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NASB | Genesis 3:5 "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 3:5 "For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil." |
Subject: and you will be like God |
Bible Note: Dear Flinkywood, My carefully chosen words were not intended pejorative "Romanist bashing." Their anathematizing of the Gospel is a matter of public record. See the Canons of the Council of Trent (1559-1563) briefly quoted below (session and canon cited): "If any one shall affirm, that man's freewill, moved and excited by God, does not, by consenting, cooperate with God, the mover and exciter, so as to prepare and dispose itself for the attainment of justification; if moreover, anyone shall say, that the human will cannot refuse complying, if it pleases, but that it is inactive, and merely passive; let such an one be anathema." (S6CO4) "If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will; let him be anathema." (S6CO9) "If any one saith, that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them; or even that the grace, whereby we are justified, is only the favor of God; let him be anathema." (S6CO11) "If any one saith, that justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for Christ's sake; or, that this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified; let him be anathema." (S6CO12) "If any one saith, that the sacraments of the New Law were not all instituted by Jesus Christ, our Lord; or, that they are more, or less, than seven, to wit, Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Order, and Matrimony; or even that any one of these seven is not truly and properly a sacrament; let him be anathema." (S7CO1) "If any one saith, that the sacraments of the New Law are not necessary unto salvation, but superfluous; and that, without them, or without the desire thereof, men obtain of God, through faith alone, the grace of justification;-though all (the sacraments) are not in deed necessary for every individual; let him be anathema." (S7CO4) "If any one saith, that baptism is free, that is, not necessary unto salvation; let him be anathema." (S7CO5) "If anyone says that the principal fruit of the most Holy Eucharist is the remission of sins, or that other effects do not result from it, let him be anathema." (S13CO5) "If anyone says that faith alone is a sufficient preparation for receiving the sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist, let him be anathema. [Sacramental confession] must necessarily be made beforehand by those whose conscience is burdened with mortal sin, however contrite they may consider themselves. Moreover, if anyone shall presume to teach, preach or obstinately assert, or in public disputation defend the contrary, he shall be eo ipso excommunicated." (S13CO11) " If anyone denies that for the full and perfect remission of sins three acts are required on the part of the penitent, constituting as it were the matter of the sacrament of penance..." (S14CO4) "If anyone denies that sacramental confession was instituted by divine law or is necessary to salvation..." (S14CO6) "...let him be anathema." "If any one saith, that the justified sins when he performs good works with a view to an eternal recompense; let him be anathema." (S6CO31) "If any one saith, that the good works of one that is justified are in such manner the gifts of God, as that they are not also the good merits of him that is justified; or, that the said justified, by the good works which he performs through the grace of God and the merit of Jesus Christ, whose living member he is, does not truly merit increase of grace, eternal life, and the attainment of that eternal life, -- if so be, however, that he depart in grace, -- and also an increase of glory; let him be anathema." (S6CO32) Of course, there is quite a bit more, these are just a few examples. There are two things that always impress me about the Council of Trent: (1) That the Reformers did such a good job of articulating and instructing others on the lost doctrines of the catholic (universal) church. (2) That the Romanists did such a good job of rendering those doctrines -- honestly, without embellishment or distortion -- for the purpose of anathematizing. We can revisit these canons in separate threads, to see how they contradict Scripture. In Him, Doc PS For any that might not know, the word "anathematizing" is a formal banishment from the church, condemning a person to eternal judgment in hell. The Romanists are asserting that holding or teaching the Biblical doctrines cited by the Council of Trent, accomplishes a kind of automatic anathematization (eo ipso); i.e., it requires no further action on their part. |