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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. |
Bible Question:
I have a question inHzsvc. What do these three verses mean to you? Do you not see God delaying judgement? Giving every opportunity every chance for yet more to be saved? Doesn't the word ALL mean just that ALL? 1 Tim. 2:4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. Rev. 2:21 'I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality. |
Bible Answer: It can, but it dosen't have to, even in Scripture. Scripture is a work of language just like any other, in the sense of its actual construction. Granted, it is divinely inspired and all that, but it is still basically literature, and must be understood as such. You don't read the Psalms the same way you read the gospels the same way you read Revelation the same way you read Proverbs. And you don't ignore hyperbole, such as the examples provided here. Whether or not you interpret these uses of the word "all" as exhaustive is determined by your doctrine of soteriology. If you want universal atonement, then it's exhaustive, for these are some of the very few verses that can be made to suggest such a thing. But if you do not believe in a universal atonement there is no reason to interpret these verses as anything but hyperbole. |