Jesus paid it all🙏🏻♥️
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It's one thing to say it, but how does one truly mean it?
That is both a work of the Holy Spirit, and a deep recognition of what was suffered by Jesus to pay for your sin and gratitude for the price paid.
Well said - many miss Jesus discussion with Nicodemus (John 3) it's the work of the Holy Spirit to change us! We just have to accept the gift.
What happens in John 6?
In the latter half of John 6, we read about hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of people listen to Jesus speak, listen attentively with all the extra information of his hand gestures and intonation, and determine that what he is saying is too extreme for them to bear. So they leave.
Not just the crowd (who leaves first), but also the disciples (who had given up their entire lives to follow Jesus). They didn't leave because of a 'bad metaphor'. They knew exactly what Jesus meant - and they were unable to believe it.
Yet we have people today, 2000 years later, saying that John 6 is a metaphor. Why do people who do not have the benefit of being there live, think they understand it better than every single person that was there?
And why would his disciples leave for a bad metaphor?
Only the apostles stayed - and even they were freaked out.
It's not a metaphor.
Much but I was referring to the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus which as I noted occurs in John 3:1-18
Thank you.
You ask a very important question that most people miss (to their peril).
See my response to undine53.
I just checked, and somehow my first post got 'deleted'...so I'll repeat it here.
It's in response to undine's original comment...
Think about this for a moment....
Let's say you had a dad that was loving and very successful. He gave you advice the entire time you grew up, hoping that if you took that advice you'd have a great life.
Let's say you could repeat back every single piece of advice your dad ever gave you. That would only mean that you memorized what your dad said.
But when would you know that you believed the advice your dad gave you?
Only when you grew up and you were out on your own. If you lived the way your father taught, then you actually believe him.
Belief is acting out your faith. Memorization is fine, but it doesn't fulfill the requirement in John 3:16 -- 'When you believe in the Son, you are destined for eternal life.'
Believing in the Son is having been persuaded by God that what Jesus teaches is the best way to live your life. And if you have been persuaded of that, then you do live your life that way. In other words, your 'works' are your faith.
No one (except an idiot) believes that they 'earn' their way into heaven. It is a free and unmerited gift from God. But if I believe what God has told me, then I live my life that way. My works are indistinguishable from my faith.
Those of you who think that Catholics think they 'earn' their way into heaven are misguided. We don't. You simply don't understand what the Greek word 'pisteuon' means. That word, in John 3:16, means to believe, to have been persuaded, to adopt a worldview, and to live out that worldview.
Anyone who does not do that, does not believe...and therefore risks not receiving the promise contained in John 3:16. You only need to read as far as John 3:36 to have Jesus confirm it for you.
God bless you.
God knows.