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NASB | 1 John 5:13 ¶ These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 5:13 ¶ These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God [which represents all that Jesus Christ is and does], so that you will know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have eternal life. |
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Bible Note: Dear John and Tim, Contest is important in the case of saving faith. Saving faith co-operates with grace. So for example, when God split the Red Sea, would he Israelites have been saved if they "believe in Yaweh" but did not cross over? Now, they could not have saved themselves unless God had split the Red Sea, nor could they have crossed over if God had not split the Red Sea. So God gets the glory for salavtion, but their faith is only saving faith if it co-operates with grace by crossing over. Of course I do not need to point out to scholars such as yourself the MT allusions to the relationship between the Red Sea crossing and baptism, and between baptism and the death and resurrection of Christ. The point is that Lightman was asking for practical advice and I think practical advice would be that he should respond to grace by cooperating with it in the ways we see expounded in the NT, not just telling him to "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household" without the rest of the context. That would be like moses telling the Israelites to "beleive in Yaweh" but don't worry about any "works" such as crossing over. In that situation a man who has that kind of faith is a man whose "faith without works is dead" to coin a phrase. Emmaus |