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NASB | Isaiah 58:2 "Yet they seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways, As a nation that has done righteousness And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask Me for just decisions, They delight in the nearness of God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 58:2 "Yet they seek Me day by day and delight [superficially] to know My ways, As [if they were in reality] a nation that has done righteousness And has not abandoned (turned away from) the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me righteous judgments, They delight in the nearness of God. |
Bible Question (short): I knew I was a sinner before I was saved |
Question (full): Let me try this differently. A pastor recently said that he is convinced the Jews of Isaiah's time did not know they were sinners. (The 'Jews', I suppose, would mean all or most of the Jews.) So my question is, how can this be if God gave each of us a conscience. For example, to me Isaiah knew he was a sinner before he encountered God in Chapter 6, and after that encounter with the holy God he REALLY knew he was a sinner. I would think that, because of the conscience, most of those Jews knew they were sinners, although they may not have thought their sin disqualified them from eternal life. IF, as the pastor thinks, they actually did not know or think they were sinners, I would also think that would disqualify them from obtaining salvation. |