Poimen
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Romans 14:15 "Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died."
Someone used this verse in his conversation with me the other day to support his view that Christ can actually redeem someone and then lose them.
Anyways, how would you respond? My initial thoughts are that destroy does not mean body and soul, but body (temporally) because the context is about food. Besides it doesn't tell us (immediately) what is destroyed, right? So we have to assume it.
John Gill explains it this way:
Maybe I am missing something but this seems to be a bit of a stretch. The text says "Do not destroy him (ekeinos) for whom Christ died."
Thoughts?
[Edited on 4-21-2005 by poimen]
[Edited on 4-21-2005 by poimen]
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[Edited on 8-9-2005 by poimen]
Someone used this verse in his conversation with me the other day to support his view that Christ can actually redeem someone and then lose them.
Anyways, how would you respond? My initial thoughts are that destroy does not mean body and soul, but body (temporally) because the context is about food. Besides it doesn't tell us (immediately) what is destroyed, right? So we have to assume it.
John Gill explains it this way:
but this is to be understood of the destruction of such a man's peace and comfort, which is signified by grieving, stumbling, offending, and making him weak; and the words are a fresh reason, why they that are strong in the faith of Christian liberty, should nevertheless forbear the use of it, to preserve the peace of a weak brother; which is a matter of importance, and the rather to be attended to, since it is the peace of one that belongs to Christ, whom he has so loved as to die for, and therefore should be the object of the regard and affections of such as believe in Christ and love him.
Maybe I am missing something but this seems to be a bit of a stretch. The text says "Do not destroy him (ekeinos) for whom Christ died."
Thoughts?
[Edited on 4-21-2005 by poimen]
[Edited on 4-21-2005 by poimen]
[Edited on 4-21-2005 by poimen]
[Edited on 8-9-2005 by poimen]