Nanja
Well-known member
John 3:17 has been posted by me many times. Why do you look away from the words of your Lord?
John 3:17 is speaking of that World (kosmos; G2889; any aggregate or general collection of particulars of any sort)
which was promised Salvation Is. 45:17, consisting of both Elect Jews and Gentiles: The World of the Lost Sheep of
the House of Israel spoken of in Mat. 15:24. The same are the the ones who were chosen in Christ before the
foundation of the world to receive the adoption of sons Eph. 1:4-6. They are the ones Christ died for, and so they
are granted forgiveness of sins solely by the riches of God's Grace Eph. 1:7.
All the rest are the goats spoken of in Mt. 25:32-33, 41.
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