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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: why would God withhold the gift of faith |
Bible Note: Greetings Parable! Excellent answer my friend! I have even debated this point with mechanical evolutionists. They take a mechanistic approach to human will. Every choice is simply a result of another prior choice. The end result is that I drank a Pepsi today because two atoms collided in a galaxy 30 million light years from here over 2 billion years ago. :-) Choices are complex things. People can choose things based upon their own self interests. People can choose things against their own self interests (just ask my oldest daughter). People can choose things with much thought and planning. People can choose things without any thought. To simply say that man has a sin nature, therefore man is incapable of choosing or desiring anything but sin is simplistic at best. If this were turn, we would be nothing more than animals who always acted out our sinful desires. But, even unbelievers don't actually live that way. My parents were very moral people, even though they were not Christians. Now, I know and you know that will not get them to Heaven. But, if fallen man could do nothing but sin all the time, there would be no moral sinners. In fact, there would not be a human race at all, for we would have killed each other off a long time ago. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |