Introduction

Jeremiah 17 verse 9, the heart is desperately sick and who can know it. The paradigm of original sin where Jeremiah 17 verse 9 was almost seen as a proof text for Romans 3. Three paradigms that I introduced as ways to balance this were first of all historical to try and put ourselves back and position the prophetic text in the flow of history. Second was a literary approach in other words looking at things like imagery, arrangement and flow not just taking a verse on its own but positioning it within the flow of the surrounding text. Third one which was somewhat of an expansion of the literary method was retrocteric which is taking viewing the text as a discourse between somebody speaking to an audience