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  • From: Loren Rosson <rossoiii AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Corpus-Paul] Audience of Romans/Symbolic Paul
  • Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 12:19:43 -0700 (PDT)

Tim wrote:

>In other words, just because Abraham
>was not weak in faith, that means
>that "weak in faith" necessarily means
>failure to believe in the resurrection?
>It seems to me that is a rather
>large assumption.

Yet this is exactly what Paul's language implies. Why
was Abraham "strong"? For believing in God's ability
to give life to Sarah's dead womb (4:19-21).
Christians are likewise strong for believing in
Christ's resurrection (4:23-25). How could this be any
clearer?

>It seems much more natural to
>recognize that Paul defines "weak"
>in ch. 14 itself - the weakness is
>characterized by believing one may
>only eat vegetables, for example
>(14.2).

And yet this is exactly what Paul's language does
**not** imply. If eating vegatables and abstaining
from meat were "weak", why would Paul advise doing so,
without reservation, in honor of God? The weak do
these things, because they're Judeans, but their
"Jewishness" itself isn't the weakness.

>Saying that God has chosen Israel is
>nothing like saying that unbelieving
>Israel is living to/for Christ. But
>that is how Paul describes the weak
>in Rom 14.

Point taken. But since Paul isn't even addressing the
weak, it's irrelevant.

Loren Rosson III
Nashua NH
rossoiii AT yahoo.com

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