The first recorded sermon ever preached is found in the book of Genesis. By typical standards, it wasn’t a very long message. It is only forty six words long. The topic was marriage. It was delivered by the first man, Adam.
The same message on marriage was repeated thousands of years later by Christ Jesus the Lord, and so we know God has not changed the definition of marriage, nor altered His design. Adam woke from godly anesthesia after God tool a rib from him to create Eve.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
(1 Corinthians 15:51).
There were two mysteries Paul addressed in his first epistle to the Corinthians in the above verse: the translation of living saints at the catching away, and the resurrection of the bodies of saints who had already passed away. In both cases, the redemption of the mortal body takes place. Paul treated the mystery of the redeemed mortal body again in his epistle to the Romans; adding precious details to explain it further, but today readers would likely never know it if they read either the New American Standard Bible (NASB) or the English Standard Version (ESV).
This is truly a shame. How are we to be “stewards of the mysteries of God” (1Cor 4:1), and at the same time blindfold ourselves to them? If this assertion sounds fantastic, check either of the two texts; the NASB or ESV, and match your results with the ones that follow. Ardent followers of each should like to prove this assertion wrong and retain what they may think to be their supremacy of source scriptura.
As Paul is opening his epistle to the Roman, he informs that many times he intended to come to them to have some fruit among them. The word fruit in Romans chapter one, verse thirteen has been interpreted by some to mean money. The view is that Paul often went about collecting and distributing the collections, and that here he is inferring that he would take a collection from the saints in Rome. The question is this: in the opening of a sixteen chapter epistle, could the Apostle Paul have been expressing a desire to go to Rome, in part, to collect some money from the saints? The verse in question is this one:
Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. (Romans 1:13)
I believe there are three reasons this fruit Paul refers to is spiritual fruit. I think the reasoning may be supported by style, context, and preponderance of use.
The superiority of the King James Bible over other translations can be exemplified in the smallest of details. Here is just one verse in Galatians, and the selection of one verb in that verse that exemplifies the point well. To be fair, if we were doing the translating there exists much room in this verb to flex our pens. Here it is from the Strong’s Concordance:
G1096, γίνομαι. Ginomai, ghin’-om-ahee
A prolonged and middle form of a primary verb; to cause to be (“gen” -erate), that is, (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literally, figuratively, intensively, etc.): – arise be assembled, be (come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, be done, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
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