Pre-Trib Truth is a single-author Bible-study site. Marc LaClear writes from a pre-tribulational, premillennial, futurist perspective and remains responsible for publication and correction decisions. This policy explains how a study moves from a question to a public article.

Scripture and Interpretation

Scripture is treated as inspired and authoritative. Articles begin with the literary unit, original audience, genre, repeated terms, Old Testament background, and the distinction between direct statement and inference. A grammatical-historical reading does not require flattening poetry, symbol, apocalyptic imagery, or typology into wooden literalism.

The Editorial Workflow

  1. Research: identify the controlling passages and collect directly relevant primary and secondary sources.
  2. Outline: state the question, the strongest alternatives, the proposed answer, and the limits of that answer.
  3. Compose: write in ordinary language with the passage—not a headline or opponent—as the organizing center.
  4. Source verification: check quotations, names, dates, lexical claims, links, and bibliography details against the cited work when access permits.
  5. Opposing-view review: use a representative source and describe the objection in terms its advocates would recognize.
  6. Factual and structural check: verify headings, tables, read time, internal links, one Works Cited section, and the absence of content after that section.
  7. Line edit: remove repetition, vague claims, copied framework language, unnecessary quotations, and certainty that outruns the evidence.
  8. Publication and correction: publish only a complete article, record its review date, and correct supported errors.

Sources and Quotations

Scripture remains the authority; outside sources help readers verify language, history, context, and competing interpretations. Historical claims should reach primary material where possible. Greek claims should use standard lexicons and grammars. Direct quotations should be short, necessary, accurate, and fully attributed. A Works Cited section belongs once, at the end, and should contain works actually used in that article.

Opposing Views

Post-tribulation, pre-wrath, amillennial, preterist, and historical objections should be stated fairly before a response is given. A useful response identifies what the objection notices correctly, the exact point of disagreement, the textual evidence for the conclusion, and what that conclusion cannot settle.

AI and Automated Tools

AI and automated tools may assist with outlines, prose editing, source organization, link checks, read-time calculation, structural testing, and accessibility checks. They are not treated as authorities or cited as evidence. Generated suggestions can be wrong. The named author remains accountable for the published argument, and factual, historical, lexical, and quotation claims should be checked against Scripture and the cited sources.

Final Accountability

Pre-Trib Truth has one named author rather than an institutional editorial board. Final accountability for what remains public belongs to Marc. Automated checks can catch broken links, duplicated headings, and structural failures; they cannot decide whether an interpretation is faithful or an opposing case has been represented charitably.

Corrections

Corrections can be submitted through the contact page with the article URL, exact sentence, supporting source, and proposed correction. A material correction updates the article and its review date. When a change materially alters the argument rather than repairing spelling or formatting, the article should state what changed.

No Date-Setting or Sensationalism

The site rejects rapture dates, coded prediction windows, and certainty based on wars, elections, earthquakes, technology, or market events that Scripture does not identify. Prophecy should form endurance, holiness, worship, and hope rather than fear or novelty.