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NASB | 1 John 5:11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 5:11 And the testimony is this: God has given us eternal life [we already possess it], and this life is in His Son [resulting in our spiritual completeness, and eternal companionship with Him]. |
Subject: eternal security |
Bible Note: Dear Scribe: In 1John 4:10,18 5:12to 20 are Core theology for me. I feared God for my first 37 years. I felt very simular to what you express. You can not love someone you are afraid of. Do you know God loves all human kind? The Fathers will is that all mankind would come to a saving knowledge od Jesus Christ. I do not think scaring someone to pray the sinners prayer is a valid conversion. I am not saying a carnal christian is not on thin ground. I am saying what you sow you will reap. My experience with Goats, and I mean live real goats has taught me much. Goats do not need the constant care or watching over them as sheep do. Goats are very self reliant, and require little from man. Goats eat anything, from poisin oak,ivy or cedar trees, what ever can be put down their mouth. Sheep are completly dependant on the shepherd! By the way goats and sheep both acknowledge their master voice. Jesus used the sheep and goats because people back then were totally fimular with these animals. Few today know much about chickens say nothing about sheep and goats. I know if sheep do not have trust and faith in the shepherd the will perish. The same is true in the spiritual life as well. I profoundly do not believe in sinless perfection. I have never heard any preacher say you can live like hell was your home and still have salvation. I am glad our loving Father knows who are his, because just as wrong are people who say a prayer and depend on that to save them, is the extreme view that we judge people to hell. Love never fails, so Paul said. I am quick to point out Christian maturity takes a life time. I question that if we share Christ with someone and they truely want to make Christ LORD, unless you are prepared to disciple them you are planting seeds on ground the birds may well eat. Sound tough? I really mean it! I have seen too many who were eager to "win a soul to Jesus" as if it were a notch on their spiritual gun. Would you agree? Please bare in mind for 37 of my 57 years I lived with fear of God and I could not understand the "loving Father" part at all. So I react out of 37 years of hell fire, and fear of God. How many others in this world are living like I was? I believe many. Gods Love and peace, farout |