Jesus is the only perfect image of God
“Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” — John 14:9
“He is the image of the invisible God… the exact representation of his being.” — Col 1:15 · Heb 1:3
Whatever image of God the text offers must finally bow before the One who, when asked to call down fire on a Samaritan village, rebuked His own disciples and said, “The Son of Man came not to destroy lives but to save them.” Anything less gentle, less merciful, less life-giving than that likely cannot be the ultimate revelation of the Father.
Reading by the Spirit
This is a Spirit-led project. That means we do not reach back into the shadows of the text to drag forward examples such as 2 Kings 2:23–24 where Elisha calls down bears to maul children for mocking his baldness — and then claim divine approval for cruelty or disproportionate rage. The same Spirit who rested on Jesus as a dove will never contradict the One who, when children were being shooed away, said, “Let them come to me … for to such belongs the kingdom.” We believe in using the logical brain that God gave us and a faithful mind with prayer while studying anything, even outside of these texts.
This approach is not a rejection of Scripture, but a humble submission to the Spirit who inspired it—trusting Him to illuminate what is eternal and to gently set aside what was temporary, always drawing us nearer to the heart of the Father revealed in the Son. It is an invitation to read with open eyes and an open heart, asking the same question the Bereans asked: does this bear witness to Jesus? In every study session, we advise prayer before delving into the texts, knowing that where human words stumble, His voice remains steady, kind, and unmistakably clear.
Our single pursuit remains unchanged: to follow the clear, luminous thread that Jesus and the apostles saw running through the prophets, the writings, and every Spirit-touched witness — whether inside or outside the final canon. We have searched the Peshitta, the Septuagint, the Targums, the Dead Sea scrolls, the Apostolic Fathers, the desert ascetics, and beyond to gather every fragment that unmistakably carries the voice of the Lamb.
Scripture’s job is to bear witness to Him
The entire Bible and supporting texts exist to point to the Lamb. When it does, we listen. When it obscures Him, we mark it, contextualize and analyze, and move on. We cannot have Jesus at the rightful place of Messiah and then turn around and quote interpreted or contextualized scriptures that contradict Him with an honest heart. It is our due diligence as Followers of Christ to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to not only come to Christ, but truly understand Him without a human or doctrine blocking the path.
The Cross is the lens
God is the Father who raised the crucified Son from the dead. The heart laid bare on Golgotha is the heart that refused the sword, absorbed evil without returning it, and answered hatred with “Father, forgive them.” Any earlier portrait that still reeks of retaliation, domination, or terror likely belongs to the long, stumbling pedagogy of Israel — a concession to human hardness, never the eternal will of the Father who - in Christ - disarmed every power by letting them do their worst and then undid death itself with forgiveness.
An Ancient Practice in the Modern Era
From the second century onward, the great cloud of witnesses refused to attribute many claims in the older texts to the God revealed in Christ. Origen spoke of certain passages as deliberate “stumbling-blocks” placed by the Spirit to drive us beyond the letter. Gregory of Nyssa flatly denied that the Father of the only-begotten Son could ever have thirsted for blood or delighted in massacre and said 'that a God who commands the slaughter of infants “would be worse than any demon.” John Cassian taught his monks to read every violent attribution as a mirror held up to Israel’s own hardness, not as a portrait of the Father.
Maximus the Confessor, Isaac the Syrian, and the entire Alexandrian tradition as well as thousands of others solved the problem by refusing to let the letter kill the Spirit. We have simply turned their private marginal notes or lost forgotten doctrines into visible signposts. What we do with our † is nothing new; we are merely taking the church’s long-standing hermeneutic of mercy out of the footnotes and making it impossible to overlook.
Integrity of the Text, Honesty for the Reader
No verse is expunged, no book is reordered, no page is torn out. The canon remains exactly as the churches received it — every syllable preserved for study, prayer, and historical witness. We make an honest and unbiased attempt to contextualize those intrusions that bear the fingerprints of fearful scribes or imperial theologians: additions or emphases that turn the scroll into a weapon instead of a love letter or are included to confuse you entirely. The text stays whole; the veil over certain lines is lifted for the reader to see whose voice is truly speaking. In the end, we urge you to pray over our work. It is NOT the final say, or the be-all-end-all.