I am sorry but I don't just read only the KJV, I also pull up the Greek as well.
Well, of course. With the internet,
anyone can "pull up the Greek." That doesn't mean that person
knows Greek, though. "Pulling up the Greek" is just enough Greek to be incredibly dangerous.
"Will" is not even close to the correct application. Far from it in fact.
What linguistic or scholarly evidence do you have to support this? I gave you a lengthy explanation as to why what you say just simply is not so, yet you only say in reply, "No," and offer a bunch of
English (not Greek, which is the issue, here) verse that are very irrelevant to the matter at hand, which is not theological, but Greek syntax. The subjunctive mood does not
of itself indicate conditionality; that function is shown by the particles εἰ, ἄν, and ἐάν, each combined with the subjunctive. Read any standard Greek grammar, and you will see this.
In addition to what I said of my own knowledge earlier, I actually have scholarly resources to back up my claims. Here is Daniel Wallace, one of the world's premier Greek scholars:
"It is
not correct to call this [i.e., the subjunctive mood] the mood of uncertainty" (emphasis in original).[1] Of course, the subjunctive mood
can show uncertainty, but not in every context, and to generalize such "is an overly simplistic definition in light of its usage in the NT."[2]
He even explicitly puts John 3:16 under the "purpose-result ἵνα clause," which is exactly what I said:
"A purpose-result ἵνα indicates
both the intention and its sure accomplishment...The fact that the subjunctive is all but required after ἵνα does not, of course, argue for uncertainty as to the fate of the believer" (emphasis in original).[3]
He says the same thing in another work:
"We must not suppose that this use of the subjunctive necessarily implies any doubt about the fulfillment of the verbal action on the part of the speaker."[4]
[1] Daniel B. Wallace,
The Basics of New Testament Syntax: An Intermediate Greek Grammar (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000), 201.
[2] Daniel B. Wallace,
Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996), 461.
[3] Wallace,
The Basics of New Testament Syntax, 206.
[4] Wallace,
Greek Grammar, 472.
