29 Dec '20 19:21>1 edit
@Zach-Thomas
To the question of "Who is a sinner?" one verse, Romans 5:19 says all who descended from the first man, Adam, were constituted sinners.
"For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were CONSTITUTED sinners, so also it was through the obedience of the One the many will be CONSTITUTED righteous."
What Adam took into himself caused the constitution of all his descendants to be a sinning nature. We are all sinners by birth because of our constitution.
All males are sinners by constitution - according to the Bible. Hardly, does the Bible let males off the hook simply because they are males.
It is pretty evident that the Bible is not showing undue favoritism to the materially wealthy. Hundreds of examples could be sited. But just one might demonstrate my point from the mouth of Jesus.
"Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you, It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matt. 19:24) . Christ didn't say the rich have an easier time entering into the kingdom of God but a near impossible time doing so.
Not to mention scores of other passages and the major and minor prophets of the OT. Favoritism for the wealthy? Hardly.
The great wealth of copies of the New Testament (more so then any other ancient document) actually ad rather than hinder textural critics to trace copyist typos. The overwhelming percentage of recorded and catalogued variant versions of New Testament passages DO NOT seriously effect any MAJOR tenet of the Christian faith. Some few exceptions might be arguable. The vaster number of clearly undisputed copyist errors are trivialities or insignificant typos to the overall major themes of the New Testament's teaching.
See perhaps debate between Bart Erhman and either Dan Wallace or Mike Licona or James White. Ie.
Bart Ehrman vs James White
YouTube&ab_channel=BartD.Ehrman
YouTube&t=2562s&ab_channel=BartD.Ehrman
Are the Gospels Historically Reliable Two top historians
Bart Erhman verses Mike Licona
YouTube&ab_channel=MikeLicona
Ehrman vs Wallace - Can We Trust the Text of the NT?
YouTube&ab_channel=BartD.Ehrman
For those who follow the bible, please note a few things. It is said that man (meaning all of humanity) is a sinful being, not necessarily in those words.
To the question of "Who is a sinner?" one verse, Romans 5:19 says all who descended from the first man, Adam, were constituted sinners.
"For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were CONSTITUTED sinners, so also it was through the obedience of the One the many will be CONSTITUTED righteous."
What Adam took into himself caused the constitution of all his descendants to be a sinning nature. We are all sinners by birth because of our constitution.
We are all sinners. That being said, the bible was written by men (meaning males).
All males are sinners by constitution - according to the Bible. Hardly, does the Bible let males off the hook simply because they are males.
Education was pretty limited, to mostly the wealthy ruling class.
It is pretty evident that the Bible is not showing undue favoritism to the materially wealthy. Hundreds of examples could be sited. But just one might demonstrate my point from the mouth of Jesus.
"Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you, It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matt. 19:24) . Christ didn't say the rich have an easier time entering into the kingdom of God but a near impossible time doing so.
Not to mention scores of other passages and the major and minor prophets of the OT. Favoritism for the wealthy? Hardly.
Documentation of history was something not really well done then, because the means to preserve that documentation wasn't really around. This leads one to wonder how much word of mouth there was in the early days of christianity, and how much any of its stories changed from one person to the next.
The great wealth of copies of the New Testament (more so then any other ancient document) actually ad rather than hinder textural critics to trace copyist typos. The overwhelming percentage of recorded and catalogued variant versions of New Testament passages DO NOT seriously effect any MAJOR tenet of the Christian faith. Some few exceptions might be arguable. The vaster number of clearly undisputed copyist errors are trivialities or insignificant typos to the overall major themes of the New Testament's teaching.
See perhaps debate between Bart Erhman and either Dan Wallace or Mike Licona or James White. Ie.
Bart Ehrman vs James White
YouTube&ab_channel=BartD.Ehrman
YouTube&t=2562s&ab_channel=BartD.Ehrman
Are the Gospels Historically Reliable Two top historians
Bart Erhman verses Mike Licona
YouTube&ab_channel=MikeLicona
Ehrman vs Wallace - Can We Trust the Text of the NT?
YouTube&ab_channel=BartD.Ehrman