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NASB | Romans 5:6 ¶ For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 5:6 ¶ While we were still helpless [powerless to provide for our salvation], at the right time Christ died [as a substitute] for the ungodly. |
Subject: Can you mean this? |
Bible Note: That is a very interesting question. One that probably should have been asked 500 years ago. Basically your right Peter set the course if you will, then in about 300 AD Christianity was declared the state religion of Rome and all kinds of weird and unholy doctrine started to come in. Around this time in 350 AD the Bishop of Rome declared himself the head of the church and things started going down hill even faster. Finally in the 1500's the corruption of the church was so rampant that finally a man stood up and said enough. Soon men from every thought and persuasion where shouting to be heard. What you said about power was also true, the ones in power decided what was correct. Not through reason but rather by force. Many men on all sides burned at the stake. Today we are much more civilized we don’t burn people we call them heretics, we ridicule them, debase and mock them, and we even call them lost. How sad it all is when we look at what Jesus wanted. He told us to go make disciples, to be his witness and to share the Good News with the rest of the world. Instead we argue if should baptize infants or not, whether we should sprinkle, dip or drown. We fight about salvation through election or free will, then we argue whether we can loss our salvation or not. And everyone claims to be hearing from God on whatever point it is they stand upon. Maybe we should take a lesson from Acts 15 and let the Apostles decide. By that I mean maybe we should be re-reading first century church history and doing and teaching exactly what they did. If the question we ask isn’t answered by scripture or early church history then maybe we are asking the wrong question. Think about it, before the reformation fractured the church Christianity controlled most of the civilized world. I’m not saying the church at that time was correct, I’m saying they had unity of purpose which the church does not have today. |