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of pezzotta was refuted and why he can't be considered an expert on the
Roman Christian Catholic religion.
Pezzotta doesn’t tell his readers that the original Greek of Romans 3:23 renders all as pantes: “pantes gar hEmarton kai husterountai tEs doxEs tou theou.” The root word of pantes is pas.
In Greek, pas does not mean “every single one.” It means “vast majority” and admits of exception. In fact, Romans 5:14 mentions “over them that have not sinned,” hence admitting of exceptions.
Pas means “generally,” “vast majority,” “most” or “great amount.” For instance, in Romans 15:14, we read:
“And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.”
“All” knowledge certainly does not mean every single knowledge because it would make us omniscient like God.
“All” in Romans 3:23 as used in the original Greek simply means vast majority. It cannot be absolutely without any exemption. In fact, it does admit of exemptions. Pezzotta is aware of it since he admits that Jesus is an exception citing Hebrews 4:15:
“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15).
Pezzotta insists that the “only exception the Bible makes is Jesus.” Not so. The context of sin in Romans 3:23 is personal sin. Of course, we believe that Jesus is personally sinless. However, the Bible tells us that there are others who are personally sinless as well. Unborn infants have no personal sin as yet because they are incapable of doing any good or evil.
Romans 9:11 states:
“For the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls” (NKJV).
The Bible also tells us that there have been God’s servants, like the prophets, who may have been free from personal sin. Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord and he is not guilty of even idle talk since he “did let none of his words fall to the ground” (1 Sam. 23:19-20).
The prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 1:5) and John the Baptist (Lk. 1:15) were sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit even from their mother’s womb. Moreover, the righteous Job could say: “I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me” (Job 3:39).
If we take Pezzotta’s absolutistic interpretation of “all” in Romans 3:23, it would make the Bible contradict itself. What happened to the holy angels? The holy angels of God are of course sinless.
Only the fallen angels sinned against God because these are “the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day” (Jude 6).