The Narrow Path Ministries

Jim, Its good to have gone through this exercise with you. We don't seem to be coming to closer agreement. But that's ok. It certainly isn't required. Anyhow, the idea of this topic is to let people consider that Paul intended Rom 11:26 as the start of a new conclusion rather than finishing somethi...

mikew: ... idea of this topic is to let people consider that Paul intended Rom 11:26 as the start of a new conclusion rather than finishing something about the grafting in of Jews. Jim: Paul starts talking about the Gentiles being saved first to make the Jews jealous in Romans 10:19. He is still tal...

mikew: That would be a more or less conventional explanation of Rom 11:26. But several problems make that explanation unlikely. Two are in the interpretation of Rom 11:25. If the blindness isn't that which was to occur during the time of Jesus, as described in Matt 13:13 then you must be speaking of...

In Romans 7:5 Paul says that when we were in the flesh, that is, before we were Christians, we experienced death through the law. Paul says in 8:9 that Christians are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, because they are indwelt by the Spirit. So what Paul describes in 7:5 is pre-Christian. He then s...

Paul usually explains in the immediate context what he means in a particular passage. For example, in Romans 2:9-10 Paul says that on Judgment Day God will give tribulation and torment to everyone who does bad things, both Jew, FIRST, and Greek, and that He will give glory, honor and peace to everyo...