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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. |
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Bible Note: Dear WOS, I wish I could figure out how to speak softly on the forum. I can't even use a small font to suggest it! :-) You asked, "How can one be sure what Luther penned was in fact correct?" Drs. Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart wrote something in "How to Read the Bible for All its Worth" that I believe is apropos. "The aim of good interpretation is not uniqueness; one is not trying to discover what no one else has ever seen before." Although Fee and Stuart were talking about sound exegesis of Scripture, the general sense of what they are saying is very, very applicable to all Christian efforts to uncover the truth. Martin Luther didn't really say anything new -- and if he did, that, at least, was probably wrong! What Luther did was to rediscover the truth. In a paper I once wrote, "He discovered it, researched it, wrote about it, taught it, and lived it. He found it running throughout the pages of the Old and New Testaments, being declared by prophets, Apostles, and the Messiah Himself. Furthermore, he discovered that these precepts were taught by the godly and learned (though uninspired) early church fathers like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas." Luther said, "I have grounded my preaching upon the literal Word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay." The Scripture is the means by which you can judge the teaching of Luther. Regarding Ephesians 4:13-15... we aren't all there yet! May the Lord hasten the day! Okay, I'll quiet down now. :-) In Him, Doc |