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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: what does begotten mean?? |
Bible Note: We "beget" our offspring from what is already within us. We "create" externaly from things external to us, or in God's case from nothing. Thus God created the universe from nothing and us from the matter he created. But Jesus Christ was "begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father." ( Nicean Creed) That is he, the Son, was always present in the Father and the Father in him, eternally pre-existent before his incarnation. Emmaus |