About SAM
SAM — the Scripture Analysis Method — answers scripture-based questions the way an honest study should: straight from the primary-source texts, with every verse cited, every quotation verified word-for-word, and every claim tagged by the kind of evidence behind it. It is built to show its work, not to be believed on its say-so.
Why it exists
Ask most Bible questions online and you get an answer shaped by a tradition, a denomination, or an author's opinion — with the actual text somewhere in the background, if it's there at all. It's often impossible to tell where the Scripture ends and the interpretation begins.
SAM was built to flip that around. It reads the text first, reasons out loud, and hands you the verses so you can check every step yourself. When the text is clear, it says so. When honest readers genuinely disagree, it shows both sides instead of pretending the question is settled. When Scripture simply doesn't address something, it says that too — rather than filling the gap with tradition and calling it the Bible.
What makes it different
- Primary sources only. The Hebrew Masoretic text, two Greek New Testament traditions, the Septuagint, and a readable English baseline — never commentary, tradition, or an AI model's memory. Every quotation is mechanically checked, word for word, against the source corpus before you see it.
- Authority is weighed, not flattened. Every verse is ranked by who is speaking — God's direct word, Jesus' own words, the eyewitness apostles, the later apostles, everyone else — so a passing remark never quietly overturns a direct command. And when a lower-authority text is used against a higher one, SAM names the move out loud.
- Evidence, not confidence. SAM never tells you how sure it is — that would be an opinion you can't verify. Instead it tags each answer as one of Direct, Inferred, Contested, or Not in the text — a claim about the evidence that you can check against the verses shown.
- Silence is not revocation. A command stands until the text explicitly revokes it — never because a later passage merely stops mentioning it.
- Reproducible. Every answer is stamped with the exact model, corpus, and method version that produced it. Same question, same pins, same answer.
The full method — the sources, the tiers, the rules the engine enforces — is written out plainly on the method page.
What SAM is not
SAM is an interpretive analysis tool, not a pastor, a priest, or a professional authority. It doesn't claim to be the final word on any question, and it isn't a substitute for prayer, your own study, or the counsel of people who know you. It is a rigorous, transparent starting point — one that always points you back to the text so you can judge for yourself.
Who runs it, and how it's funded
SAM is an independent project. It is not run to make a profit. Each analysis costs real money to produce — the language-model processing and hosting behind every question — and the small per-question credit charge exists only to cover those costs and keep the tool running. New accounts get two free questions.
If SAM has been useful to you and you'd like to help keep it available to others, you're welcome to support it with a donation — but there's never any obligation to give.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or feedback are genuinely welcome — [email protected]. If you think SAM has read a passage wrongly, tell us and show the verses; getting the text right is the entire point.