Miles wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 4:14 pm
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John 15:21-22
21 The world will do all these things to you on account of my name, because it doesn’t know the one who sent me.
22 If I hadn’t come and spoken to the people of this world, they wouldn’t be sinners. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
Which means humanity would have been far better off if god had never dropped Jesus on the world. Right?
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Wrong!
I think you are misinterpreting the meaning of Jesus’ words.
The people of the world, whom Jesus speaks of, saw the miracles He performed with their own eyes. They heard His teachings with their own ears. Yet they rejected Him. If they had never seen or heard Him, they wouldn’t have rejected Him, therefore, they wouldn’t have sinned.
Humanity is far better off since the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. Under the law of Moses, sins were never permanently washed away. They were rolled forward year after year, God never forgot their sins. Not so with Jesus. When He cleanses those who obey His gospel, the sins of those people are remembered no more.
John 12:46-48
I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Praise YHWH for sending His Son, Jesus, into the world.