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| Wolfgang Registered user Username: Wolfgang Post Number: 47 Registered: 10-2005 |
as I was searching for a commentary on the book of Romans,I clicked on this site looking for a study on chapter 14 and as I was reading vs5&6 I thought this guy must be SDA,because he states Christ fullfilled "most" of what was pointed forward too. So I went to the end of his web site and sure enough if I wanted to email him I could contact him at andrews.edu. and then he had helpful links to SDA sites,but never came out and said he was a SDA himself. Anyone know of any Romans biblestud commentary guides out there that are reliable. What I found kinda interesting on his site was that he had no insight on vs 19-21. Dawn | ||
| Lynne Registered user Username: Lynne Post Number: 289 Registered: 10-2005 |
Do you have the link - Can you cut and paste it here? | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 406 Registered: 8-2004  |
I believe the address is: http://bibleexplained.com/ The free book offer, "Keys to Happiness", looks like another repackaging of Steps to Christ. | ||
| Brian4 Registered user Username: Brian4 Post Number: 9 Registered: 1-2006 |
http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/?action=getCommentaryText&cid=53&source=2&seq=i.52.14.4 | ||
| Randyg Registered user Username: Randyg Post Number: 113 Registered: 12-2004 |
preceptaustin.org | ||
| Honestwitness Registered user Username: Honestwitness Post Number: 27 Registered: 7-2005 |
Here is a web site which allows one to download FREE a wonderful Bible Study software. www.e-sword.com. I downloaded the program yesterday, including the Matthew Henry add-in, and today I found Henry's 12-page discourse on Romans 14. I would copy and paste the entire article here, but it's too long, so I'll paste just a bit to whet your appetite: "The case was this: The members of the Christian church at Rome were some of them originally Gentiles, and others of them Jews. We find Jews at Rome believing, Act_28:24. Now those that had been Jews were trained up in the observance of the ceremonial appointments touching meats and days. This, which had been bred in the bone with them, could hardly be got out of the flesh, even after they turned Christians; especially with some of them, who were not easily weaned from what they had long been wedded to. They were not well instructed touching the cancelling of the ceremonial law by the death of Christ, and therefore retained the ceremonial institutions, and practised accordingly; while other Christians that understood themselves better, and knew their Christian liberty, made no such difference." "Concerning days, Rom_14:5. Those who thought themselves still under some kind of obligation to the ceremonial law esteemed one day above another - kept up a respect to the times of the passover, pentecost, new moons, and feasts of tabernacles; thought those days better than other days, and solemnized them accordingly with particular observances, binding themselves to some religious rest and exercise on those days. Those who knew that all these things were abolished and done away by Christ's coming esteemed every day alike. We must understand it with an exception of the Lord's day, which all Christians unanimously observed; but they made no account, took no notice, of those antiquated festivals of the Jews. Here the apostle speaks of the distinction of meats and days as a thing indifferent, when it went no further than the opinion and practice of some particular persons, who had been trained up all their days to such observances, and therefore were the more excusable if they with difficulty parted with them." "But in the epistle to the Galatians, where he deals with those that were originally Gentiles, but were influenced by some judaizing teachers, not only to believe such a distinction and to practise accordingly, but to lay a stress upon it as necessary to salvation, and to make the observance of the Jewish festivals public and congregational, here the case was altered, and it is charged upon them as the frustrating of the design of the gospel, falling from grace, Gal_4:9-11. The Romans did it out of weakness, the Galatians did it out of wilfulness and wickedness; and therefore the apostle handles them thus differently." | ||
| Seekr777 Registered user Username: Seekr777 Post Number: 389 Registered: 1-2003  |
mmmmm the only problem is that e-sword won't work on my Macintosh.  The fellow doing this has a wonderful ministry he is offereing with Gods help and blessing. Richard rtruitt@mac.com | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 1292 Registered: 7-2003  |
HW, how are you doing? Hope your meeting with the other "formers" in Liberty went well. Keep in touch when you get a chance!  | ||
| Wolfgang Registered user Username: Wolfgang Post Number: 48 Registered: 10-2005 |
HW,thanks I have downloaded the proram you pasted here,my husband and I are going to begin a study in Romans so this helps alot! Dawn |
