Now if you just looked at those two statements (and, really, each statement is just part of a verse taken out of its setting), they would seem to contradict each other. The same writer says one thing in one verse and something that seems completely different in another verse. Some folks would say, “Then it must not be inspired of God. It just shows up Paul’s confusion.” In Second Thessalonians 3:2, Paul said, “. . . all men have not faith.” And in Romans 12:3, he said that every man has the measure of faith. But if you’ll read the entire verse of Second Thessalonians 3:2, you can see that Paul is speaking here of ungodly men, not believers. He said, “And that we may be delivered from unrea-sonable and WICKED men: for all men have not faith.”
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