Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans

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What follows is not a translation in the ordinary sense of the word It s like a paraphrase Rather than worry over the letter of the text, the goal has been to illuminate the large scale patterns that structure it The King James Version, for instance, renders Paul s letter with uncanny beauty but is opaque as an argument Modern translations tend to have the same problem Their overriding concern is with the letter of the text, not with its logic As a result, Paul s forest is always getting sacrificed for the sake of his trees But Paul s work is too important, his good news too urgent, to leave so much of him locked in the first century We need our renderings to do than mimic the original, we need them to bleed and breathe This work argues that the deep logic of Romans comes into sharp focus around a single premise Paul s claim that grace is not God s backup plan Paul never quite puts it like this, but he implies it at every turn. 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Miller – kino-fada.fr the deep logic of Romans comes into sharp focus around a single premise Paul s claim that grace is not God s backup planAdam S Miller, Grace is Not God s Backup PlanThis book, essentially, is a paraphrase modernization interpretation of Romans As Miller puts it, it is hisPauline house mixIt is also the second book of scripture Adam Miller has modernized It is the yang to his Nothing New Under the Sun A Blunt Paraphrase of Ecclesiaste...Sin acts as if God s original plan was for us to bootstrap ourselves into holiness by way of the law and then, when this didn t quite pan out, God offered his grace but only the bare minimum to make good the difference This is exactly backwards God s boundless grace comes first and sin is what follows Grace doesn t grease the wheels of the law Grace isn t God s way of jury rigging a broken law It s the other way around The law is just one small cog in a world animated entirely from Sin acts as if God s original plan was for us to bootstrap ourselves into holiness by way of the law and then, when this didn t quite pan out, God offered his grace but only the bare minimum to make good the difference This is exactly backwards God s boundless grace comes first and sin is what follows Grace doesn t grease the wheels of the law Grace isn t God s way of jury rigging a broken law It s the othe...This book is beautiful Thoughtful Useful.I take it all back it s not so much that Adam Miller has produced something beautiful, thoughtful, and useful although he has It sthat he has produced a text that speaks to modern ears, allowing them to hear the original beauty, thoughtfulness, and usefulness along with the original urgency and grace of Paul s letter itself.Forget the categories It s not whether you re a believer, or even what it is you ve ...This book is a little gem My favorite was Romans 12 Bound together, we re each fit for different things Use your gifts wisely If you have the gift of prophecy, prophesy If you re filled with compassion, spread compassion If you re a teacher, teach If you re persuasive, persuade If you re a mourner, mourn If you re kind, be kind More, if you re a doubter, doubt whatever deserves to be doubted And if you re a leader, be sure you know not only where you ve been but where you re going This book is a little gem My favorite was Romans 12 Bound together, we re each fit for different things Use your gifts wisely If you have the gift of prophecy, prophesy If you re filled with compassion, spread compassion If you re a teacher, teach If you re persuasive, persuade If you re a mourner, mourn If you re kind, be kind More, if you re a doubter, doubt whatever deserves to be doubted And if you re a leader, be sure you know not only where you ve been but where you re going Make love real Make evil wither Hang on to what s good Be generous with your affections Show respect Don t tire of hard work Burn with spirit Bind yourself to God Celebrate hope Be patient in suffering Pray...I ve long found Paul s writings to be rather inscrutable Adam Miller s paraphrase of Paul s letter to the Romans replaces the opaque English of the KJV with clear declarations in contemporary idiom, thereby rendering the text scrutable But he s traded one kind of inscrutability for another Paul s message, when read in plainer English, is just as surprising and puzzling as ever Instead of trying...I picked up Adam Miller s book on sale through the kindle store After reading it, I would have paid full price for it This book is, as the author describes it, an urgent paraphrase of the book of Romans in the New Testament What that means is that he has translated and paraphrased this sometimes complicated and convoluted text all with the intent of showing Paul s primary message about GRACE.I ve read the book through twice and I have now read the KJV version of Romans twice Sometimes I feel I picked up Adam Miller s book on sale through the kindle store After reading it, I would have paid full price for it This book is, as the author describes it, an urgent paraphrase of the book of Romans in the New Testament What that means is that he has translated and paraphrased this sometimes complicated and convoluted text al...This is a modern paraphrase of the New Testament book of Romans It is a short read in one sitting book that shifted my paradigm in regards to Grace Thought provoking and worthy of discussion and rereading Just a couple of great quotes They treated the law as a list of works rather than as an occasion for faith What was meant to be a steppin...If everyone interpreted the words of God the way Adam Miller does, the world would be full of better Christians If love isn t your driving force in keeping the laws of God, you re doing it wrong I can get behind that kind of interpretation.Adam Miller offers a hopeful and helpful take on Paul s letter to the Romans It is enlightening, brisk, and inspiring It reorients the Christian path in Christ s grace where it should have been all along It is filled with gems of wisdom and wonder I will return to it often.This book gives me hope Thank you Adam S Miller.

Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans
  • English
  • 10 October 2019
  • Kindle Edition
  • 84 pages
  • Adam S. Miller
  • Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans