#43. Romans 2:3 – Responsibility vs. Accountability (Judgment Series, Part IV)
Part II: The Conduct of Humanity Yet are you reckoning on this, O man, who art judging those committing such things, and art doing the same, that you will be escaping the judgment of God? This is the first passage where you are said to be “reckoning” something. The term is logizomai, “LAYize,” or, the act of claiming, or taking account of something. Its first use here is instructive, and will help us with its nineteen other uses in the text. We are said to account here in verse three, and continually account in verse fifteen. To account something does not mean to “take responsibility” for something. It is impossible to consider this as the definition of the word logizomai, for there are uses of the term which do not indicate “responsibility” at all, but consideration (in Luke 20:5, the Pharisees reckon together, in Rom. 2:15, men reckon together, and in John 11:50 men are reckoning as to what is expedient. Replacing any of these terms with “responsible” in some form would be in...
