What does John 1:29 mean to you?

[Lulav]

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.​

Specifically the highlighted part.

 

[d taylor]

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That Jesus took away the sin of the world. The world = all people ever born, from Adam to the last person ever born. Before the creation of the new heaven and new earth.

 

[Sheila Davis]

What /Who is the sin of the world?
John chapter 16:8-9 states the Holy Spirit Will reprove the world of sin because they believe not on me. Verse 11 says of judgment because the prince of this world is judged
2 Corinthians 4:4 says in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believes not.

I feel it's referring to the final phase of judgment - when Lucifer's sentence is carried out - that the devil is the sin of the world.

 

[disciple Clint]

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.​

Specifically the highlighted part.

Salvation is available to everyone.

 

[Hammster]

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.​

Specifically the highlighted part.

John expanded the scope of people Christ atoned for. The Day of Atonement was for the nation of Israel, even though not everyone was included. Christ’s atonement is for the world in the sense that it is not limited to just Israel.

 

[fhansen]

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.​

Specifically the highlighted part.

Jesus’s sacrifice brings about not only forgiveness of sin but the overcoming of it within ourselves, no longer “slaves to sin” but “slaves to righteousness” now instead, Rom 6.

“And so He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” Rom 8:3-4

 

[Mark Quayle]

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.​

Specifically the highlighted part.

Only Christ can take away anyone's sin.

 

[Mr. M]

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.​

Specifically the highlighted part.

Curses removed. For example,
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

By a restored relationship with the Father.
Matthew 6:
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be
added to you.

 

[Lulav]

What /Who is the sin of the world?
John chapter 16:8-9 states the Holy Spirit Will reprove the world of sin because they believe not on me. Verse 11 says of judgment because the prince of this world is judged
2 Corinthians 4:4 says in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believes not.

I feel it's referring to the final phase of judgment - when Lucifer's sentence is carried out - that the devil is the sin of the world.

Excellent Sheila! That is what I've come to believe.

I'm no expert in Greek but studying the word used it does not say 'sins of the world' but 'Sin of the world'.

The bruising of the head - accomplished.

'It is finished' - Genesis 3:15

 

[Lulav]

Only Christ can take away anyone's sin.

Yet if that is true, why did he say there was an unforgivable sin?

Matt 12
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

 

[Hammster]

Yet if that is true, why did he say there was an unforgivable sin?

Matt 12
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

Not all sin is taken away. Only the sin of those He died for are taken away.

 

[Lulav]

Not all sin is taken away. Only the sin of those He died for are taken away.

And who would those be?

"All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men(mankind)"

Did he not mean all?

 

[Hammster]

And who would those be?

"All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men(mankind)"

Did he not mean all?

He did mean all manner of sin. But that doesn’t mean all sin is forgiven, which is evidenced by that very passage.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Yet if that is true, why did he say there was an unforgivable sin?

Matt 12
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

I don't follow your point. Are you pegging on the "anyone's" I mentioned?

Let me say it another way —if anyone can be forgiven, it is through Christ alone.

 

[disciple Clint]

Yet if that is true, why did he say there was an unforgivable sin?

Matt 12
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

Clearly if someone rejects God they are not able to be saved, it is a sin that they made that decision and having made it and rejected God it has indeed become an unforgivable sin.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Clearly if someone rejects God they are not able to be saved, it is a sin that they made that decision and having made it and rejected God it has indeed become an unforgivable sin.

We all rejected God until we didn't. He does not give up on those he chose to save. They WILL be his.

 

[disciple Clint]

We all rejected God until we didn't. He does not give up on those he chose to save. They WILL be his.

I would agree with that but up to a point, I am talking about those who are absolute and non changing in their rejection, they are in fact at war with God. Anyone can be saved some will never allow God to save them.

 

[Mark Quayle]

I would agree with that but up to a point, I am talking about those who are absolute and non changing in their rejection, they are in fact at war with God. Anyone can be saved some will never allow God to save them.

Nor did God intend to save them. Or do you think they are more powerful than God?

We are all that way until he changes our wills.

 

[d taylor]

Yet if that is true, why did he say there was an unforgivable sin?

Matt 12
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

That was not an individual sin, this sin, was a sin the nation of Israel committed. When the people of the nation of Israel let the leaders decide for them. Was Jesus the promised Messiah from the prophecies of The Tanakh. When the leaders rejected The Messiah on the bases of Jesus doing His miracles by the power of beelzebub.

 

[Sheila Davis]

Excellent Sheila! That is what I've come to believe.

I'm no expert in Greek but studying the word used it does not say 'sins of the world' but 'Sin of the world'.

The bruising of the head - accomplished.

'It is finished' - Genesis 3:15

Praise be to God - I thought I was the only one that thought like that.

Jesus said the world will love HIS own
JOHN 15:19 KJV "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have..."