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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: how can i overcome sin, and be forgiven? |
Bible Note: Dear Dr. Aixen, I thought about more properly annotating it, but I tend to remember the Scripture verbiage more readily than references. Consequently, I have to dig them out later. So, if I'm feeling lazy, sometimes I just write and leave out the references. :-) In regards to wondering "whether the questioner might be a believer," I always would rather err on the non-believer side. The way is broad to destruction, so, if you have nothing else to judge by, then simple statistics would be enough to cause us to lean in that direction. More importantly, if a person is a believer, and they are having doubts, the potential harm is minimal when compared to a lost person having false confidence! May we never find ourselves working contrary to the Holy Spirit! With regard to your suggested change, I could go either way. While your suggestion is probably much better, from a psychological standpoint the person to whom the post is written has a very specific set of sins in mind. (As we all do when we think about the sins that so easily beset us.) However, if I were really thinking along those lines I ought to have written "those sins" instead of "that sin" to more properly emphasize what repentance was all about. Please do not consider anything I write as proprietary. Honestly, I don't think about it that way, especially in this forum. What I have written is as close to Scriptural truth as I am able to write. If it is proprietary in any way then let it be Proprietary to Providence (with a capital P)! :-) I pray that the Lord Jesus is magnified and I am diminished. Thank you, Dr. Aixen, for your encouragement. In Him, Doc |