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NASB | Romans 9:22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 9:22 What if God, although willing to show His [terrible] wrath and to make His power known, has tolerated with great patience the objects of His wrath [which are] prepared for destruction? [Prov 16:4] |
Subject: Vessels prepared for destruction? |
Bible Note: "It is virtually a sin for us to be wasting our time on something that has never been proven for hundreds of years when we could be such a blessing to so many that don?t even know Christ or those that think that they do and really don?t." The difficulty here is that one does not have to be done to the exclusion of the other. My missionary work (see my profile) gives me plenty of opportunity to proclaim the gospel of Christ to others, but the apostles spent significant ink (and doubtlessly many sermons) contending for doctrinal correctness among the pofessing saints. The sanctification of believers is an important purpose of God just as the justification of the unbeliever is. (Ephesians 4:11-16) I suppose I see the StudyBibleForum as primarily that: a Bible study for those who already proclaim Christ as Lord and God and Savior. While I am sure that those who are not Christians find themselves here, much as they will find themselves at a church for whatever circumstances (and therefore Matthew 5:16 and John 13:34-35 definitely apply), I think it would be mistaken to see the Forum as designed primarily for evangelism. Some people may differ in opinion with me, but I see that much more evangelism tends to get accomplished on my part after issuing the "shut down" command than when I post here. --Joe! |