WHAT IS MEANT BY THE ORACLES OF GOD IN ROMANS 3:2?
The Greek word here is logion, the diminutive of the word logos. It refers to something SMALLER than the whole Bible. The Romans Paul was writing to knew oracles as places where they could obtain short, brief, concise and to-the-point advice or answers to specific questions. Logion was not intended by Paul to refer to anything IN ADDITION TO the whole Bible … there is absolutely nothing in the rest of the epistle to the Romans to give that indication. Rather, Paul used logion to refer to specific parts of the Old Testament which were given to the Jews … typically all the “thus says the LORD” statements in the prophets were equivalent to what pagans thought of as oracles. There is no biblical support for the conjecture that oracles must also include the knowledge of the week and of the Jewish calendar. There is nothing in the Bible to support this speculation. Paul had neither the calendar nor the week in mind when he wrote Romans. 29) SHOULD WE NOT ACCEPT THE JEWISH CALENDAR ON FAI
