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NASB | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
Bible Question:
Are you saying that you didn't "go on sinning" when you continued to commit sins even though you knew better? Also, I'm not saying that that scripture isn't talking about forsaking the truth, rejecting Christ. It is based on what's after the 26th verse, but God is defining turning from the truth to be to "sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth" (or knowing better). |
Bible Answer: Welldigger Why do I get the feeling your trying to get me to dig a hole? Instead of trying to figure how much we can get away with let’s look at what God wants for us. Once we become a Christian our life should start to change. We should have a desire to draw nearer to God. We should become more and more uncomfortable with sin, either to be around it or to commit it. We are called to holiness, righteousness, and to abstain from things that aren't. Does that mean we will never sin, no but we sure should be moving away from sin and closer to God. The Holy Spirit is our teacher and He will reveal things in our life that need to be dealt with. If we commit sin, intentionally, inadvertently, possibly caught up in the moment the Holy spirit will make us feel uncomfortable and hopefully that will cause us to repent. The problem comes when we try to justify our sin, we allow ourselves to become comfortable with sin and then we move closer to the condition you asked about in Heb 10:26. How far do we have to go to reach the condition of Hebrews 10:26? I don’t know nor do I want to know. My desire as should yours is to draw closer to a Holy God and to do that I must put all hindrances aside. I hope that answers your question EdB |