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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 doesnt god have the power? |
Bible Note: Dear Danny, Regarding your point 1: God's children do not suffer eternally. However, those who are not His children will suffer eternally. Not all men are His children (1 John 3:10). Regarding your point 2: God does not "help and try." True, man is not hindered by God from believing. However, left to man's own agency, he will never choose God. Man is not ignorant, in need of a teacher. Man is not sick, in need of a physician. Man is dead, in need of a miracle! Here are some scriptures to consider: For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:29-31) "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him." (John 6:44a) And he said, "Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." (John 6:65) But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:12-13) And here are a few good quotes, as well: "If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright." --Martin Luther "To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect." --John Owen "Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do His good pleasure." --George Whitefield "The greatest judgment which God Himself can, in this present life, inflict upon a man is, to leave him in the hand of his own boasted free-will." --Augustus Toplady "If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved!" --R. C. Sproul Furthermore, the Scripture flatly denies that there is ANY other way to be saved than through Jesus Christ -- past, present, and future. Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." (John 14:6) "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) In Him, Doc |