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NASB | 1 Corinthians 2:14 ¶ But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 2:14 ¶ But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things [the teachings and revelations] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness [absurd and illogical] to him; and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated, [and he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters]. |
Subject: How can anyone be saved? |
Bible Note: Hank Well, your initial post bothered me somewhat because of its tone. You were doing the criticizing. To someone new like me I did not understand “why.” I could understand some of your concern, but not the tone –the wording. Next, how are we to assert what we believe without theology? Though I may be Reformed Baptist I have several friends in several denominations that are Christians as well. I do not always agree with them, but we do discuss theology and in the discourse I change my approaches and either re-affirm my belief or I change because the argument presented, if it cannot be biblically refuted. They do the same. Thus both grow in some form. How can you have a conversation about any issue in Scripture without “your” theology being involved to some measure—you can’t! I do agree that one must use grace in his speech—posts— and such and since I am new here and have not seen hardly any of the posts, so I can not comment on them. If people are abusing that then Calvinist/Arminian/Dispensationalist/……are wrong and need to apologize to one another. This is biblical (Mat 18). But this is far different than refraining from “any” theological discussion on Reformed or Arminian theology or others “ologies’ and ‘isms’ that I have seen here. I hope we can meet each other and discuss “all” issues of theology in the way that God intended. 2 Tim 4: 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. |