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Respectfully Paige, I don't see how either of the verses you have mentioned apply to this discission.Something a great protestant scholar once said, “A text without context is a pretext for anything you want it to mean.” I happen to be catholic but consider myself your brother in Christ. So.....have a wonderful day in the Lord of hosts.
@Kimberlyrja8@tedcruz Verses for this mass inferno that the God of Love has planned for the masses? You don't have to follow this theology to love Jesus and be His follower Kimberly.
In Chapter 11, Jesus told Martha that he is “the resurrection and the life” and that those who believe in him will never die (11:25–26). At the Last Supper, he told his disciples that he is “the way, the truth, and the life” and that there is no other way to the Father except through him (14:6). This is like when he said, “I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved” (John 10:9). You may be asking, If Jesus does not save us from spending eternity in hell, what does he save us from? Well, it may be that he came to take “away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). Maybe he meant it when he said, “I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). It seems that this more abundant life starts when someone is born from above. When that occurs, a person becomes someone through whom he lives and continues his work of saving the world through witness and self-giving love. And maybe this rebirth entails seeing the image and likeness of God in those who do not fully know him, those who do not believe the same way that we do. The author of John’s gospel makes his purpose clear at almost the very end of his work. He wrote, “These are written that you may [come to] believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name” (20:31). John did not say that “through this belief you will be saved from never-ending torment by fire.”
In Chapter 11, Jesus told Martha that he is “the resurrection and the life” and that those who believe in him will never die (11:25–26). At the Last Supper, he told his disciples that he is “the way, the truth, and the life” and that there is no other way to the Father except through him (14:6). This is like when he said, “I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved” (John 10:9).
You may be asking, If Jesus does not save us from spending eternity in hell, what does he save us from? Well, it may be that he came to take “away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). Maybe he meant it when he said, “I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). It seems that this more abundant life starts when someone is born from above. When that occurs, a person becomes someone through whom he lives and continues his work of saving the world through witness and self-giving love. And maybe this rebirth entails seeing the image and likeness of God in those who do not fully know him, those who do not believe the same way that we do.
The author of John’s gospel makes his purpose clear at almost the very end of his work. He wrote, “These are written that you may [come to] believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name” (20:31). John did not say that “through this belief you will be saved from never-ending torment by fire.”
@augsburg1580@tedcruz I understand what Jesus accomplished by His Passion and Resurrection, but I don’t understand this type of theology, I think it isn’t consistent with the God who is Love.
@MarquardtJ54962@tedcruz Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, then you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him. You have seen him.” I certainly believe that.