Subject: NIV bible |
Bible Note: Thanks, Hank. I read a neat book once on this topic. Before I believed the Gospel of Jesus Christ, I spent some time on skid row. In order to obtain a free bed and bowl of soup, I HAD to attend the chapel meeting. Too often I heard what sounded like gibberish, such as, “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.” (Romans 7:19-21) Needless to say, I had absolutely no idea what they were trying to say. Had they used something like the NIV, well I wouldn’t have gone away with only a bed, supper and slip for breakfast. I would have become a believer a year earlier. “When I want to do good, I don’t. And when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. But if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing it; the sin within me is doing it. It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. ” I would have jumped up and shouted, “I know exactly what you are saying. I have the same problem. How do I get rid of this sin that keeps me from doing what I know is right?” Blessings, Taleb |