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NASB | 1 Peter 1:10 ¶ As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 1:10 ¶ Regarding this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace [of God] that was intended for you, searched carefully and inquired [about this future way of salvation], |
Subject: ? laws prior to Exodus/Moses |
Bible Note: Hello PDAL, I don't really think there is much I can add to help you better understand the error you proclaim! I cannot enlighten you, but would pray that the Holy Spirit, through the Word would do so. (2 Tim. 2:15) While I can certainly appreciate your attempt at an analogy, it fails on 2 counts: 1. It's not rooted and founded in proper exegesis of scripture, as Gen.17 has nothing whatsoever to do with the "dual nature" of the the believer; 2. The analogy is also flawed in that I fail to see how "Abraham can be looked at as the church giving birth to the nature of the son"? Allow me to provide the following quote (in part) from C.H. Spurgeon and his sermon on Rom. 7:24-25 titled, "THE FAINTING WARRIOR": "Thus, you see, the Christian becomes a double man — two men in one. Some have imagined that the old nature is turned out of the Christian: not so, for the Word of God and experience teach the contrary, the old nature is in the: Christian unchanged, unaltered, just the same, as bad as ever it was; while the new nature in him is holy, pure and heavenly; and hence, as we shall have to notice in me next place — hence there arises a conflict between the two. Again, observe, that the old nature of man, which remains in the Christian is evil, and it cannot ever be anything else but evil, for we are told in this chapter that “in me,” — that is, in my flesh — “there dwelleth no good thing.” (present tense) The old Adam-nature cannot be improved; it cannot be made better; it is hopeless to attempt it. You may do what you please with it, you may educate it, you may instruct it, and thus you may give it more instruments for rebellion, but you cannot make the rebel into the friend, you cannot turn the darkness into light; it is an enemy to God, and an enemy to God it ever must be. On the contrary, the new life which God has given us cannot sin. That is the meaning of a passage in John, where it is said, “The child of God sinneth not; he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” The old nature is evil only evil, and that continually, the new nature is wholly good; it knows nothing of sin, except to hate it. Its contact with sin brings it pain and misery, and it cries out, “Woe is me that I dwell in Meshech, that I tabernacle in the tents of Kedar.” I have thus given you some little picture of the two natures. Let me again remind you that these two natures are essentially unchangeable. You cannot make the new nature which God has given you less divine; the old nature you cannot make less impure and earthly." Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |