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Originally Posted by Adino
How does the audience to which Romans was written, in any way, support the idea of a 3 step new birth?
We all know UPC pastors will not stop teaching the Acts 2:38 message to their congregations.... why? Because they want to safeguard their message. They want to make sure their version of truth is carried on without compromise. I submit that the notion the epistles do not contain salvational truth just because they are directed to "saved people" is an extremely weak, if not fully invalid, proposition. Many things are written in the epistles in answer to legalism, gnosticism, and other false issues which began to creep into the congregations.
The epistles hold full salvational truth because they are written to safeguard the truth against heresy. That the 3 step view is not presented is strong evidence the view was not thought of as truth to be safeguarded. |
I am repeatedly astounded that anyone who has ever studied anything could resort to such a pointless, meaningless, and worthless argument as the "Romans-was-written-to-saved-people" argument. First, it's not completely true, and secondly, so what? Does the target audience change the content of the statement? Of course not. It has to be the most absurd argument I've heard about anything.
And I think you're correct...there's a version of "truth" that has to be defended at all costs and if the only thing that can be grabbed is the "Romans-was-written-to" defense, they'll use it.
It's the oldest hermeneutical mistake in the book, developing a belief and then looking for verses to match, and if any verses contradict the belief, explain it away however one can.
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