To: biblewonk
So to you the bible SHOULD read "All but babies have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"? No. A proper understanding of what Paul had to deal with (similar to what David had to deal with when he wrote similar language - "no one is righteous, no not one") shows that it is the word "all" that is being missunderstood. Paul is again trying to get the point across that the Jews have no inherent sanctity that will save them apart from accepting Christ. As David leads us to understand that it is possible to be "in" the covenant without being "of" the covenant, Paul deals with Judaisers. "All have sinned" is just a legitimately "No group of people is without sin (Jew, Gentile, etc.etc.)"
47,854 posted on
04/21/2003 2:01:42 PM PDT by
IMRight
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To: IMRight; newgeezer
So in Romans 3 if we replaced all the "none" "no not one" with "no nation" "no not one nation" we'd have it right then? Or all nations have sinned and fall short of the glory of God?
47,863 posted on
04/21/2003 2:07:28 PM PDT by
biblewonk
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