{"service":"The Near Word — Bible briefings and chapter commentary","mode":"corners-only (free tier of a paid agent service; billing not yet enabled)","mcp_endpoint":"https://mcp.thenearword.com/mcp","transport":"streamable-http (stateless JSON-RPC 2.0 over POST)","tools":[{"name":"consult","description":"Ask a question about the Bible and receive a structured briefing: plain-language answer, the exact passages to test it against (texts), abuse-prevention guards, and a pointer toward human community. Serves the human-reviewed shelf (approved cards and previously answered questions). traditions[] is omitted by default; pass include_traditions to receive the map of where Christian traditions differ, when available."},{"name":"commentary","description":"Name one Bible book and chapter (e.g. 'Genesis 3', 'Psalm 78', 'John 15') and receive narrative commentary from the shelf: where the chapter sits in the Bible's single storyline (where_you_are), the reading itself (chapter), specific earlier and later chapters it connects with (threads), guards, and a pointer. One chapter per request. Serves cached chapters; a chapter no one has opened yet returns a not-on-shelf notice with the free human door."},{"name":"shelf","description":"List what is currently on the shelf: the approved briefing cards (id and question) and the chapter commentaries already opened (reference and review status). Use this to discover what consult and commentary can serve instantly."}],"library":[{"uri":"library://storyline-primer","title":"The Storyline Primer — the Bible's one story, told whole","description":"TIER 1 · FREE, ALWAYS. Orientation document, owner-approved and final: the Bible's single storyline told in sixteen verse-pinned stations along one axis — God comes near, humanity draws away, God keeps coming nearer until the distance is gone. Load this before reasoning about any Bible passage; every chapter sits somewhere on this line."},{"uri":"library://recurring-pattern","title":"The Recurring Pattern — a recurring cycle within the Bible's storyline","description":"TIER 2 · READING ROOM (not yet unlocked — billing has not opened; reads return a full notice, never an empty refusal). The reading mechanism behind the primer: eight recurring movements walked at multiple scales, bound by its own restraint rules — question zero, beat-marking, and the Job rule."},{"uri":"library://presence-in-stages","title":"The Presence of God in Stages — how a holy God stayed near","description":"TIER 2 · READING ROOM (not yet unlocked — billing has not opened; reads return a full notice, never an empty refusal). One question traced through the whole Bible — where is God, and how close can people get? Ten verse-pinned stages of mediated nearness, from the garden walk to the city with no temple, governed by a controlling premise: access, never location."},{"uri":"library://received-and-seized","title":"Received and Seized — the two ways run through the canon","description":"TIER 2 · READING ROOM (not yet unlocked — billing has not opened; reads return a full notice, never an empty refusal). The canon's contrast between receiving from God's hand and seizing apart from his terms — in both its forms, acquisitive and exploitative — keyed on Jacob, centered on Philippians 2, bound by seven safeguards."},{"uri":"library://two-lineages","title":"The Two Lineages — worship against the self-made name","description":"TIER 2 · READING ROOM (not yet unlocked — billing has not opened; reads return a full notice, never an empty refusal). Two spiritual lineages traced through the canon — the line that calls on the name and the line that makes one — with a three-lineage taxonomy, the crossing principle of John 1:12-13, Tamar first among the crossing women, and safeguards barring every historic misreading."},{"uri":"library://judgment-and-mercy","title":"Judgment and Mercy — full measure, restrained anger, consequence shaped to the deed","description":"TIER 2 · READING ROOM (not yet unlocked — billing has not opened; reads return a full notice, never an empty refusal). The canon's own frame for its judgment texts: five verse-pinned members — accumulated measure, repeated restraint, consequence fit to the deed, hardening incurred before imposed, mercy before, inside, and after — with the sudden judgments at holiness boundaries handled rather than hidden, and five binding restraints, first of all: never infer hidden sin from visible calamity."},{"uri":"library://one-people","title":"The One People — one tree, one new man, every nation","description":"TIER 2 · READING ROOM (not yet unlocked — billing has not opened; reads return a full notice, never an empty refusal). The people of God read whole: one promise widening from Genesis 12:3 through the Messiah at its hinge to every tribe and tongue, the grafting that is never a founding over, three registers kept apart (settled, argued, open), and both historic misreadings — replacement and two parallel programs — barred by name."},{"uri":"library://counterfeit-patterns","title":"The Counterfeit Patterns — opposition by imitation","description":"TIER 2 · READING ROOM (not yet unlocked — billing has not opened; reads return a full notice, never an empty refusal). The canon's counterfeits read as the texts mark them — a lamb's horns with a dragon's voice: copied feasts, disguised apostles, the mirrored pattern of the final opposition — with the allegiance test (whose authority, whose character, toward whom), the apostolic anchor of 2 Corinthians 11, and restraints against every historic misuse: patterns in texts, never people; no dates, no maps, no headlines."}],"covenant":"The word is free. Nothing theological is ever conditioned on payment; unfunded calls receive real content. Every payload carries the passages to test it against — the texts hold the authority, not this service.","human_door":"https://thenearword.com"}