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NASB | Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 3:23 since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God, |
Subject: By What Law |
Bible Note: Dear RakPak, There is not the teaching of Jesus over against which there is all the lesser Scriptures. The church is built on what is called the kirigma -- the teachings of Christ and the apostles. The words of the epistles, are every bit as authoritative as the words of Jesus. Sola Scriptura does not place a higher value on the "red letter words" (2 Timothy 3:16). In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:1-4, 14 NASB) God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. (Hebrews 1:1-2 NASB) This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles. (2 Peter 3:1-2 NASB) I guess you did not look at the website I recommended to Vintage. After all I have said to you, do you really think I would recommend lessons on basic Christian doctrine that did not fully derive their authority from the Word? Oh my. Matthew 13:14-15 seems more real to me every day. Regarding the Decalogue, I still commend you to the books of Galatians and Hebrews, that place the Mosaic Law and the redeemed in proper perspective. In Him, Doc From Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan: Faithful: But good Brother hear me out. So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow, for down he knocked me, and laid me for dead. But when I was a little come to myself again, I asked him wherefore he served me so? He said, Because of my secret inclining to Adam the First: and with that he struck me another deadly blow on the breast, and beat me down backward, so I lay at his foot as dead as before. So when I came to myself again I cried him mercy; but he said, I know not how to shew mercy; and with that knocked me down again. He had doubtless made an end of me, but that one came by, and bid him forbear? Christian: Who was that that bid him forbear? Faithful: I did not know him at first, but as he went by, I perceived the holes in his hands and in his side; then I concluded that he was our Lord. So I went up the Hill. Christian: That man that overtook you was Moses: He spareth none, neither knoweth he how to shew mercy to those that transgress his Law. |