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NASB | Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ. |
Subject: Is hearing necessary for salvation? |
Bible Note: Greetings Sniper: I made the following statement "Only the Spirit of God can give understanding of spiritual things" I believe that as humans we can read the scriptures and understand many things at an intellectual level, however, it is the Spirit of God who makes them real to our souls. In John 16:8 we read Jesus words about the work of the Holy Spirit in the world: "And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment" It is the Holy Spirit which reveals to us the sinfulness of sin and our need as a guilty sinner. He also reveals to us the possibility of redemption through Christ. He reveals that satan has been judged and that Christ can free us from his power. We could theorize the above trues by reading the scripture, but the Holy Spirit is the one who makes it apply to our soul personally. In the case of Simon Peter we see that the truth of who Christ is, can only be revealled by God. " And Peter answered and said "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God' And Jesus answered and said unto him "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven" (Matt. 16:16-17) Paul writes: "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Cor. 2:12-14) Robert |