04Abrahamic
Christianity
Creation by God.
Architecture
Created world, moral judgment
Creator → created cosmos (heaven/earth/hell) → embodied spiritual-moral human → death → resurrection, judgment, eternal destiny.
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God as creator
The cosmos is made and contingent.
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Created cosmos
Heaven, Earth, hell — concepts vary by tradition. No required world-mountain.
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Angels and fallen beings
A populated unseen. Fallen beings oppose; they are not an equal creator in orthodox frames.
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Embodied spiritual human
Moral and spiritual, not a brain-state in this record.
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Resurrection and destiny
Generally no reincarnation. Judgment and eternal destiny close the circuit.
- Time
- Linear sacred history toward apocalypse, judgment, and renewed creation.
- Agents
- God; angels; fallen beings/demons.
- Human slot
- Embodied moral being facing judgment. Theosis language exists in some streams and is not universal here.
- Break
- Rebellion and fallen powers inside created order — not a second co-eternal maker.
Recorded claims
An evidence label is shown only where the kind of source is already established. No label means unclassified. A label is not a judgment. Source Needed means no source is attached yet. It does not mean the claim is false, weak, or disproven.
Origin / Reality
Creation by God.
Source NeededHuman Nature
Embodied spiritual and moral beings.
Source NeededDeath / Afterlife
Resurrection, judgment, eternal destiny.
Source NeededRebirth
Generally no.
Source NeededOther Beings
Angels, fallen beings/demons.
Source NeededOther Realms
Heaven, Earth, hell; concepts vary by tradition.
Source NeededWorld Structure / Axis
Created cosmos.
Source NeededDestruction / Reset
Apocalypse, judgment, renewed creation.
Source NeededHow Truth Is Known
Scripture, revelation, tradition, faith, experience.
Source Needed
Sources & EvidenceShowHideNo source is attached yet. Source Needed is a research gap, not a judgment.
The tradition or source
What that source says. Not a scholar’s retelling, and not a SCARCE inference.
None attached.
A modern researcher
What a scholar or other modern writer says about the source. Not the source’s own words.
None attached.
SCARCE
What this project infers or sets beside the records. Not what the source said.
None attached.
How we know
Where the evidence comes from, and how far it is from the people it describes. The labels are not a score. They do not rank traditions. A manuscript year, a tradition’s own claim, and a date from the ground are kept apart on the timeline.
The earliest surviving Christian writings are letters of Paul, from about the 50s CE. The gospels are later in the 1st century. The oldest substantial gospel manuscripts are still later copies, from the 2nd century onward.
Jesus left no extant writing. The gospels are decades after the events they narrate. They rest on oral telling and on earlier notes we do not have. A 4th-century codex is not a 1st-century autograph. The tradition’s origin and the date of the surviving books are not the same date.
Original evidence → transmission / copy → translation / documentation → modern interpretation
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Original evidence
Contemporary primary text
Paul’s letters are primary texts for the churches he wrote to. They are not a transcript of Jesus, and they are not the gospels.
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Transmission / copy
Recorded oral tradition
The gospels are written narratives after a period of oral transmission. Complete Bibles are later copies. Thousands of manuscripts disagree in small places and sometimes in larger ones.
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Translation / documentation
Modern scholarly reconstruction
Modern Bibles translate Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek copies. The translation is not the papyrus. Church councils and creeds are later traditional texts about these books.
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Modern interpretation
Modern scholarly reconstruction
Historical study of the historical Jesus is a modern reconstruction from those later texts. It is not an extra gospel. This chart’s cell is not a creed.
The twenty-one questions
Asked of every system. Gaps are recorded as gaps. Nothing here is filled in to make a pattern prettier.
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Where are we?
In a cosmos created by God. Heaven, Earth, and hell (concepts vary by tradition) frame the larger setting.
Read every system on this question02
What is reality made of?
Creation by God. The cosmos is made and contingent.
Read every system on this question03
What is a human being?
An embodied spiritual and moral being.
Read every system on this question04
What is consciousness?
Not reduced to a brain-state in the record used here. Humans are embodied spiritual and moral beings; inner life is read through scripture, faith, and experience.
Read every system on this question05
Where did humanity come from?
Created by God as embodied spiritual and moral beings.
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What happens at death?
Resurrection, judgment, and eternal destiny.
Read every system on this question07
Does consciousness return to embodiment?
Generally no. The claim is resurrection, not ordinary reincarnation.
Read every system on this question08
Where is consciousness between lives?
Not framed as between lives. The claim is death, resurrection, judgment, and eternal destiny.
Read every system on this question09
Are there nonhuman intelligent beings?
Yes. Angels and fallen beings/demons.
Read every system on this question10
Can those beings become human or appear human?
Angels and fallen beings are recorded. Appearance in human form occurs in scriptural narrative; becoming human is not the general claim.
Read every system on this question11
Are there multiple realms or worlds?
Heaven, Earth, hell; concepts vary by tradition.
Read every system on this question12
Is there a central mountain, tree, pillar, axis, heart, or sacred center?
A created cosmos. Sacred centers exist in tradition and pilgrimage; a single cosmic mountain/tree as world-axis is not the governing image here.
Read every system on this question13
Is the world itself alive?
A created cosmos. Creation may be called good and groaning in some readings, but “the world is an organism” is not the governing claim here.
Read every system on this question14
Has civilization or the world been destroyed or reset before?
Apocalypse, judgment, renewed creation — future-facing, with flood precedent in shared scripture.
Read every system on this question15
Does history operate linearly or cyclically?
Linear sacred history toward apocalypse, judgment, and renewed creation. Recurrence is not the governing claim.
Read every system on this question16
Is there an opposing positive/negative force?
Yes. Fallen beings/demons oppose God and the human good. They are not an equal co-eternal creator in orthodox frames.
Read every system on this question17
What is humanity supposed to become?
Embodied spiritual and moral beings facing judgment and eternal destiny. Theosis/union language exists in some traditions; it is not universal Christian doctrine in this chart.
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Is reincarnation a destination, punishment, school, growth process, or something else?
Generally no. Resurrection and eternal destiny are the frame, not reincarnation.
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What lies beyond the visible world?
Heaven, hell (concepts vary), angels and fallen beings.
Read every system on this question20
How does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?
Scripture, revelation, tradition, faith, experience.
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Does the structure or motion of the heavens correspond to events, conditions, or consciousness within the human realm?
Created cosmos. Stars as signs appear in narrative; a governing astrological correspondence is not Christian doctrine in this chart.
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Why did humanity forget?
Not recorded in this chart.
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Structures where this record appears
- Axis, mountain, tree, heartIs there a central mountain, tree, pillar, axis, heart, or sacred center?
- Flood, judgment, cycle, endingHas civilization or the world been destroyed or reset before?
- Return, resurrection, renewalDoes consciousness return to embodiment?
- Nonhuman intelligencesAre there nonhuman intelligent beings?
- Realms and worldsAre there multiple realms or worlds?
- Is the world itself alive?Is the world itself alive?
- Line or wheelDoes history operate linearly or cyclically?
- Do the heavens correspond?Does the structure or motion of the heavens correspond to events, conditions, or consciousness within the human realm?
- How truth is claimedHow does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?