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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. |
Subject: predestined? |
Bible Note: "There isn't an explicit direct object mentioned in Rom. 8:29. The pronoun 'those' doesn't even have a clear antecedent." I would agree that it doesn't have an explicit antecedent, but the context, I think, makes it unlikely that Romans 8:29 refers to Israel. For example: "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?" --Romans 8:31-32 Since the "we" in these verses includes (at a minimum) Paul and the Gentile Roman church, and the verses quoted call for a response to the previous verses, it would seem that foreknowing, predestining, etc., has everything to do with both the redeemed among the Jews and those among the Gentiles. Otherwise, why would the Gentile Christians be called to such assurance and joy because the descendents of Jacob were foreknown? --Joe! |