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NASB | 1 Corinthians 1:18 ¶ For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 1:18 ¶ For the message of the cross is foolishness [absurd and illogical] to those who are perishing and spiritually dead [because they reject it], but to us who are being saved [by God's grace] it is [the manifestation of] the power of God. |
Subject: sharing our faith to unbelievers so hard |
Bible Note: If I may add, Brother BradK, having a full toolbox as I alluded to most certainly isn’t enough. It’s rather in the knowing which tools are going to be effective. We should all know, The Word of God needs no help at all. We can sometimes keep an intellectual conversation going by adding some extra biblical literature science and/or history. But in the end, those things in and of them-selves would have no effect on an unbeliever’s spiritual discernment, however well it may add to their intellectual discernment. It is in the end God working through His Word that brings an unbelievers understanding to the point that they see that we are depraved sinner’s in an unchecked fall into perdition, and that we are indeed in desperate need of a savior. That, is what I would call true, spiritual discernment! Sure is hard to drive that point home isn't it! Bless you, Brother. John |