{
  "article": "<section class=\"plain-english-door\" aria-label=\"Introduction\">\n  <p class=\"plain-english-door__kicker\">Public proclamation</p>\n  <h3>Acts presents Jesus as Lord and Christ in the public message.</h3>\n  <p class=\"plain-english-door__lead\">Acts is not a stenographic transcript of every early sermon. It is Luke's shaped account of the church's mission. Still, its repeated kerygma presents Jesus as crucified, raised, exalted, and publicly proclaimed as Lord and Christ. That public shape matters for Christ-identity and late-legend questions.</p>\n</section>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Observation</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p><strong>The speeches in Acts preserve a public proclamation pattern centered on Jesus as the exalted Lord and Messiah.</strong> The row is cautious: Acts is a Lukan literary-historical source, and speech summaries carry authorial shaping. Even so, the repeated pattern is not merely private admiration for a teacher. Jesus is preached as the one through whom God acts, judges, saves, and fulfills Israel's hope.</p>\n<p>This does not duplicate the 1 Corinthians 15 creed. The creed anchors early resurrection formula; this row tracks public proclamation language in the Lukan mission narrative, with Acts/source caveats kept visible.</p>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">What It Shows</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>Early Christian proclamation was not only ethical memory; it was a public claim about Jesus' exalted status.</li>\n<li>The Lord/Christ pattern supports Christ-identity modestly without by itself proving later doctrine.</li>\n<li>The public proclamation pattern modestly pressures accounts where high claims arrive only after long legendary growth.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Caveats</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>Acts reflects Lukan composition and theological selection.</li>\n<li>Speech summaries should not be treated as verbatim transcripts.</li>\n<li>Exalted-messianic language is not automatically identical to Nicene ontology.</li>\n<li>This row is supporting Christ-identity evidence, not direct Resurrection evidence.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Bayesian Meaning</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p>The active weight is small and capped: <strong>H-CHRIST-IDENTITY: +0.03; H-ALT-LEGEND: -0.02 log10BF</strong>. It belongs in the early public-proclamation family.</p>\n</div>",
  "axioms": [
    "A6",
    "A7"
  ],
  "bayes_factors": {
    "H-CHRIST-IDENTITY": {
      "log10BF": 0.03,
      "bf_min": 0.02,
      "bf_max": 0.04,
      "rationale": "Acts' public proclamation pattern modestly supports early Christ-identity claims while remaining source- and genre-limited."
    },
    "H-ALT-LEGEND": {
      "log10BF": -0.02,
      "bf_min": -0.03,
      "bf_max": -0.01,
      "rationale": "The repeated public Lord/Christ kerygma slightly pressures late-legend development, while Acts' literary shaping keeps the effect small."
    }
  },
  "bf_status": "ready",
  "category": "Early Proclamation",
  "citations": [
    "Acts 2:22-36.",
    "Acts 3:13-26.",
    "Acts 10:36-43.",
    "Acts 13:26-39.",
    "C. K. Barrett, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (T&T Clark, 1994-1998).",
    "Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel (Eerdmans, 2008).",
    "Larry W. Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Eerdmans, 2003)."
  ],
  "counts_in_cache": true,
  "evidence_id": "E-HIST-ACTS-KERYGMA-LORD-CHRIST",
  "visual_asset": {
    "src": "assets/evidence-viewer/evidence-images/acts_kerygma_jesus_as_lord_and_christ.png",
    "title": "Acts kerygma and Jesus as Lord and Christ visual overview",
    "alt": "AI-generated conceptual visualization for Acts kerygma and Jesus as Lord and Christ. Illustrative only, not experimental data.",
    "caption": "AI-generated conceptual / comparative visualization ? illustrative only, not experimental data. Presented inside a Christian evidence map.",
    "width": 1448,
    "height": 1086
  },
  "hypothesis_ref": [
    "H-CHRIST-IDENTITY",
    "H-ALT-LEGEND"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-05-30T00:00:00Z",
  "major_category": "History",
  "metadata": {
    "answer_status": "partial_answer",
    "cap_eligible": true,
    "cap_exempt_reason": null,
    "cap_family": "early_church_public_proclamation",
    "cap_notes": "Capped public-proclamation support. Do not stack as independent proof beside creed, baptism/name, Maranatha, or other early kerygma rows.",
    "cap_profile": "moderate_semi_independent",
    "category": "Early Proclamation",
    "counts_as_direct_christ_identity": true,
    "counts_as_direct_logos_synthesis": false,
    "counts_as_direct_resurrection": false,
    "defeater_family": "resurrection_alternative",
    "defeater_target": [
      "H-ALT-LEGEND"
    ],
    "dependency_cluster": "early_church_public_proclamation",
    "dependency_cluster_id": "early_church_public_proclamation",
    "dependency_cluster_label": "Early church public proclamation",
    "dependency_cluster_role": "sibling_support",
    "dependency_role": "sibling_support",
    "dependency_weight_class": "semi_independent",
    "directness": "supporting",
    "evidence_function": "direct_identity",
    "governance_reviewed": "2026-05-28",
    "last_updated": "2026-05-30",
    "major_category": "History",
    "rev": 1,
    "scoring_note": "Small Christ-identity support from Acts/Lukan public kerygma, with a small anti-legend pressure. No direct Resurrection BF.",
    "source_status": "source_review_pending",
    "sub_category": "Kerygma",
    "stage": "stage4"
  },
  "positive_apologetic": {
    "label": "Apologetic leverage",
    "title": "The public message is already more than teacher-memory.",
    "key_point": "Acts portrays early preaching as public Lord-and-Christ proclamation, not merely admiration for a moral teacher.",
    "conversation_move": "Grant Lukan shaping and the non-verbatim character of speech summaries. Then ask whether the repeated pattern still records the kind of claim the church publicly made about Jesus.",
    "caveat": "Do not use Acts alone as proof of full later doctrine or as direct Resurrection proof."
  },
  "scripture_passage": "Acts 2:22-36; Acts 3:13-26; Acts 10:36-43; Acts 13:26-39",
  "source_note": "Acts/Lukan-source caveats are part of the row. Use as public-proclamation support, not as a substitute for Pauline or creed evidence.",
  "status": "active",
  "sub_category": "Kerygma",
  "summary": "Acts' public kerygma presents Jesus as crucified, raised, exalted, and proclaimed as Lord and Christ, with Lukan-source caveats.",
  "tags": [
    "Scored",
    "Acts",
    "Kerygma",
    "Christ Identity",
    "Anti-Legend"
  ],
  "tilt": "positive",
  "title": "Acts kerygma and Jesus as Lord and Christ",
  "type": "atomic"
}