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Unitarian hermeneutic: Shema-centered monotheism asks the reader to let the passage speak in its own setting before asking what it may become in the wider story. The row is trying to focus attention on one claim: A hermeneutic that prioritizes strict monotheism reads Christological titles functionally, not ontologically. Read it carefully: textual evidence has to respect genre, original setting, later interpretation, and the temptation to make a passage do too much. In the scoring table, its main conversation partners are Judaism (H-JUDAISM), Islam (H-ISLAM), Jesus’ Identity (Pre-Res) (H-CHRIST-IDENTITY); that is a map of relevance, not a declaration that the item settles those hypotheses by itself.
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The basic idea is simple: A hermeneutic that prioritizes strict monotheism reads Christological titles functionally, not ontologically. That is the thing to notice before the technical labels and numbers arrive.
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When Scripture is involved, the first job is to listen before scoring. Is this a prediction, an echo, a pattern, a title, a challenge, or a later application? Those differences matter. A good reading should let the ancient text keep its own voice even while asking how it may point beyond itself.
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Fulfillment language should be handled with care: later meaning can be real without erasing the first setting of the passage.
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In the scoring table, this item mainly talks to Judaism (H-JUDAISM), Islam (H-ISLAM), Jesus’ Identity (Pre-Res) (H-CHRIST-IDENTITY), and nearby alternatives. That does not mean the item proves those views true or false; it means the clue leans, however slightly or strongly, in those directions within the model.
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A hermeneutic that prioritizes strict monotheism reads Christological titles functionally, not ontologically.
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Read this as Scripture/Text support or interpretive evidence. Its category path is Scripture / Text / Christology Debate / Monotheism / Prophet-Only Claims, which helps set expectations for what kind of question this row can answer.
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This matters because explanations have habits. Some worlds make this clue feel ordinary; others have to work harder to account for it. The Signal tracks that difference without pretending that one row can settle the whole journey.
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The Shema is not an obstacle Christianity should treat lightly. If the Christian claim breaks Israel's confession of one God, it fails at the root.
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But the earliest Christian argument is not that there are two gods. It is that Jesus is included within the identity and action of the one God. That is a high and dangerous claim, but not a casual contradiction. The test is whether the evidence forces that expansion or whether prophet-only readings can carry the full weight without strain.
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The current numerical weight is intentionally bounded: H-JUDAISM: +0.06 log10BF; H-ISLAM: +0.05 log10BF; H-CHRIST-IDENTITY: -0.07 log10BF; H-CHRIST-AS-LOGOS: -0.08 log10BF. In ordinary language, this row changes the angle of the map; it does not carry the whole argument on its back.
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Use the citation list attached to this evidence item for source audit. No additional publication details are implied beyond those existing citations.
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