Abraham’s reaction to the promise that he will have a child at 100 implies the ages of his ancestors are intended to be taken figuratively, a piece of evidence that Genesis is imagistic-history.
The double-payment argument for limited atonement is a mistaken theological argument that assumes a commercial view of atonement and creates problems for the concepts of grace, justification and faith.
Early Roman Bishops: The First and Second Century Evidence
Surveying the New Testament, The Didache, 1 Clement, Hermas, Ignatius, Polycarp, and Roman Catholic scholarship on the presence of a bishop of Rome in the first and second centuries AD.