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NASB | Romans 9:23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 9:23 And what if He has done so to make known the riches of His glory to the objects of His mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory, |
Subject: What's up with the italics in vs. 23? |
Bible Note: Whitewave: This comes from one who spent a number of years of his life as a distinctly non-evangelical Christian. I did in fact embrace and defend a number of very liberal points of view. Looking back I see that I was attempting to blend the teachings of Scripture with certain ideas of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, biology, geology and humanism. But I botched it, and instead of a harmonous symphony I got a cacophonous melange of conflicting and incongruous ideas and philosophies that gave me neither intellectual satisfaction nor spiritual edification. I began as never before to dig into Scripture. I read and meditated upon the words of Proverbs 14:12: "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death" and realized that I had been giving far too much weight to man-made theories and philosophies. I dwelled upon the words of 2 Timothy 3:16,17: "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God (literally, is God breathed), and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." It finally sunk into my thick head that the Bible doesn't CONTAIN the word of God but that it IS the word of God. God's word is not MUCH of the Bible, it is ALL of the Bible. God's word is not "anything" He expresses; it is Scripture, and it is EVERYTHING He has revealed about Himself, His Son, and His plan for the redemption of fallen humanity. The deeper I dug into Scripture, the more fervently I prayed for the illumination of the Spirit of God to lead me into all truth, I discovered that my erstwhile liberal views on interpretaton of Scripture and my haunting misgivings about its absolute inerrancy began to melt like a snowball on a hot stove. O, what godly sorrow I have still that for a while I fell into Satan's trap and regarded that blessed old book, the Bible, the very word of God, with less awe and honor than is proper for a redeemed child of the King: "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12). --Hank |