It shouldn't shock you that the no1 in both search lists, as well as being included in the Hands On list is this one but I will allow the passage to continue to include #57 and #128 in the google list #88 on the biblegateway list.
John 3:16-18
For God So Loved the World
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
SIS
Romans 5:8
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 4:9-10
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
John 12:47
If anyone hears my(Jesus') words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
John 5:24
Truly, truly, I (Jesus) say to you (the Jewish leaders), whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
OPQ
The only permissible way (to know Christ) is to believe.
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher
HIJ
It should go without saying, but these are Jesus' words about himself, He is the Son that He is talking about. The one who has come to save the world, which the Father dearly loves, not condemn it.
But there is no fence to sit on here as verse 18 will conclude, you can't be agnostic about it, because you are either not condemned, despite all that The Law will shout at you, because you believe in Jesus, and the sacrifice He made on the cross, which the snake in the desert that Moses lifted up speaks of, or you as He puts simply stand condemned already.
So in the words of John's first letter,
1 John 5:13
That You May Know
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
There is a exercise in the Hands On Bible regarding this verse, try writing out verse 16, putting your name instead of 'the world', 'whoever' and insert it between 'him,' and 'should'. They also encourage you if you are a believer to do that same thing but inserting a friend's name that you are witnessing to and hand it to them.
Sunday, 13 January 2013
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