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NASB | John 10:28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 10:28 "And I give them eternal life, and they will never, ever [by any means] perish; and no one will ever snatch them out of My hand. |
Subject: once saved always saved |
Bible Note: New Creature: The diffculty I have with this explanation is that it divorces these verses from the rest of the argument. Romans 38-39 is the summary conclusion of a much larger passage which more fully explains what God's love means here. It is not merely warm feelings for His creatures, but rather a preserving and protecting love for His people: 'What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED." But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ' --Romans 8:31-39 Now how anyone can read this section of Scripture and conclude that the last two verses are merely commentary on God's emotional disposition toward us is beyond me. Paul is writing about God's preserving of His own, not about a universal love. It is shown in God who justifies and Christ who to this day intercedes for me (along with the Spirit who prays for us, earlier in Romans 8). This is love resulting in Trinitarian action toward His people that assures that those whom God justifies will be glorified (Romans 8:30), John Piper recently gave a good sermon on this: http://www.desiringgod.org/library/sermons/02/090802.html --Joe! |