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Precedent Reference List (1 of 2)

Sources keyed to case numbers. Patristic sources flagged separately. Recovered from Biblical_Contradictions_Working_Document_v27.md, where this volume's own Category Two and Category Three ranges were themselves left as unresolved placeholders — carried forward here as found rather than silently completed.

Category One

  1. Genealogies — GotQuestions | AiG | Veritas Domain (skeptical). PATRISTIC: Julius Africanus in Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 1.7.
  2. Death of Judas — TGC | AiG | Ehrman. PATRISTIC: Papias in Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3.39.
  3. Who Visited the Tomb — Skeptic's Annotated Bible | Ehrman | Cold-Case Christianity (J. Warner Wallace).
  4. Crucifixion Timing — The Gospel Coalition (Justin Taylor, "The Hour Jesus Was Crucified: Resolving an Apparent Bible Contradiction") | Catholic.com. PATRISTIC: Eusebius (reckoning system).
  5. Inscription on the Cross — Creation.com | ChristianAnswers.net. PATRISTIC: John Chrysostom, Homilies on John.
  6. Did Jesus Carry His Own Cross — AiG ("Who Really Carried the Cross of Jesus?") | Ehrman. PATRISTIC: Origen on Genesis 22 (the Isaac parallel); Chrysostom on John 19.
  7. David's Census Numbers — BibleHub. No strong patristic engagement — primarily a textual-criticism and counting-convention question. Popular apologetic sources generally avoid acknowledging any scribal-error possibility; this analysis names it directly.
  8. Who Incited David's Census — GotQuestions. Popular sources cover the permission/permissive-will distinction adequately at the surface. None engages the Isaiah 10 instrument pattern, the pre-census context of God's anger against Israel, or the Case 3/13 polarity connection.
  9. The Age of Ahaziah — GotQuestions.
  10. The Animals on the Ark — AiG ("Did Noah Bring Fourteen or Seven Animals?").
  11. The Post-Resurrection Appearance Sequence — Third Millennium Ministries.
  12. Peter's Denial and the Rooster — Apologetics Press ("How Many Times Did the Rooster Crow?").
  13. The Temple Cleansing Timing — AiG (two cleansings) | CRI (one event, theologically relocated).
  14. The Sermon Location — BibleStudyTools | AiG.
  15. The Creation of Animals Relative to Adam — AiG ("Do Genesis 1 and 2 Contradict Each Other?").

Category Two

  1. Proverbs 26:4–5 — Answer a Fool / Do Not Answer a Fool — GotQuestions (situational-wisdom reading).
  2. God's Immutability vs. God's Relenting — GotQuestions | Ligonier. PATRISTIC: Augustine, Confessions Book XI.
  3. Faith Alone vs. Faith Plus Works — Ligonier | TGC (Pauline side) | Catholic Answers (Catholic reading).
  4. God Hardening Pharaoh vs. Pharaoh Hardening Himself — GotQuestions. Romans 9:17–18 is the essential NT engagement. PATRISTIC: Augustine's anti-Pelagian writings.
  5. The Two Creation Accounts — BioLogos | BibleProject | AiG (pluperfect reading within a YEC frame the text does not require).
  6. God Commanding Genocide vs. God Is Love — Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster? | Christopher Wright, The God I Don't Understand.
  7. The Last Supper Timing — standard reckoning-system treatments (see Case 1/4); Brown and Jeremias on the Jaubert calendar proposal.
  8. The Cry of Dereliction — Chalcedonian two-natures framework (see Cat 3/3), largely assumed rather than argued in popular treatments. PATRISTIC: Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho (Psalm 22 as messianic).
  9. The Fate of the Unevangelized — John Sanders, No Other Name (inclusivist) | Ronald Nash, Is Jesus the Only Savior? (exclusivist) | Robin Parry, The Evangelical Universalist.
  10. The Synoptic vs. Johannine Portrait of Jesus — Raymond Brown | D.A. Carson | N.T. Wright. PATRISTIC: Clement of Alexandria (John as "the spiritual gospel").
  11. Eternal Security vs. the Apostasy Warnings — Ligonier (Calvinist reading) | Roger Olson (Arminian reading). PATRISTIC: John Owen's commentary on Hebrews.
  12. Old Testament Violence vs. Sermon on the Mount Ethics — C.S. Lewis's reflections on the Psalms | Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?
  13. Solomon's Wisdom and Apostasy — GotQuestions (1 Kings 11 narrative and the Deuteronomy 17 warning).
  14. The Extent of Noah's Flood — AiG (global, flood geology) | BioLogos, John Walton, Tremper Longman (regional reading).
  15. The Nature of Sheol and the Afterlife — GotQuestions | Wikipedia | N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope. PATRISTIC: Origen, Tertullian, Calvin on the Apostles' Creed descent clause.
  16. The Brothers of Jesus and Mary's Perpetual Virginity — GotQuestions | Catholic Answers | New Advent. PATRISTIC: Helvidius; Epiphanius, Panarion; Jerome, Against Helvidius — all three positions are ancient.

Category Three

  1. Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom — Calvin's Institutes Book III (Calvinist) | John Wesley's sermons on free grace (Arminian) | D.A. Carson, Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility (holds both without forcing resolution).
  2. The Trinity — PATRISTIC: the Nicene Creed (381) and the Athanasian Creed; Augustine, De Trinitate (Western); the Cappadocian Fathers (Eastern, three hypostases).
  3. The Two Natures of Christ — PATRISTIC: the Chalcedonian Definition (451); Leo's Tome. Donald Macleod, The Person of Christ, is the most accessible serious modern treatment.
  4. God's Transcendence and God's Immanence — GotQuestions | Ligonier. PATRISTIC: Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius (apophatic tradition). Karl Barth's "wholly other" anchors the 20th-century treatment.
  5. God's Justice and God's Mercy — PATRISTIC: Anselm, Cur Deus Homo; Calvin and John Owen on penal substitution. N.T. Wright's reframing of divine righteousness as covenant faithfulness is the modern counterpoint.
  6. The Already and the Not Yet — Oscar Cullmann, Christ and Time | George Eldon Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament.
  7. Grace and Law — Luther's commentary on Galatians | Calvin's "third use of the law."
  8. Prayer and Providence — P.T. Forsyth, The Soul of Prayer. Grounded in Case 3/14 as the theological foundation.
  9. Eternal Security and Genuine Warning — no separate source base; carries Case 2/11's exegetical treatment into the polarity.
  10. The Cosmic Christ and the Historical Jesus — primarily Pauline (Colossians, Philippians) and Johannine material; no popular-source citation given in the working document.
  11. God's Wrath and God's Love — John Stott, The Cross of Christ (refuses to let either attribute become a metaphor).
  12. The Role of Israel — N.T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God. Romans 11 as the primary text.
  13. God's Sovereignty and the Genuine Reality of Evil — Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom, and Evil | John Hick, Evil and the God of Love | N.T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God | C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain and A Grief Observed.
  14. Time and Eternity in Relation to God — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ("Eternity"). PATRISTIC: Augustine, Confessions Book XI; Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy Book V.
  15. Scripture's Divine and Human Authorship — B.B. Warfield, The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible | Peter Enns, Inspiration and Incarnation | The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978).