Methodological Charter: Do Not Go Beyond What Is Recorded
A front-of-book discipline for testing doctrine, tradition, inference, and theological systems without going beyond what is recorded.
Mandate
The governing rule for the web edition: Scripture must be permitted to keep its own order.
Part I — The Command of God Against the Traditions of Men
1. The Sabbath Was Made for Man
A scriptural case against Sabbath abolition and Sunday substitution, examining the Sabbath from creation, commandment, prophetic witness, Christ’s lordship, apostolic practice, first-day texts, Colossians, Romans, Hebrews, and tradition under the FFT witness.
2. You Shall Not Bow Down to Them
A commandment-centered scriptural case against Christianized image-veneration, testing images, icons, relics, statues, incense, kissing, bowing, and prayer toward visible objects under the biblical command not to make, bow down to, or serve them.
3. Choose Life
A Scripture-governed case against fatalistic election-pressure that hollows out God's commands, warnings, repentance calls, endurance passages, and overcomer promises while retaining biblical sovereignty, grace, and election.
4. The Soul That Sins Shall Die
A Scripture-governed case against inherited personal guilt unto damnation before personal sin, distinguishing Adamic mortality and corruption from personal culpability while preserving the universal need for Christ.
Part II — Christ Alone: Mediator, Memorial, and Priesthood Fulfilled
5. One Mediator
A scriptural case against priestcraft and clerical dominion, affirming Christ as the one intermediary, the continuous High Priest, the opened way into the Holies, and the priestly standing of the redeemed while preserving lawful ministry under Christ.
6. Do This in Remembrance of Me
A Scripture-governed case against converting the Lord’s Supper from memorial, participation, proclamation, and covenant remembrance into a repeated sacrifice, priestly offering, adored object, or Eucharistic re-sacrifice.
Part III — One People, One Kingdom, No Sword of Caesar
7. Do Not Divide What Christ Has Joined
A scriptural case against dispensationalism as a controlling system that partitions the people of God, relocates Christ’s commands, and divides what Christ joins in one flock, one body, one Spirit, one hope, one household, one olive tree, and one inheritance in Him.
8. My Kingdom Is Not of This World
A Scripture-governed case against treating Christ’s Kingdom as though it may be advanced by worldly power, coercion, sword, empire, national myth, holy war, forced religion, or state-sponsored ecclesiastical dominance.