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everybody went contrary to the literal statement as Herodias and Herod did not get
baptised for starters and the following verse refers to only ‘many’ being baptised.

When Jesus refers to hypothetical Pharisees potentially having ‘no sin’ but in fact
being in sin, he is saying that because like all men they are aware of God in their
spirits, therefore they had the guilt that all the unsaved have (John 9:41). That is all
can see and are not ‘blind’ in the sense of John 9:41 (John 9:41, Rom 1:20).

In John 15:22-4 the words 'had not had sin' means only the specific sin of rejecting
the human Jesus before them which is a particular sin under the Law (John 15:24).
The ‘they’ in question were obviously still unsaved and sinners.

Job 1:1, 8 is a parable when it describes Job as ‘perfect’ because we see that he
sinned (Job 3:25, 22:4). Job 1:22 is a parable (or expression) when it says that Job
‘sinned not’ (Job 1:22). Job as with all non-Christians was not ‘perfect’ before God
(2 Chron 6:36, Rom 3:10) but was a 'good' man and this is the sense of the
statement, it is for emphasis by exaggeration (Job 1:1). I use 'good' here to refer to
the human categorisation and not to the perfect goodness of God (Mat 19:17, Mark
10:18, Luke 18:19). ‘No’ can be an expression as in Eccl 1:9 when it says there is
‘no new thing’ under the sun as the Word says God’s mercies are new every
morning (Lam 3:23).

There is also an expression in Isaiah 41:24. God, as the triune ‘We’, says that if
men could tell the future then they would be ‘gods’ which is an expression or
parable and not correct (Isaiah 41:23, John 17:3). There can only be one God
(Isaiah 43:10-13).

The story that begins in Judges 9:8 is not literally true and, in this instance, this is
made easier to discern by the words ‘on a time’.

Noah in Genesis 10:1 refers to both the individual and generic Adams, the generic,
parabolical, Noah and Jesus Christ as does Rev 12:13-14 when it talks of the ‘man
child’. Noah is described as ‘just..perfect in his generations’ (Gen 6:9). However
the parabolical man Noah was not perfect throughout his life (Gen 9:21-29).
Furthermore every man is not innocent unless a Christian and Noah, the individual,
was not (Isaiah 53:6). Joseph the Counsellor is described as ‘a good man and a
just’ (Luke 23:50) but this is qualified in the whole Word context of Matthew
19:17 in which every man is described as not ‘good’. Joseph was therefore only a
better man than most. Simeon is also described as ‘just’ (Luke 2:25).