January
book: Romans.
Not
an easy read, but having read the first two chapters, I was left with this thought:
When I see error in others I am sinning as much as they are.
I
can’t help wondering how much of Paul’s message was actually understood by
those he was writing to. He personal teaching must have been rather
powerful stuff. Not for sissies!
I
didn’t seem to have understood much of what I had read, but on scanning the
pages again, I found, “For wherein thou judgeth another, thou condemnest
thyself.” !! (Rom. 2:1, in part)
How
about that? I had taken in a truth!
Joyce Voysey
Ed. I love that the original meaning of the word "sin" is from an archery term - "to miss the mark." Wonderfully, it doesn't mean we're intrinsically bad; it means we can try again.
I have a mental picture of Paul dictating this letter: walking to and fro as he thinks, letting all the ideas flow out in a rush of wonderful ideas...as his scribe endeavored to capture them all and get them written down!
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