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Oct 4, 2018 · Bible even points to idea of innocent until proven guilty – DrJimMann.com. Do Americans still believe the adage that someone is innocent until proven guilty? Would you believe it was God’s idea? When Job’s life was in turmoil, his friends assumed he had done wrong and was being divinely punished.
Feb 25, 2012 · There is no virtue in human courts punishing one who is probably guilty or is suspected of being guilty of a particular crime. The phrase, “innocent until proven guilty,” is not just a good rule of justice. It is Biblical. If evidence cannot be presented to prove one’s guilt, man’s judgments should err on the side of caution.
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- Introduction
- The Setting of Our Text
- The Structure of The Text
- The Necessity of Hearing The Gospel
- Two Excuses Shown to Be Groundless
- Conclusion
I have heard some pretty weak excuses in my time. There was the little girl who sought to explain her wet pants to her parents saying, “I sweat my pants.” When I taught in a prison, one of the inmates tried to convince the guards that he was “feeding the birds” when he was caught with a home-made hypodermic needle for his drug use. Another inmate w...
Paul has established Israel’s guilt in the early chapters of this Epistle. In chapters 1 and 2, he indicts mankind in general and the Jews in particular. Through creation, God revealed His divine nature to mankind. Men should have received this revelation and responded by worshipping Him. Instead, man exchanged the truth of God for a lie and chose ...
Our text can be divided as follows: 1. The Necessity of Hearing2(verses 14-17) 2. The Fact of Israel’s Hearing (verse 18) 3. The Fact of Israel’s Knowing (verses 19-21)
How then shall they call upon Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of good things!” However, they did not all heed t...
But I say, surely they have never heard, have they? Indeed they have; “THEIR VOICE HAS GONE OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD.” But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? At the first Moses says, “I WILL MAKE YOU JEALOUS BY THAT WHICH IS NOT A NATION, BY A NATION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WILL I ANGER YOU.” And Isai...
Why did so many Jews reject the gospel while many Gentiles were turning in faith to the Messiah? The first answer is divine election—the sovereign choice of God. The secondanswer is Israel’s obstinance and rebellion against God, against the gospel, and against all of divine revelation, Old Testament and New. Israel cannot use God’s sovereignty as h...
Jul 9, 2015 · Don’t immediately plead guilty. But put on a posture of faith-filled, no-condemnation deference, and be willing to test whatever questions or accusations they bring to or against you. The Bible tells us to consistently test ourselves anyway, regardless of what others think or say (2 Corinthians 13:5; see also Galatians 6:4).
Mar 6, 2019 · Kris Udd. One of the founding legal principles of United States is the presumption of innocence. We are “innocent until proven guilty” in the eyes of the law. Although many American’s do not realize it, this is a principle that originates in the Bible. Two examples demonstrate this.
Feb 12, 2024 · Proverbs 24:11-12. “Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?”
10 As the Scriptures say, “No one is good—no one in all the world is innocent.”[ a] 11 No one has ever really followed God’s paths or even truly wanted to. 12 Every one has turned away; all have gone wrong. No one anywhere has kept on doing what is right; not one. Read full chapter. Footnotes. Romans 3:10 See Psalm 14:3. Romans 2. Romans 4.
