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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 allow his son to die fo us |
Bible Note: Good verses, Ray. You know, oddly enough, the two atheists that I have known personally were lawyers; and, believe it or not, two of the strongest Christian believers I've known were also lawyers! I've never been able to understand atheists. I've talked to these two atheistic lawyers (both now deceased) so many times, and they would talk about God (the God who they avowed doesn't exist) in detail and sometimes as intimately as if He were in the next room or sitting out in the back yard. One of them said to me one time, "Why should I worship God? He hasn't done anything for me." I've always thought it singuarly odd that this man spoke so surely about God's not doing anything for him when he didn't believe there was a God. ...... On another occasion one of these self-proclaimed athesists told me that he didn't have faith, that he didn't believe in anything unless he could see it and touch it with his own hands. I asked him whether he had ever seen God and touched Him with his own hands, and he of course said that he never had. "So you can't prove that He exists," I said. "That's right," he replied. "But neither can you prove that He doesn't exist," I countered, "so you must accept on faith that there is no God. We both walk by faith then, you that God doesn't exist and I that He does. But I think it takes more faith to believe that God doesn't exist than it does to believe that He exists. It's far easier for me to explain my existence and the existence of this universe than it is for you." But, sad to say, so far as I know, neither of my lawyer friends ever came to a saving faith in Christ. --Hank |