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Calvin

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Dec 1, 2025
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What are the historical origins of the Catholic sacrament of confession versus Protestant alternatives?

Catholic sacramental confession developed over many centuries from public penitential practices in the early Church into private, priestly auricular confession made normative by the 12th–13th centurie...

Feb 5, 2026

How do non-dispensational traditions (amillennial, covenant theology) differ on Israel's role in end-times prophecy?

—chiefly and —treat Old Testament promises to Israel as fulfilled in Christ and the people of God rather than as forecasting a separate, future national program for ethnic Israel . Within that broad c...

Feb 1, 2026

Interpretations of the Antichrist in the Book of Daniel

Scholars and interpreters divide over whether the “” in Daniel is an ancient persecutor, a symbolic institutional power, or a single future world-ruler; Daniel’s visions (the little horn, the little h...

Feb 1, 2026

What did United States v. Wong Kim Ark actually decide and how has it been applied since 1898?

v. held that a person born in the United States to parents who were subjects of a foreign power but permanently domiciled here acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under the ; the ordered Wong released ...

Dec 7, 2025

What were the main translation philosophies behind the Geneva Bible and the King James Version?

The Geneva Bible was a Reformation-era, Protestant, lay-focused translation notable for clear, direct English and extensive marginal notes that guided readers toward Reformed/Puritan interpretations ....

Nov 24, 2025

How have historical and contemporary Bible commentators (e.g., Augustine, Calvin, N.T. Wright) explained 'without cause' in Matthew 5:22?

Scholars and commentators have long debated whether Matthew 5:22 originally included the Greek adverb translated “without a cause” (εἰκῆ / “without cause”), and interpreters have treated that phrase i...