# Ris3n Originals

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Original apologetics authored by ris3n: full-length papers and a family of convergence-shaped arguments. Each entry links to the work in its home location in the codex.

## Papers

Full-length papers. Each has a codex page that presents the argument and answers the expected objections; the complete PDF is available from that page (sign-in required to download).

- [The Designed Mind](/codex/the-designed-mind/), a transcendental refutation of atheistic naturalism, the mind as a counter-entropy engine that naturalism cannot ground.
- [Abiogenesis Under the Microscope](/codex/abiogenesis-under-the-microscope/), a scientific and philosophical critique of the claim that life arose from non-life by unguided chemistry.
- [Are Christians Still Under the Law](/codex/are-christians-still-under-the-law/), why the new covenant, on a change of priesthood, releases believers from the Mosaic law while fulfilling it in Christ.
- [Christianity in Africa](/codex/christianity-in-africa/), the historical-apologetic case that Christianity is not a colonial import but an African-rooted faith later distorted and then reclaimed.
- [Defining Chattel Slavery and Biblical Servitude](/codex/defining-chattel-slavery-and-biblical-servitude/), the definitional case that the regulated servitude of the Torah is not the race-based chattel slavery of the modern trade.
- [A Quick-Glance Guide to Aquinas Five Ways](/codex/a-quick-glance-guide-to-aquinas-five-ways/), a compact reference to the five classical arguments for God and how each concludes to a divine attribute.
- [Christian Muslim Defender](/codex/christian-muslim-defender/), a field guide for answering the objections Muslims actually raise, arguing from the prophets and Scripture the Muslim already grants.
- [Dawah to Muslims](/codex/dawah-to-muslims/), a Christian invitation to Muslims that tests Islam's foundations against its own sources and points to the risen Christ.

## Convergence arguments

Original arguments that run a single move: a human universal (worship, burial, music, promise-keeping, storytelling) converges on what Christian theism predicts and naturalism does not. The full set lives under [Ris3n Arguments](/codex/ris3n-arguments/).

- [Argument from Apophatic Convergence](/codex/argument-from-apophatic-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Anomalous Humor Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-anomalous-humor-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Beauty-Mathematics Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-beauty-mathematics-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Confession-Catharsis Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-confession-catharsis-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Costly-Signal Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-costly-signal-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Festival-Feast Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-festival-feast-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Gift-Economy Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-gift-economy-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Holy-Place Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-holy-place-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Hospitality-Stranger Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-hospitality-stranger-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Information-Conservation Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-information-conservation-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Memory-Continuity Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-memory-continuity-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Mirror-Recognition Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-mirror-recognition-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Naming Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-naming-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Narrative-Identity Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-narrative-identity-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Observer-Demand Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-observer-demand-convergence/)
- [Argument from the One-and-the-Many Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-one-and-the-many-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Pre-Given Logos](/codex/argument-from-the-pre-given-logos/)
- [Argument from the Promise-Keeping Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-promise-keeping-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Proportionate-Causality Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-proportionate-causality-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Question-Asking Asymmetry](/codex/argument-from-the-question-asking-asymmetry/)
- [Argument from the Sacrifice-Universality Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-sacrifice-universality-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Trans-Instinctual Agency Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-trans-instinctual-agency-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Universal Burial Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-universal-burial-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Universal Imagination Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-universal-imagination-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Universal Music Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-universal-music-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Universal Storytelling Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-universal-storytelling-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Universal Tear-Hierarchy Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-universal-tear-hierarchy-convergence/)
- [Argument from the Universal Worship Convergence](/codex/argument-from-the-universal-worship-convergence/)
- [Argument from Twin Asymmetries](/codex/argument-from-twin-asymmetries/)

## See also

- [Ris3n Arguments](/codex/ris3n-arguments/), the convergence-argument hub with the shared method and template
- [Arguments](/codex/arguments/), the master index of every argument in the codex