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Originally Posted by donfriesen1
Paul says twice they have not the Word (Gospel) to produce the faith necessary to receive the new birth.
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Sorry, but you are simply wrong here. Paul did NOT say "the gentiles which have not the Word/Gospel". He specifically says they have not the LAW, and the context is clearly the Sinaitic Covenant:
Romans 2:7,14 KJV
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: [14] For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Romans 2:17-20 KJV
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, [18] And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; [19] And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, [20] An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
You aren't "reading between the lines", you are adding to and taking away from the Word of God, this is exactly how we get trinitarianism and every other false doctrine.
These Gentiles show the work of the law written in the heart, which is this:
Hebrews 8:10 KJV
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Remember, that without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD. And that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
Romans 3:9-10 KJV
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that
they are all under sin; [10] As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Romans 3:19 KJV
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and
all the world may become guilty before God.
Romans 3:21-25 KJV
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; [22] Even the righteousness of God
which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: [23]
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; [24] Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: [25] Whom God hath set forth to be
a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Everybody is guilty, everybody needs faith in Jesus to escape the consequences of their sin. There is no "going to heaven apart from faith in Christ". (Never mind the fact nobody is going to heaven to begin with, but I am sure you get what I mean here.)
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