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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: my question has nothing to do with john 3:16 but I saw no other way to get to ask my real question which is about predetermination or predestination are they only about receiving salvation or something more? |
Bible Answer: This is a thorny question. It has been argued in the church for hundreds of years. And there is a wide range of opinions and discussion. Do a few searches using the word predestination in the box to the right to get a sample. At one end of the scale there are Christians that hold to the theology of man having Free Will, were man himself determines his eternal destiny. At the other end of the scale is those that believe God has already determined the fate of each of us and what we do does not effect our eternal destiny. And there are probably a thousand positions in between. I myself favor man's free will but there are many on this forum that believe man is predistined to where he will spend eternity. |