AT12
Twelve necessary criteria where one secure no can falsify the claim of a perfect revelation.
Method
About the Authenticity Test
AT v4 is a method for examining whether a religion, revelation, philosophy, or single text can be a 100% true divine revelation.
E1–E6
A positive evidence phase assessing testability, verification, foreknowledge, paradigm weight, explanatory convergence, and origin.
M1–M3
A layer of metaphysical humility: secure observations, paradigms, and currently undecidable claims must be distinguished.
S1–S3
A layer for subjective resonance: personal inner certainty can be existentially important, but is not public proof.
The AT12 criteria
All relevant questions must be answered yes if a work is to qualify as a 100% true divine revelation.
| AT | Question |
|---|---|
| AT1 | Is God/the highest principle presented as morally perfect, loving, just, and free from hatred, revenge, or arbitrariness? |
| AT2 | Do love, dignity, and the possibility of salvation apply to all beings without exception? |
| AT3 | Are free will, conscience, and truth-seeking respected without coercion? |
| AT4 | Does each being bear responsibility for its own choices without collective guilt? |
| AT5 | Does the work refrain from legitimizing violence, oppression, torture, or killing of innocents? |
| AT6 | Is the work free from internal contradictions? |
| AT7 | Do its concept of God, ethics, view of humanity, and worldview cohere? |
| AT8 | Is the work free from secure factual, historical, and scientific errors? |
| AT9 | Is the work morally consistent with its own highest ideal? |
| AT10 | Does the work explain evil, suffering, death, morality, free will, and the purpose of human life within a coherent framework without creating greater problems than it solves? |
| AT11 | Does the work make human beings more loving, truthful, responsible, and mature? |
| AT12 | Does the work allow critical examination of its own claims? |
Core rules
One secure error
One secure logical, moral, historical, or factual error falsifies the claim of a 100% error-free revelation.
No double counting
The same problem may only be registered once in the test.
Strongest defense
Before a no is accepted, the strongest reasonable harmonizing interpretation must be considered.
Paradigms
Conflict with a paradigm does not falsify. Conflict with secure observation can.