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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: kalos, I commend your wise comments and share in your concern. We MUST be able to back what we say or assert with scripture. Nothing else is valid. If scripture is not the final guide- then what? I recall Jesus in John 17:17 as praying, "santify them by Your truth. Your word is truth." He did not say your "opinion is truth", "your speculation is truth", or "your experience is truth". Even Jesus- as God in the flesh- did not counter satan with His "experience" in Matt 4. He quoted the WRITTEN word! That's a pretty strong endorsement as to its' authority. As Marvin Vincent notes, "The first recorded words of Jesus after his entrance upon his ministry are an assertion of the authority of scripture, and that though he had the fullness of the Spirit. When addressing man, our Lord seldom quoted scripture, but said, I say unto you. In answer to Satan he says, It is written." Simply said: No doctrine can be asserted through revelation that comes from another source than the Bible. We have a lady in our Adult Sunday School class who claims to believe the Bible, yet strangely resorts to all kinds of speculation because "God gave us imaginations" ( 1 Opinions 3:1). She has also "experienced" seeing a 7ft angel and many other such bizarre things. Amazing, but sadly true. If experience is our guide and source of truth, the Word of God will be soon left as a relic of the past, irrelevant and unnecessary. There are no known or lost books of the Bible named 1 and 2 Opinions or Speculations for obvious reasons. They have no place next to Gods' inerrant, inspired, and authoritative Word! Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |