OK what can we say -Abrahan our father in the flesh ? If Abraham by effort was accepted he can celebrate but not in God. The Bible says 'Abraham believed God and was accounted to him as being right' Gen 15:6 When someone works the wages is not accounted as reward but it is a debt. Those who don't work but believe on him who puts right, the disrespectful are accounted by their faith right (Ed there appears to be hope for you here despite your fellow Editors going to jail these days for what they do.) Just as David says, Man is blessed who God accounts as being right without effort 'Happy are those leaving- lawless, their failure covered. Happy is the man whose failure the Master discounts' Ps 32:1/2 We tell you that Abrahan was accounted right by faith. So how was it reasoned ? (Hey! What are you doing ? In three verses you have translated the same Greek word three different ways; Accounted, Discount and now Reasoned-Ed Sorry I promise not to do that again-paul) So how was it accounted ? With a surgical cut or without a surgical cut ? Well not with a surgical cut, but without a surgical cut! The indication he recieved; The surgical cut being the seal for being right by faith which he had when not surgically cut. For him to be the father of all who believe when not surgically cut it was accounted to them as being right. And as father of the surgically cut and those not surgically cut, alone, but as well those that march in the step following the not surgically cut; Our father Abraham.
The promise to Abraham that by his sperm the winner for the ordered arrangement; Was not by the law. But by the rightness of faith. If by the law-winners; Thats empty faith impotent promise.! The law makes anger. Where there is not law then no deviation either. It is faith so that the reward is the certian promise for all the sperm. Not just the law alone, but also faith, Abraham the father of us all. The Bible says; 'I have made you father of the nations' Gen 17:5 (Thats good because here in New Zealand we have all the nations gathered-Ed) Opposite God in who he believed, who enlivens the dead and calls that which is not as being. Who with hope in hope believed. (Now what are you believing for which is not as being?-Ed Restoration of our family so that my children are doing things with their Exclusive Brethren cousins who live here in Favona) For him to become father of many nations by what had been given; 'It shall be your sperm' Genesis 15:5 He wasn't weak in faith, not thinking that his body was now dead. One hundred years already and the deadness of Sarah's womb. the promise of God he did not see the difference of unbelief but was empowered by faith giving the reward to God and completely that he would do it by His power. 'So he accounted him right' Genesis 15:6 This is not written for him alone. It was accounted to him and to us intending, accounted to believe on him who reawakened Yeshua our master out of death who was handed over for the mistake and was reawakened to make us right. 5 Put right by faith we have harmony to God by our Master Yeshua Anointed. By him bringing to this experience of reward rejoicing in hope of the triumph of God. Not alone but also rejoicing in distress having seen that distress, makes endurance. And the endurance makes approval, approval hope and the hope unashamed because of the love of God poured out in our hearts by the Special Spirit given to us. While still being weak the Anointed died in season for the disrespectfull. Hardly for a right man anyone will die; For a good perhaps dare to die. How much more being right by his blood delievered by him from the anger. If the hated are being exchanged with God by the death of his descendant how much more the exchange liberated by his life. (Ed! There is hope for your liberation from a useless life-love paul) Not alone but also rejoicing in God by our Master Yeshua Anointed the exchange taking place. By one man failure came into the ordered arrangement and by failure-Death: And so all mankind dies spreading because all failed! Before law there was failure in the ordered arrangement. Failure does not change where there is no law. However death governs from Adam to Moses on those who haven't failed with the same deviation. Adam is a pattern of the coming. By one mistake many died then much greater the reward of God the gift. In the reward which is one man Yeshua Anointed to a great many. Not by one failure and and the gift ? The judgement of one for a penalty. The gift for a great many mistakes so right rules. If by one mistake-death governed; By one-a great many, then much more greater reward and gift of being right taken in the life governing by the one Yeshua Anointed. Then by one mistake came to all men the penalty so as well by one making right for all men to right ruling life. By the disobediance of one man, that results in failures of many. Law sneaked in so that the mistake would get all it wanted. Failure got all it wanted. Reward over that getting even more!
Failure governed with death but as well the reward governed by the right way for continuing life in Yeshua Anointed our Master.
As far as Bible Translation goes these chapters represent the most difficult conditions encountered. Complex Greek words which are only used once or a few times only by St Paul. Words which are not in Textus Receptus (the Greek Text in use until Sinaitcus was found and a whole range of older texts showed a few changes needed-Ed) So then when I have such a word not in the text books i lean over see what my friends Bratcher (TEV) and Phillips have done with that word and the terrible twins Jerusalem/New International and then just take a stab at it.
ReplyDeleteTaylor of the Living Bible-God bless him never hesitated to preach the gospel in his Bible if he thought he knew what the Bible was saying. That is one 'sin' which the Reform 17th century translators up to Darby's Translation were aware of; Adding extra words not sustained by the actual text. I as a child of the sixties will add and delete words from the Greek text but I am aware that I will have to answer to taking away and adding before a full bench of Jesus and learned translators in heaven on Judgment Day! (Ed you don't carry the burden in life that I do!) So there is one verse in chapter five that does not make much sense. Others have added lots of extra words, I try to stay faithful to what is and isn't there and maybe on the next time through with more experties I will get it right. (Inshallah-Ed)
The other thing you will notice here is never before used in a bible-words. Sure 'surgical cutting' is here to stay now unmovable the phrase that will be used in all bibles that follow along from this one. (You are proud of that thing aren't you.-Ed)But other words i may decide that while I have got a good slant on the meaning on reflection a slightly better translation of that individual Greek word might be better...I do have God's Spirit- and yes I do feel the tiny nudge and come along later and change things. So while clearly not equipped to do what i have just done here- Well God is proven; As St Paul tells it; 'By foolish things confounding the even Professors' Shalom paul xiaodidi