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Leon Morris follows this limitation and says,

But Richard Lenski says, No!

What do you think?

Here’s the context to help you get oriented (Romans 14:21–23):

Augustine, in his Lectures on the Gospel According to St. John, cites Romans 14:23 as a universal statement covering all human conditions:

Thomas Schreiner sides with Augustine and points out that Paul easily could have made a more limited point by stopping with the first part of verse 23 (“But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith”). Point made. End of argument. But no. Now he adds the unqualified maxim, “For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin” (Romans, 739).

It’s true, of course, as Morris says, that Paul is not discussing the actions of unbelievers in Romans 14. But that’s not a compelling argument. We regularly support specific points with general points.

For example, we might say, “The long hands of the grandfather clocks in this shop sweep 360 degrees every hour. For the long hands of all clocks that have circular faces sweep 360 degrees every hour.” Nobody would think us reasonable if we said, “From these two sentences all we can learn is that the only clocks whose long hands sweep 360 degrees each hour are the grandfather clocks in this shop, because those are the ones we are talking about.” No. We brought in a universal point to support the specific one.

That’s what Paul has done. “Whatever is not from faith is sin” is a universal point. There are numerous supports for this outside Romans 14:23. For example:

This is why Augustine said that even the virtues of unbelievers are sin. An example might make this radical indictment of faithless human “goodness” clearer.

Suppose you’re the father of a teenage son. You remind him to wash the car before he uses it to take his friends to the basketball game tonight. He had earlier agreed to do that.

He gets angry and says he doesn’t want to. You gently but firmly remind him of his promise, and say that’s what you expect. He resists. You say, “Well, if you are going to use the car tonight, that’s what you agreed to do.” He storms out of the room angry. Later you see him washing the car.

But he is not doing it out of love for you or out of a Christ-honoring desire to obey Scripture. He wants to go to the game with his friends. That is what compels his “obedience.” I put “obedience” in quotes because it is only external. His heart is wrong. This is what I mean when I say that all human “virtue” is depraved if it is not from a heart of love to the heavenly Father — even if the behavior conforms to biblical norms.

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Leipzig is a benchmark in music, history, art and design, but it is also a city that has a special aura due to its more recent past, its urban evolution and the open nature of its citizens. And it is that today the inhabitants of more than fifty years of these emerging cities drink life in gulps since they live in a freedom that they did not know in their youth because of the long shadow of the Stasi, the secret police of Germany from the This one, who controlled the stocks of millions of Germans. The youngest have only heard about that historic moment from their parents or grandparents and have grown up in a democracy.

Leipzig is a city where music is breathed in every corner but above all in its Augustusplatz where the Gewandhaus concert hall, home to one of the best-known symphony orchestras directed for a long time by Kurt Masur, is located opposite each other. and the Opera, the third oldest in Europe.

One of the oldest churches in the world, the Church of Saint Thomas, was directed by Felix Mendelssohn, who continued with the legacy of the great composer, Johannes Sebastian Bach.

The natives of this Saxon city were Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck and Richard Wagner.

It is recommended to follow the musical routes that are on the pavement of the city to know the places where these composers lived.

The Battle of the Nations in 1813, in which Prussia, Russia, Sweden and Austria defeated Napoleon in an epic confrontation, is one of the most important events in the history of Germany. The Vlkerschlachtdenkmal was built in memory of this event, and is one of the symbols of the city.

The fall of the Berlin Wall made this city important. Throughout 1989 a series of peaceful demonstrations took place in which they protested against the weakened GDR regime. The members of the Stasi did not take out their weapons because they saw that the town was gaining ground and they didn't want to endanger their lives.

The most important demonstration took place on October 9.

It began in the church of St. Nicholas and ended in front of the GDR police headquarters.

The museum explains how the policemen of the ministry of state security worked.

They can be known from their techniques, the rooms where they did interrogations, and the drugs that were used for them.

The University of Leipzig was founded in the 15th century and is the second oldest university in Germany.

The current German chancellor, who participated in the reconstruction of the Moritzbastei, was one of the famous German philosophers studied here. The faade of the Paulinum is a homage to the church that was destroyed in 1969.

Despite its bad weather, Leipzig has been an important commercial center for over a century. Some 20 galleries were built so that the merchants could take shelter.

Two of the most famous are the Speck Hof, the oldest in the city and which stands out for its magnificent paintings and ceramic medallions, and the Mädler, which has its distinguished glass skylight and the legendary Auerbachs Keller restaurant, where it is said that Goethe heard the stories that inspired his Faust.

One of the most important events in Germany and which is held every year is the Book Fair, which is held every year and is one of the most important events in Germany.

The Spinnerei, once the largest cotton spinning mill in Europe, is a major attraction for art and culture in Leipzig.

It is an important and genuine cultural center for both production and exhibition of contemporary art.

It has more than a hundred mini-houses for artists who travel to Leipzig for a while to discover the latest trends and meet colleagues with the same interests.

If you visit with your family, you can stop at the zoo, which is home to more than 850 species and has been governed by the concept of the "zoo of the future". The area for orangutans, called Gondwanalad, is the largest covered river forest in the world and is one of the themed areas built for this reason. You can take a tour of the city for free.