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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 do i need to love god? |
Bible Note: Inquisitor, Your statements: "The biggest, most powerful reason we SHOULD love God is so we can go to Heaven." "Now God has sent His Son to fulfill a promise God made after closing down that Garden of Eden. He provided the ONLY Way for any human being to go to Heaven and that is done by obeying God's Commandments or His Son's Last Will and Testament which was executed by the Holy Spirit through His Apostles." Sir, you have just forwarded a false gospel. Perhaps you don't realise the implications of what you are saying. We go to heaven by loving God? We go to heaven by obeying his commandments? According to Romans 3:10-18 there is not a one of us who loves God. The things you describe is a result of salvation and regeneration, not the means of salvation! We are NOT saved through our obedience, we are saved through the obediance of Jesus Christ, and the death of Jesus Christ in our place. (2 Cor 5:21, Isaiah 53). God grants us HIS righteousness not from our doing any thing, but purely and solely through faith. (Romans 3:24-26; Romans 4:1-8; Gal 2:15,16; Romans 5:1,2). Please look up these verses and read them carefully. We must understand our utter bankruptcy before God with regards to our own righteousness, and put our faith (TRUST) in nothing we can do but only in that Christ has fulfilled all expectations for us and paid the price required of all our failures. HE is our rightousness before God, and nothing else. Do not mistake the passages in 1 John that explain what will unavoidably follow salvation, and confuse them for things that merit or cause salvation. In Christ, Beja |