Why Calvinism Misunderstands Biblical Election: What about Romans 9?
A lot of people assume Romans 9 obviously teaches the Calvinist doctrine of unconditional election. They think it means that God selected...
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The State of New Testament Studies: A Quick Review
The contributions fall into four major sections. Part 1 is on the ancient context of the New Testament and attends to the relationship...
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Reading Romans in Context: A Review (@Zondervan, @bencblackwell)
Context is everything. That’s the first rule for interpreting scripture (or any other text, for that matter). The rule refers first to...
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Understanding the Little Apocalypse: Three things to remember about Matthew 24
Everything Jesus says is his answer to the question raised by the disciples in 24:3. And their question is primarily looking for a bit of...
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Inerrancy and Interpretation (2): More on the Licona Controversy
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Matt O'Reilly
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Was Jonah Really Swallowed by a Whale?
First, the text of Jonah doesn’t actually say that Jonah was swallowed by a sperm whale. It simply says he was swallowed by a big fish...
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Inerrancy and Interpretation: The Licona Controversy
The details of the controversy are available in other places; so I’ll simply sum up the core issue. In his massive book, The Resurrection...
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