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NASB | Acts 8:13 Even Simon himself believed; and after being baptized, he continued on with Philip, and as he observed signs and great miracles taking place, he was constantly amazed. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 8:13 Even Simon believed [Philip's message of salvation]; and after being baptized, he continued on with Philip, and as he watched the attesting signs and great miracles taking place, he was constantly amazed. |
Subject: How do I make sense of the context? |
Bible Note: Should we open up the ol' "decretive, preceptive, and dispositional wills" lecture? :) I think we could both agree that God's "will" carries different connotations in different contexts. One could play a game of Bible ping-pong with the Matthew 23:37's and the Romans 9:18-19's. Rather than hash all that out in my own words, and since Matthew 23:37 is more than anything a demonstration of Jesus' love for Jerusalem, I would like to point interested parties (both of us!) to an excerpt from a recent book I find utterly fascinating. It is _The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God_ by D.A. Carson of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. I encourage everyone to go check it out and chew on it a while: http://www.antithesis.com/features/love.html --Joe! |