Structured theological research
Begin with a question.
AbrahamMoses keeps what a text says apart from how each tradition reads it, records what every conclusion rests on, and lets you reject an assumption to see what follows — without altering a single source.
Listed in the historical order of the traditions whose questions they are.
01 · Research
A worked answer, from the record
How do Latter-day Saint scriptures ground priesthood authority, and how does that account compare with other accounts of authority?
Latter-day Saint scripture records the Aaronic priesthood conferred by John the Baptist and the Melchizedek by Peter, James and John, restoring authority lost after the apostles. Catholic and Orthodox teaching holds that authority never lapsed; Protestant teaching locates priesthood in Christ and the whole community. The documentary history of the restoration accounts is recorded separately, as historical claims.
What the texts say
Hebrews identifies Jesus as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 5:6; Hebrews 6:20; Hebrews 7:17 · textual certainty: Secure
Hebrews contrasts the many Levitical priests, prevented by death from continuing in office, with Jesus, who holds his priesthood permanently because he continues forever.
Hebrews 7:23–24 · textual certainty: Secure
1 Peter and Revelation call the community of believers a priesthood: “a royal priesthood” and “priests to God”.
1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 2:5; Revelation 1:6 · textual certainty: Secure
Where interpretation begins
Priesthood authority was restored by angelic conferral — the Aaronic by John the Baptist, the Melchizedek by Peter, James and John — and is transmitted by ordination from that restoration.
Rests on 1 derivation(s); requires AM-AX-011
Apostolic authority has continued without interruption through the succession of bishops; no general loss of authority occurred, so none needed restoring.
Rests on 1 derivation(s); requires AM-AX-012
Challenge an assumption
Reject AM-AX-011 — Continuing revelation and an open canon (Latter-day Saint):
- AM-CLAIM-000270: Not established under selected assumptions
- AM-CLAIM-000274: Supported under selected assumptions
- Across the record: 3 not established under the selected assumptions, 0 with support weakened or only partial. No source changed.
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02 · The method
Certainty decreases exactly where interpretation begins
Six connected layers hold the evidence. Confidence is recorded on separate axes that are never combined, and every conclusion records the derivations it rests on — so setting one assumption aside affects only what genuinely needs it.
The sources, cited by edition and classified by provenance.
What the evidence establishes, one revisioned claim at a time.
Where a passage sits in each tradition’s covenantal history.
How ideas connect, with evidence on every edge.
How communities read the texts, in their own categories.
Retrieval, comparison and the dependency model.
Five measures, never one score
- Textual certainty — Is the wording the claim relies on securely established in the witnesses?
- Philological certainty — How securely is the meaning of the wording established?
- Historical support — What does evidence outside the claim’s own tradition support?
- Inferential strength — How strongly does the claim follow from its stated premises?
- Traditional acceptance — recorded per tradition, as affirms, qualifies, disputes, rejects or does not address.
Exact dependency logic
- A conclusion with two independent arguments survives the loss of one.
- A report of what a text says keeps its standing when a reading of it is rejected.
- Circular support never establishes anything.
- Rival readings are shown on both sides; the dispute is never declared settled.
03 · Explore the record
The public record
04 · For institutions and developers
One host, two interfaces, tested end to end
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https://abrahammoses.com/mcp
REST API v1
For applications. JSON with published schemas, an OpenAPI document and stable error codes.
https://abrahammoses.com/api/v1
05 · About AbrahamMoses
Who stands behind the record
AbrahamMoses is a research product written, built and owned by Sagolik. It is not an accredited institution. Every record names its author, its review state and whether machine assistance was involved; corrections are appended as new revisions, never made silently.