E
Golden calf as preview of the reprobate final state (Exodus 32:25 miniature) — Ch. 28
The infinite loop (Author dying inside His own thought) — Ch. 6
The book as therapy (what writing it did to the author) — Epilogue
“I am a thought” (living inside the ontology, not subscribing to it; the character noticing the prose) — Epilogue
Subscribing vs. inhabiting (sovereign grace as membership card vs. air you breathe) — Epilogue
“The Gatekeepers” (parable of the final state, three saints and a gatekeeping pastor) — App. L
A New Reformation (five solas without tradition) — App. M
Five solas (derived from Scripture, no confession required) — App. M
“The Reformers said ‘sola’ and meant ‘mostly’” (the Reformation that did not finish) — App. M
Sola Scriptura without confessional override — App. M
Sola Fide without vocabulary requirements — App. M
Sola Gratia without common grace or duty faith — App. M
Solus Christus without third use of the law — App. M
Soli Deo Gloria including the authorship of evil — App. M
Reformation completed by a programmer from the post office — App. M
Three groups in final creation (elect angels, elect humans, reprobate) — Ch. 12, Ch. 28
Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) as divine pedagogy — Ch. 16
Uncertainty principle (rendering constraints) — App. H
Unified field theory (the sentence as) — Epilogue
Theory of everything (physics cannot find it because they’re trying to unify two layers of one rendering) — App. H
Wave function collapse — App. H
Author and characters (God and creation) — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 11
Big Bang theory — App. A1
Seed grown to tree (covenant authored in time, constraints lifted at resurrection, same covenant flourishing at full height) — Ch. 29, App. A6
Calculator and mathematician (AI and image of God) — App. A9
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
Courthouse vs. cross (not legislating regeneration) — Ch. 14
Director’s chair (Christ’s session at the right hand) — Ch. 6
Donkey (Balaam’s donkey as temporary rendering upgrade) — App. A9
Fig leaves (first act of the curator, Genesis 3) — Ch. 28
Firmware flash (regeneration) — Ch. 16
Fossil record as backstory (not deception) — Ch. 4
Hospital (church as hospital, “I’m a patient too”) — Ch. 23
Joshua 22 altar (misunderstanding between brethren) — Ch. 30
Malware and quarantine (demons and Satan’s fate) — App. A2
Mechanic vs. manufacturer (therapy vs. regeneration) — Ch. 17
Novel/story (God as Author of reality) — Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch. 11, Ch. 13
Oak tree illustration (doctrines of grace as root system) — Ch. 30
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
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
Shadow and substance (ceremony and covenant) — Ch. 10, Ch. 22, Ch. 29
Signature vs. surface (recognition in resurrection) — Ch. 29
Simulation hypothesis (secular version of idealism) — Ch. 1, Ch. 3, App. A11, App. G, App. J
Sinai overlay — Ch. 8
Television and signal (brain and consciousness) — Ch. 17
“There but for the grace of God go I” (imprecise but essential) — Ch. 12, Ch. 14
Trip planning (supralapsarianism) — Ch. 5
Watch/watchmaker (deism, rejected) — Ch. 1
Whitewashed tombs (Pharisees) — Ch. 14
AI and eschatology (speculation, clearly labeled) — Ch. 27
AI consciousness — App. A9
AI, Christianity in the age of (the machine is a frame, not the Shepherd) — App. A9
Alcohol (moderation vs. drunkenness, mastery principle) — Ch. 21, App. A7
Altar calls / decisionism (rejected) — Ch. 19
Antinomianism (redefined) — Ch. 20
Apostasy (elect cannot) — App. A3
Baptism (infant vs. believer) — Ch. 22
Baptism, mode of — Ch. 22
Baptism of the Holy Spirit — App. A4
Baptismal regeneration (rejected) — Ch. 22
Bible translation issues (NIV/ESV softening Isaiah 45:7) — Ch. 13
Bible translations (rendering events, multi-glass reading, KJV preferred but not only) — App. A1
King James Version (cadence, theological precision, good glass not THE glass) — App. A1, App. N (Costume 23)
KJV-Onlyism (rejected as one-translation Form) — App. A1, App. N (Costume 23)
Textus Receptus and critical text (both preserved what the Author meant to preserve) — App. A1, App. N (Costume 23)
Capital punishment — App. A8
Cannabis (framework’s mastery principle applied) — App. A7
Birth control (preventing conception vs. destroying life) — App. A7
Cessationism / continuationism — App. A4
Charismatic gifts — App. A4
Church government / polity — Ch. 23
Clerical titles / “Reverend” (rejected for men) — App. A5
Communication with the dead — App. A9
Communion / Lord’s Supper (as celebration, agape feast) — Ch. 10
Comforting the grieving — App. A10
Confusion vs. rebellion (Arminians using inherited language) — Ch. 30
Corporal punishment / the rod (shepherd’s guide, not beating stick) — App. A7
Tower of Babel (judgment on uniformity, scattering as mercy) — App. A1
Many thoughts and one thought (the unity of God’s mind) — App. A1
Head and heart dichotomy (rejected as artificial) — App. A4
Great Commission and itinerant preaching (not “missions” in the modern sense) — App. A5
Deriving instead of defending (the framework’s posture toward apologetics) — App. A5
Number of the beast (666, symbolic, not literal) — App. A6
Great apostasy (recurring pattern, not a single end-times event) — App. A6
Creation debate as idol — Ch. 4
Creeds and confessions (unsigned) — App. A5
Degrees of reward in heaven (rejected, Christ is the reward) — App. A3
Divorce and remarriage — App. A7
Drugs / pharmakeia (medical vs. recreational vs. spiritual) — App. A7
Drunkenness (loss of faculty, sin) — App. A7
Egalitarianism (rejected) — Ch. 24
Fatalism (distinguished from sovereignty) — Ch. 21
Free will (rejected in libertarian sense) — Ch. 2, Ch. 11, Ch. 19
Full preterism (rejected as heresy) — App. A6
Gatekeeping (sovereign grace people deciding who is in/out, doctrinal exams as replacement for Spirit’s work) — Ch. 30, App. A, App. A10, App. L (“The Gatekeepers” parable), App. N (Costume 20), App. O (why gatekeeping dissolves once doctrine is relocated beneath ontology)
Head coverings (hair as the covering, conscience) — Ch. 24
Heresy hunting (as Platonic critique method) — Ch. 30, App. A, App. A10, App. K, App. L, App. N (Costume 20)
Human responsibility (rejected; accountability affirmed) — Ch. 19
Hyper-Calvinism (label addressed) — Prologue, Ch. 19, Ch. 30, App. I, App. K, App. N (Costume 20)
Infants who die (all go to heaven) — App. A3
License vs. liberty (distinction) — Ch. 21
Lordship salvation (critique of) — Ch. 26
Mentally disabled — App. A3
Music in worship — App. A5
Nephilim — App. A2
Newspaper exegesis (critique of) — Ch. 27
Offer of the gospel (rejected; proclamation affirmed) — Ch. 19, App. K
Ordained does not mean approved — Ch. 14
Ordination — App. A5
Other religions — App. A9
Paid preachers — App. A5
Pharmakeia (drug use for spiritual experience, condemned) — App. A7
Quiverfull movement (rejected) — App. A7
Humanae Vitae (Catholic contraception position, rejected) — App. A7
Premarital sex (fornication vs. pre-ceremony covenant claim) — App. A7
Pornography (simulated intimacy, ceremony without substance) — App. A7
Masturbation (four cases, framework-derived, conscience territory) — App. A7
Onan misreading (Genesis 38 not about masturbation) — App. A7
Euthanasia (active, PAS, withdrawal, palliative care distinguished) — App. A7
Physician-assisted suicide (rejected) — App. A3
Death with dignity movement (rejected) — App. A7
Gun control and self-defense (framework position) — App. A8
Self-defense (Exodus 22, Luke 22, 1 Tim 5:8) — App. A8
Dual sword principle (state’s sword and household’s sword) — App. A8
Pacifism (progressive rejection of all force, refused) — App. A8
UFOs and aliens (interdimensional/demonic hypothesis for hard cases) — App. A8
Extraterrestrial life (framework ontology can accommodate but does not require) — App. A8
Ancient astronauts / space brothers religion (rejected) — App. A8
Tobacco use (cigarettes, cigars, vaping, pouches; mastery principle) — App. A7
Vaping and e-cigarettes (engineered for teen addiction, framework treatment) — App. A7
Nicotine pouches (mastery principle without body-destruction argument) — App. A7
Spurgeon and tobacco (historical Christian record on cigars) — App. A7
Obesity and gluttony (the sin is mastery, not body size) — App. A7
Gluttony (Scripture’s named sin, distinct from body size) — App. A7
Modern food environment (industrially engineered hyper-palatable products) — App. A7
GLP-1 medications (Ozempic and the appetite-mastery question) — App. A7
Eating disorders (bondage to food in opposite direction) — App. A7
Fat acceptance movement (rejected as denial of body’s moral weight) — App. A7
Fat-shaming (refused; size is not the moral variable) — App. A7
Prohibitionism (rejected as Platonic) — App. A7
Prosperity gospel (rejected) — App. A8
Religious relics and physical worship (rejected) — App. A5
Second ransom (rejected) — Ch. 12
Shibboleths — App. A10
Simulation theory incompatible with materialism and realism — Ch. 3, App. A11
Suicide — App. A3
Those who never hear the gospel — App. A3
Tithing (not required) — App. A8
Tongues (languages, not ecstatic utterance) — App. A4
Transubstantiation (rejected) — Ch. 10
War and pacifism — App. A8
Women in ministry / women preaching — Ch. 24
Young earth vs. old earth — Ch. 4
Almeida, Milton — Acknowledgments
Alvord, David — Acknowledgments
Aquinas, Thomas (act and potency, subsumed by framework) — App. A1
Aristotle (act and potency) — App. A1
Apologists, Greek Christian (Justin Martyr et al., identifying Christ with the Greek Logos) — App. N
Bahnsen, Greg — Ch. 25
Baker, Kyle — Acknowledgments
Beckett, Eileen (Pristine Grace contributor, the only woman published on the site, lived the tenderness Ch. 30 describes, deceased) — Acknowledgments
Bell, Donnie — Acknowledgments
Berkeley, George (subjective idealism) — App. J
Berkhof, Louis — App. I
Bishop, David — Acknowledgments
Bradford, John — Ch. 12
Brinsmead, Robert (Present Truth magazine, 1970s; freed serious men from law-based traditions) — Acknowledgments
Brown, Larry — Acknowledgments
Byrd, Jim — Acknowledgments
Calvin, John — Ch. 27, Acknowledgments
Cappadocians (fourth-century Neoplatonic theologians of the Eastern tradition) — App. N
Carpenter, Marc (Outside the Camp ministry; negative-example teacher) — Acknowledgments
Clark, Gordon — Prologue, Ch. 5, Ch. 16, App. D, Acknowledgments
Clement of Alexandria (second-to-third-century Middle Platonist Christian fusionist) — App. N
Coleman, Aaron — Acknowledgments
Collier, Monty — Acknowledgments
Covington, Mary — Acknowledgments
Crabtree, Bruce — Acknowledgments
Cunningham, Chris — Acknowledgments
Darby, John Nelson — Ch. 27
Dead Sea Scrolls / Qumran / Essenes — Prologue, Ch. 5, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, App. F
Dickmann, Mike — Acknowledgments
Dietz, Drew and Melinda (close friends, retired sovereign grace pastor) — Acknowledgments
Eastern Orthodoxy (view of hell, same presence) — Ch. 28
Damasio, Antonio (somatic marker hypothesis, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
Edwards, Jonathan (idealist leanings; Religious Affections as precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E, App. J
Ella, George (Strict Baptist historian, biographer of Gadsby) — Acknowledgments
Erkel, Darryl — Ch. 23
Fortner, Don — Ch. 30, Acknowledgments, App. A3 (prevenient grace formulation quoted)
Gadsby, William — Preface, Acknowledgments
Galatian Judaizers — Ch. 20
Gendlin, Eugene (felt sense, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
Gerety, Sean (Clarkian, Trinity Foundation) — Acknowledgments
Gill, John — Prologue, Preface, Ch. 30, Acknowledgments, App. A1 (made sin / mass of sin / 2 Cor 5:21 commentary)
Gonzalez, Gabriel — Acknowledgments
Gregory of Nyssa — Ch. 28
Grudem, Wayne — App. I
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (absolute idealism) — App. J
Hein, Rick (Jubilee Church elder, 2001 removal) — Acknowledgments
Higby, Bob (theological DNA, supralapsarian architect, ecclesiological mentor, the bricks and the cathedral) — Prologue, Preface, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 12, Ch. 22, App. A, App. C, App. D, App. F, App. K, App. R, Epilogue, Acknowledgments
Higby, Dan (Bob’s son) — Acknowledgments
Higby, Ruth (Bob’s wife) — Acknowledgments
Hoeksema, Herman — App. I
Holbrook, Tammi and Chip — Acknowledgments
Huckle, Roger — Acknowledgments
Huss, Jan — Ch. 27
Ilyasov, Renat — Acknowledgments
Isaac the Syrian — Ch. 28
James, William (Principles of Psychology, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
James, Tim — Acknowledgments
Johnson, James — Acknowledgments
Johnson, Phil — Prologue, Ch. 5, Ch. 19, App. K, Acknowledgments
Johnson, Ray — Acknowledgments
Jubilee Church (St. Louis, MO; Newfrontiers affiliate; 2001 removal of Brandan) — Acknowledgments
Justin Martyr (second-century Apologist, identified Christ with the Greek Logos) — App. N
Kahneman, Daniel (System 1 / System 2, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
Keil, Abe and Carol — Acknowledgments
Kickert, Ray — Acknowledgments
Kinney, Joe — Acknowledgments
Knox, John — Ch. 27
Krall, Mike — Acknowledgments
Lanferman, John (Jubilee Church elder, 2001 removal) — Acknowledgments
Laurienzo, Nicholas — Acknowledgments
LeDoux, Joseph (The Emotional Brain, 12ms amygdala, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
Lindsey, Hal (Late Great Planet Earth) — Ch. 27
Lovins, Nick (longtime friend and encourager) — Acknowledgments
Luther, Martin — Prologue, Ch. 12, Ch. 26, Ch. 27, Acknowledgments
Mahan, Henry (“mercy, not mechanics”) — Ch. 30
Manichaeism (rejected) — Ch. 12
McGilchrist, Iain (The Master and His Emissary, divided brain, precedent for pre-propositional) — App. E
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (Phenomenology of Perception, pre-reflective consciousness) — App. E
Miklosik, Craig — Acknowledgments
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, direct citations (I.24-26 the theodicy mission “justify the ways of God to men”; I.262-263 “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven”; V.659-666 the inherited and elaborated cause of Satan’s fall; V.710 the “third part of Heaven’s host”) — Ch. 13, App. S
Milton at the end of the fourteen-century lineage (did not invent the angelic-fall narrative; gave it its dominant literary form) — Ch. 13
Lineage of the Lucifer myth (Plato, 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, Life of Adam and Eve, Origen, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Caedmon, Anglo-Saxon Genesis B, Vita Adae et Evae, mystery plays, Aquinas, Milton) — Ch. 13, App. S
Mowrey, Bryan (Jubilee Church small group leader at 2001 removal; now Confluence/Newfrontiers US lead apostle) — Acknowledgments
Murrell, Conrad — Acknowledgments
Musk, Elon (simulation hypothesis) — App. G
Newton, John (hymnist, “Amazing Grace”) — Acknowledgments
Nibert, Todd — Acknowledgments
Nietzsche — Ch. 17
O’Nanski, Scott — Acknowledgments
Origen (third-century Middle Platonist Christian at Alexandria) — App. N
Parker, Bill (sovereign grace pastor) — Acknowledgments
Pedersen, John — Acknowledgments
Pendleton, Paula — Acknowledgments
Phillips, Stanley — Acknowledgments
Philpot, J.C. (Strict Baptist writer) — Acknowledgments
Piper, John (What We Believe About the Five Points of Calvinism — the paper Bryan handed Brandan; infralapsarian; pastoral warmth) — Acknowledgments
Poe, Sam (Jubilee Church elder, 2001 removal) — Acknowledgments
Platonic Floor, the (master diagnosis, 23 costumes, floor swap to operational idealism) — App. N; positive counterpart (the floor under this book) — App. O
Floor under this book, the (the positive counterpart to Appendix N; ontological floor of operational idealism; doctrine relocated beneath the Author’s rendering) — App. O
Plotinus (Neoplatonist, corrupted Plato’s idealism into realist hierarchy) — App. J, App. N
Polanyi, Michael (Personal Knowledge, The Tacit Dimension, closest philosophical precedent to pre-propositional) — App. E
Pseudo-Dionysius (fifth-to-sixth-century Neoplatonic systematizer of the Eastern tradition) — App. N
Potts, Ian — Acknowledgments
Poythress, Vern (information theory and theology) — App. J
Price, Scott — Acknowledgments
Primitive Baptists (oneness position, treated sympathetically) — Ch. 6
Rages, Nathan — Acknowledgments
Reagan, Cassie — Acknowledgments
Robbins, John (Trinity Foundation, Clark interpreter) — Acknowledgments
Ruell, Julie — Acknowledgments
Ryle, J.C. — Acknowledgments
Scofield Reference Bible — Ch. 27
Shepard, Gary — Acknowledgments
Shofstahl, Charles — Acknowledgments
Smith, James K. A. (Desiring the Kingdom, Imagining the Kingdom, desiring creatures) — App. E
Smith, Jason and Alissa — Acknowledgments
Smith, Mikal — Acknowledgments
Sproul, R.C. (Reformation Study Bible; example of love toward those who differ) — Acknowledgments
Spurgeon, Charles (pastoral heart, not theological influence) — Preface, Ch. 30, Acknowledgments
Swindoll, Chuck (pastoral heart, boot parameters from childhood) — Preface, Ch. 30, Acknowledgments
Tate, Frank — Acknowledgments
Terrell, Joe — Acknowledgments
Thomism / Thomist metaphysics (act and potency) — App. A1
Trav — Acknowledgments
Trinity Foundation (Gordon Clark’s legacy publisher) — Acknowledgments
Tussey, Brandon — Acknowledgments
Tyndale, William — Ch. 27
Warmack, Richard — Acknowledgments
Washer, Paul — Acknowledgments
Wells, Norm — Acknowledgments
Wetzel, John — Acknowledgments
Wiese, Chuck — Acknowledgments
Winegar, Greg (closest friend since 2005, designed the book cover, pristinegrace.org community member) — Acknowledgments
Winegar, Pam (Greg’s wife) — Acknowledgments
Wycliffe, John — Ch. 27
Zwingli (memorialism) — Ch. 10
Canons of Dort — App. A5 (referenced indirectly via “Dort on particular redemption”)
Heidelberg Catechism — App. A5
London Baptist Confession — App. A5
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.
Apollos — Ch. 24
Balaam — Ch. 15, App. A
Daughters of Philip — Ch. 24
Diotrephes (3 John — “loveth to have the preeminence… prating against us with malicious words,” model of false-teacher calling-out) — Ch. 30
Emmaus disciples — Ch. 29
Esther — Ch. 26
Hagar — Ch. 6
Isaac and Rebekah — Ch. 10
Jesus Christ — throughout; see Incarnation, Hypostatic union, Prophet Priest King, Active obedience, Resurrection body, etc.
Job — Ch. 14, App. A
Lydia — App. A
Joseph (Genesis) — App. A (referenced in dreams section)
Judas — App. A9
Manoah — Ch. 6
Mary Magdalene (at the tomb) — Ch. 29
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, Epilogue
Paul’s dungeon (2 Timothy 4:16-17, “no man stood with me”) — Epilogue
Pharaoh — App. A9
Philippian jailer — Ch. 30
Phebe (Phoebe) — Ch. 24
Priscilla — Ch. 24
Publican (Luke 18) — Ch. 14
Samson — App. A
Thief on the cross (paradigm case of the framework’s soteriology — faith alone, sovereign election, no duty faith, immediate assurance, conscious intermediate state all rendered in Luke 23:39-43) — Ch. 6, Ch. 22, Ch. 23, Ch. 30, App. A3, App. A6, App. A10, App. A12, App. M
Thomas (doubting) — Ch. 29
Anger — Ch. 17 (old firmware channel)
Animals in the framework (ontology, rendering states, eating meat, reverence) — App. A1
Apologetics (limited role of) — Ch. 25
Addiction — App. A11
Aging and losing capacity — App. A11
Anxiety about the future — App. A11
Assurance (faith IS assurance, doubt as layer conflict) — Ch. 21
Church discipline — App. A5
Church membership (formality, not substance) — Ch. 23, Epilogue
Clergy, no authority over conscience — Epilogue
Classical education / trivium — Ch. 16
Tenderness (as greater gift, women carry naturally, Christ modeled) — Ch. 24
Dating / relationships — Ch. 10 (marriage as covenant)
Child with disabilities — App. A11
Depression / anxiety — Ch. 17 (feelings architecture; therapy discussion), App. A11
Death, fear of — App. A11
Death of a child — App. A11
Degrees of punishment vs. degrees of grace — Ch. 14
Forgiveness — App. A7 (Lord’s Prayer; divorce and remarriage)
Fear of man — App. A11
Forgiveness (when they won’t apologize) — App. A11
Gender roles — Ch. 24
Giving (voluntary, not mandated) — App. A8
Government and politics — App. A8
God’s silence (when God feels silent) — App. A11
Grace, extending to other believers — Ch. 30
Guilt after sin — App. A11
Grief and lament — App. A10
Grief, comforting the grieving — App. A10
Heaven and hell (same reality, different firmware) — Ch. 28, App. J
Hurt by the church — App. A11
Liberty from institutional authority — Epilogue
Loneliness — App. A11
Lord’s Prayer — App. A9
Joy in the sovereign grace world (the missing fruit) — Preface, Ch. 21, Ch. 30, Epilogue
Marriage and submission (Eph 5:22-33, husband’s heavier burden, abuse voids the claim, direct word to men and women) — App. A7
Marriage bed mutuality (1 Cor 7:3-5, mutual obligation, mutual ownership, abstention as fraud) — App. A7
Marriage, struggling — App. A, App. A7
Marriage supper of the Lamb (the eschatological feast the Lord’s Supper renders) — Ch. 10, Ch. 28, App. L
Marital sexuality and the eschatological bed (the bed as preview of the marriage supper of the Lamb) — Ch. 10, App. A6 (in Eschatology section)
Living as worship in the new creation (heaven is bigger than throne-worship) — App. A6 (Eschatology section)
Covenant companion (the wife of thy covenant, Malachi 2:14, as the biblical term for the eternal spousal bond) — Ch. 29, App. A6 (Eschatology section), App. N (Costume 22)
Covenant companion at the feast (Ch. 29 section title; the framework’s primary reading of marriage in the new creation) — Ch. 29
Equal unto the angels (Luke 20:36, isangeloi; the framework reads the equivalence at the specified predicates of immortality and resurrection-sonship, not total state-identity with angels) — App. A6 (Harder Passages subsection)
Two Readings Compared (side-by-side chart of the traditional Reformed reading and the framework’s reading of marriage-in-the-new-creation, across Matt 22, Luke 20, Gen 2, Mal 2, Matt 19, Eph 5, Rom 7, 1 Cor 7, Rev 19; named strain points in both readings; comparative pastoral outworkings) — App. A6
Comparative exegesis / comparative strain (both readings require interpretive work; the framework names its strain; the tradition’s strain is invisible to its substrate) — App. A6 (The Two Readings Compared subsection)
Swap the floor, re-derive (the book’s master method: find the doctrine, find the ontology, swap realism for operational idealism, re-derive the doctrine on the new floor) — App. J (The Method subsection)
Method dependency (eschatology depends on marriage-under-operational-idealism; surface doctrinal disputes are ontology-depth disputes) — App. J, App. A6
Marriage persisting into the new creation (Matthew 22 answers the Sadducees’ levirate trap, not a covenant-dissolution metaphysic; now held as conviction, not speculation) — Ch. 29, App. A6 (Eschatology section), App. N (Costume 22)
Legal register vs. ontological register (in marriage; the law of marriage binds the living per Rom 7:2 / 1 Cor 7:39; the ontological one-flesh union the Author authored is not contractually terminated by death) — App. A6 (On Remarriage After the Death of a Spouse)
Remarriage after the death of a spouse (Scripture explicitly permits; first covenant persists ontologically; second covenant is real, blessed, and also persists; the Author reconciles the sequence at the feast) — App. A6
Till death do us part (the Platonic smuggle in the Christian wedding vow; medieval sacramental dissolution of the covenant at the grave; Sarum Use → Book of Common Prayer → 475 years of English-speaking catechesis) — App. N (Costume 22)
Sarum Use / Book of Common Prayer 1549 and 1662 (origin of the till-death-do-us-part language; the verb depart originally meant separate) — App. N (Costume 22)
Wedding vow, reform of (the living covenant can be amended when the framework reveals a Platonic layer in the inherited liturgy; Brandan and Angie’s April 2026 amendment) — App. N (Costume 22), App. A6
True covenant vs. legal contract (the Author’s joining is what makes a marriage a covenant; the legal certificate alone does not produce one; some legal marriages were never Author-joined and do not persist into the new creation) — App. A6 (On the Covenant Companion in the New Creation)
Non-covenant marriages (marriages of force, fraud, pure convenience, or pure social and financial arrangement; legal binding ends at death and there was nothing more to render; framework refuses to give individual saints license to declare their own marriage non-covenantal) — App. A6
Pros and cons of the covenant companion position (twenty-one-row chart of pastoral, theological, exegetical, and personal-cost categories comparing the traditional and framework readings; honest naming of strain on both sides) — App. A6 (What Each Position Offers and What Each Position Costs)
Mormon eternal marriage, distinguished from (the framework’s eternal covenant doctrine is non-sacerdotal — no temple ceremony required; the Author authors the eternity, not a priesthood holder; the difference between the two doctrines is the entire mechanism) — App. A6 (Objections and Answers)
Believing spouse and unbelieving spouse, eschatology of (the bond ends at the seam where the reprobate is excluded from the new creation; the believing spouse’s love and years are not dissolved; Rev. 21:4 as consolation; framework refuses to soften the loss while affirming the consolation) — App. A6 (Objections and Answers)
Heaven enlarged (feast, reigning, intimacy, work, throne integrated) — App. A6
God’s delight in the saints’ enjoyment — App. A6
The reduction of heaven to disembodied choir (Plato in the floorboards) — App. A6
Premarital sex (pastoral answer) — App. A7
Alcohol and drug use (pastoral, the mastery principle) — App. A7
Birth control (pastoral, stewardship vs. sovereignty) — App. A7
Singleness (as gift, Paul’s preference, Christ single) — App. A7
Pornography (redirection of the craving for intimacy) — App. A7
Masturbation (pastoral, four cases, refusing legalism and license) — App. A7
Dying well / approaching death (pastoral) — App. A11
Watching a loved one die (pastoral for the family) — App. A11
Defending the household (Paul’s 1 Tim 5:8 as physical protection) — App. A8
Paul likely married (historical note, Sanhedrin membership, 1 Cor 7:8) — App. A7
Family size / stewardship — App. A7
Infertility (God opens and closes wombs) — App. A7
Sexual shame — App. A11
Mental health / therapy — Ch. 17
Modesty — Ch. 21
Music (Brandan plays trombone in three bands) — Preface
No marriage in heaven — see Covenant companion at the feast; Matthew 22:30; Till death do us part
Parenting — Ch. 16 (trivium, Cole’s classical education), App. A7
Pastoral care for the struggling — Ch. 2, Ch. 14, Ch. 18, Ch. 20, App. A11
Practical applications of the sentence (the bedside) — App. A11 (Section XII)
Patriarchy — Ch. 24 (creation order; complementarianism), App. A7 (weaponization of Eph 5:22 critiqued)
Abuse in marriage (husband’s abuse voids his claim to submission) — App. A7
Submission in marriage — see Marriage and submission
Political engagement — App. A8
Prayer — Ch. 2, Ch. 21, App. A4, App. A7, App. A9, App. A10, App. A11, App. E
Purpose and calling — App. A11
“Why was I born this way?” (authored nature) — Ch. 11, App. A11
Present the truth softly and wait on the Lord — Preface, Prologue, Ch. 14, Ch. 19, Epilogue
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
Stewardship / wealth — App. A8
Study to be quiet (1 Thessalonians 4:11) — Ch. 21
Suffering is not punishment (Christ already bore it) — App. A11
Using theology as a weapon — App. A10
Work / vocation — Preface (Brandan’s career as a programmer)
Genesis 2:7 (dichotomy) — App. A4
Genesis 2:24 (one flesh) — Ch. 10
Genesis 2:25 (naked and were not ashamed — pre-fall absence of shame) — App. A6
Genesis 3:21 (coats of skins — the first atonement as shame-covering by blood) — App. A6
Genesis 6 (Nephilim / flood) — App. A2
Genesis 9 (Noahic covenant, animals) — Ch. 8, App. A
Genesis 17 (Abrahamic covenant) — Ch. 8
Genesis 24 (Isaac and Rebekah) — Ch. 10
Exodus 32:25 (naked unto their shame, preview of reprobate final state) — Ch. 28
Exodus 32:28 (three thousand fell that day) — Ch. 28
Numbers 22:28 (Balaam’s donkey) — App. A9
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 59:10 (the God of my mercy shall prevent me — master text for prevenient grace in the KJV’s go-before sense) — App. A3
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 51:6 (truth in inward parts, hidden part as firmware) — App. E
Psalm 139:16 (members written in thy book, filmstrip scriptural seed) — Ch. 2, Ch. 28
Psalm 147:4 (he names the stars) — Ch. 4
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
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. 7, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13
Isaiah 46:10 (declaring the end from the beginning) — Ch. 1, Ch. 5
Isaiah 47:3 (thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen) — App. A6
Isaiah 64:6 (filthy rags) — Ch. 21
Isaiah 66:24 (worm dieth not, fire not quenched, an abhorring unto all flesh) — App. A6
Jeremiah 17:9 (deceitful heart) — Ch. 17
Jeremiah 31:33 (new covenant, law in inward parts) — Ch. 1, Ch. 7, Ch. 21, App. E
Lamentations 3:21-23 (mercies new every morning, great is thy faithfulness) — App. A
Lamentations 3:38 (evil and good from the Most High) — Ch. 5, Ch. 13
Ezekiel 28 (king of Tyre, not Satan) — Ch. 13
Daniel 9 (timeline to the Messiah) — Ch. 26
Daniel 12:2 (everlasting shame and contempt) — Ch. 28, App. A1
Micah 5:2 (Bethlehem) — Ch. 26
Zechariah 11:12 (thirty pieces of silver) — Ch. 26
Matthew 5:26 (uttermost farthing) — Ch. 28
Matthew 5:48 (be ye perfect) — Ch. 20
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. A5
Matthew 22:30 (Sadducees’ levirate trap; framework reads the verse as refusing new marriages in the resurrection, not as dissolving existing covenants) — Ch. 29, App. A6, App. N (Costume 22)
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 25:46 (everlasting punishment / life eternal — binary verdict with degreed intensity on the punishment side) — App. A6
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 12:47-48 (many stripes vs. few stripes — master text on degrees of judgment by light received) — App. A6
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 19:41-42 (Jesus weeping over Jerusalem — tears proportional to the light) — App. A6
Luke 22:19 (Lord’s Supper) — Ch. 10
Luke 22:42 (not my will, but thine, be done — perfect submission of Christ’s will) — App. A1
Luke 23 (thief on the cross) — Ch. 22, Ch. 23, Ch. 30, App. A10
Luke 23:39-43 (thief on the cross dialogue — sovereign election visible, faith alone rendered starkly, “to day shalt thou be with me in paradise”) — App. A10
Luke 24 (resurrection appearances) — Ch. 29
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 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, Ch. 20, Ch. 30
John 20 (Thomas, Mary) — Ch. 29
Acts 1:9 (ascension) — Ch. 29
Acts 1:11 (He shall so come) — App. A
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 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 (worketh not but believeth) — Ch. 26
Romans 5:19 (obedience of one) — Ch. 15
Romans 5:20 (law entered that offence might abound) — Ch. 20
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 8:16 (Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, firmware-level witness) — App. E
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 8:38-39 (nothing can separate) — Ch. 20, App. A
Romans 9:13 (Jacob have I loved) — App. A11
Romans 9:17 (Pharaoh raised up) — App. A
Romans 10:4 (Christ the end of the law) — Ch. 20
Romans 10:17 (faith by hearing) — Ch. 25
Romans 13 (government and the sword) — App. A
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 2:11 (spirit of man, firmware-level knowledge) — App. E
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, two-directional, architecture of the final state) — Ch. 9, Ch. 28
1 Corinthians 14:26 (every one of you hath) — Ch. 23
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 5:14 (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 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, App. A1
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 5:12 (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 1:4-5 (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 5:18 (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 2:10-11 (every knee shall bow) — Ch. 28
Philippians 2:13 (God worketh in you, both to will and to do) — Ch. 2, Ch. 16, Ch. 18, Ch. 21, Ch. 25, App. E
Philippians 3:20-21 (fashioned like His glorious body) — Ch. 29, App. A
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 2:16-18 (Hymenaeus error) — App. A6
2 Timothy 2:25 (in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves) — Ch. 30
2 Timothy 3:1 (perilous times) — Ch. 27
2 Timothy 3:16 (all Scripture given by inspiration) — Ch. 26
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 10:14 (perfected for ever) — Ch. 18
Hebrews 11:3 (things seen not made of things visible) — Ch. 1, Ch. 3
Hebrews 12:2 (despising the shame — Christ bore the felt shame, not only the physical death) — App. A1
Hebrews 12:14 (follow holiness) — Ch. 18
Hebrews 13:8 (Jesus Christ the same) — Ch. 18
Hebrews 13:17 (obey leaders, hegeomai) — Ch. 23
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 1:7 (blood cleanseth from all sin) — Ch. 14
1 John 2:18 (many antichrists) — App. A6
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
3 John 9-10 (Diotrephes, prating against us with malicious words) — Ch. 30
Revelation 3:18 (white raiment — that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear) — App. A6
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 16:15 (behold I come as a thief — keepeth his garments lest he walk naked, and they see his shame) — App. A6
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
Acknowledgments thank-you list (extended community of theological influences, friends, family, and contributors) — Acknowledgments
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, Acknowledgments, Dedication, Epilogue
Cole, letter to (the book is for you) — Dedication, Epilogue
Coleman, Joyce (mother-in-law, taught faith is simple, deceased) — Acknowledgments
Coleman, Mick and Darlene (parents-in-law) — Acknowledgments
“Enough for Me” (song) — Ch. 30
Kraft, Wayne and Carole (parents, gave Brandan the basis of his theological framework from childhood) — Acknowledgments
OJ (the cat, the gospel in fur) — Preface, App. A
Predestinarian.net — Prologue, Acknowledgments
Pristine Grace / pristinegrace.org / bornagain.net — Prologue, Preface, Ch. 5, Ch. 9, Ch. 12, Ch. 19, Ch. 22, Ch. 30, Epilogue, App. F, App. K
Tithing rejection at age 26 (origin of Brandan’s independence from institutional church) — Preface, Epilogue
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
“If correct doctrine does not save, incorrect doctrine does not damn” — see Ch. 30
“I will present the truth softly and wait on the Lord” — see Preface, Prologue, Epilogue, Ch. 14, Ch. 19
“We are just God’s eternal thoughts collapsed in a moment in time” — see Ch. 2, Epilogue
Clark, Gordon (detailed comparison with Kraft) — App. I
Reformed systems (comparison chart) — App. I
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