Understanding the Written Word of God

[odhiambo]

When people are shameless you still speak of sin as sin, it's a very bad sign for souls!


I am trying to recall a response to incorrect understandings of Romans 3:23 I heard once that was very nicely put, I know some responses to it but it was quite fine if I can just recall the details.

I pray that you do.
The point I want to make is that Jesus is also counted among us humans and yet we all know that He is without sin so that statement  of Saint Paul has exceptions.
But the doubters will simply say that the statement does not apply to Jesus as He is God"

[odhiambo]

In Luke 1: 32, we learn of the Annunciation how the Angel told Mary that God will would give to the Child to be conceived, the throne of his ancestor David;
 "He will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and  his reign will have no end.' "

David was a political king. He was a man of war and killed many in his time, so much so that God would not have him build His Temple, preferring King Solomon for that sacred task. Is it any wonder then that the Jews expected the Messiah to be just such a king? From the Annunciation, one is left with that impression.

[odhiambo]

I need some help with today's First Reading: Jgs 11:29-39a.
Jephthah, a warrior who had just defeated the Amorites, wants to thank God by
offering Him a burnt human sacrifice
God had already given the Ten Commandments. There was to be no murder.
What was going on here?

[Shin]

I think this is a tough one! 

[odhiambo]

It is for sure
I asked the same question at a MailCircle forum and I was given some links to commentaries in the New Advent Bible as well as Rev. George Leo Haydock bible commentary, so it is okay.
My personal conclusion after reading the various commentaries is that I should always keep in mind that the Bible is inerrant and if some text seem contrary, it is because I do not know the whole picture as God does.

[Benedict]

I need some help with today's First Reading: Jgs 11:29-39a.
Jephthah, a warrior who had just defeated the Amorites, wants to thank God by
offering Him a burnt human sacrifice
God had already given the Ten Commandments. There was to be no murder.
What was going on here?

The events in the Scripture confirms what Jesus said "Do not make vows" and if you make a vow you must pay to the Lord what you vowed.
Jephthah offered his own virgin daughter out of obedience to an oath which he swore.
The daughter showed fidelity to God saying "My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth to the Lord, do unto me whatsoever thou hast promised, since the victory hath been granted to thee, and revenge of thy enemies.?" Judge 11:36
Her obedience to God is a foreshadowing of Mary who would also offer her obedience to God.

[Benedict]

Romans 3:23
"all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God"
In view of the above, how do I defend our belief that Our Lady never sinned?
The thread is from another forum. I want to post a reply and I have a general idea but stating it clearly and convincingly is the problem.
Thanks.

This is a hyperbole uttered by the Prophet, which Paul is making use of to teach that all need God's glory and that justification is given freely through the grace of God and redemption through Jesus Christ, whom God has offered as a means of reconciliation by means of faith in His bloody passions, even unto justification and remission of sins by which God's patience shows His justice in our time so that God may be reveled to be Just and the Justifier of all whom have faith in Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:23-26 Douay Rheims
"For all have sinned and do need the glory of God.?
?Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,?
?Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,?
?Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is of the faith of Jesus Christ?"
Original sin was transmitted by the concupiscence of lust, and Mary, whose conception we acknowledge to be immaculate and free from all concupiscence and itself miraculous, is the cause of her unique status as sinless.
The sinless nature of Mary is the perfect humanity of Eve before the fall and elevated by her obedience by which she merited eternal life through unfailing obedience to God.
The teaching of the Apostle cannot nullify the tradition of the Church which has always taught Mary's sinlessness, perpetual virginity and assumption into heaven.