How #John3Sixteen-Thumpers (including @CopelandNetwork) Anger God to No End ... okay, maybe they just anger 'Me'; but would they have wondered how they do THAT? | @UniverseToday

You know the verse,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. (American Standard Version)

What's the problem with their use of it?

Come, let us Reason together ...

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My problem with it? Lack of context---people treat the verse like it's "a blessed Disciple reflecting on the Truth about believing in the Sacrifice given in Jesus' Crucifixion"; when 'what it ACTUALLY is' is ... it's like Tony Robbins (motivational speaker) telling Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist) how 'positive thinking' can change Solaris' orbit around Sagittarius A's SMBH at the Milky Way Galaxy's center.

(i.e. John 3:16 is famed-teacher Jesus-of-Joseph talking to low-court-judge Nicodemus about ... Christians mix this up too---

(Earlier in the meeting, Jesus says "You cannot see the Kingdom of God unless you are born from above (the Greek (John 3:3 & 7) can also be translated 'again')." Christians take 'see the Kingdom of God' to mean "go to Heaven"; but "the Kingdom of God" is more like 'God's set of rules operating in whatever realm you inhabit.'

Long-&-short: I continue to hold that Jesus is here saying that we are currently in Heaven, but we can't see it unless we know that we are--and this is where Brother Kenneth Copeland & I agree again--"You are a Spirit ... and you live in a body."

(That quote from the book that comes with partners' salvation-package---yes, it contains a part I disagree-with (which I replace with the '...'); but that doesn't make the parts I left in "false"!)

God's Kingdom is here! And it's up to us to activate it!