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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. |
Bible Question: How would you respond to someone who said "I don't believe that Jesus was the Son of God, but I think he was a wonderful man." |
Bible Answer: Hello hray9, I think C.S. Lewis stated it very succinctly when he wrote regarding that people often say "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God". 'That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But, let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.' [Mere Christianity] Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |