Words with Equivocal Meaning
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In this episode, Jeff and Craig discuss how words can carry different meanings depending on context. They give examples from everyday language and Scripture, highlighting terms like “all,” “saved,” and “baptism,” and show why careful interpretation is essential to avoid misunderstanding.
Scripture mentioned:
2 Samuel 15:23 - https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/2sa/15/1/s_282001
And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
Mark 1:4-5 - https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/mar/1/4-5/s_958004
John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
Romans 3:9-13a - https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/rom/3/23/s_1049023
What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
Romans 3:21-25 - https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/rom/3/21-25/s_1049021
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
1 Timothy 2:15 - https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/1ti/2/15/s_1121015
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
Ephesians 2:8 - https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/eph/2/8/s_1099008
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God...
1 Peter 3:18-22 - https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/1pe/3/18-22/s_1154018
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
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