Verse 16 says whover- only a possibility.
Verse 17 is might be saved. Verb is subjunctive and is only a possibility.
Dear younger Noli: Nope, not a possibility! My friend Hillsage should help to clarify such a ghastly idea.
JOHN 3:17 For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
"MIGHT" or "MAY"
I asked my friend, Dr. Michael Jones, a Hebrew and Greek scholar, what he thought of “might” in
John 3:17. Here is a man that only reads the New Testament in the Greek language. In fact, he teaches N.T. Greek. He explained to me in a very simple way: Using “might” in
John 3:17 is not good translating.
The force of the subjunctive here is not like a maybe, or a might. That is why many translators leave “might” out, i.e., to keep the English-only reader from getting confused. The subjunctive can be a might, i.e., a possibility–a maybe–a might, and yet, it can also emphasize a statement of fact better than the indicative mood/mode.
So, let me illustrate this in English: If a translator gave us a transport from a form critical method of translation theory, he might write: “Bob hit the ball over the fence so that he might have a home-run”. But a translator using a dynamic equivalent model of translation theory might write it like this: “Bob hit the ball over the fence to get a home-run.”
Note that the subjunctive is there, but difficult to see in English.”
You also proved you still don't know what universalism believes. PROVE your comment below from your last post, "
John 3:16 doesn't have anything to do with Universalism. That's the problem. Universalism is against
John 3:16, not the other way around.
John 3:16 says nothing about Universalism. The two are incompatible."
WHO is saying that. That's certainly not what I believe. Everyone WILL believe because that a confession is what it takes to make Jesus the savior to every individual.
ACT 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
PHI 2:10 that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and EVERY TONGUE confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
You are just believing wrongly as to WHEN you think they have to believe. You and the nominal church think it's 'this age' only. And you're also proving the church doesn't even know what Joh 3:16 is saying either.
YLT JOH 3:16 for God did so love the world, that His Son - the only begotten - He gave, that every one who is believING in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
The God LIFE that's available in this age is immortality. And if you sin then you aren't believing your LORD Jesus because a man DOES WHAT HE IS BELIEVING. So if you're still sinning as a Christian, then your body is going to die and return to the dust from whence it came....IOW NO IMMORTALITY and to HADES/GRAVE your body goes. To await a judgment of purgative fire for all those sins you did still commit after confessing Jesus was YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR in THIS AGE.
Well, you got the SAVIOR part right But Jesus sure as HADES isn't the LORD you're listening to if you still sin in this age since you got "saved", with your sinners prayer. But His plan for you, me and ALL doesn't end with this age, or the age to come. According Eph there were at least TWO ages to follow when Ephesians was written;
EPH 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace...
Who is HE going to SHEW this SAVING GRACE to, in the ages to come? You're already SAVED right? This is a good time to put your thinking cap on.
