{"id":57001,"date":"2022-12-17T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T20:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=57001"},"modified":"2022-12-19T09:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:04:18","slug":"is-romans-835-about-our-love-for-christ-or-christs-love-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-romans-835-about-our-love-for-christ-or-christs-love-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Romans 8:35 about our love for Christ or Christ&#8217;s love for us?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I am going over some studies on the Perseverance of the Saints. I came across one site that stated Romans 8:35 was talking of our love for God and not His love for us.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any insights on this?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>In the Greek text, &#8220;from the love of Christ&#8221; (<em>apo tes <\/em><em>agapes tou Christou<\/em>) is in the genitive and singular forms for each word. It shows that the phrase is a singular item &#8212; it is Christ&#8217;s love that is under discussion. &#8220;Us&#8221; (<em>hemas<\/em>) is accusative, first-person, and plural. The accusative is the direct object of the statement, it is what is receiving the action of the verb (&#8220;separate&#8221;). &#8220;Who&#8221; is in the nominative form. It is what is causing the action. Thus, the question being asked is who (or what) is able to separate us from Christ&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Response:<\/h2>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Hello, I am going over some studies on the Perseverance of the Saints. I came across one site that stated Romans 8:35 was talking of our love for God and not His love for us. Do you have any insights on this? &nbsp; Answer: In the Greek text, &#8220;from the love of Christ&#8221; (apo&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[65,120,190],"class_list":["post-57001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-love","tag-romans","tag-translation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46592,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-does-my-source-say-teknon-instead-of-tekna-in-i-timothy-34\/","url_meta":{"origin":57001,"position":0},"title":"Why does my source say\u00a0teknon\u00a0instead of\u00a0tekna\u00a0in I Timothy 3:4?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Good afternoon, Thank you for your labor and articles. 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We have been questioning the idea of everyone taking it a second\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45471,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-passover-paradigm-for-christs-death-and-gods-wrath\/","url_meta":{"origin":57001,"position":3},"title":"The Passover Paradigm for Christ\u2019s Death and God\u2019s Wrath","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer How can understanding the connection between Christ's death as the Lamb of God and the Passover event help us in understanding Christ's death as it relates to God's wrath? 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