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It is great English because that is what we are suppose to do. One would only think it is poor English because the concept is foreign to them.
Contextually the Gospel of John brings this truth out as the OP shares.
Though εἰς can be translated "in" it shouldn't be because contextually INTO fits with the rest of the Gospel, For He is the vine and we are the branches. Without Him we can do nothing. Jo 15:5
The prayer of a righteous man availeth much. So it is written...
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
(Joh 17:20-23 KJV)
Where do you get the idea that other sections of the gospel of John override the immediate context of John 3:16-18? Why do translators at times translate the same Greek word differently according to the immediate context? I find a strong caution given us in the following:
"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." (2Pet 1:20-21, KJV)
We can't have private interpretation apart from the Holy Spirit who inspired the revelation of the Scriptures, therefore we need this same Holy Spirit to illuminate what He inspired. If I think I have more of the Holy Spirit than the witness of the church through the centuries, and my private interpretation is the correct one, I'm acting with great arrogance. Cherry picking and using odd definitions is how the cults twist the Holy Scriptures. I say "Bye" along with pescador.
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