Paul says in his epis­tle to the Romans,

Rom. 2:12 All who have sinned with­out the law will also per­ish with­out the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hear­ers of the law who are right­eous before God, but the doers of the law who will be jus­ti­fied.

In the above Paul refers to sin­ful acts, not to some kind of “sin nature”. I have dealt with the idea in another post. (more…)

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The idea of some kind of sin nature — along with many other ideas — was devel­oped through­out the lat­ter part of the early cen­turies. Spare me from dig­ging out the “when”, you can find plenty of info on Google if you dig hard enough.

The Jew­FAQ has a very good arti­cle about what Jews think about human nature. Here is the link, read “The Dual Nature” portion:

http://www.jewfaq.org/human.htm (more…)

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Chris­tians often quote Romans 3:10 as proof text that all human beings are sin­ners. The prob­lem is they never check the psalm from which it is quoted from. Rather than using this verse as a pointer back to Psalm 14 where it gains a very dif­fer­ent mean­ing, they read it out of con­text, and then they read the new, alien mening back into the psalm. Wasn’t the new sup­posed to explain the old? (more…)

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Let me share a few thoughts about the usage of pro­nouns when trans­lat­ing the Greek text to Eng­lish. If you only ever learned Eng­lish you are prob­a­bly not aware of trans­la­tional issues. Con­cern­ing nat­ural and gram­mat­i­cal gen­ders, please refer to the fol­low­ing article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender (more…)

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Let me share my thoughts con­cern­ing expres­sions of divine favour, a con­cept so often ignored by the expos­i­tors of the NT. As an exam­ple let us con­sider the fol­low­ing passage:

Col 1:16 for in him all things were cre­ated, in heaven and on earth, vis­i­ble and invis­i­ble, whether thrones or domin­ions or prin­ci­pal­i­ties or author­i­ties — all things were cre­ated through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (more…)

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