justbyfaith
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Simply by virtue of the fact that most people will not accept it as a statement of fact; and therefore to present it as hyperbole and to then bring it back around to being a statement of fact, by the logic of other scriptures, seems to be the only option; as an attempt to get people to take the scriptures at face value.Hi JBF,
Curious, how do you substantiate this interpretation, that this is hyperbole? And not a literal statement of fact?
Much love!
Now of course, taking it as hyperbole does allow for Romans 4:5 to be brought into the interpretation; so that a man can be considered born of God although he continues to sin in an ungodly fashion.
My teaching on that scripture, is that our identity in Christ is that we are declared righteous even when we blow it (i.e. when we live ungodly) because our faith is purely reckoned as righteousness.
But now that you have that identity, the exhortation is to go and live like it (according to 1 John 3:7; see also Matthew 5:6 and Romans 5:17, Romans 5:19).