About This Project

What this project is now

AI Bible Commentary began as a personal commentary project and has grown into a broader Bible-study ecosystem. It is designed to help readers read Scripture, identify literary units, observe context, use commentary responsibly, study words carefully, trace doctrine, examine figures of speech, use external reference tools, and test AI-assisted material under Scripture.

It is not Scripture. It is not inspired. It is not infallible. It is not academic peer review. It is not a replacement for pastors, teachers, local churches, prayer, or mature Christian discernment.

Why the site was built

The site was built because AI can assist research, organisation, summarisation, and drafting, but only when strictly restrained, interrogated, corrected, and subordinated to Scripture. The goal is not to let AI generate theology freely. The goal is to use governed tools, conservative evangelical prompts, structured workflows, literary-unit analysis, and quality-control checks to support serious Bible study.

The resource ecosystem

The site now includes a wide range of traditional and newer Bible-study resources. They are intended to work together rather than stand as isolated pages.

How the resources work together

1. Read Scripture first.
2. Observe the passage in its literary unit.
3. Use the Guided Inductive Bible Study system to slow down and ask text-based questions.
4. Consult Simple or Lite commentary for initial clarity.
5. Consult full commentary for deeper structure, background, theology, warnings, and application.
6. Use Strong's, lexicon, dictionary, concordance, figures of speech, maps, and doctrine resources as supporting tools.
7. Test all claims by Scripture, context, sound doctrine, and mature Christian judgement.
8. Report possible errors through the correction process.

Theological and methodological framework

The site works from a conservative evangelical framework that affirms Scripture as inspired, infallible, inerrant, authoritative, unified, and sufficient. It uses grammatical-historical interpretation, prioritising authorial intent, literary context, covenantal setting, genre, and canonical context.

The site is generally Free-Choice and non-Calvinist in orientation, affirms conditional security, maintains a moderate dispensational distinction between Israel and the Church, and is cautiously continuationist regarding the gifts of the Spirit. It rejects liberal, progressive, neo-orthodox, and authority-undermining interpretive approaches.

Those commitments are disclosed so readers can evaluate the work honestly. The site does not pretend theological neutrality, but it should still represent rival conservative views fairly where relevant and let exegesis govern systematic conclusions.

How AI was used

AI was used as a constrained research and drafting aid. It was not treated as a source of truth, spiritual authority, final interpreter, pastor, prophet, friend, oracle, or replacement for Scripture.

The project used strict prompts, structured fields, conservative evangelical guardrails, review stages, QA-linting, correction passes, link checks, publication testing, and page-level notices to reduce known risks. These controls do not make the output infallible. They are safeguards, not guarantees.

The Governing Conservative Evangelical Prompt

The full governing prompt is public and maintained from the Prompts Library source file rather than being manually duplicated on this page. This helps keep the About page readable while still making the prompt visible, copyable, machine-readable, and reviewable.

The prompt explains the conservative evangelical framework, original-language priorities, literary-unit method, textual-critical cautions, AI accuracy rules, and limits placed on AI-assisted Bible-study drafting.

• Read the canonical governing prompt page
• View the source Markdown prompt
• View the raw text prompt
• View machine-readable prompt metadata

Prompt SHA256: c3aa65b411a0856bf709c8e34b2db3860ae16672406f5d886ca7a8324fc87af3

Quality control and publication checks

The project uses literary-unit structure, strict prompts, structured outputs, first-pass generation, higher-risk routing, second-pass review where needed, QA-linting, revision flag investigation, minor-warning cleanup, link checks, JSON sidecar checks, page rendering checks, and checks against internal QA notes leaking into public commentary.

QA reduces known risks. QA does not make the content inspired, infallible, exhaustive, or equal to established scholarship.

Read the full workflow: How the Site Was Built and Quality Checked

Known limitations

• AI-assisted content may still contain errors.
• The project is lay-created and personally governed.
• It is not formal academic peer review.
• It is not denominationally authorised.
• It works inside a defined conservative evangelical framework.
• It does not represent every Christian tradition equally.
• Some parts depend on external links and public resources.
• Readers should test all claims by Scripture in context.

Correction and review process

Because this project is large and fallible, correction is part of the ongoing process. Readers are invited to report possible issues with the page URL, issue type, clear description, suggested correction, and supporting Scripture or source evidence.

Read the Corrections and Review Policy | View the Correction Log