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NASB | Romans 1:18 ¶ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 1:18 ¶ For [God does not overlook sin and] the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who in their wickedness suppress and stifle the truth, |
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Bible Note: Schwartzkm, please allow me to quote a sentence from your post and use it as a springboard for my own fairly brief note and comment that will follow it. You wrote, "In some sense, I think the church has too many 'scholars' and not enough people actually 'doing' the work of ministry."...... Three cheers for that statement! Among the motley dozen whom Jesus chose, how many were scholars, even in the most diluted sense of the word? And Paul, although trained by Gamaliel, a Jewish scholar of the first rank, was himself hardly a denizen of the hallowed halls of academia. And Jesus, a "scholar" by modern definition?..... I don't down-play or degrade the importance of a certain degree of training for ministry nor deny the need for careful scholarship in areas where it is critical as, for example, in Bible translation. But at the same time I feel that scholarship can be, and frequently is, over emphasized and given a place in Christianity today that pushes evangelism, the far more vital business of Christians, into the second rank. --Hank |