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Any Christian application must be established separately and must not erase Israel’s historical referent.", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000336", "statement": "The legacy inheritance-gained-by-warfare statement is substantially historical/covenantal description rather than a free-standing symbol and must be reclassified.", "asserted_classifications": [ "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION" ], "type_kinds": [], "evidence_grade": 1, "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION", "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION", "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE", "scope_limitation": "Historical Canaan remains a real promised land. 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The valid canonical relation is an incomplete-rest / salvation-history contrast that points beyond Joshua's achievement.", "canonical_action": "RECLASSIFY_FROM_PERSON_TYPE_TO_REST_PATTERN_CONTRAST", "guardrails": [ "Do not identify Joshua as a formal personal type of Jesus 'as Captain' without explicit canonical designation.", "Retain the multi-source rest argument involving creation, wilderness failure, Joshua/Canaan, Psalm 95, and remaining Sabbath-rest." ], "relationship_status": "RECLASSIFIED" } ], "negative_guardrails": [] }