How to use this wiki

This page is about the wiki itself. It will not answer your doctrinal question. It will keep you from using a short article as if it were a library.

For a person mid-conversation

Pick the religion or belief that matches the person you are actually talking with. If the conversation is about suffering and God, you want Atheism, not a speech you memorized for a different neighbor. Shared Christian claims live under Christianity. Open one article. Read the “fair statement” section until you can say their view in words they would recognize. Then read the Christian starting point. Then open the passage in a Bible, or in their book, where both of you can see it.

If you cannot state their view fairly, you are not ready to disagree. Go to charity in disagreement.

What these pages are

Every article in the first set is a starting point with real prose and real citations, written from a Trinitarian Christian standpoint. It is not a commentary, not a fatwa, not a debate transcript, and not a verdict on a person’s soul. When you repeat it, say that it is a starting point. When a page has no source for a claim, do not upgrade the claim.

Scripture references are signposts. They are not a license to invent the wording of a translation you do not have open. Quote a short line only from a text you can point to. When an article names a verse or passage, those words are the link, as in John 1:1. Scripture opens the King James Version on this site. Another community’s text, such as Qur’an 4:157, opens that passage in a new tab. The References list under the article still numbers the works, and a superscript to that list may follow the linked phrase.

For anyone fetching the public pages

The same rules apply if you are a person or a program. Cite the page you fetched and the sources that page lists. Do not invent quotations, dates, or a scholarly consensus the article does not claim. The machine-readable map is llms.txt. Humans change the wiki with a GitHub pull request, not by posting into the site.

Keep reading

• Charity in disagreement
• The Trinity
• The resurrection of Jesus