There are very few individuals through the entire course of church history who, when named within Evangelical circles, invoke so varied a response as that of John Nelson Darby.

Origen is remembered for his influence in popularizing the allegorical method of biblical interpretation. This interpretive method became more noticeable in his later years, and perhaps was an outgrowth of his failed attempt at living an aesthetic life.

Although there is an argument sometimes made, that the focus of Romans 9 is not on…

“While he [Pilate] was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him”

Morrison had assigned himself the task of seriously studying the life of Jesus. As he writes, his beginning point was that of suspicion, aiming at proving that Jesus’ history “rested on very insecure foundations”

Before looking at the last phrase, attention needs to be briefly brought to the relationship of both the participle προορίσας and the verb ἐξελέξατο.