John 12:47 … To offer Salvation (09/21/16)
“I do not judge anyone who hears my Word and yet does not follow, for I have come not to condemn the world, but rather to offer it Salvation.” ~ Jesus (John 12:47)
While the traditional rendition of the final phrase of this verse (“but rather to save it”) seems to imply that Jesus himself came to do the saving of all sinners, Jesus himself – in many places in the New Testament (see Mark 10:18, John 6:15, John 7:16, John 8:50-54, John 12:44 et al) – begs to differ. For he makes it repeatedly clear throughout his biblical ministry that it is we who must do the saving of ourselves — and that it is via the selfless acts of Kindness in harmony with his Father’s all-loving Way that we arrive at the same (John 13:15-17).
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