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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: Brigham Ordered by Date |
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1 | what's the number one sin according | Romans | Brigham | 144820 | ||
Idolatry. Just read through Romans 1-3. Paul is setting up his argument in this section and gives his thesis in 1:16-17, followed by the antithesis in 18. In Ch. 2 he points out that Idolatry is what leads to sin. Technically, all sin is equal in the eyes of God, but idolatry is denying God as the One and I could see how that fits. |
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2 | His eternal spirit or the eternal Spirit | Heb 9:14 | Brigham | 144710 | ||
I think the difference deals with the divinity of Christ. "the eternal Spirit" (which after reading the greek seems more appropriate) shows that God gave Jesus the Spirit to fulfill tasks. It seems to put more power in God. The second reading Christ did it what he did entirely on his own. I disagree with this, as I feel community is strikingly important. The second reading also seems to contradict the Gethsemene struggle. Also, very importantly, there are many types of Bibles. There are translations, and there there are amplifications. Translations attempt a direct translations of words. Amplifications (The Living Bible, etc) try to communicate the basic meaning, and can ignore direct translations. |
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3 | Romans 9:11 means? | Rom 9:1 | Brigham | 144286 | ||
You can't extract a verse and attempt to read it all on its own. This leads to hapax (doctrine built on a single verse/word). If you really want to know what it means, then you have to read the verse in light of Chap. 9, and Chap. 9 in light of the whole of Romans. I'll do my best to help. We'll just look at Romans 9. What does Paul start out with? After we skip through all the frilly wording we find that he's talking about the Jews (v.4). What about them? Not all are the elect of God. So we skip ahead with this idea to verse 9. Read verse 9 in relation to the argument that not all Jews are God's elect people. I hope this helps. Also, I do not consider myself an expert exegete, so do not take what I say as expert. I do suggest reading Karl Barth and his exegesis of Romans, or most other commentaries on Romans which can be found in the public library. |
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