About this project

Reformed Confessions is a rebuild of a site that has, for many years, made the Three Forms of Unity available for parallel reading in several languages. This version moves all the text into a database and adds tools for study.

How the texts are stored

• Each confession has one or more translations — a language plus an edition (for example “English, modern” or “Nederlands, herziening”).
• Every translation is broken into chapters: a part heading, a Lord’s Day, an article, a question and answer, or a rejection of errors. Each is one database row, tagged with a language-independent reference code so the same unit lines up across languages.
• Proof-texts (the Scripture references) are stored in their own table, linked to the chapter but separate from its text, so they can be shown or hidden independently.

The parallel reader

Choose a confession, then tick the language editions you want. The reader aligns them row by row on the shared reference codes and shows them in columns. A toggle reveals the proof-texts under each cell.

The AI assistant

Questions put on the Ask page are answered by Claude (Anthropic’s API). The system first retrieves the passages from our database that are most relevant to the question — using vector search over embeddings, with a keyword search as fallback — and instructs the model to answer strictly from those passages, with citations. It is a study aid, not a substitute for reading the confessions themselves.

Credits

Original project and translations collected by Dmytro Bintsarovskyi (dimabin@gmail.com), reformed.org.ua.