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Ris3n Originals

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, a transcendental refutation of atheistic naturalism, the mind as a counter-entropy engine that naturalism cannot ground.
• 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, why the new covenant, on a change of priesthood, releases believers from the Mosaic law while fulfilling it in Christ.
• 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, 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, a compact reference to the five classical arguments for God and how each concludes to a divine attribute.
• 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, 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.

• Argument from Apophatic Convergence
• Argument from the Anomalous Humor Convergence
• Argument from the Beauty-Mathematics Convergence
• Argument from the Confession-Catharsis Convergence
• Argument from the Costly-Signal Convergence
• Argument from the Festival-Feast Convergence
• Argument from the Gift-Economy Convergence
• Argument from the Holy-Place Convergence
• Argument from the Hospitality-Stranger Convergence
• Argument from the Information-Conservation Convergence
• Argument from the Memory-Continuity Convergence
• Argument from the Mirror-Recognition Convergence
• Argument from the Naming Convergence
• Argument from the Narrative-Identity Convergence
• Argument from the Observer-Demand Convergence
• Argument from the One-and-the-Many Convergence
• Argument from the Pre-Given Logos
• Argument from the Promise-Keeping Convergence
• Argument from the Proportionate-Causality Convergence
• Argument from the Question-Asking Asymmetry
• Argument from the Sacrifice-Universality Convergence
• Argument from the Trans-Instinctual Agency Convergence
• Argument from the Universal Burial Convergence
• Argument from the Universal Imagination Convergence
• Argument from the Universal Music Convergence
• Argument from the Universal Storytelling Convergence
• Argument from the Universal Tear-Hierarchy Convergence
• Argument from the Universal Worship Convergence
• Argument from Twin Asymmetries

See also

• Ris3n Arguments, the convergence-argument hub with the shared method and template
• Arguments, the master index of every argument in the codex