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Study what you believe.
And what they believe.
CrossExamine answers questions about Christian faith and the beliefs it meets — Islam, atheism, Judaism, Mormonism and more — from a searchable index of recorded apologetics. Every answer carries the source it came from, down to the minute. When the sources have nothing to say, it tells you that instead of inventing something.
One email when it opens. Nothing else, ever, and you can leave with one reply.
The thing most tools get wrong
Ask a general-purpose chatbot what a Muslim scholar says about the crucifixion, or where a particular verse gets contested, and it will answer confidently. Some of that answer will be real. Some of it will be a plausible-sounding sentence with a citation attached that does not exist. You cannot tell which is which from the outside, and that is exactly the situation where being wrong costs the most — sitting across from someone in a real conversation.
CrossExamine is built the other way around. It searches a large index of publicly available recorded apologetics — talks, debates, lectures and Q&A — together with four public-domain Bible translations and the Greek and Hebrew lexicons. What it shows you is what was actually said, by whom, and at what timestamp in which recording.
Citations are computed, never written by the model. A source link in CrossExamine exists because a passage was retrieved and matched, not because a sentence was generated that happened to look like a reference. That one rule is the whole design, and it is why the app is willing to come back with nothing.
What you can do with it
Some of this is for the person with a question. Some is for the person who expects to be asked one.
Ask Sage
Put a question in plain words and get an answer assembled from what apologists have actually said, with the clips it came from. If the index holds nothing relevant, Sage says so rather than guessing.
Conversation practice
Rehearse a difficult conversation with a partner who argues from their own tradition’s real sources, then read a debrief on where your answer held and where it did not.
Field Mode
A short, quiet answer for when a conversation is already happening and you have thirty seconds, not thirty minutes.
Claim checking
Paste a claim, a quotation or a screenshot of an argument and see how it holds up — what is asserted, what is evidenced, and where it goes thin.
Bible reader & verse compare
Read a chapter, then set four translations beside each other — including Brenton’s Septuagint, which numbers the Psalms differently. The app realigns them and tells you it did.
Where a verse gets argued
Open a verse and see the recorded moments where it is actually contested, with the timestamp and the clip. Most verses are never argued on camera, and the app is content to show you an empty list.
Greek and Hebrew lookup
Tap a word and get the lexicon entry behind it — the definitions, not a paraphrase of them.
Claim memory, with review
Objections you have actually met, kept and resurfaced on a spacing schedule so the answer is there the second time.
Study circles
Work through it with a small group, with a session starter drawn from what your circle has actually been reading.
Three modes, because three different people open this app
Seeker
For someone who arrived doubting. Gentle, unhurried, no adversarial practice at all — the point is to find out what a belief actually teaches, including your own.
Explorer
Educational. Compare what different traditions hold and why, without being pushed to take a position on the spot.
Defender
For someone who expects the conversation and wants to be ready for it. Practice, drills, briefings, the lot.
You can switch mode whenever you like, on any plan. The mode decides which features exist; the plan decides how much you can use them in a day.
About the people whose words these are
The index is built from teaching that its authors published publicly. Two commitments follow from that, and both are load-bearing rather than decorative:
- Attribution, always. Material is shown as a quotation with the channel named and a link back to the original recording. The app never generates new sentences in a named person’s voice or style.
- Removal on request, immediately. If you are a creator whose material appears here and you would rather it did not, write to support@agape-labs.co.za. Removal deletes the transcripts and everything derived from them. There is no negotiation step and no form to fill in.
A revenue share for participating creators is planned. It will be offered when it can actually be paid, and not before.
Pricing
A free tier that stays free, and two paid plans. Prices in US dollars.
Free
$0
Every mode, smaller daily allowances. Not a countdown to a wall.
Defender
$15 / month
The full toolkit at a working daily allowance.
Defender Max
$28 / month
For heavy use. Starts with a 5-day free trial, at Defender allowances.
Questions people actually ask
Is this available now?
Not yet. It is in active development and opening to early access shortly. Leave your email above and you will get one message when it opens — not a newsletter.
Is it only for Christians?
No. The stated aim is to inform people of every worldview what their worldview actually teaches, and to make sure they are content with their decision. It is built by a Christian and it does not pretend otherwise, but Seeker mode exists specifically for someone who is not sure, and the sources shown are real either way.
Does it use AI?
Yes, for reading and summarising — and no, for facts and citations. A language model turns retrieved passages into readable prose. It is never the thing that decides what a source says, what a timestamp is, or whether a reference exists. Those come from the search index. When the index returns nothing, you get nothing, which is the intended behaviour and not a fault.
Will it argue for me?
Deliberately not, mid-conversation. Practice sessions end with a debrief because reviewing an answer afterwards teaches something and being fed a line in the moment does not.
What happens to what I write in it?
Your notes, saved objections, verse tags and anything written in Seeker mode are private to your account and are not used to train anything. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is stored, who processes it, and how to delete all of it.
Can I cancel?
Any time, and you keep access until the period you have paid for ends. The Refund Policy covers money back.
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