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NASB | Romans 9:13 Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 9:13 As it is written and forever remains written, "JACOB I LOVED (chose, protected, blessed), BUT ESAU I HATED (held in disregard compared to Jacob)." [Mal 1:2, 3] |
Subject: explain the doctrine of predistination |
Bible Note: All in this verse menas all without distinction, and not all without exception, in other words all kinds, or sorts of people, not everybody. If it ment everybody, then it would make nonsence of John 6 vs 44 and 65. Continuing now with my last post. John 3:16, and the first 8 verses of this Chapter are better understood against the background of the following verses. 1 Cor 2:14, Matt 19:25-26, and Matt 16:16-18. "Born again" is a spiritual concept, and as 1 Cor 2:14, indicates spiritual things have to be spiritually discerned, and the unconverted are spiritually dead, and cannot understand them. This leads to the problem that humans have as expressed at Mat 19:25, "How then can any flesh be saved", our Lord assures them "That with men it is impossible, but that with God all things are possible". An explanation of just how God does this is illustrated at Matt 16:16-18, where Jesus makes it quite clear that Perer was only able to say "You are the Christ, the Son of the livind God" as a result of direct Devine intervention, and not as a result of "flesh and blood", i.e. human ability. In John Ch 3 Jesus is talking about two kinds of life, physical life, and spiritual life, and the method by which you get into each one, i.e. by birth. Now how did you get into the physical world, well by birth of course, and how much contribution did you make to your physical birth?, non whatsoever, you owe your existance entirly to the activity of your human father. Strange though it may seem your entry into the spiritual world is also by birth, and again you are not able to make any contribution to it, this time it is due entirely to the activity of the one who thereby becomes your Heavenly Father. This is your second birth, the first time you were born of woman, the second time, you are born from above, born of God, and now that you are living in the spiritual world, you can understand for the first time spiritual things, and are able to receive Jesus as your Saviour. To be continued. God bless you all. Edwin Brain. |