#49. Romans 2:11 – A Brief Interlude for the Nerds – Is God a “Respecter of Persons?” (Judgment Series, Part X)
Part II: The Conduct of Humanity For there is no partiality with God… KJV: For there is no respecter of persons with God… *sigh* Short answer, yes, God is a “respecter of persons.” I am extraordinarily unhappily with man’s faulty translation, here, and I’ve stabbed my KJV with Twizzlers more than once because of it. I mean, come on. God? God?? Like, the Supreme Elohim that guides people with flames?? The God that’s fundamentally obsessed with ensuring that the Israelites learn Who He is? The God that talks about how much He dislikes certain conduct under the law we’ve been discussing?? The God that said, “You are of more consequence to Me than sparrows”? That God? Right, I don’t buy it, either. Something definitely smelled off when I saw this in the KJV for the first time (yes, I had to go to the bathroom, but that’s beside the point.) The phrase “respecter of persons” is one word in Greek: prosopolemptes. No, I can’t pronounce it, either. Believe it or not, my concern is not that it ...
