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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: Truth or Consequences |
Bible Note: Dear Colton, We are a forum based on sola Scriptura. We can explain that to you in greater detail if you like. Basically, we believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of the Word of God. We do not believe that the Scriptures derive their authority by the work of the Holy Spirit. Rather that our personal and individual "full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth, and divine authority [of the Bible], is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts." Consequently, we start with the sure foundation of the Word of God as "the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience." We've quoted it often enough on the forum over the years, but it seems appropriate to quote it once more. Charles Spurgeon once commented to a group of young seminarians, "Of course, you are not such wiseacres as to think of ways that you can expound Scripture without assistance from the works of divines and learned men who have labored before you in the field of exposition. If you are of that opinion, pray remain so, for you are not worth the trouble of conversion, and like a little coterie who think with you, would resent the attempt as an insult to your infallibility. It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what He has revealed to others." Similar to your rejection of all pastors, teachers, and theologians of the last twenty centuries, we will find little value in the personal experiences of someone claiming revelation apart from the church (Ephesians 4:11). As the Holy Spirit declares, these are the means of equipping He uses for maturing in Christ-likeness (Ephesians 4:12-13). Thereby, "...we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming" (Ephesians 4:14). In Him, Doc |