Cheryl Schatz

Mark,

“But again I mentioned that Romans 3 is a quote from the OT where the context is the fool who says there is no God. Paul would not illegally use an OT quote to mean the opposite of what God inspired as Paul supported Scripture. He did not twist Scripture to his own use.”

Maybe after John 6 we can go through Romans and actually look at the context right from 1:18 through to the end of chapter 3. Then perhaps you might see Paul’s point in relation to sin.

I would be happy to do that. That might take us into the next year or so, eh?

There is no hint what so ever that Paul is only addressing ‘the fool who saids there is no God’. Indeed, Paul includes himself in the quote using the 3rd person plural ‘we’. Your exegesis is flawed and wrong. The context in Romans denies the possibility of your interpretation.

Sorry, my friend, but you are wrong. Paul speaks about we and they and you must be very careful to distinguish and know who the “they” are. Otherwise you won’t understand the passage. No, Paul did not contradict the OT by taking a passage that applies only to the fools who say that there is no God and applying this to Abraham, Isaac, Job etc. There is a difference between believers and those who say there is no God.