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NASB | John 3:15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life [after physical death, and will actually live forever]. |
Subject: Free gift of God |
Bible Note: Dear S. W., You write, "IF IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO LOOSE ONE'S SALVATION, WHY DOES THE WORD OF GOD SAY THE FOLLOWING TO MEMBERS OF THE NEW COVENANT? Mt 5:29." The verse in question is, "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." (Matthew 5:29) These words were spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ during His earthly ministry. How could He, therefore, have been addressing "members of the new covenant?" In addition to your making an unsubstantiated assertion regarding those to whom our Lord is speaking, you have again taken a passage of scripture out of context. Instead, Christ is speaking of God's demand for holiness, and specifically addressing the "lust of the eyes" (cf. verses 27 and 28). We know from elsewhere (1 Corinthians 6:9) that those who practice adultery are not members of the elect. John Gill writes, therefore, that "the meaning is, that it will turn to better account, to lose all the carnal pleasures of the eye, or all those pleasing sights, which are grateful to a carnal heart, than, by enjoying them, to expose the whole man, body and soul, to everlasting destruction, in the fire of hell." In Him, Doc |