Public source apparatus
The Faith That Holds
A readable route from the book to its sources, Divine Design Framework (DDF) controls, limits, open questions, and exact published snapshot.
What this page is
This page exposes the research trail without loading the reader-facing book with a technical apparatus. It supports inspection and correction; it is not a certificate that every conclusion is correct.
How claims were checked
- Original-language Scripture governs biblical and doctrinal claims.
- Early Christian witnesses test continuity without replacing Scripture.
- The Divine Design Framework (DDF) supplies the book corpus's Christian constructive theology, interpretive architecture, and downstream scope gate.
- Historical, scientific, clinical, legal, and technical claims remain answerable to their own evidence and methods.
- Rivals, limits, negative cases, safety boundaries, and revision triggers remain visible.
Chapter and unit trail
Each chapter is available as clean Markdown with stable section anchors, provenance, and a content checksum.
Unit 1: What Is Reality?
Unit 2: Who Is God?
Unit 3: Why Did God Make the World?
Unit 4: What Are Human Beings?
Unit 5: What Is the Heart?
Unit 6: What Went Wrong?
Unit 7: Why Did God Call Israel?
Review 1: From Reality to Promise
Unit 8: Who Is Jesus Christ?
Unit 9: Why Did Jesus Die?
Unit 10: What Happened When Jesus Rose?
Unit 11: How Does Christ Save Us?
Unit 12: Who Is the Holy Spirit?
Unit 13: What Is Scripture?
Unit 14: What Is the Church?
Unit 15: What Are Baptism and the Lord's Supper?
Review 2: From Christ to the Church
When the Answers Become Prayer
Unit 16: How Do We Live When We Suffer or Doubt?
Unit 17: How Do We Receive and Practice the Faith?
Unit 18: How Does God Judge and Defeat Evil?
Unit 19: What Is Our Hope?
Review 3: From Suffering to Hope
First Memory Card Set
Closing: The Faith That Holds
Appendix for Leaders
Appendix: Complete Leader Delivery Guide
Appendix: Forty-Lesson Map
A Note on Sources
Source apparatus
These records preserve the fuller source and conclusion trail behind the readable manuscript.
- The Faith That Holds Source and Conclusion Ledger80 KB
Open questions and review
Book-specific questions, limitations, and revision triggers are maintained in the downloadable source apparatus above rather than duplicated here. The live review tracks below come from the publication manifest.
Formal external specialist review has not yet been completed and remains required before stable release.
Required review tracks not yet recorded complete
- Biblical studies and original languages
- Patristics and historical theology
- Philosophy and rival-worldview analysis
- Human genetics and population history
- Origin-of-life science
- Clinical psychology and research methods
- Safeguarding and abuse response
- Spanish language and cultural review
- Indonesian language and cultural review
Revision and snapshot
- Portfolio version
- V1
- Source revision
21f04b4a163a2ac0aef49f0f2adfb6bee40955a0- Book content hash
b9103f8e9afbc7dbc053e7196a5ce73a12fba465fb45db43edfc101aee4d81e0- Formal external review
- Formal external specialist review has not yet been completed and remains required before stable release.
- Contributors
- Elijah Faviel
These records are published for transparency, testing, and correction. They do not replace Scripture, the Church's teaching and accountability, wise pastoral care, lawful reporting, qualified counseling, medical care, or field-specific professional judgment.