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    The Therapeutic Bible – Romans: Acceptance • Grace • Truth
    The Therapeutic Bible – Romans: Acceptance • Grace • Truth
    The Therapeutic Bible – Romans: Acceptance • Grace • Truth
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    The Therapeutic Bible – Romans: Acceptance • Grace • Truth

    By Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil and Jairo Miranda

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    The Therapeutic Bible is an original edition, perhaps unique in the world today. A group of highly regarded Christian mental health professionals — supported by the Brazilian Body of Christian Psychologists and Psychiatrists and by the Bible Society of Brazil — have dedicated themselves to the task of commentating the therapeutic content of the biblical text, using their gifts and professional experience to explain how the Holy Scriptures foster our physical, mental, and spiritual health. This volume is the first fruit of this work in the English language, in the hope and prayer that the Wonderful Counselor will use it to help bring rest and relief to many souls who seek comfort from God's Word.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSociedade Bíblica do Brasil
    Release dateMar 29, 2016
    ISBN9788531115691
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      The Therapeutic Bible – Romans - Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil

      Good News Translation. The Therapeutic Bible. Acceptance, Grace, Truth

      Paul's Letter to the

      Romans

      The United Bible Societies is a world fellowship of National Bible Societies, joined together for consultation, mutual support and action in their task of achieving the widest possible, effective and meaningful distribution of the Holy Scriptures and of helping people interact with the Word of God. Bible Societies seek to carry out their task in partnership and co-operation with all Christian churches and with church-related organisations. You are invited to share in this work by your prayers and gifts. The Bible Society, in your country will be very happy to provide details of its activities.

      The Therapeutic Bible - Romans

      © Bible Society of Brazil, 2016

      P.O. Box 330 06453-970 Barueri, São Paulo – Brazil

      email: [email protected]

      All rights reserved

      Bible text

      The Good News Translation

      © 1992 American Bible Society

      All rights reserved

      Presentation

      We are pleased to present The Therapeutic Bible to you. It is the fruit of the loving reading of the Word of God in the midst of our families. We, the authors, are Christian mental health professionals committed to a personal testimony of the grace and truth manifested in Jesus Christ.

      We believe in personal salvation in Jesus Christ, the incarnation of his life, the Son of God the Father, the first fruits of the biology of resurrection by the powerful action of the Holy Spirit who inspires us, draws us close, and enables all of our relationships: with God, with others, and with ourselves.

      Our professional task, psychotherapy and counseling, puts us in daily contact with the faces of our patients. It is in them that we have witnessed the daily mystery that reveals itself in their gaze. In this mystery we testify that God is indeed present.

      The comments accompanying the sacred text originate from these meetings. They are rooted in wonder: consultation with our patients is scheduled by grace. In this sense we are happy to meet in our offices with the envoys of the Lord, who were sent to experience kinship with the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ and become part of a new family that is the Church. They speak words in everyday language that testify to the decisive importance that faith has in our lives and professions.

      These comments, thus, are written as prayers, designed to encourage listening of the text. The decisive turn is in the text that gives itself to us and that the Holy Spirit allows us to receive. The joy and satisfaction to awaken this wonderful experience is the goal of The Therapeutic Bible.

      The authors

      Preface

      A group of eighteen Christian mental health professionals, members of the Brazilian Body of Christian Psychologists and Psychiatrists (CPPC) and supported by both the CPPC and the Brazilian Bible Society (SBB), have worked with great effort to identify and explain the various fostering elements of mental, physical, and spiritual health that exist in the Holy Scriptures. In 2011 the New Testament commentary was published in Brazil. What you have in your hands, though, is being published for the first time in any language: the New Testament commentary combined with commentary on the Book of Psalms.

      We pray that God blesses all the readers of the biblical text, the commentaries, and the explicative boxes — and hope that this work helps each reader to grow in physical, emotional, and spiritual health. We would appreciate any comments or suggestions that readers have so that we can improve our work — after all, our objective is to cover the entire Bible, and there will certainly be much that needs improvement as we tackle this difficult yet enriching task which has blessed our lives so far. We solicit your prayers for our editorial team, that The Therapeutic Bible will be an instrument that brings acceptance, grace, and truth on the part of God to our people in need.

      Jairo Miranda (team coordinator)

      Karl Kepler (editor, The Therapeutic Bible)

      About the CPPC

      The Brazilian Body of Christian Psychologists and Psychiatrists (CPPC), an active organization since 1976, researches and promotes the dialogue of the science and practice of psychology and psychiatry with the Christian faith. Through the years we have noted that in spite of occasional tensions, it is not necessary to give up either scientific truth or the truth revealed in Scripture — we believe that both originate in God.

      We promote conferences, meetings, fellowships, lectures, and agreements with educational as well as ecclesial institutions. We publish Psychotheology magazine and make ourselves available to our readers on our Internet site: www.cppc.org.br, where one can access diverse texts of our authorship, find professionals in every region of Brazil, and get to know us better.

      The CPPC supports the initiative of The Therapeutic Bible, and hopes that its collaboration with this project will lead more people to encounter a path of wisdom and health in their lives, not only in the physical dimension, but also in the emotional and spiritual.

      Index

      Cover

      Colofon

      Presentation

      Preface

      Thematic Box Index

      Romans

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Writing and Translation Teams

      Thematic Box Index

      Paul, the Apostle

      A Christian Attitude toward Sinners

      Suffering in the Journey of Faith

      Conscience

      Christians and Politics

      The Social Role of Law

      Paul's Letter to the

      Romans

      Go to chapter index

      The main reason for the writing of this letter is salvation. The pagan world was lost in a lifestyle that completely disregarded the existence of God. The Jewish world, although protected from large-scale deterioration as a result of repeated efforts to obey the Law of Moses, was lost in a different way, far from achieving the quality of life desired by God. Both Jews and pagans needed salvation from a lifestyle that was ultimately a dead end and that only increased the presence of evil, but no one was able to change this situation. Finally there came good news: Jesus, the Son of God, broke this vicious cycle and opened a path, the way of faith, which reconciles us to God the Father. In the letter to the Romans, Paul deftly explains this new and unique way of life, showing how it differs from an empty existence that does not take God into account, and also from the servile and fearful effort of the people of God — the two attitudes that characterize the lives of billions of people today. The message of Romans gives new significance to the maxim that the just shall live by faith (1.17), demonstrating the difference that the life and work of Christ made and still makes today.

      In this letter Paul addresses issues crucial to our understanding of God's saving grace. He exposes his own suffering and unhappiness regarding the paradoxes and dilemmas that the Law creates for us. We share in his relief when he finds peace through the justification wrought by Christ. Paul illustrates the battle we wage with the old nature that insists on dominating us. He also clarifies the past and future spiritual status of the people of Israel, as well as the issue of our dual citizenship, earthly and heavenly, and ethical issues inherent in the Christian life. The letter ends by showcasing the spiritual dynamic that enables a healthy harmony within the body of Christ. At the time of Paul’s writing of this letter, events concerning the death and resurrection of Jesus had gone well beyond the limits of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and were moving gradually to the ends of the earth. The dispersion of persecuted believers was resulting in the formation of small communities in other lands, and Paul’s missionary journeys indicate the fulfillment of the prophecy that through the power of the Holy Spirit, the whole world would be reached by the gospel (Lk 24.47; Ac 2.1-11).

      The author:

      Saul-Paul of Tarsus: Saul, the Hebrew name, and Paul, the Roman name. We know much about him from the narrative of the book of Acts. He was born in Tarsus of Cilicia, a Roman province (present-day Turkey). He moved to Jerusalem where he completed academic studies under the renowned rabbi Gamaliel. Saul becomes a Pharisaic scholar and a lover of the Law in an earnest way, which turns him into an enemy of dissidents (non-orthodox), and a representative of the Sanhedrin in the holy war to eliminate the followers of Christ, who were seen as a dangerous cult. In carrying out his mission, while on the way to Damascus, he is met by Christ himself, blinded by a bright light (Ac 9). This dramatic event transforms him into the apostle par excellence. He submits himself to discipleship under experienced leaders, and only after a long period of retreat to his homeland does he return and start his missionary ministry, in which his Roman name comes into use. Paul traveled extensively throughout Asia Minor, Cyprus, Greece, and Macedonia on an evangelizing mission to the Jews and Gentiles. Paul becomes the first Christian theologian. His letters are the first recorded documents of the church, clarifying points of doctrine, encouraging the disciples, and revealing the tensions, crises, and deviations from the truth that the first generations of Christians experienced. He lived two years under house arrest in Rome, where he died around the year 65 as a martyr.

      Romans and Galatians:

      If you want to go deeper in understanding regarding the issues addressed in Romans, we recommend to also read Paul's letter to the Galatians. The topics of Ro 2-4 are discussed in Ga 2-3, and the themes of Ro 6-8, plus some of chapters 12-15, are also treated in Ga 4-6. In Galatians Paul uses other comparisons and concepts, and so, in the bigger picture, the life of faith becomes even clearer.

      The invitation:

      A recommendation that we consider useful for better understanding of the message of Romans is not to fixate on the time period of the original recipients (thinking it refers only to issues relevant to the Jewish and Gentile peoples). Concerning the main teaching of this letter — justification by faith — the situation of the Jewish readers of that time (in fact, Christians of Jewish origin) is very similar to the situation of Christians today and every person who considers themselves to be part of the people of God: good students of the Bible and trying to obey the will of God in their living. For it is precisely these readers that the message of Romans addresses, looking to convince us that we also need to learn to live by faith. We invite you to follow us in the reading and study of what is considered by many people to be their favorite book of the Bible.

      Romans 1

      ¹ From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus and an apostle chosen and called by God to preach his Good News.

      1.1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus. Paul is proud to be a servant of Christ Jesus, and is glad to assume this condition. called by God. The honor of being an apostle did not come by a simple decision on Paul’s part, but by God’s design. God set him apart and gave him the privilege of being an apostle, and Paul corresponds

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