Romans 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
English “Gentiles” in Romans 2:14 was translated from Greek noun 1484 ethnos being every nation other than Israel. Greek noun 1484 ethnos was 93 times translated into English “Gentiles” 64 times into “nations” 5 times into “heathen” and 2 times into “people” documenting why grammatical objects of God as their only grammatical subject by “rightly dividing the word of truth” know the 5 Ws who, what, when, where and why. The nation of Israel and those of the Jewish religion referred to nations other than Israel and religions other than Jewish as “heathen” as do many of the world’s 4,351 religions. When I first started “rightly dividing the word of truth” I used a hard copy of a King James Bible and Strong’s Concordance to trace English words back to their original Hebrew and Greek words starting with the book of John and went wherever God led me which was unconventional. God led me from the book of John to Isaiah 45:18 where Hebrew noun H8414 tohuw led to Jeremiah 4:23 and Genesis 1:2 defining earth ages which led to the book of Matthew and then to Job. There I was in the book of Job where the Hebrew words were teaching me things contrary to the books of John, Matthew, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Genesis. I thank God every day but do not ask God for anything because I believe the bible phrase “your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him” but after many hours of studying the book of Job I followed God’s Matthew 6:6 instruction and thought hey Lord help me a little here but all I received was an unction to continue. I repeated aforementioned thought prayer over many days and studied every verse containing every Hebrew word until I reached Job38:2 where God said to Job and me “Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge”? I was immediately angry because God had for weeks ignored my prayers and allowed me to study the Hebrew words spoken by Job’s buddies “Eliphaz” “Bildad” “Zophar” and “Elihu” who “darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge”? Job’s flesh human buddies “Eliphaz” “Bildad” “Zophar” and “Elihu” darkened God’s counsel and temporarily displaced God as mine and Job’s grammatical subject. God taught me to always know who is saying what to whom and to know why and where they are saying it. God’s apostle John was imprisoned “in the isle that is called Patmos” while he was simultaneously “in the Spirit on the Lord’s day” which is yet in our future. Most human beings have difficulty understanding the book of Revelation because they don’t recognize if John is in his and our past, present or future. God’s “seven thousand” “election” understand that they are not smart enough, on their own, to understand God’s spiritual truth “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God” “Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life”. I am not smart enough to tell you what God’s word means. I am smart enough to demonstrate God’s process pursuant to God’s will whereby God may “choose” you to reserve to Himself to ultimately be among God’s “seven thousand” “election”.
English “by nature” in Romans 2:14 was translated from Greek noun 5449 phusis noted in prior post. Greek noun 5449 phusis is a bad noun when it was translated into English “nature” in Ephesians 2:3 subsequent to being a grammatical object of a “flesh” grammatical subject rather than God. Greek noun 5449 phusis is a good noun when it was translated into English “nature” in 2Peter 1:4 subsequent to being a grammatical object of God’s “divine” “nature” rather than a “flesh” grammatical subject other than God. The same Hebrew or Greek words can have opposite meanings predicated upon “flesh” grammatical subjects “which by nature are no gods” as reaffirmed in Galatians 4:8. “Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others” “Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods” “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust”.
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