Cause Before Symptom

Suspicion must be tested or it becomes accusation. The conviction that Rome removed books from Scripture to protect institutional authority felt plausible, even reasonable. History is filled with institutions guarding power. But plausibility is not proof. So the question was pursued with documents, not assumptions.

Councils were examined. Canon lists were compared. Latin legal formulas were searched. Patristic writings were revie...

The Crown of Cain examines authority not as a political problem or a moral failure, but as a spiritual reality that shapes every life whether acknowledged or not. The book argues that neutrality is an illusion and that obedience often precedes belief, revealing allegiance long before it is consciously chosen. At its center is the contrast between two crowns: one built on survival, control, and continuity without repentance, and the...

Psalms is not a single voice. It is a collection of cries, hymns, confessions, coronations, laments, and declarations carried across generations. Where Job wrestled in private suffering, Psalms gives language to national memory and personal devotion. It teaches the heart how to speak when covenant history becomes prayer.

Here, poetry becomes worship. Anger, mercy, judgment, refuge, kingship, repentance, and praise are sung rather t...

There are moments when righteousness stands without explanation. No covenant land surrounds it. No temple protects it. No national promise secures it. A man stands before heaven with nothing but integrity. What remains when blessing is stripped away reveals more than comfort ever could.

The accusation against Job is not that he sinned. It is that he worships for reward. Remove protection, and devotion will collapse. That is the cla...

Esther is examined as a preservation narrative rather than a restoration narrative. Unlike Ezra and Nehemiah, it contains no temple, no prophet, no miracle, no public repentance, and no explicit naming of God. The book unfolds entirely within exile, under foreign authority, among a people who have survived but are largely assimilated. Its theology is carried not through speech or law, but through restraint, timing, and reversal. Go...

Nehemiah is examined as the book that follows restoration, not the book that initiates it. Alignment with God has already been re-established in Ezra. Nehemiah addresses what happens next: how obedience is protected once mercy has completed its work, how authority functions under pressure, and how boundaries are maintained without collapsing into cruelty or fear. The book does not introduce new theology; it tests whether restored a...

Ezra is not a story of restoration achieved, but of restoration constrained. The exile has already done its work, judgment has already fallen, and return is permitted only under strict covenant order. In both the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox witness and the King James Bible, the book is textually close by design, reflecting a shared concern with legitimacy, law, priesthood, and obedience rather than narrative drama. This examination...

1st & 2nd Chronicles are examined not as a continuation of Kings, but as a deliberate act of remembrance written for a people who have already endured loss. Where Kings explains how collapse unfolded, Chronicles preserves what must survive collapse so restoration can ever be possible. The same history is retold with restraint, omission, and focus, emphasizing identity, worship, priesthood, and covenant continuity rather than po...

First Kings is examined as a disciplined listening exercise rather than a verse-by-verse retelling. In the English Ethiopian edition being used here, First Kings often reads very close to the King James Bible, especially in the opening chapters and many narrative stretches. Because of that, this examination will not pretend differences are present where they are not. Verses that are functionally identical are intentionally omitted,...

Second Samuel follows a king who was chosen through obedience into a reign that must now survive power. This examination does not present David as a hero rising, but as a man tested once authority is centralized and responsibility multiplies. The same God who restrained Israel before kingship remains unchanged as the throne is established, victories accumulate, and failure enters quietly through unchecked desire.

By reading the Eth...

This examination enters the turning point where Israel moves from covenant-governed restraint into demanded kingship. First Samuel does not present a new phase of divine authority, but a revealing moment where God responds to sustained human insistence after warning, delay, and grief. By placing the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox text directly beside the King James witness, the audience is shown how wording, cadence, and sequence shap...

Ruth is not a break from Judges. It is the answer Judges quietly demanded. Where Judges exposed collapse at the level of tribes, leadership, and collective memory, Ruth narrows the frame to show what covenant faithfulness looks like when almost everything else has failed. God does not speak more here. He intervenes less. And yet covenant advances more securely than it did through power, deliverers, or force.

This book does not ex...

What follows is not a story about a violent God or a failed people. It is a record of what happens when covenant is inherited without being remembered, and when freedom is received without discipline to sustain it. Nothing new is introduced here. Everything that unfolds has already been warned about, named, and permitted long before it appears.

Judges does not describe God changing posture. It reveals what becomes visible when re...

Joshua is not a book about God becoming violent. It is a book about promise becoming reality, and about what happens when faith must move from belief into action. The same events appear in both the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox record and the King James Bible, but the way those events are voiced can determine whether Joshua is heard as a story of divine rage and conquest, or as a measured completion of covenant governed by order, res...

Scripture did not arrive in English from the source. It arrived through history, through stewardship, and through explanation. What was preserved in Geʽez was never meant to be exported, and what most of us have worked from was the closest faithful access available, Amharic, carrying the meaning of an older, sealed record.

This does not expose failure or deception. It exposes reality. The Ethiopian tradition protected its sacred la...

Deuteronomy is not repetition caused by delay or failure. It is repetition born of urgency, love, and the knowledge that a people about to enter inheritance are more vulnerable than they were in bondage. Moses speaks knowing he will not cross the Jordan, and his words are shaped by the weight of that knowledge. This book exists to secure covenant memory before freedom reshapes identity, because a people who forget how they were sav...

Numbers is not a book about wandering. It is a book about what happens when a delivered people struggle to trust freedom. The events do not change between the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox record and the King James Bible. The people complain. Leaders fail. Fear spreads. Judgment occurs. The question this examination asks is whether the language used to tell these events shapes God as reactive and angry, or as patient, corrective, and...

Leviticus is where many believers first learn to fear God, not because of what the book contains, but because of how its words have been heard. This is the book that defines holiness, nearness, impurity, sacrifice, and consequence. The way its language is carried determines whether holiness sounds like an impossible standard enforced by threat, or a protective order that allows human beings to live safely in the presence of God.

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Exodus is where God’s power is no longer quiet. What was spoken in the beginning now moves into history through confrontation, deliverance, judgment, and covenant. This is the book where believers first learn how God uses power when oppression stands in the way of life.

Two ancient records preserve this account. They tell the same story of slavery, calling, signs, escape, and encounter. God hears the cry of the oppressed in both....