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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000291",
  "slug": "house",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/house/",
  "canonical_name": "House",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR"
  ],
  "modules": [],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000679",
      "label": "Church as God’s house/spiritual house",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "The New Testament explicitly uses house/household imagery for the church: 1 Timothy identifies God’s household with the church, Hebrews says believers are Christ’s house, and 1 Peter calls believers a spiritual house.",
      "not_always": "These are specific ecclesial metaphors; ordinary houses and households elsewhere remain ordinary referents.",
      "scope_note": "These are specific ecclesial metaphors; ordinary houses and households elsewhere remain ordinary referents.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000679",
          "statement": "The New Testament explicitly uses “house/household of God” for the church: 1 Timothy 3:15 identifies God’s household with the church, Hebrews 3:6 says “we are his house,” and 1 Peter 2:5 calls believers a spiritual house.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "These are specific ecclesial metaphors; ordinary houses and households elsewhere remain ordinary referents.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ECCLESIOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001040",
              "osis_start": "1Tim.3.15",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Timothy 3:15",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001041",
              "osis_start": "Heb.3.6",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Hebrews 3:6",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001042",
              "osis_start": "1Pet.2.5",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Peter 2:5",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "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,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000680",
      "label": "Ordinary dwelling versus ecclesial metaphor",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "House/home/dwelling is ordinarily literal or household language; only context licenses the church metaphor.",
      "not_always": "A house reference should not automatically be read as “the church.”",
      "scope_note": "A house reference should not automatically be read as “the church.”",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000680",
          "statement": "“House” ordinarily denotes a dwelling or household, so the valid church imagery in 1 Timothy 3, Hebrews 3, and 1 Peter 2 is context-specific and does not authorize the universal equation “house = church.”",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "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": "A house reference should not automatically be read as “the church.”",
          "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-001039",
              "osis_start": "Exod.12.22",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Exodus 12:22",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001040",
              "osis_start": "1Tim.3.15",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Timothy 3:15",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "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,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0052",
      "title": "House",
      "canonical_statement": "Confirmed in the source-supported contextual sense: The New Testament explicitly uses “house/household of God” for the church: 1 Timothy 3:15 identifies God’s household with the church, Hebrews 3:6 says “we are his house,” and 1 Peter 2:5 calls believers a spiritual house.",
      "canonical_action": "PROMOTE_ADJUDICATED_P02_POSITIVE_OR_RECLASSIFIED_GROUP_AS_DISTINCT_CUMULATIVE_CLUSTER",
      "guardrails": [],
      "relationship_status": "CONFIRMED_CONTEXTUAL_RELATION"
    }
  ],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}