What is the context of John 3:16?
Hi everyone. The verse says that if you believe in. Jesus, you will go to heaven, but how can this be if Verses like Luke 18:22 make it seem very hard to get into heaven. Thank you all.
Hi everyone. The verse says that if you believe in. Jesus, you will go to heaven, but how can this be if Verses like Luke 18:22 make it seem very hard to get into heaven. Thank you all.
Mkemke
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yet you do not know the context of luke 18:22
a rich young ruler approached Jesus and asked what must HE DO (young ruler). the young man was self-righteous so what did Jesus do? he gave the law.
the law was not given for us to live by, but for us to break and be held accountable for us to see our need for Christ (Rom 3:19)
whenever you think you're righteous by your own deeds, the law would always say, "you lack one thing".
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Context? How about, nothing about it makes any sense?
"Where was any sacrifice on God's part in the alleged crucifixion? If the Jews and some Cecil B. DeMille films hadn't killed Jesus, what was the other choice—that Jesus would remain on Earth forever? Is that better for him than Heaven? Or would Jesus have had a limited lifespan? If so, when Jesus dies, what next but off to Heaven? "He gave his only begotten son" makes no sense whatever. It is reduced to rubble by stating the simple reality of the situation: Jesus had a bad weekend for your sins."
- No Meek Messiah, p. 148.
I said it before and I'll say it again: Nothing about the Jesus stories makes any sense. Nothing.
John 3:16
Salvation
ex arcam
Simple, the different witnesses who wrote the gospels didn't quite agree in their theology. See: that wasn't hard.
In the very same chapter -- just a few verses above the part where Jesus utters those oft-quoted words of John 3:16, he says: No one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the spirit. Three chapters later, after feeding the five thousand, he says: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life. This is a few words after he speaks of himself as being the bread from heaven.
The context that pulls all this together is the theme John gives the gospel: the Word. Jesus brings the Word, is the Word, and it is his Word that is flesh and blood and bread and rebirth in water and spirit. John 3:16, then, is probably also speaking of that Word. Whoever believes in his Word -- that is, in what he teaches -- has eternal life. That Word is the true food that is eternal in people, and ever-renewing.
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Jesus is The way,Truth and Eternal life in Heaven. Only belief in Him as your Savior will get ya into Heaven.
God Bless Ya,
Chicago Bob
imasinner
There is more joy in Jesus in one day.
Than there is in the World 365/24/7
I know, I tried them both.
Numbers 6:24-26