(November 4, 2015 at 2:01 pm)Drich Wrote:The unrighteousness is in their unbelief.(November 4, 2015 at 12:42 pm)Irrational Wrote: You may have "studied" Koine Greek, but your reading comprehension is terrible. All unbelievers are evil according to Romans 1. Look at Romans 1:19:So you know why people quote the king james? Aside from blind tradition it is quoted because it repersents an obscure dialect. a dialect that is close enough to modern english that most can intrepret and change any way they want. So what is the cure? One we can go to a common word translation like the easy to read or goto the greek:
BECAUSE that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest [it] to them
18 God shows his anger from heaven against all the evil and wrong things that people do. Their evil lives hide the truth they have. 19 This makes God angry because they have been shown what he is like. Yes, God has made it clear to them.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/rom/1/1/s_1047001
God's existence is made clear through what can be seen (his creation) so it's not a special revelation to only a subset of unbelievers, dear Drich. It's a revelation available to all through perception. This is the point you keep ignoring. So even the Athenians in Acts 17 were supposed to have been aware of God (according to Romans 1). If you disagree, then you disagree with Romans 1:20, ok?
They suppress the truth through not following God and going for other gods instead. Again, this is made clear in Romans 1. And this is exactly what the Athenians in Acts 17 did.
Your problem is that you WANT there not to be a contradiction between Acts 17 and Romans 1, so you come up with some sneaky maneuvers to get the passages to reconcile but by doing so you pretty much have to disregard the context of Romans 1. That is not honest, Drich. Quite the contrary.
