“But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.” (ESV)
Whatever does not proceed from faith is sin? Really??? This seems like an awfully broad statement. “Everything” is a pretty all-encompassing word. Read the rest…
“Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.” (ESV)
Paul plays a mean trick on us here. He starts listing off sins that those evil people (whoever they happen to be) commit under the cover of darkness. And right from the start we’re tempted to cheer along with him. Down with those evil people engaging in orgies! Down with those drunks who are wrecking their lives and the lives of their families! Down with those sexually immoral perverts! Read the rest…
“For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.” (ESV)
Paul’s argument here is that while the Jewish people were striving to be in a right relationship with God (that is, to obtain righteousness), they were going about it as if that relationship depended on them, not God. Read the rest…
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