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« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2009, 12:43:38 am » |
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“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.”
To me it means that God loves us all greatly, that we can be saved if we exercise faith in Christ. God is gracious and merciful.
The proper rendering of this verse would be:
"In this way God loved the world (all types of people), that He gave His only begotten Son, that all the believing will not perish, but have eternal life".
God being just, could not 'just' forgive mankind for their sins with no consequence..
Thus a price had to be paid.
Hebrew justice required like for like. (hand for hand, life for life, eye for eye)
Since Adam was a perfect man, the price had to be a perfect man.
Since all of Adam's children became imperfect, we on our own could not 'pay the price'.
Thus God created his 'only begotten' son, to give up his perfect life for us.
Thus God 'gave' us the means of gaining everlasting life, that Adam lost when sin was introduced into the world.
Christianity does not exist to condemn us all as sinners, but rather, we are all sinners, cut off from our loving father, and Christ came to give us a way to escape from our fallen state.
Does that make sense??
My interpretation is not the only one possible. What does everyone else think?
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