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NASB | Romans 2:24 For "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 2:24 For, "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written [in Scripture]. [Is 52:5; Ezek 36:20] |
Subject: Liberalism Persists Under New Names |
Bible Note: "Christ alone can bring salvation. Paul makes plain in Romans 1–2 that though there is a self-manifestation of God outside of His saving work in Christ, no amount of natural theology can unite God and man. Union with Christ is the only way of salvation. "We urgently need to hear solus Christus [Christ alone] in our day of pluralistic theology. Many people today question the belief that salvation is only by faith in Christ. As Carl Braaten says, they 'are returning to a form of the old bankrupt nineteenth-century Christological approach of Protestant liberalism and calling it "new," when it is actually scarcely more than a shallow Jesusology.' The end result is that today, many people -- as H. R. Niebuhr famously said of liberalism -- proclaim and worship 'a God without wrath who brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.' "After a rousing performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the famous Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini is said to have told the orchestra: 'I am nothing. You are nothing. Beethoven is everything.' If Toscanini could say that about a brilliant but dead composer, how much more should Christians say that about the living Savior, who, with respect to our salvation, is the composer, musician, and even the beautiful music itself?" --Dr. Joel Beeke |
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