His Sheep, His Body the Church, or Gods Elect.And who may I ask are Christ people
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His Sheep, His Body the Church, or Gods Elect.And who may I ask are Christ people
Thats False.The church wasn't in exsistence before Jesus died. The Church is all those who have come to him since. And those are the ones it means. Anyone who is born of the Spirit is Church.
So to you the whole world does not mean the whole world then.
Okay. I suppose "NO" doesn't always mean no to you as well?
funny but I looked up "whole world in the Greek. Boy was I surprised! Know why? Because it means the whole world!
I looked up Lie. It is a geographical and not intimate or personal time.
Now god is a whole lot smarter than the "whole world" combined. He also created the languages. He chose certain words here to mean that we are of God and every one physically lis in the wicked one, which explicitly speaks of where we are physically located! If God wanted to say what you have written, He would have done so and doesn't need your superior knowledge to correct His inspiration. But hey that is my opinion of God!
Well okay then, it was very small until after Pentecost when it began to grow. But I'm sure you knew what I meant really.Thats False.
@Pearl Yes, the church's birthday was at Pentecost. The Old Testament had those who were justified (Hebrews 11, etc.) but they were not part of the church.The church wasn't in exsistence before Jesus died. The Church is all those who have come to him since. And those are the ones it means. Anyone who is born of the Spirit is Church.
@Pearl My wife and I were reading this passage just this week. What a source of blessing to so many readers it has been! :)For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. John 3:16-20
Yes farouk, 'whoever believe in him shall not perish but have eternal life'. Nobody needs to be left out but sadly so many choose not to believe. But all who do become part of His Church and His family.@Pearl My wife and I were reading this passage just this week. What a source of blessing to so many readers it has been! :)
@Pearl Acts 17 says: 'God commandeth all men everywhere to repent'....the message is still going forth.... :)Yes farouk, 'whoever believe in him shall not perish but have eternal life'. Nobody needs to be left out but sadly so many choose not to believe. But all who do become part of His Church and His family.
@Pearl Good verse there...Romans 6:10
The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Yes farouk, 'whoever believe in him shall not perish but have eternal life'. Nobody needs to be left out but sadly so many choose not to believe. But all who do become part of His Church and His family.
Amen. Turning to Jesus was the best thing I ever did.@Pearl Acts 17 says: 'God commandeth all men everywhere to repent'....the message is still going forth.... :)
For a proper scriptural analysis of the word "world" in a New Testament please see John 3:16, The Word World, and New Testament Usage
The Greek Lexicon is linked for the word "world", and multiple verses with differing meanings for the word "world" are included.
The word world is dependent upon context within the New Testament as in the aforementioned link.
I am not talking about the definition of the word "no".
I am talking about the use of the word "world" in the New Testament.
John writes of the born of God Christian "the evil one does not touch him" (1 John 5:18).
John immediately proceeds to explain that the evil one touches the whole world with his writing of "the whole world lies in the evil one" (1 John 5:19).
"The whole world" does not mean everybody everywhere in all time to the Apostle John, and here is proof right in the Apostles writing.
The phrase "lies in" is an intimate affair which involves "touch" with an intimate nature, so the group of people that are a part of "the whole world" are intimate, even servile, with "the evil one", and "No one can serve two masters" (Matthew 6:24).
@Ronald Nolette, do you believe that you, right now, are a part of "the whole world" as it is written in "the whole world lies in the evil one" (1 John 5:19)?
Then the evil one touches you (1 John 5:19), yet no born of God Christian is touched by the evil one (1 John 5:18).
In other words, you have not overcome the evil one because the Apostle John wrote that born of God Christians "have overcome the evil one" (1 John 2:13), yet you claimed to be a part of the whole world that lies in the evil one (1 John 5:19).
All born of God Christians have overcome the evil one (1 John 2:13), so we born of God Christians are beyond the evil one.
By your testimony of scripture, you indicate that you have not overcome the evil one.
Amen. Turning to Jesus was the best thing I ever did.
Waste of time to fight. Study the word you’ll find out the truth. Don’t ever even believe what i say, test things out but if you a case of fighting bickering or complaining just knock the dust off your feet. Keep walking.
Amazing you toot your own horn. Yes you regurgitated correct uses of the word world! but Jesus used numbers 21 as a metaphor!
Wells as the word world as prefixed by lie which is a geographical word- your argument is irrelevant.
Reading minds is forbidden for Christians- so your attempt to tell us what was on John's mind is silly. If John meant the whole world was relationally in the lap of the wicked one- He had perfectly good words to use, instead of the ones He did./
As the phrase "the whole world".... the verb is a present indicative- your argument of everybody, everywhere, all time- is another straw man.
Unfortunately- no! Keimai is used of being in a place! It is only used of a relation when used metaphorically or parabolically and teh grammar here is not metaphorical in any way shape or form. Your lack of understanding grammar leads you astray.
No again! It is by your faulty understanding of this passage that you dare take the role of Jesus and make a judgment of my salvation!
I testified I have overcome eth weevil one by Jesus' bloods shed for me! That is enough.
and evil one is a poor translation of porneros in vse 19 It is correct in verse 18 for it is Nominative which makes it the subject, but in verse 19 it is dative which makes it an indirect object tied to the verb so wickedness as is the normal translation is the better translation.