Thursday, September 3, 2009

It doesn't matter which translation you use-it remains true

Some People say that Grace Teachers have misinterpreted the Bible because we are using a faulty translation. However, as you will soon see, it really does not mater which Biblical Translation you use-it remains the same. It remains true. Trying to obey laws in order to gain justification (acceptance, forgiveness, blessings, right standing) in God is not of faith and not by GRACE , but is of law, which is not based on faith, but fear...

GALATIANS 5:4 SAYS:

NAS© : You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

ISV©: Those of you who are trying to be justified by the law have been cut off from the Messiah. You have fallen away from grace.

GWT©: Those of you who try to earn God's approval by obeying his laws have been cut off from Christ. You have fallen out of God's favor.

KJV: Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

AKJ: Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace.

ASV: Ye are severed from Christ, ye would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

BBE: You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

DRB: You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you are fallen from grace.

DBY: Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated from him, as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.

ERV: Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

WBS: Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are justified by the law; ye have fallen from grace.

WEY: Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law: you have fallen away from grace.

WEB: You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

YLT: ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

THE NEXT argument was that we had misread the commentaries refering to such scripture, so here are a few commentaries:

Geneva Study Bible
Christ is {b} become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are {c} justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

(b) That is, as he himself expounds it afterward, ye are fallen from grace.

(c) That is, seek to be justified by the Law, for indeed no man is justified by the Law.

People's New Testament

5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you. If you be circumcised in order to keep the Mosaic law. See PNT Ga 5:2.

Ye have fallen from grace. By resorting to the law for salvation.

Wesley's Notes

5:4 Therefore Christ is become of no effect to you - Who seek to be justified by the law. Ye are fallen from grace - Ye renounce the new covenant. Ye disclaim the benefit of this gracious dispensation.

Scofield Reference Notes

Margin no effect

i.e. of no experimental effect: the sense of liberty is lost. Gal 2:21 Col 1:23.

Margin grace

Grace (in salvation). Eph 1:6,7 Rom 3:24. See Scofield Note: "Gal 1:6", See Scofield Note: "Jn 1:17".

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. Literally, "Ye have become void from Christ," that is, your connection with Christ has become void (Ga 5:2). Ro 7:2, "Loosed from the law," where the same Greek occurs as here.

whosoever of you are justified-"are being justified," that is, are endeavoring to be justified.

by the law-Greek, "IN the law," as the element in which justification is to take place.

fallen from grace-Ye no longer "stand" in grace (Ro 5:2). Grace and legal righteousness cannot co-exist (Ro 4:4, 5; 11:6). Christ, by circumcision (Lu 2:21), undertook to obey all the law, and fulfil all righteousness for us: any, therefore, that now seeks to fulfil the law for himself in any degree for justifying righteousness, severs himself from the grace which flows from Christ's fulfilment of it, and becomes "a debtor to do the whole law" (Ga 5:3). The decree of the Jerusalem council had said nothing so strong as this; it had merely decided that Gentile Christians were not bound to legal observances. But the Galatians, while not pretending to be so bound, imagined there was an efficacy in them to merit a higher degree of perfection (Ga 3:3). This accounts for Paul not referring to the decree at all. He took much higher ground. See Paley's Horæ Paulinæ. The natural mind loves outward fetters, and is apt to forge them for itself, to stand in lieu of holiness of heart.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:1-6 Christ will not be the Saviour of any who will not own and rely upon him as their only Saviour. Let us take heed to the warnings and persuasions of the apostle to stedfastness in the doctrine and liberty of the gospel. All true Christians, being taught by the Holy Spirit, wait for eternal life, the reward of righteousness, and the object of their hope, as the gift of God by faith in Christ; and not for the sake of their own works. The Jewish convert might observe the ceremonies or assert his liberty, the Gentile might disregard them or might attend to them, provided he did not depend upon them. No outward privileges or profession will avail to acceptance with God, without sincere faith in our Lord Jesus. True faith is a working grace; it works by love to God, and to our brethren. May we be of the number of those who, through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. The danger of old was not in things of no consequence in themselves, as many forms and observances now are. But without faith working by love, all else is worthless, and compared with it other things are of small value.


AS YOU CAN SEE, THEY ALL SAY THE SAME THING. I COULD LIST EVERY OTHER SCRIPURE ABOUT GRACE ON THIS PAGE FROM ADAM AND EVE TO THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS (ALL BOOKS SPEAK PRIMARILY OF GRACE AND LOVE AND FAITH) BUT I THINK THIS SUFFICES.

Grace (Sola Fida, Sola Gracia) is true. Do not add or subtract from the message of Christ, for then we make HIS GOSPEL of no effect. For if we could have been justified by laws (any law, be it Catholic, Protestant, Mosaic or other) then Christ Died in Vain. We could have done it without Him, in our own power.

Love ya'll

Bx

"But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope."
Galatians 5:5

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