What the audit changed

Every change the fairness audit made to the Theology Compass, with the reason, and the findings it argued through and refused. How the audit worked is on the method page.

91Changes
6Groups
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Corrections happen in the open

What the audit changed

Every change the fairness audit made is listed here, with the reason, so corrections happen in the open. The 91 entries are grouped by what each one touched, named in plain words, and keyed to the audit's own record — open one to read the reason and see the wording before and after.

Axes 42
Statements 21
Traditions 17
Scoring 4
Page copy 5
Other 2

Group 01 of 6

axes

42Changes

Grace axis · band wording axis:grace:bands Grace was the only axis whose bands named parties instead of poles…
Grace was the only axis whose bands named parties instead of poles, so confessional Lutherans (33), Thomist Catholics and dispensationalists were headlined 'Reformed-leaning', and the Orthodox coordinate, Molinist Catholics and Traditional Southern Baptists 'Arminian-leaning'. Seven blockers and eleven other findings converged on the pole-word pattern the other five axes already use.

Before
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["firmly monergist", "Reformed-leaning", "balanced on grace", "Arminian-leaning", "firmly synergist"]
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After
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["firmly monergist", "monergist-leaning", "balanced on grace", "synergist-leaning", "firmly synergist"]
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applied to data · raised by 18 findings
Grace axis · pole names axis:grace:poles The rename proposals conflicted and each stranded a tradition…
The rename proposals conflicted and each stranded a tradition ('Effectual grace' excludes Lutheran monergists who confess resistible grace; 'Sovereign grace' is one pole's boast). The verifiers' fallback, and the keep-verbatim list in mockery-36, was to keep the standard taxonomy and define the contested word where it first does work.

Before
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Monergist / Synergist, used without definition anywhere on the page
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After
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Monergist / Synergist kept, each glossed once at first mention in the fair summary: 'Monergists (God alone brings a person to faith)' and 'Synergists (the person freely cooperates with the grace God gives)'
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applied to data · raised by 4 findings

Grace axis · summary axis:grace:summary Defining monergism by irresistible grace excluded confessional Lutherans from the pole the quiz…

Defining monergism by irresistible grace excluded confessional Lutherans from the pole the quiz itself codes them at, and putting perseverance only on the monergist side split the Baptist majority across the two paragraphs.

Before

'Monergists hold that salvation is God's work from beginning to end: He chooses, calls, and keeps His people, and His saving grace cannot finally be refused.'

After

Monergism is defined by the sinner contributing nothing to conversion, with the Reformed/Lutheran split on resistibility stated explicitly; a sentence added that most Baptist synergists hold believers are kept to the end; both poles glossed; a closing clause names both vocabularies ('Arminian or Wesleyan' and 'synergy')

applied to data · raised by 9 findings

Grace axis · history axis:grace:history The synergist pole had no pre-1610 advocate except Pelagius and Erasmus…
The synergist pole had no pre-1610 advocate except Pelagius and Erasmus, so Catholics (55) and Orthodox (65) read that their view began with a Dutch protest; Lutherans, whom the quiz codes 'firmly monergist', had no landmark either; and the Wesley-Whitefield date was loose.

Before
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5 entries: Augustine c. 411-430; Council of Orange 529; Luther 1525; Remonstrance/Dort 1610-19; Wesley/Whitefield 1740s
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After
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9 entries: Augustine; Cassian c. 428; Second Council of Orange 529 (with its cooperation clause); Luther 1525; Trent 1547; Formula of Concord 1577; Dort 1610-19; Synod of Jerusalem 1672; Wesley/Whitefield 1739-41
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applied to data · raised by 10 findings
Grace axis · passages axis:grace:passages Romans 8:28-30…
Romans 8:28-30, the text both poles build on, was missing; the summary's synergist clauses had no verse (Acts 7:51 for resistance, Philippians 2:12-13 for cooperation); Ephesians 1:3-11 cut a Greek sentence mid-clause; Hebrews 6:4-6 is an apostasy text that cuts across the axis and implied the right pole means losing salvation.

Before
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["Romans 9", "Ephesians 1:3-11", "John 6:37-44", "1 Timothy 2:3-4", "2 Peter 3:9", "Hebrews 6:4-6"]
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After
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["Romans 9", "Romans 8:28-30", "Ephesians 1:3-14", "John 6:37-44", "1 Timothy 2:3-4", "2 Peter 3:9", "Acts 7:51", "Philippians 2:12-13"]
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applied to data · raised by 10 findings
Grace axis · further reading axis:grace:readmore The monergist list equated the pole with Calvinism although the axis's own history names Luther's…
The monergist list equated the pole with Calvinism although the axis's own history names Luther's 1525 book; the synergist list described a pole held by Catholics (55) and Orthodox (65) with two Protestant Arminians only.

Before
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left: Calvin, Sproul; right: Arminius (Works), Olson
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After
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left: Luther (The Bondage of the Will), Calvin, Sproul; right: John of Damascus (Exact Exposition II.29-30), Arminius (Declaration of Sentiments), Wesley (Predestination Calmly Considered), Olson
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applied to data · raised by 3 findings

The other 36 in axes

Table axis · band wording axis:table:bands The midpoint was labelled with the left pole's own noun and read as a doctrinal position stronger…
The midpoint was labelled with the left pole's own noun and read as a doctrinal position stronger than 'sacramental-leaning', so a Baptist or Pentecostal at 50 was headlined with the word their confessions deliberately avoid.

Before
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bands[2] = "centered on the sacraments"
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After
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bands[2] = "between sacramental and memorial"
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applied to data · raised by 15 findings

Table axis · summary axis:table:summary 'And so' derived paedobaptism from sacramental efficacy…

'And so' derived paedobaptism from sacramental efficacy, which is neither the Reformed nor the Lutheran ground, and the memorial sentence denied Reformed Baptists a view their confession states (LBC 30.7).

Before

'...baptism joins a person to Christ and His church, and so the children of believers are baptized... both are ordinances obeyed by believers rather than channels of grace.'

After

Poles defined by efficacy; infant baptism demoted to an indicator with both grounds named ('children of the covenant' or 'the washing of new birth'); the memorial half states the Supper as remembrance and proclamation and locates blessing in the faith of the receivers; a third sentence names the mixed positions (Reformed Baptist, Churches of Christ)

applied to data · raised by 7 findings

Table axis · history axis:table:history The sacramental pole after Ignatius was represented only by a Western council the East does not receive…
The sacramental pole after Ignatius was represented only by a Western council the East does not receive; Lateran IV used the word but Trent defined it; Marburg never said what Luther held, the doctrine of the tradition coded at 15; and the memorial pole's largest family, the Baptists, had no entry and was filed under Anabaptism by omission.

Before
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5 entries: Ignatius c. 110; Lateran IV 1215 ('defines transubstantiation'); Zurich 1525; Marburg 1529; Calvin 1559
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After
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8 entries: Ignatius; John of Damascus c. 743; Lateran IV 1215 (with Trent 1551 named); Zwingli 1525-26; Zurich/Schleitheim 1525-27; Marburg 1529 (stating what Luther and Zwingli each held); Calvin 1559; English Baptists 1609-89
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applied to data · raised by 10 findings
Table axis · passages axis:table:passages The page promises 'the passages each side reaches for'…
The page promises 'the passages each side reaches for', yet every baptism text was one paedobaptists cite and no credobaptist text appeared; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17, the text Article XXVIII, the Formula of Concord, Heidelberg 77 and Calvin all build on, was missing; and John 6 was cropped before v.63, the memorialist's verse from the same passage.

Before
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["John 6:53-58", "1 Corinthians 11:23-29", "Acts 2:38-39", "Colossians 2:11-12", "Romans 6:3-4", "Matthew 26:26-28"]
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After
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["John 6:51-63", "Matthew 26:26-28", "1 Corinthians 11:23-29", "1 Corinthians 10:16-17", "Acts 2:38-41", "Colossians 2:11-12", "Romans 6:3-4", "Matthew 28:19-20", "Acts 8:36-38", "1 Peter 3:21"]
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applied to data · raised by 15 findings
Table axis · further reading axis:table:readmore The pole where Catholics sit at 5 had no Catholic author and no infant-baptism title although two…
The pole where Catholics sit at 5 had no Catholic author and no infant-baptism title although two of three Table items are about baptism; the memorial pole was headed by the paedobaptist under whose Zurich the first Anabaptists were drowned. Zwingli moves to the history array, where his argument is now stated.

Before
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left: Schmemann, Mathison; right: Zwingli, Schreiner & Wright
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After
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left: Schmemann, Ratzinger, Bromiley (Children of Promise); right: Hubmaier, Schreiner & Crawford (The Lord's Supper), Schreiner & Wright
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applied to data · raised by 3 findings
Table axis · pole names axis:table:poles Option (a) of the blocker…
Option (a) of the blocker: with the new statement 5 a 1689 Reformed Baptist scores 50 ('between sacramental and memorial') instead of 67 ('memorial-leaning'), and a Zwinglian Baptist still reaches 100. The pole rename to 'Ordinance' is recorded in disputed.

Before
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Sacramental / Memorial, with statement 5 asking about baptism's subjects
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After
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Poles unchanged; statement 5 replaced with a means-of-grace item so the axis measures efficacy, not credobaptism twice
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applied to data · raised by 1 finding
Gifts axis · axis name axis:spirit:name The axis was named with the left pole's key word…
The axis was named with the left pole's key word, so the share bar and headline read as if the cessationist had no Spirit.

Before
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name: "Spirit"
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After
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name: "Gifts" (key 'spirit' unchanged, so tokens, CSS variables and statement axis ids are untouched)
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applied to data · raised by 1 finding
Gifts axis · band wording axis:spirit:bands 'Undecided on the gifts' called a settled…
'Undecided on the gifts' called a settled, named position (Saucy's 'open but cautious' in Are Miraculous Gifts for Today?) indecision, and the old flanking bands split that position's name across two bands with an open/cautious valence asymmetry.

Before
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["continuationist", "open to the gifts", "undecided on the gifts", "cautious about the gifts", "cessationist"]
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After
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["continuationist", "continuationist-leaning", "open but cautious on the gifts", "cessationist-leaning", "cessationist"]
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applied to data · raised by 5 findings

Gifts axis · summary axis:spirit:summary The cessationist paragraph was purely negative…

The cessationist paragraph was purely negative, which is the caricature cessationists fight, and 'should be sought' described only the Pentecostal form of continuance while the Orthodox (35) and Catholics (40) are coded on that side.

Before

'...passed away once the apostolic foundation was laid and the New Testament was complete.' (ends there)

After

Continuationists are described as differing on how eagerly to seek the gifts; cessationists are given what they affirm (God still heals and answers prayer; the Spirit's ordinary work through Word and providence) and the canon argument is marked as an addition many make

applied to data · raised by 4 findings

Gifts axis · history axis:spirit:history The continuationist family tree was a condemned sect and a 1,500-year gap while the cessationist…
The continuationist family tree was a condemned sect and a 1,500-year gap while the cessationist side had four entries; 'sign gifts' put a modern cessationist category in a fourth-century mouth; 'carries the gifts into Catholic churches' asserted an absence Catholic teaching denies; and cessationism looked like a reaction to Pentecostalism rather than a confessional position of 1646.

Before
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6 entries: Montanism 2nd c.; Chrysostom c. 390 ('the sign gifts had ceased'); Azusa 1906; Warfield 1918; charismatic renewal 1960s ('carries the gifts into Catholic churches'); Strange Fire 2013
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After
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10 entries: Irenaeus + Montanism late 2nd c.; Chrysostom c. 390 (quoted); Augustine c. 426; Westminster/1689 1646; Wesley and the holiness movement 1749-1867; Topeka and Azusa 1901-06; Warfield 1918; charismatic renewal 1960s (Pentecostal-style practice entering, not the gifts arriving); third wave 1980s-90s; Four Views 1996 replacing the 2013 conference
```
applied to data · raised by 22 findings
Gifts axis · passages axis:spirit:passages Joel 2:28-29 and Acts 2:17-18 are the same text and 1 Corinthians 13:8-12 sits inside 12-14…
Joel 2:28-29 and Acts 2:17-18 are the same text and 1 Corinthians 13:8-12 sits inside 12-14, so the continuationist column was padded with duplicates against three cessationist texts; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21 (the verse statement 9 paraphrases) and the cessationist flagship 2 Corinthians 12:12 were both missing. Now three per pole plus one read both ways.

Before
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["1 Corinthians 12-14", "1 Corinthians 13:8-12", "Acts 2:17-18", "Ephesians 2:20", "Hebrews 2:3-4", "Joel 2:28-29"]
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After
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["1 Corinthians 14:1-5", "1 Corinthians 13:8-12", "Acts 2:17-18", "1 Thessalonians 5:19-21", "Ephesians 2:20", "Hebrews 2:3-4", "2 Corinthians 12:12"]
```
applied to data · raised by 7 findings
Gifts axis · further reading axis:spirit:readmore The pole Pentecostals defined (coded 5) had no Pentecostal author…
The pole Pentecostals defined (coded 5) had no Pentecostal author, and the cessationist pole was represented by the book whose subtitle calls charismatic worship counterfeit; both cessationist-side reviewers asked for Gaffin instead.

Before
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left: Grudem, Storms; right: MacArthur (Strange Fire), Warfield
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After
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left: Grudem, Fee (Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God); right: Warfield, Gaffin (Perspectives on Pentecost)
```
applied to data · raised by 5 findings
Kingdom axis · pole names axis:kingdom:poles 'Covenantal' is the name of Reformed federal theology…
'Covenantal' is the name of Reformed federal theology, yet it was stamped on every non-dispensationalist: a strongly Orthodox or Catholic answer set produced the headline 'Sacramental, covenantal, rooted in tradition', and Lutherans, Anabaptists and Restorationists reject the system by name.

Before
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left_pole: "Covenantal"
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After
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left_pole: "One people of God", shortened to "One people" in the repair pass so the label fits both renderers (right pole 'Dispensational' unchanged, it being that side's own name)
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applied to data · raised by 9 findings
Kingdom axis · band wording axis:kingdom:bands The midpoint named a position both poles claim…
The midpoint named a position both poles claim (Vos and Ladd, McClain and Blaising & Bock all make the kingdom their centre), so a historic premillennialist at 50 was told he held a theology he does not, and the outer left bands carried the Reformed system's name onto Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans and Mennonites.

Before
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["covenantal", "covenantal-leaning", "centered on the kingdom", "dispensational-leaning", "dispensational"]
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After
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["one-people-of-God", "one-people-leaning", "balanced on Israel and the church", "dispensational-leaning", "dispensational"] (the first two hyphenated in the repair pass so they read as tags in the comma-joined headline)
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applied to data · raised by 14 findings
Kingdom axis · summary axis:kingdom:summary The left pole was written as amillennialism only…
The left pole was written as amillennialism only, so historic premillennialists who hold one people of God (Ladd, whom the axis's own history cites, and with him Spurgeon, Piper and Grudem) had no home on either side.

Before
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'...Christ's kingdom is present now, with His return bringing the new creation.'
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After
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'...His return brings the new creation, for some after a millennial reign on earth', plus a closing sentence on progressive dispensationalism and Pentecostal use of the rapture without the system
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applied to data · raised by 6 findings

Kingdom axis · history axis:kingdom:history The right pole began in 1830 while the left began with Augustine…

The right pole began in 1830 while the left began with Augustine, which reproduces the 'invented by Darby' polemic; the 1646 line described a Reformed system four of the five left-pole traditions do not hold; 'softens' was the critics' verb for a movement the page recommends; and the modern repudiation of replacement theology by Rome and the mainline was absent.

Before

6 entries: Augustine c. 413-426; Westminster 1646 (covenant of works and grace); Darby 1830s; Scofield 1909; Ladd 1950s; progressive dispensationalism 1990s ('softens the Israel-church distinction')

After

10 entries: Justin and Irenaeus c. 155-180; Augustine; Augsburg XVII 1530; Westminster 1646 (reworded to the one-covenant claim); Darby 1830s (attributed to Darby, not the whole movement); Scofield 1909; Chafer and Ryrie 1924-65; Ladd 1950s; Nostra Aetate and the mainline statements 1965-96; progressive dispensationalism 1990s (stated in its own terms)

applied to data · raised by 10 findings

Kingdom axis · passages axis:kingdom:passages The dispensational pole was represented only by timetable texts and had no Abrahamic covenant…
The dispensational pole was represented only by timetable texts and had no Abrahamic covenant passage although statement 10 rests on one; the covenantal pole lacked the new-covenant text its own read-more authors argue from.

Before
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["Romans 11", "Galatians 3:26-29", "Revelation 20:1-6", "Daniel 9:24-27", "1 Thessalonians 4:13-17", "Matthew 24", "Ephesians 2:11-22"]
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After
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["Genesis 17:7-8", "Daniel 9:24-27", "Matthew 24", "Romans 11", "Galatians 3:26-29", "Ephesians 2:11-22", "1 Thessalonians 4:13-18", "Hebrews 8:6-13", "Revelation 20:1-6"] (canonical order, so the chips do not group by side)
```
applied to data · raised by 4 findings
Kingdom axis · further reading axis:kingdom:readmore Under the heading for a pole held by Catholics…
Under the heading for a pole held by Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans, Methodists, Anabaptists and Baptists, the first title argued infant baptism from the covenant of grace; Ladd is already named in the axis history, is a Baptist and a premillennialist, and is accepted by the other pole as its classic interlocutor.

Before
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left: Horton (Introducing Covenant Theology), Riddlebarger
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After
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left: Riddlebarger, Ladd (The Gospel of the Kingdom)
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applied to data · raised by 8 findings
Authority axis · axis name axis:tradition:name The axis was named after one pole's key word while its own midpoint band already said…
The axis was named after one pole's key word while its own midpoint band already said 'balanced on authority'.

Before
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name: "Tradition"
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After
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name: "Authority" (key 'tradition' unchanged)
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applied to data · raised by 2 findings
Authority axis · pole names axis:tradition:poles 'With tradition' was not parallel to 'Scripture alone'…
'With tradition' was not parallel to 'Scripture alone', broke every sentence the code builds from a pole name ('70% toward With tradition'), and removed the word Scripture from the pole whose holders say they hold Scripture and Tradition together (Trent Sess. IV; Dei Verbum 9).

Before
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left_pole: "With tradition"
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After
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left_pole: "Scripture and tradition", shortened to "Bible & tradition" in the repair pass because it overflowed both renderers (right pole 'Scripture alone' unchanged)
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applied to data · raised by 3 findings
Authority axis · band wording axis:tradition:bands 'Scripture-first' implies the other pole puts Scripture second…
'Scripture-first' implies the other pole puts Scripture second, which Dei Verbum 21 and Orthodox usage deny, and no Protestant tradition uses the phrase of itself; 'Scripture over tradition' is a description both sides recognise as the real point of difference.

Before
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bands[3] = "Scripture-first"
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After
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bands[3] = "Scripture over tradition"; in the repair pass bands[0] = "rooted in Scripture and tradition" and bands[1] = "Scripture with tradition", so the two left bands are no longer tradition-only
```
applied to data · raised by 4 findings

Authority axis · summary axis:tradition:summary 'Teaching office' is Roman magisterium vocabulary and the Orthodox…

'Teaching office' is Roman magisterium vocabulary and the Orthodox, coded at 5, have none; and 'tradition can be a valuable guide' described biblicism rather than the confessional sola scriptura the pole's own recommended book (Mathison) exists to distinguish.

Before

'...the creeds, councils, and the church's teaching office...' / '...agree that tradition can be a valuable guide...'

After

Left pole: creeds, ecumenical councils, the consensus of the Fathers and the church's living teaching, with the teaching office marked as the Catholic form. Right pole: creeds and confessions may carry real but subordinate authority, only Scripture is infallible, any council may err, nothing may be required as an article of faith that Scripture does not prove

applied to data · raised by 8 findings

Authority axis · history axis:tradition:history On the axis whose right pole is 'Scripture alone' the Reformation's founding moment was missing…
On the axis whose right pole is 'Scripture alone' the Reformation's founding moment was missing entirely and the tradition pole was three-quarters Roman with no Eastern source, though Orthodoxy is coded furthest left.

Before
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5 entries, 4 of them for the tradition pole: Vincent 434; Trent 1546; Westminster 1646; Newman 1845; Dei Verbum 1965
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After
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8 entries: Basil c. 375; Vincent 434; Second Nicaea 787; Worms 1521; Trent 1546; Formula of Concord 1577; Westminster 1646; Dei Verbum 1965 (the Newman line removed, as historian-1 offers, since Newman remains the first read-more title)
```
applied to data · raised by 9 findings
Authority axis · passages axis:tradition:passages Statement 13 is about councils yet the one council in Scripture was absent…
Statement 13 is about councils yet the one council in Scripture was absent, and the Scripture-alone pole lacked its sharpest text.

Before
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6 texts, no council passage and no Galatians 1
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After
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["2 Thessalonians 2:15", "2 Timothy 3:16-17", "1 Timothy 3:15", "Acts 17:11", "Acts 15:6-29", "Matthew 15:3-9", "John 16:13", "Galatians 1:8-9"], alternating by pole
```
applied to data · raised by 1 finding
Authority axis · further reading axis:tradition:readmore A reader who scores 100 on this axis was handed only books arguing against the position that…
A reader who scores 100 on this axis was handed only books arguing against the position that produces a 100; the Restoration primary source states the far end of the pole in its holders' own words.

Before
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right: Mathison, Barrett
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After
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right: Mathison, T. Campbell (Declaration and Address)
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applied to data · raised by 1 finding
Worship axis · band wording axis:worship:bands Regulative-principle Presbyterians and Reformed Baptists land mid-axis and were told they are…
Regulative-principle Presbyterians and Reformed Baptists land mid-axis and were told they are 'flexible in worship', the one adjective their rule of worship excludes; and 'informal' judged manner rather than form, so ordered Baptist, Old Order Anabaptist and produced charismatic services were all called informal.

Before
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["liturgical", "liturgy-leaning", "flexible in worship", "informal in worship", "free in worship"]
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After
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["liturgical", "liturgy-leaning", "between liturgical and free", "free-leaning in worship", "free in worship"]
```
applied to data · raised by 8 findings

Worship axis · summary axis:worship:summary Weekly Eucharist as a definition excluded three centuries of Prayer Book practice…

Weekly Eucharist as a definition excluded three centuries of Prayer Book practice; 'sincerity' and 'the participation of the whole congregation' were claimed for one pole although 'full, conscious and active participation' is the liturgical movement's own watchword; and defining the free pole by spontaneity left the planned non-liturgical majority (Baptist, Bible church, Reformed, Anabaptist) with no home.

Before

'Liturgical worship follows a set order, the church calendar, and a weekly Eucharist... Free worship keeps the form open so that the Spirit can lead in the moment, with an emphasis on spontaneity, sincerity, and the participation of the whole congregation.'

After

Liturgical: set order and calendar, 'usually' with the Eucharist at the centre, the whole congregation praying with the historic church and joining the worship of heaven. Free: Scripture prescribes no fixed liturgy, so each congregation orders its own service, some keeping a plain settled pattern and others leaving the shape open for the Spirit, with room for any member to contribute

applied to data · raised by 11 findings

Worship axis · history axis:worship:history The liturgical side's first named liturgy was Anglican and its history stopped in 1549…

The liturgical side's first named liturgy was Anglican and its history stopped in 1549, while the free side ran to Hillsong; the regulative principle was dated a century late; and the axis Pentecostals define had no Pentecostal entry.

Before

6 entries: Didache; Justin c. 155; Cranmer 1549; Puritans 1600s; Finney 1830s; Jesus movement 1970s-

After

10 entries: Didache; Justin c. 155 (with 'according to his ability'); the Eastern and Western eucharistic prayers 4th-6th c.; Zwingli and Luther 1525-26; Cranmer 1549 (full sentence); Puritans, Hooker and the Westminster Directory 1572-1645; Finney 1830s; Azusa Street 1906; Sacrosanctum Concilium 1963; contemporary worship 1970s-

applied to data · raised by 11 findings

Worship axis · passages axis:worship:passages The item on weekly communion had no supporting text…
The item on weekly communion had no supporting text, and the liturgical pole's central warrant, the heavenly liturgy, was absent.

Before
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["Acts 2:42", "John 4:23-24", "1 Corinthians 14:26-40", "Colossians 3:16", "Hebrews 12:28", "Psalm 150"]
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After
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adds "Acts 20:7" and "Revelation 4-5"
```
applied to data · raised by 4 findings
Worship axis · further reading axis:worship:readmore Frame's book is a Reformed defence of the regulative principle filed under a pole defined by the…
Frame's book is a Reformed defence of the regulative principle filed under a pole defined by the Spirit leading in the moment, and the largest free-worship family had no author on its own pole; the liturgical list had no Catholic title although Catholics are coded at 10.

Before
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left: Schmemann, Webber; right: Frame (Worship in Spirit and Truth), Kauflin
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After
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left: Schmemann, Ratzinger (The Spirit of the Liturgy); right: Hayford (Worship His Majesty), Kauflin
```
applied to data · raised by 6 findings
Kingdom axis · pole names · repair pass axis:kingdom:poles (repair) Measured in the browser at the page's own font (Fraunces 700)…
Measured in the browser at the page's own font (Fraunces 700): "One people of God" is 162.0px at 18px and 144.3px at 16px. The card label for this pole is right-aligned at x = 139 inside the 630-wide radar block, which sits 63.4px from the left edge of the 1080px card, so any label wider than 138px paints inside the card's 64px gutter; the shipped label painted from x = 41. "One people" is 99.4px and clears both renderers. The full phrase is kept in the band ("one-people-of-God") and in the first line of the summary.

Before
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left pole "One people of God"
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After
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left pole "One people"
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applied to data · raised by 2 findings
Kingdom axis · band wording · repair pass axis:kingdom:bands (repair) headline() joins the top three bands with commas…
headline() joins the top three bands with commas, so the noun-phrase bands produced sentences: a hand-scored Orthodox sheet read "Firmly synergist, sacramental, one people of God". Hyphenating makes the band read as a tag next to the adjectives of the other five axes. This does not close the headline defect on its own: the middle-band exclusion in scoring_v1_proposed.headline is still not in the page, so neutral midpoint bands can still print as convictions.

Before
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["one people of God", "leaning to one people of God", "balanced on Israel and the church", "dispensational-leaning", "dispensational"]
```
After
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["one-people-of-God", "one-people-leaning", "balanced on Israel and the church", "dispensational-leaning", "dispensational"]
```
applied to data · raised by 2 findings
Kingdom axis · summary · repair pass axis:kingdom:summary (repair) The pole…
The pole, the top band and the summary showed three forms of the same phrase side by side on the result screen. Table and Worship use their pole words verbatim in the summary; Kingdom now does too.

Before
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"The one-people view holds that..."
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After
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"The one-people-of-God view holds that..."
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applied to data · raised by 1 finding
Authority axis · pole names · repair pass axis:tradition:poles (repair) Same measurement…
Same measurement: "Scripture and tradition" is 207.8px at 18px Fraunces 700 and 185.0px at 16px. Its label is right-aligned at x = 174.5 on the 640-wide result radar, so the text started at x = -11 and the first characters were clipped inside the viewBox; on the share card it painted from x = 19 against a 64px gutter. Nothing containing both "Scripture" and "tradition" fits the 162px card budget ("Scripture & tradition" is 194.3px, "Scripture & church" 176.5px). "Bible & tradition" is 148.8px, keeps both halves of the claim, and keeps the book on the side that holds both, which is what copy-5 and mockery-16 asked for. "Scripture" stays in the top two bands, in the first line of the summary and in the right pole.

Before
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left pole "Scripture and tradition"
```
After
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left pole "Bible & tradition"
```
applied to data · raised by 2 findings
Authority axis · band wording · repair pass axis:tradition:bands (repair) The pole was renamed to put Scripture back on the side that holds both…
The pole was renamed to put Scripture back on the side that holds both, but the two left bands were left as tradition-only, so the headline still printed "Rooted in tradition" on a reader whose position the summary describes as reading Scripture within the church's tradition.

Before
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["rooted in tradition", "tradition-friendly", ...]
```
After
```
["rooted in Scripture and tradition", "Scripture with tradition", ...]
```
applied to data · raised by 2 findings
Grace axis · summary · repair pass axis:grace:summary (repair) Statement 2 scores a belief the summary attributes to confessional Lutherans…
Statement 2 scores a belief the summary attributes to confessional Lutherans (grace "can be refused, even to the end") one third of the axis toward the pole the same summary says they do not hold, and the Lutheran coordinate hard-codes the penalty at 33. The trade-off is real and is now stated instead of hidden: statement 2 is the only item separating the Lutheran entry from the Reformed entries on Grace, so replacing it would collapse the pair that lutheran-4 and presbyterian-1 were about. A resistibility-free synergist item is in candidate_statements for the four-item v1 axis.

Before
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summary describes the Reformed/Lutheran split on resistibility but says nothing about how the axis scores it
```
After
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a closing paragraph stating that statement 2 counts resistible grace toward the synergist pole, why, and what it costs the confessional Lutheran
```
applied to data · raised by 3 findings

Group 02 of 6

statements

21Changes

Statement 1 statement:1 Double-barreled…
Double-barreled, and both barrels are affirmed by synergists: Arminius, Wesley, the Orthodox (Dositheus, Decree 3) and the Southern Baptist Traditional Statement all hold an eternal, certain election grounded in foreknowledge, so the item did not discriminate monergism at all.

Before
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Before anyone does anything, God has already chosen who will be saved, and His choice cannot fail.
```
After
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God's choice of who will be saved is not based on anything He foresaw they would do.
```
applied to data · raised by 5 findings
Statement 2 statement:2 As written a five-point Calvinist can honestly agree…
As written a five-point Calvinist can honestly agree (WCF 10.4 and Dort III/IV: the non-elect resist the outward call to the end), so the item failed to separate the poles, and 'to the very end' read to Baptists as the perseverance question they answer the other way.

Before
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A person can genuinely resist God's grace and refuse salvation to the very end.
```
After
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A person whom God is drawing to salvation can still finally refuse Him and be lost.
```
applied to data · raised by 10 findings
Statement 3 statement:3 The first clause is affirmed by Trent…
The first clause is affirmed by Trent (Sess. VI ch. 8), Arminius, Wesley and Chrysostom alike, so only the subordinate clause discriminated and respondents had to guess which was keyed; with statement 1 now carrying election, statement 3 carries the monergism of conversion.

Before
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Saving faith is itself a gift God gives to those He has chosen, not the reason He chose them.
```
After
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God alone works saving faith in a person; the sinner contributes nothing to conversion, not even the decision to believe.
```
applied to data · raised by 8 findings
Statement 4 statement:4 'Truly present' was read by Mennonites…
'Truly present' was read by Mennonites, charismatics and Pentecostals of Christ present in the gathered congregation, so they were scored sacramental without holding a means-of-grace view; naming the elements locates the claim where the poles actually divide.

Before
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In the Lord's Supper, Christ is truly present in a way that goes beyond a symbol.
```
After
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In the Lord's Supper, Christ Himself is given through the bread and wine, not only remembered.
```
applied to data · raised by 5 findings
Statement 5 statement:5 'Outward sign' is the paedobaptist catechism definition of a sacrament and 'decision' is revivalist…
'Outward sign' is the paedobaptist catechism definition of a sacrament and 'decision' is revivalist vocabulary that confessional credobaptists reject, so the item measured baptismal candidacy twice (with statement 6) and never asked the efficacy question the axis is named for.

Before
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Baptism is an outward sign of a decision to follow Christ that has already been made.
```
After
```
Baptism is a public testimony to a faith already held, not a means by which God gives grace.
```
applied to data · raised by 6 findings
Statement 6 statement:6 'The infants of believing parents' is verbatim Westminster covenant-household idiom (WCF 28.4)…
'The infants of believing parents' is verbatim Westminster covenant-household idiom (WCF 28.4); Rome, the East, Lutherans and the Prayer Book ground infant baptism differently.

Before
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The infants of believing parents should be baptized.
```
After
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Infants should be baptized, not only those who profess faith for themselves.
```
applied to data · raised by 2 findings

The other 15 in statements

Statement 7 statement:7 'As they did in Acts' added a restorationist claim about manner and scale that Anglicans…
'As they did in Acts' added a restorationist claim about manner and scale that Anglicans, Catholics, Orthodox, Methodists and Reformed continuationists do not make, so non-cessationists were pushed toward the cessationist pole; naming them as gifts stops cessationists who pray for the sick from agreeing by accident.

Before
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Tongues, prophecy, and healing continue in the church today, as they did in Acts.
```
After
```
The gifts of tongues, prophecy, and healing are still given to the church today.
```
applied to data · raised by 9 findings
Statement 8 statement:8 'Sign gifts' is a category used only inside cessationist writing and rejected by the…
'Sign gifts' is a category used only inside cessationist writing and rejected by the continuationists the page recommends, so the quiz's own voice asked one side to answer inside the other's frame; both grounds of cessation are kept.

Before
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The miraculous sign gifts ended with the apostles or the completion of the New Testament.
```
After
```
The miraculous gifts of tongues, prophecy, and healing ended with the apostles or the completion of the New Testament.
```
applied to data · raised by 4 findings
Statement 9 statement:9 The item led with a concession every cessationist grants (test everything) and left 'prophecy' undefined…
The item led with a concession every cessationist grants (test everything) and left 'prophecy' undefined, so a cessationist who allows Spirit-given impressions could agree and be scored continuationist.

Before
```
A modern-day prophecy should be weighed carefully, but it can genuinely come from the Spirit.
```
After
```
The Spirit still gives some Christians specific prophetic words for the church today.
```
applied to data · raised by 1 finding
Statement 10 statement:10 'Fulfilled literally' is Ryrie's sine qua non used as the neutral frame…
'Fulfilled literally' is Ryrie's sine qua non used as the neutral frame, so covenantal readers were told in the item that they do not read Scripture literally.

Before
```
God's promises to national Israel will be fulfilled literally in a future earthly kingdom.
```
After
```
God will yet give national Israel its promised land and kingdom on this earth.
```
applied to data · raised by 2 findings
Statement 11 statement:11 The axis's only left-keyed item was written as hard supersessionism…
The axis's only left-keyed item was written as hard supersessionism, which Rome (Nostra Aetate 4), the Orthodox, the Church of England, PCUSA, ELCA and UMC have all formally disowned, so the least dispensational Christians in the world were pushed a third of an axis to the right for refusing a description they are on record against; the new wording is the fair summary's own and is what dispensationalism denies by definition.

Before
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The church is the true Israel, heir to every promise God made to Abraham.
```
After
```
There is one people of God across both testaments: the church, Jew and Gentile together, inherits the promises to Abraham.
```
applied to data · raised by 11 findings
Statement 12 statement:12 A third of the axis was spent on rapture timing…
A third of the axis was spent on rapture timing, which Ryrie's own sine qua non exclude, so post-tribulational and pre-wrath dispensationalists were scored 67 and matched to 'Southern Baptist'; the replacement is the movement's actual distinctive.

Before
```
Believers will be caught up to meet Christ before a seven-year tribulation.
```
After
```
The church is a new body begun at Pentecost, not the continuation of Old Testament Israel.
```
applied to data · raised by 2 findings
Statement 13 statement:13 'Real authority' did not distinguish ministerial from magisterial authority…
'Real authority' did not distinguish ministerial from magisterial authority, so every confessional Protestant agreed and was pushed toward the tradition pole; the new wording is denied by Article XXI, WCF 31, LBC 1.10 and the Formula's Rule and Norm, and affirmed by Rome and the East.

Before
```
The creeds and councils of the early church carry real authority, not just historical interest.
```
After
```
The early creeds and councils carry an authority of their own, not only as faithful summaries of what Scripture teaches.
```
applied to data · raised by 4 findings
Statement 14 statement:14 Two claims the Anglican and Lutheran formularies answer differently…
Two claims the Anglican and Lutheran formularies answer differently (Article VI yes, Article XXXIV and FC X no), so the magisterial Reformation position collapsed to Unsure; infallibility is the line the poles actually divide on.

Before
```
Every doctrine must be proven from Scripture alone; tradition can never bind the conscience.
```
After
```
Only Scripture is infallible; every creed, council, and teacher can err and must be tested by it.
```
applied to data · raised by 2 findings
Statement 15 statement:15 A false dichotomy in one side's apologetic vocabulary…
A false dichotomy in one side's apologetic vocabulary: magisterial Protestants deny both limbs (WCF 1.9-10), so they could not answer honestly, and Anabaptists and congregational Baptists read 'the church' as the gathered congregation and were scored toward Rome.

Before
```
The church, not the individual reader, is the final interpreter of Scripture.
```
After
```
When Christians disagree about a passage, the church's teaching office (bishops, councils, or a magisterium) has the final say.
```
applied to data · raised by 8 findings
Statement 16 statement:16 The rationale clause made disagreement read as disowning connection to the historic church…
The rationale clause made disagreement read as disowning connection to the historic church, which Puritan, Reformed Baptist and Anabaptist congregations claim as strongly as anyone, and 'set liturgy' was ambiguous between a fixed order and a prayer book.

Before
```
Worship should follow a set liturgy that connects us to the historic church.
```
After
```
Worship should follow a fixed written liturgy, with set prayers used week by week.
```
applied to data · raised by 4 findings
Statement 17 statement:17 The item measured spontaneity rather than non-liturgical worship and made disagreement feel like…
The item measured spontaneity rather than non-liturgical worship and made disagreement feel like denying the Spirit, so the largest free-church families (Baptist, Bible church, Mennonite, Churches of Christ) had no honest answer and were pulled toward the liturgical pole, while liturgical charismatics were misplaced the other way.

Before
```
Worship should be free-form and led by the Spirit in the moment.
```
After
```
Each congregation should shape its own order of service rather than follow a prescribed liturgy.
```
applied to data · raised by 11 findings
Statement 18 statement:18 Weekly communion is not a liturgical marker…
Weekly communion is not a liturgical marker: it pushed Churches of Christ and the Plymouth Brethren, the freest congregations that exist, toward 'liturgical', and pushed Prayer Book Anglicans, whose rubric requires communion three times a year, toward 'free'. The church year tests set form and cross-loads on nothing.

Before
```
Communion should be celebrated every week as the center of the service.
```
After
```
The church year, with Advent, Lent, and Easter, should shape what a congregation reads, sings, and prays.
```
applied to data · raised by 6 findings
Statements (whole set) statements (whole set) Acquiescence still produces a coherent profile (all-agree gives 33/33/33/67/33/33)…
Acquiescence still produces a coherent profile (all-agree gives 33/33/33/67/33/33), which cannot be fixed inside three items per axis; the candidates make the v1 expansion a rewrite of the item pool rather than a redesign. lutheran-6 asks for the manducatio item that separates Lutheran from Reformed sacramental teaching; it is in the candidates, since the Table coordinates were compressed instead for the demo.

Before
```
18 statements, keying 2:1 per axis, five axes left-keyed
```
After
```
18 statements kept (the demo and apply.js assume 6 axes and 18 statements); 17 balanced, opposite-keyed candidates added in a new candidate_statements array for the v1 four-to-six item build, including the perseverance item wesleyan-20 asks for
```
applied to data · raised by 4 findings
Statement 1 statement:1 The owner could not answer it (2026-09-25)…
The owner could not answer it (2026-09-25): the 'not' inside the sentence made Disagree a double negative. Same claim, stated positively: election by God's decision alone (monergist) against election on foreseen faith (synergist), so direction -1 is unchanged.

Before
```
God's choice of who will be saved is not based on anything He foresaw they would do.
```
After
```
God chose who would be saved by His own decision alone, rather than by foreseeing who would believe.
```
applied to data · raised by 1 finding
Statement 10 statement:10 The owner read 'will yet give national Israel' as if Israel were not yet a nation (2026-09-25)…
The owner read 'will yet give national Israel' as if Israel were not yet a nation (2026-09-25). Same claim in plain words: a future, earthly fulfilment for the Jewish people (+1) against fulfilment in Christ and the church (-1). 'Literally' stays out, for the reason in the entry above.

Before
```
God will yet give national Israel its promised land and kingdom on this earth.
```
After
```
God's promises of land and a kingdom to Israel will still be fulfilled for the Jewish people, here on earth.
```
applied to data · raised by 1 finding

Group 03 of 6

traditions

17Changes

Roman Catholic tradition:Roman Catholic Spirit 40 made the church that requires verified miracles for canonization look half cessationist…
Spirit 40 made the church that requires verified miracles for canonization look half cessationist, and tradition/worship at 10 against Orthodoxy's 5 penalised an answer set identical on 15 of 18 items, so a Catholic answering from the Catechism landed on Eastern Orthodox first. Grace rises because the revised statements 2 and 3 force Trent's cooperation language (Sess. VI ch. 5, can. 4). The rename covers the 23 Eastern Catholic churches. Repair pass: Gifts 22 and Kingdom 15 were carried over or set by eye; the published sheet answers 8 and 0 (Lumen Gentium 12 on charisms; no Catholic reading of Romans 11 gives national Israel a future earthly kingdom). Softened to 15 and 8: parish Catholics are not charismatics, and 8 leaves room for the historic-premillennial minority (problem: unchanged Kingdom, catholic-1).

Before
```
"Roman Catholic" [55, 5, 40, 15, 10, 10]
```
After
```
"Catholic (Roman and Eastern)" [72, 5, 15, 8, 5, 5]
```
applied to data (coordinate revised again in the repair pass) · raised by 6 findings
Eastern Orthodox tradition:Eastern Orthodox Grace 65 put the Orthodox on the monergist side of the Wesleyans although synergeia is their own…
Grace 65 put the Orthodox on the monergist side of the Wesleyans although synergeia is their own word for exactly this axis (Cassian, Dositheus Decree 3), and no Orthodox confession is cessationist while unction is a mystery and wonderworkers are canonized. The change also widens the Rome/Constantinople gap from 13 to 18.7 units. Repair pass: Kingdom 15 was carried over from the pre-audit file although all three Kingdom statements were replaced; the sheet answers 0. Set to 8 to leave room for the chiliast minority the axis history names.

Before
```
[65, 5, 35, 15, 5, 5]
```
After
```
[90, 5, 20, 8, 5, 5]
```
applied to data (coordinate revised again in the repair pass) · raised by 3 findings
Lutheran (confessional) tradition:Lutheran (confessional) Tradition 35 placed the tradition that wrote 'Scripture alone is the only rule and norm' left of…
Tradition 35 placed the tradition that wrote 'Scripture alone is the only rule and norm' left of centre on the authority axis; grace 20 and table 15 were unreachable by any honest confessional answer set; the revised statements 13-15 put a Book of Concord subscriber near 90. Repair pass: Kingdom 15 was carried over although all three Kingdom statements were replaced; Augsburg XVII condemns the millennial opinions the axis right pole holds, and the sheet answers 0. Set to 8. This alone was 225 of the 495 squared units between the Lutheran sheet and its entry.

Before
```
[20, 15, 70, 15, 35, 20]
```
After
```
[33, 5, 82, 8, 88, 10]
```
applied to data (coordinate revised again in the repair pass) · raised by 4 findings
Anglican (broad) tradition:Anglican (broad) Table 25 was 17-25 points from where Articles XXVII and XXVIII put a Prayer Book Anglican…
Table 25 was 17-25 points from where Articles XXVII and XXVIII put a Prayer Book Anglican, so a typical Anglican landed on Roman Catholic first and Anglican second; Article XXI ('General Councils may err') puts the same respondent high on the revised authority axis.

Before
```
[40, 25, 45, 20, 30, 20]
```
After
```
[42, 5, 35, 22, 65, 5]
```
applied to data · raised by 4 findings
Presbyterian / Reformed tradition:Presbyterian / Reformed Table 35 was 18-35 points from where WCF 28-29 puts an adherent…
Table 35 was 18-35 points from where WCF 28-29 puts an adherent, so a PCA elder was handed 'Lutheran (confessional)' first at an identical 87%; the qualifier is added because the entry is a PCA/OPC/URC profile while the largest Presbyterian body in the US is mainline. Repair pass: Authority 78 and Worship 40 were unexplained. WCF 1.10 and 31.3-4 put a subscriber at 100 on the revised statements 13-15; the Directory for Publick Worship and WCF 21.5 put him at 83 on statements 16-18. Set to 88 and 67, softened because PCA and OPC congregations use an ordered service and many now keep Advent and Easter.

Before
```
"Presbyterian / Reformed" [10, 35, 75, 15, 45, 45]
```
After
```
"Presbyterian / Reformed (confessional)" [5, 10, 90, 5, 88, 67]
```
applied to data (coordinate revised again in the repair pass) · raised by 7 findings
Reformed Baptist tradition:Reformed Baptist Kingdom 30 made covenantal Baptists 'covenantal-leaning' though LBC ch…
Kingdom 30 made covenantal Baptists 'covenantal-leaning' though LBC ch. 7 and 31-32 have no rapture or tribulation; tradition 55 put the 1689 (whose 1.10 copies Westminster) at 'balanced on authority'; table 50 follows from the revised statement 5, which lets a confessional Baptist register the Supper as a means of grace; the qualifier separates the 1689 stream from the Reformed continuationists now given their own entry.

Before
```
"Reformed Baptist" [10, 70, 80, 30, 55, 65]
```
After
```
"Reformed Baptist (1689)" [5, 50, 95, 5, 90, 88]
```
applied to data · raised by 3 findings

The other 11 in traditions

Southern Baptist (typical) tradition:Southern Baptist (typical) Grace 45 described no Southern Baptist…
Grace 45 described no Southern Baptist: the convention is bimodal (about 30% of pastors Calvinist per LifeWay 2012, the rest signatories of the 2012 Traditional Statement), and the average made a historic-premillennial Traditionalist land on 'Anabaptist / Mennonite' first. '(typical)' also graded the adherent where the other qualifiers name a wing. Repair pass: Kingdom 72 was inherited from the undivided Southern Baptist entry. Founders-stream and 9Marks-stream Southern Baptists are largely amillennial or historic premillennial and the sheet answers 50; set to 58, still right of centre because the wider convention is premillennial. Grace 10 to 8 follows the sheet.

Before
```
one entry, "Southern Baptist (typical)" [45, 85, 75, 70, 85, 70]
```
After
```
two entries: "Southern Baptist (non-Calvinist)" [80, 95, 75, 72, 95, 95] and "Southern Baptist (Calvinist)" [8, 95, 75, 58, 95, 95]
```
applied to data (coordinate revised again in the repair pass) · raised by 2 findings
Dispensational Bible church tradition:Dispensational Bible church No congregation calls itself a 'Dispensational Bible church'…
No congregation calls itself a 'Dispensational Bible church'; the self-name goes first and the system into a parenthetical, matching 'Lutheran (confessional)'. Worship rises because the revised statements 16-18 measure non-liturgical form rather than spontaneity.

Before
```
"Dispensational Bible church" [40, 90, 90, 95, 90, 75]
```
After
```
"Bible church (independent, dispensational)" [48, 95, 95, 95, 95, 95]
```
applied to data · raised by 1 finding
Wesleyan / Methodist tradition:Wesleyan / Methodist Table 40 put the church of Articles XVII-XVIII and 'The Duty of Constant Communion' nearly halfway…
Table 40 put the church of Articles XVII-XVIII and 'The Duty of Constant Communion' nearly halfway to memorialism, 32 points from where its own standards place a member; the entry also sat nearest the six-dimensional centre, so all-Unsure respondents were told they were Methodists. Repair pass: Re-derived from the sheet [92, 0, 33, 17, 75, 25] and moved out of the six-dimensional centre, which is the coordinate half of wesleyan-1: Table 12 to 8 (Article XVIII and "The Duty of Constant Communion"), Kingdom 25 to 20, Authority 60 to 67 (Article V and the quadrilateral put Scripture first). The entry now sits 72.7 units from the all-Unsure point instead of 67.1, and its Voronoi cell falls from 15.6% of reachable score vectors to 11.3%.

Before
```
[80, 40, 45, 25, 45, 40]
```
After
```
[88, 8, 30, 20, 67, 28]
```
applied to data (coordinate revised again in the repair pass) · raised by 4 findings
Pentecostal / Assemblies of God tradition:Pentecostal / Assemblies of God The name omitted the Church of God (Cleveland) and COGIC…
The name omitted the Church of God (Cleveland) and COGIC, the largest Pentecostal body in the United States, which share every coordinate.

Before
```
"Pentecostal / Assemblies of God" [80, 85, 5, 75, 85, 90]
```
After
```
"Pentecostal (Assemblies of God, Church of God, COGIC)" [90, 90, 5, 75, 85, 95]
```
applied to data · raised by 1 finding
Charismatic non-denominational tradition:Charismatic non-denominational Kingdom 60 put the Vineyard and Bethel stream on the dispensational side of a question their own…
Kingdom 60 put the Vineyard and Bethel stream on the dispensational side of a question their own theology (Ladd's inaugurated kingdom; Eberle & Trench) answers the other way; the moves also widen the Pentecostal/charismatic separation from 18.7 to 25.7 units without a seventh coordinate.

Before
```
[70, 80, 5, 60, 85, 90]
```
After
```
[75, 90, 5, 55, 80, 92]
```
applied to data · raised by 3 findings
Anabaptist / Mennonite tradition:Anabaptist / Mennonite Spirit 55 put Mennonites on the cessationist side of centre although no Anabaptist confession is…
Spirit 55 put Mennonites on the cessationist side of centre although no Anabaptist confession is cessationist; the qualifier warns a non-pacifist evangelical that the entry stands for a peace church, since no axis measures nonresistance, the ban or oaths.

Before
```
"Anabaptist / Mennonite" [75, 85, 55, 30, 70, 60]
```
After
```
"Anabaptist / Mennonite (peace church)" [90, 90, 30, 25, 90, 82]
```
applied to data · raised by 2 findings
Churches of Christ / Christian Churches · added tradition (added): Churches of Christ / Christian Churches About 2.5 million US adherents…
About 2.5 million US adherents, and the middle of the Table axis (believer's immersion for the remission of sins with a weekly Supper) was empty; a simulated member now lands on the entry at 10.4 units, which the page prints as 96% and the proposed rule as 95%. Repair pass: Kingdom 10 could not be reached by a Restorationist answer sheet: Churches of Christ teach that the church began at Pentecost (Acts 2), which is statement 12, while also teaching that Christians are Abraham's heirs (Galatians 3:29), which is statement 11. The sheet answers 33; set to 30.

Before
```
absent; a Stone-Campbell member's nearest traditions were 'Anabaptist / Mennonite, Wesleyan / Methodist' at 70% and 65%
```
After
```
[95, 58, 95, 30, 95, 95]
```
applied to data (coordinate revised again in the repair pass) · raised by 3 findings
Mainline Protestant (PCUSA / ELCA / UMC) · added tradition (added): Mainline Protestant (PCUSA / ELCA / UMC) Roughly a tenth of US adults…
Roughly a tenth of US adults, and every Presbyterian, Lutheran and Methodist entry was coded at its confessional or evangelical wing.

Before
```
absent; a PCUSA member landed on 'Anglican (broad), Roman Catholic' with 'Presbyterian / Reformed' sixth
```
After
```
[50, 5, 35, 10, 55, 25]
```
applied to data · raised by 3 findings
Reformed charismatic (Sovereign Grace, Newfrontiers) · added tradition (added): Reformed charismatic (Sovereign Grace, Newfrontiers) The old coordinates encoded a grace-spirit correlation no confession asserts…
The old coordinates encoded a grace-spirit correlation no confession asserts, while three of the page's own recommended authors (Grudem, Storms, Kauflin) come from this family; the member now lands on the entry at 19.7 units (92% on the page, 90% under the proposed rule). Repair pass: Table 52 and Worship 78 were unexplained; the sheet answers 67 and 92. Set to 58 and 85.

Before
```
absent; the monergist-continuationist quadrant was empty and the simulated member was 82.6 units from the nearest entry (66%)
```
After
```
[5, 58, 5, 25, 88, 85]
```
applied to data (coordinate revised again in the repair pass) · raised by 5 findings
Calvary Chapel · added tradition (added): Calvary Chapel The dispensational…
The dispensational, moderately continuationist, non-Pentecostal region was empty. The finding's second proposal, a separate Independent Baptist entry, is not applied: it would sit 20 units from the Bible church entry and recreate the twin-tradition problem. Repair pass: Gifts 40 was set by eye and put Calvary Chapel on the cessationist side of centre, which the Distinctives deny ("we believe in the gifts... we do not believe in the abuse"). The sheet answers 17; set to 25, right of the Pentecostal entry because public tongues is restrained in the service.

Before
```
absent; a Calvary Chapel profile was routed to 'Pentecostal / Assemblies of God', the tradition Chuck Smith defined the movement against
```
After
```
[55, 95, 25, 95, 95, 95]
```
applied to data (coordinate revised again in the repair pass) · raised by 1 finding
National Baptist (NBC USA / historically Black Baptist) · added tradition (added): National Baptist (NBC USA / historically Black Baptist) NBC USA is the second-largest Baptist body in the country…
NBC USA is the second-largest Baptist body in the country. Grace is set from its New Hampshire Confession descent rather than from a style generalisation, and only the Gifts axis separates it from the Southern Baptist entry. Repair pass: Grace 70 was set by eye; the sheet answers 83. Set to 75.

Before
```
absent; historically Black Baptists scattered between the Southern Baptist and Pentecostal entries
```
After
```
[75, 95, 35, 72, 95, 92]
```
applied to data (coordinate revised again in the repair pass) · raised by 1 finding

Group 04 of 6

scoring

4Changes

Scoring · headline scoring:headline The old rule printed midpoint adjectives as convictions…
The old rule printed midpoint adjectives as convictions ('Firmly monergist, flexible in worship, centered on the sacraments' for someone who answered Unsure on four axes), and 'A theological centrist' presented the middle as a party. This is a code change; apply.js does not regenerate headline().

Before
```
"take the three axes with the largest |score - 50|, join their band adjectives; if all six are within 10 of 50, label is 'A theological centrist'"
```
After
```
candidates restricted to axes outside the middle band, ties broken by the count of Strongly answers then by axis order, at most three; no candidates gives 'Near the center on every axis'
```
specified, not yet in code · raised by 4 findings
Scoring · nearest tradition scoring:nearest_tradition The 245-unit diagonal nobody spans inflated every match to 75-95%…
The 245-unit diagonal nobody spans inflated every match to 75-95%, an all-Unsure sheet returned 'Wesleyan / Methodist 83%', ties printed identical percentages in different ranks, and the published formula was not the one the code used. Code change.

Before
```
"match % = round(100 - distance / sqrt(6 * 100^2) * 100)" and an on-page note saying 'Match is 100 minus your distance across all six axes'
```
After
```
denominator 195 (the largest distance between two listed traditions), a tie rule at 10 units, a poor-fit hedge above 60 units, and suppression of the tradition line when all six axes are within 10 of 50
```
specified, not yet in code · raised by 7 findings
Scoring · permalink scoring:permalink A shared link showed a different band from the one the sharer saw…
A shared link showed a different band from the one the sharer saw, on the one feature the launch test measures. Code change.

Before
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scores stored as round(score/4) in base 32, so nine of thirteen reachable scores round-trip to a different value and 58 reopens as 60
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After
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documented base-13 encoding of round(score * 12 / 100), which round-trips every reachable score exactly
```
specified, not yet in code · raised by 2 findings
Scoring · repair pass scoring (repair) apply.js regenerates only the AXES / STATEMENTS / TRADITIONS block…
apply.js regenerates only the AXES / STATEMENTS / TRADITIONS block, so none of those rules reach the page. Applied as it stood, the data file documented behaviour the page contradicts: the page divides by sqrt(6*100^2) = 244.95, so every match percentage it prints runs 2-5 points above the figures the report quoted. A data file must not describe rules the page does not run.

Before
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the scoring object documented a 195-unit denominator, a 10-unit tie rule, a 60-unit hedge, all-central suppression, middle-band exclusion in the headline and a base-13 permalink
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After
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scoring reverted verbatim to the rules theology-compass.html actually runs; every proposed rule moved to scoring_v1_proposed with an explicit not-implemented status
```
applied to data · raised by 6 findings

Group 05 of 6

page copy

5Changes

Page copy / code · share text page copy / code: share text The gauge read as a score of the virtue named…

The gauge read as a score of the virtue named, so every left-pole conviction posted as an empty bar under 'Grace', 'Spirit' or 'Tradition' - the single most screenshot-ready line in the product.

Before

fill gauge ('Sacramental ○○○○○○○○○○ Memorial' for a fully sacramental respondent), 'Closest: X · Y', caption 'Filled circles run toward the pole named on the right'

After

position marker in eleven slots (one filled circle at round(score/10)), bar first so the columns align, 'Nearest on the map: X · Y' with the approximation caveat, caption 'The filled circle marks where you sit between the two poles named on each line'

specified, not yet in code · raised by 7 findings

Page copy / code · answer scale page copy / code: answer scale The only midpoint recorded a considered 'neither' or 'not how we put it' as ignorance…
The only midpoint recorded a considered 'neither' or 'not how we put it' as ignorance, which several traditions must answer on at least one item.

Before
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middle option labelled 'Unsure'
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After
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'Unsure / neither', with one line above the first statement: 'If a statement is not the way your tradition frames the question, or you hold part of it and not the rest, choose Unsure / neither.'
```
specified, not yet in code · raised by 4 findings

Page copy · closest-traditions note page copy: closest-traditions note Rome and Constantinople are 18.7 units apart because nothing on the compass separates them…

Rome and Constantinople are 18.7 units apart because nothing on the compass separates them; polity, the peace churches and the Anglican wings are likewise out of scope. Saying so is the honest alternative to a seventh axis the demo cannot carry.

Before

"Approximate positions of typical adherents, not official teaching. Match is 100 minus your distance across all six axes."

After

"Approximate positions of typical adherents, not official teaching. Match is 100% minus your distance from that tradition, as a share of the largest distance between any two traditions on this map. These six axes are the questions that split the Western churches at the Reformation: they do not measure church government, the papacy, or the peace-church convictions, so families that differ on those can sit close together here. Broad churches (Anglican, Methodist, mainline) are placed at their centre; their wings sit nearer other entries."

specified, not yet in code · raised by 9 findings

Page copy · footer page copy: footer A builder's to-do told readers the content had not been checked…
A builder's to-do told readers the content had not been checked, on a page whose promise is that it has been; after this audit it is also untrue.

Before
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"Demo build. Tradition positions are approximate; statements and histories should be reviewed before publishing."
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After
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"Demo build. Tradition positions are approximate sketches of typical adherents, not official teaching."
```
specified, not yet in code · raised by 1 finding
Page copy · axis-by-axis lean text page copy: axis-by-axis lean text One net Agree out of six available points was rendered as a 58% majority lean…
One net Agree out of six available points was rendered as a 58% majority lean, contradicting the band adjective printed next to it. Code change.

Before
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lean() prints '58% toward Monergist' beside the band 'balanced on grace', and '50% · centered' at the midpoint
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After
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print the distance from centre as a percentage of the half-axis ('16% toward Monergist'), 'at the center' at 50, and 'at the Monergist pole' at 0/100
```
specified, not yet in code · raised by 1 finding

Group 06 of 6

other

2Changes

Simulations · added simulations (added) Every coordinate is now derivable from a published answer sheet…

Every coordinate is now derivable from a published answer sheet, and section 5 of the report is recomputed from these sheets with the formula the shipped page uses rather than from the coordinates read backwards. Residuals are the deliberate distance between an informed adherent and the typical adherent the coordinate stands for; all eighteen sheets land on their own entry first.

Before

the report asserted that every coordinate had been re-derived by scoring an informed adherent through the eighteen statements, but no answer sheet was published, so about thirty of the fifty changed values could not be checked

After

an eighteen-entry simulations array: for each tradition, the lens, the confessional sources, the eighteen answers, the resulting six scores, the distance to its own entry, the match under both the shipped and the proposed denominators, the two nearest entries, and the coordinate-minus-sheet residual on every axis

applied to data · raised by 3 findings

Scoring v1 proposed · hedge · repair pass scoring_v1_proposed:hedge (repair) The 60-unit threshold had no stated basis and fired for 71% of the reachable score space…
The 60-unit threshold had no stated basis and fired for 71% of the reachable score space; an all-Strongly-agree sheet sits 68.6 units from its nearest entry and would have been given one. 45 is about 1.8x the worst distance an informed adherent reaches.

Before
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poor-fit hedge above 60 units, set by eye
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After
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45 units, derived from the eighteen published sheets (worst informed-adherent distance 25.5)
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specified, not yet in code · raised by 2 findings

A record that only shows the agreements is not a record

Kept but not applied

Argued and refused

The 11 that were not applied.

These 11 findings were raised and argued through, and the audit decided against acting on them. They are kept here rather than dropped, because a record that only shows the changes everyone agreed with is not a record.

Authority axis · pole names axis:tradition:poles Rename the right pole 'Scripture over tradition' and the top band 'Bible-only'…

What was proposed

Rename the right pole 'Scripture over tradition' and the top band 'Bible-only', because the 'Scripture alone' band was reachable only by respondents who deny the creeds any authority.

Why it was not applied

The defect is real but it was caused by statements 13 and 15, not by the labels, and both have been rewritten. Under the revised items a Book of Concord or Westminster subscriber now scores 88-92 and reaches the top band, so the slogan is no longer handed only to biblicists. The proposed replacement would have created a new unfairness in its place: 'Bible-only' would be printed on Southern Baptist, Pentecostal, Bible-church and Restorationist respondents, who use 'sola scriptura' of themselves and would read Mathison's polemical coinage as a put-down. The half of the finding that survives on its own merits, bands[3] 'Scripture over tradition' (also asked for by catholic-23, presbyterian-10 and reformedcharismatic-9), has been applied.

raised by 1 finding
Table axis · pole names axis:table:poles Option (b)…

What was proposed

Option (b): rename the poles 'Sacrament' and 'Ordinance' with bands ending 'ordinance-leaning', so that a 1689 Reformed Baptist at 67 is not told he is 'memorial-leaning'.

Why it was not applied

Option (a) of the same blocker has been applied instead: statement 5 now tests whether God gives grace through baptism rather than who is baptized, so a 1689 subscriber scores 50 ('between sacramental and memorial') and the mis-score disappears without a rename. 'Memorial' also survives the holders'-own-vocabulary test that decided catholic-9: BF&M 2000 Art. VII says members 'memorialize the death of the Redeemer' and the AG Statement art. 6 calls the Supper 'a memorial'. 'Ordinance', by contrast, is used by both poles (LBC 30.7 calls the Supper 'that ordinance'; WLC 154 calls the sacraments ordinances), so it would name no pole.

raised by 1 finding
General (seventh axis or seventh coordinate) general (seventh axis or seventh coordinate) Add a seventh axis…

What was proposed

Add a seventh axis (Church & World, or Church polity, or Church) or a seventh placement-only coordinate (the papacy; tongues as initial evidence) so that the peace churches, congregational polity, Rome versus Constantinople and Pentecostal versus charismatic are all measured.

Why it was not applied

The demo is fixed at six axes and eighteen statements (apply.js warns on any other count, the page's radar has six spokes and the intro promises '18 statements, about 3 minutes'), and a coordinate the respondent answers but never sees on the compass is worse than an honest omission. What was applied instead: the Eastern Orthodox grace correction and the Catholic spirit correction (which widen the Rome/Constantinople gap from 13 to 18 units), the Pentecostal and charismatic coordinate changes (18.7 to 25.5 units), the 'peace church' qualifier on the Anabaptist entry, and a scope note under 'Nearest on the map' saying in the page's own voice that church government, the papacy and the peace-church convictions are not measured. The papacy and initial-evidence items are recommended for v1 in the report, where the item pool is being rebuilt anyway.

raised by 6 findings
Scoring scoring Rename the midpoint 'Neither agree nor disagree'…

What was proposed

Rename the midpoint 'Neither agree nor disagree', add a sixth unscored 'Skip / don't know' option, score axes as 50 + 25 x mean over answered items, require a minimum number of answers per axis, and exclude unanswered axes from the headline and the distance.

Why it was not applied

The harm this finding names, an all-Unsure respondent receiving a confident tradition match, is removed by two smaller changes that are applied: the tradition line is suppressed when all six axes sit within 10 of 50 (wesleyan-1), and the midpoint is relabelled 'Unsure / neither' (anabaptist-27). The rest is a scale redesign with per-axis minimums, an 'insufficient answers' state and a distance rescaled by sqrt(6/k), which cannot be expressed in this data file and is more instrument change than a three-minute demo needs. Recorded as a v1 recommendation.

raised by 1 finding
Statements (whole set) statements (whole set) Four to six statements per axis…

What was proposed

Four to six statements per axis, keyed 2/2 or 3/3, so that acquiescence no longer produces a coherent profile.

Why it was not applied

Correct and confirmed: agreeing with everything still yields 33/33/33/67/33/33 and the headline 'Monergist-leaning, sacramental-leaning, continuationist-leaning'. It cannot be fixed inside three items per axis, since 2:1 keying is forced, and the revised wording of every item is already fixed by other kept findings. Eighteen balanced, opposite-keyed candidates are supplied in candidate_statements so the v1 expansion is a selection exercise rather than a redesign.

raised by 1 finding
General (key passages) general (key passages) Restructure key_passages per axis as…

What was proposed

Restructure key_passages per axis as {left, right, both} and render three labelled rows, as read_more already does, so the promise that these are 'the passages each side reaches for' is visible rather than asserted.

Why it was not applied

This changes the shape of the data file and requires a matching change in renderHistory, which is outside a data revision; applying it half-way (a shape change with the old renderer) would throw. The substance of the promise has been met inside the flat lists instead: every axis is now balanced pole by pole (Grace 3-3 with two read both ways, Gifts 3-3-1, Table and Authority 4-4, Kingdom 3-3-3), and the Kingdom list is ordered canonically so the chips do not group by side. Recommended for v1 in the report.

raised by 1 finding
Authority axis · history axis:tradition:history Reword the bare…

What was proposed

Reword the bare 'Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine.' so it states a claim like every other entry.

Why it was not applied

The entry itself was removed. historian-1's own fix offers dropping the Newman line if length matters, and orthodox-19 asks for Basil and Second Nicaea in its place so the tradition pole is not three-quarters Roman with no Eastern source; Newman remains the first title in read_more.left, where the Orthodox objection to the development thesis costs nothing.

raised by 1 finding
General (traditions) general (traditions) Add both 'Calvary Chapel' and 'Independent Baptist'

What was proposed

Add both 'Calvary Chapel' and 'Independent Baptist'.

Why it was not applied

Calvary Chapel is added; Independent Baptist is not. At the proposed coordinates it would sit about 20 units from the Bible church entry, which is the twin-tradition degeneracy this audit is otherwise removing, and the Bible church entry has been renamed 'Bible church (independent, dispensational)' so that bloc reads itself in the name.

raised by 1 finding
Kingdom axis · history axis:kingdom:history Insert Calvin…

What was proposed

Insert Calvin, Institutes II.10-11 (1559) as the one-covenant landmark alongside a reworded Westminster line.

Why it was not applied

The 1646 line was reworded to state the one-covenant claim in Westminster's own words ('not two covenants of grace but one and the same'), which is what the finding's necessity fix asks for. Adding Calvin as well would give the left pole a fifth confessional entry against the right pole's four and duplicate a claim now stated in the entry immediately below it.

raised by 1 finding
General (traditions) general (traditions) Add an 'Anglican (Anglo-Catholic)' entry at…

What was proposed

Add an 'Anglican (Anglo-Catholic)' entry at [55, 5, 20, 10, 15, 5].

Why it was not applied

Only the broad-church note is applied. A third entry inside the already-tight Catholic/Orthodox/Anglican cluster would recreate the crowding that mockery-1 and survey-2 file as blockers, and the finding's own fairness and necessity verdicts recommend the note alone. An Anglo-Catholic respondent still sees 'Catholic (Roman and Eastern)' first, which the note now explains rather than leaving as a surprise.

raised by 1 finding
General (typography) general (typography) Replace every straight apostrophe and quotation mark in the data and the HTML with typographic…

What was proposed

Replace every straight apostrophe and quotation mark in the data and the HTML with typographic characters, on a page that already uses en dashes, middots, arrows and an ellipsis.

Why it was not applied

Not applied. It is a global pass over strings that live in both the data file and the hand-written parts of the page, and the necessity lens dropped it as embarrassing nobody and mis-scoring nobody; doing it half-way (data only) would make the inconsistency more visible, not less. Worth one careful sweep at the v1 build, together with the other copy work listed in the report.

raised by 1 finding

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