2018年8月27日 星期一

提多書1:10-16


1:10 因為有許多人不服約束,說虛空話欺哄人;那奉割禮的更是這樣。
1:11
這些人的口總要堵住。他們因貪不義之財,將不該教導的教導人,敗壞人的全家。
1:12
有克里特人中的一個本地先知說:「克里特人常說謊話,乃是惡獸,又饞又懶。」
1:13
這個見證是真的。所以,你要嚴嚴地責備他們,使他們在真道上純全無疵,
1:14
不聽猶太人荒渺的言語和離棄真道之人的誡命。
1:15
在潔淨的人,凡物都潔淨;在污穢不信的人,甚麼都不潔淨,連心地和天良也都污穢了。
1:16
他們說是認識上帝,行事卻和他相背;本是可憎惡的,是悖逆的,在各樣善事上是可廢棄的。

 10 For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group. 11 They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain. 12 One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”[c] 13 This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith 14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth. 15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.

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    保羅在這裡說到的一些惡人,就是指教會初期的猶太派信徒。他們表面上是基督徒,骨子裡卻和拉比猶太教是一樣的,他們還是希望外邦人先守猶太律法,才有資格成為基督徒。

    其實保羅接受到的啟示並不是如此,外邦人不必守猶太律法才可以成為基督徒,只要單單信靠耶穌基督,就可以成為基督徒,就可以成為上帝的兒女!所以,保羅不斷闡釋這樣的真理,來對抗這一群扭曲信仰的猶太派信徒。

    當然今日的情形也是如此,我們可以直接透過信靠耶穌基督而成為上帝的兒女,不需要別的條件!我們可以照我們的文化來生活,只要這文化不違背聖經的原則,我們不必揚棄。意思就是說,不管是怎樣的族群,透過耶穌基督都是一家人了!

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