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NASB | John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 1:12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the right [the authority, the privilege] to become children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name-- [Is 56:5] |
Subject: Are we presenting the gospel scripturaly |
Bible Note: Hi John, Ok, I was heading the wrong direction... On to the Book of Life! To tell you the truth, the idea does not grate on my ears. It matters not to me how it all works, I just want to know what the Bible says, so I can know my God, and understand as much as I am able how He does things, so I can most accurately represent Him. Exodus 32 32 But now, if you will forgive their sin--but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written." 33 But the LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book. The plain meaning of this text, to me, it that God has written of book of people, apparently their names, and some of them will be blotted out from that book, specifically, those that sin. Psa 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous. David reinforces this concept with the dual text above, that blotting someone out of the book of the living equates to not counting them among the righteous. Rev 3:5 The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. John adds that the victorious is immune from this happening to them. Rev 13:8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain. Now, perhaps Tim, or someone else can correct me if I am wrong, being as I am just a fledgling Greek student, but does not this verse literally speak of the one whose name does not remain written in the book of life from the foundation of the world? I think it is Robertson that ascribes that meaning, that it does not "stand written". Rev 17:8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come. My understand is that this verse is the same way, of those whose names do not "stand written", or "remain written" from the foundation of the world. This seems to speak a clear doctrine, that God wrote a book of all who would live, and as they sin, they draw their wage of death, and God blots them from His book. The redeemed do not have sin reckoned to them, so their names remain written in the book of life, from the foundation of the world. ? Love in Christ, Mark |