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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000240",
  "slug": "foundation",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/foundation/",
  "canonical_name": "Foundation",
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    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
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  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000563",
      "label": "Foundation as literal structural base",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Foundation language can denote the actual structural base laid for a building.",
      "not_always": "Literal building foundations are not automatically theological symbols.",
      "scope_note": "Literal building foundations are not automatically theological symbols.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000563",
          "statement": "Biblical foundation language often denotes an actual structural base; it should not automatically be read as a symbol of a temporal beginning.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "Literal building foundations are not automatically theological symbols.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000876",
              "osis_start": "Luke.6.48",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Luke 6:48",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
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            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
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              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
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          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000564",
      "label": "Christ as the church-work foundation",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Paul explicitly states that the foundation already laid is Jesus Christ.",
      "not_always": "Other passages can apply foundation imagery differently, including apostles and prophets in Ephesians 2:20.",
      "scope_note": "Other passages can apply foundation imagery differently, including apostles and prophets in Ephesians 2:20.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000564",
          "statement": "Paul explicitly identifies Jesus Christ as the foundation in 1 Corinthians 3:11, establishing a genuine foundation metaphor centered on Christ rather than a generic “beginning” code. ",
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          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "Other passages can apply foundation imagery differently, including apostles and prophets in Ephesians 2:20.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "CHRISTOLOGY"
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000877",
              "osis_start": "1Cor.3.11",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Corinthians 3:11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
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            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
              "locator": null,
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        }
      ]
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000565",
      "label": "Foundation is not a fixed code for beginning",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The inherited equation foundation = beginning is too broad and lacks an inspired rule applying that meaning across occurrences.",
      "not_always": "Foundation may be literal or metaphorical for a supporting basis/person/teaching depending on context.",
      "scope_note": "Foundation may be literal or metaphorical for a supporting basis/person/teaching depending on context.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000565",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish “foundation” as a fixed symbolic code meaning “beginning”; biblical foundation imagery concerns what supports, grounds, or is laid beneath something, with the referent supplied by context.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 7,
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          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
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          "scope_limitation": "Foundation may be literal or metaphorical for a supporting basis/person/teaching depending on context.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000878",
              "osis_start": "Heb.6.1",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Hebrews 6:1",
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            }
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0047",
      "title": "Foundation",
      "canonical_statement": "Confirmed in the source-supported contextual sense: Paul explicitly identifies Jesus Christ as the foundation in 1 Corinthians 3:11, establishing a genuine foundation metaphor centered on Christ rather than a generic “beginning” code. ",
      "canonical_action": "PROMOTE_ADJUDICATED_P02_POSITIVE_OR_RECLASSIFIED_GROUP_AS_DISTINCT_CUMULATIVE_CLUSTER",
      "guardrails": [],
      "relationship_status": "CONFIRMED_CONTEXTUAL_RELATION"
    }
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}