The Ransom for All

Romans 7:1 -  Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law, that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? Romans 7:2 - For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.  Romans 7:3 - So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.  Romans 7:4 - Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.  -- World English . Paul here is not speaking to the non-believing Jews or the world at large, but to the followers of Jesus, brothers in Christ. Many in Rome were Jewish believers in Christ, and many were Gentile believers i...

By Ronald R. Day, Sr. Some might ask: If, as you say, Jesus was not in a place of fiery torture while he was dead, why do the scriptures say that he preached to the spirits in prison while he was dead? The scripture being inquired about is in 1 Peter 3:19, which reads in the King James Version: “By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison.” If we read the context we will note several things. First, Peter is not talking about spirits of dead people supposedly being tortured in flaming fires. Verse 20 continues: “Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.” According to this next verse, we could reason two different ways: 1- That the spirits in prison that Jesus preached to were the humans that died in the flood of Noah’s day; or 2- That these spirits were the spirit creatures (angels) that disobeyed God before the flood in Noah’s d...

2 Peter 2:4 - For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment. -- World English The Greek word under consideration is transliterated by Wescott & Hort as *tartarwsas* (Strong's #5020, more often transliterated by its infinitive form of "tartaroo" ), a verb that is rendered in the King James Version by five words, "cast them down to hell," - thus including a verb, a personal pronoun, an adverb, a preposition and a noun. Evidently, the translators were at a loss to know how to translate the word, but concluded they knew where the evil angels ought to be, and so they made bold to put them into "hell," though it took six words to twist the idea into the shape they had pre-determined it must take. This one word is similarly translated in the World English Bible translation by five words: "cast them down to Tartarus". Nevertheless, we do ...