The poison of asps is under their lips.” 3:14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”ģ:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood,ģ:17 and the way of peace they have not known.” 3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” (Isa 1:6) The disease may be veiled under a thin covering of courtesy, politeness, good manners and outward decorum, but it lies deep down in the constitution.’ ( Holiness) 3:13 “Their throats are open graves, In short, “from the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness” about us. Even the conscience is so blinded that it cannot be depended on as a sure guide, and is as likely to lead men wrong as right, unless it is enlightened by the Holy Spirit. The understanding, the affections, the reasoning powers, the will, are all more or less infected. ‘Sin is a disease which pervades and runs through every part of our moral constitution and every faculty of our minds. Ryle comments on the exceeding sinfulness of sin: Worthless – So much for the ‘infinite value of the human soul’! Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment, Third Edition (p. Man came into this world naked and it is certain that he will depart in exactly the same manner and he who gave life in the first place can also recall it either to damnation, blessedness, or annihilation.’ (Quoted in Fudge, Edward William. Unless he that made man sovereignly elects to give him salvation and life, by grace and not by works, man is absolutely without hope. In short, the Christian knows that man, a vile, wretched, filthy sinner, will receive immortal life solely and only by God’s grace man neither deserves immortality nor is worthy of it. He cannot claim an independent rule of goodness and justice to assure him of life, for all goodness and justice flow from God. The Christian cannot appeal to the rationality of the universe, for all rationality is from God.
‘Instead of teaching that man is of such infinitely incontestable value, that God, to be worthy of his name, must preserve him immortally, the Christian follows Paul’s judgment that there is none righteous, no not one (Rom 3:10).
Carnell, this verse implies conditional immortality: There is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”Īs it is written – Paul is about to refer to a number of OT passages – Ps 5:9 10:7 14:1-3 36:1 140:3 Isa 59:7-8.įor E.J. “There is no one righteous, not even one, If Gentiles are accepted by God on the same basis as Jews, does that mean that God has forgotten his covenant with the Jews? In this context, ‘God’s righteousness’ means ‘God’s covenant faithfulness.’ The Condemnation of the World 3:9 What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin, 3:10 just as it is written: God’s righteousness – According to Wright, Paul’s argument here has to do with God’s faithfulness. Now God cannot be “made righteous ” the expression obviously means “shown to be righteous” and this helps us see that when the word is applied to believers it does not mean “made righteous ” it signifies “declared righteous,” “shown to be in the right,” or the like.’ (EDBT) 3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.) 3:6 Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world? 3:7 For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner? 3:8 And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”?-as some who slander us allege that we say. ‘The verb translated “to justify” clearly means “to declare righteous.” It is used of God in a quotation, which the New International Version renders “So that you may be proved right when you speak” (Rom 3:4 the NRSV has more exactly, “So that you may be justified in your words”).
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