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John 3:16 doesn't have anything to do with Universalism. That's the problem.This is an uncoordinated, unresponsive reply. DO NOT MERELY STATE A CONTRADICTION. I said my daughter is under age. Now I am saying she is not under age.
The question was how does John 3:16 go against Universalism?
Context Steve...context. Add verse 17, and an opinion from a scholar above both of our pay grades.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 and a confession is what it takes to make Jesus the savior to every individual.Universalism says it doesn't matter what you believe.
This answers my question from earlierUniversalism says it doesn't matter what you believe. The verse (John 3:16) says it does matter what you believe.
This answers my question from earlier. You're thinking religious pluralism ("all roads lead to heaven"). You're not thinking Christian universalism.
Definitions matter.
Christian universalism does not teach it doesn't matter what (or better yet, in who) you believe. It teaches you must believe in Christ.
Context Steve...context. Add verse 17, and an opinion from a scholar above both of our pay grades.
JOH 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 2958;
WHO is saying that. That's certainly not what I believe. Everyone WILL believe because that and 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 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 Steve.
Correct.You also proved you still don't know what universalism believes.
Fair enough.Context Steve...context. Add verse 17, and an opinion from a scholar above both of our pay grades.
It seems to me that the urgency of making a decision to follow Christ in this earthly life is woven throughout the NT. For instance, the "so that" in John 3:16. ...so that whoever believes will not perish...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.
That's a good find. Is that an isolated case, or are there more verses that reference the ages to come? When I do a quick search only two come up. Here's the other one below.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 Steve.
Thanks.This answers my question from earlier. You're thinking religious pluralism ("all roads lead to heaven"). You're not thinking Christian universalism.
Definitions matter.
Christian universalism does not teach it doesn't matter what (or better yet, in who) you believe. It teaches you must believe in Christ.
Do you really believe that all your belittling will help me to understand?
You’re right there is an urgency, but that is for the one who is supposed to be saving himself from the sins of this wicked generation if he wants to attain perfection and the immortal life of this age. (This is not UR/Uni teaching BTW.)It seems to me that the urgency of making a decision to follow Christ in this earthly life is woven throughout the NT. For instance, the "so that" in John 3:16. ...so that whoever believes will not perish...
You have hung in here Steve, and for ‘that’ I do commend you.Correct.
That has been my complaint on this thread all along.
The Universalists in the group (and most obviously the thread originator) seem to think I don't understand Universalism because I am stupid.
I think I don't understand it because it has been poorly presented.
So, obviously any argument I bring will be lacking even the most basic knowledge about it.
If I was either more gullible or more concerned with group acceptance I would have just agreed with this. However...
I believe this “quote” above is the testimony of another and not yourself. If that is true, can you share ‘who’, or at least confirm my observation for us?"I wanted to put into writing my own journey out of hell.
That is to say my journey out of the doctrine of eternal conscious torment. In a way it is a journey out of a personal hell because this doctrine did in fact torment me for a long time. As a non denominational pastor of 30 years with a full gospel Assembly of God back ground, I was reaching a place of intense inward struggle with all that I knew about Gods grace and love and acceptance, and then having to believe an alarm goes off and He transforms into a merciless judge who hates anyone who for a plethora of reasons did not come into Christ in their short span on earth.
I fought this for a long time. Of course hell is forever. Its right there in the bible.
The only problem was that this created an ever increasing spiritual dissonance inside of me of which the effect on my life and spirituality and view of the world I did not fully comprehend.
"Could believing in eternal conscience torment make a person more judgmental, less merciful, more prone to anxiety and depression and even make carnal thoughts and temptations harder to resist? Could this undermine the gift of grace a person was promised in Christ and keep them from living in the peace and joy and love that is supposed to accompany those born again?
"I would have never guessed that could be the case. The fact is I struggled in all those things for so long. I knew the standards I was to live by but I just assumed the devil was really concentrating on me because I'm a leader and we get more enemy fire.
But when I finally opened my heart and began to read the volumes of online study available from the well researched and well reasoned proponents of Universal Reconciliation, It was like a desert was being filled with streams of living water down inside of me. I began to experience the grace powered life like never before.
"As I look back I realize that my spirit never really bore witness with the doctrine of eternal hell."
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.
You also proved you still don't know what universalism believes.
Correct.
That has been my complaint on this thread all along.
The Universalists in the group (and most obviously the thread originator) seem to think I don't understand Universalism because I am stupid.
I think I don't understand it because it has been poorly presented.
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