The Universal Objective Justification fanatics have no concept of the Gospel. Their screams of rage prove it, whenever they are challenged. Romans 10 is a powerful refutation of their Enthusiastic fantasies. People without any knowledge of Christ, without any faith in Him, are declared forgiven, absolved, and saved! - even before they are born.
"Faith comes from hearing" is far too truncated to encapsulate what Paul teaches in Romans 10.
KJV Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The Word (rema) is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the Word (rema) of faith, which we preach; One might translate (rema) as utterance.
Understood with Paul's many statements about one, harmonious, God-given doctrine, the term has the sense of being the solemn declaration of God's truth, as revealed by the Holy Spirit.
KJV Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Once again, Paul teaches justification by faith, which is not the same at the atoning death of Christ. One must be carefully trained in the double-back flips of warmed-over Pietism - to start with salvation without faith and descend to the necessity of works. Oh yes, the UOJ fanatics plunk their victims into cell groups and order them to study the eructations of favored dungeon-masters. You cannot transform your life unless you perform your works of atonement in your cell group.
KJV Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
The next verse clearly reveals the salvation story: KJV Romans 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report (akoe)? The report is the proclamation, the message. Luther translated, "Who has believed our preaching?"
This citation connects the most famous Suffering Servant passage in Isaiah to Paul's lesson:
KJV Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report (akoe in the Greek Septuagint)? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. 4 Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Paul is teaching the importance of preaching the pure Word of God, not the ravings of Groeschel and Stanley, because faith comes from preaching the utterances of God.
KJV Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing (akoe), and hearing (akoe) by the Word of God. Luther translated, "So then faith comes from preaching, and preaching from the Word of God."
LUO Romans 10:17 So kommt der Glaube aus der Predigt, das Predigen aber aus dem Wort Gottes.
Notice the flow of Luther's words - "So comes Faith from Preaching, Preaching however from the Word of God." Although the phrasing is a bit odd, we could translate, "Faith comes from hearing the proclamation, this proclamation from the Word of God."
Luther preserves the original intent better than the English, which keeps going downhill. Here is the Nineveh, Murdoch's New
NNIV - Romans 10:17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. The Mequon Sausage Factory, so named by Jay Webber and the ELS, is hotter than Georgia asphalt about the NNIV. The Murdoch Living Bible is by idiots, for idiots.
