What Does "World" Mean in John 3:16?
Let's look at the actual word John used and see how he uses it everywhere else. Not to win an argument, but because you deserve to know what your Bible says.
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Bible Study
Articles that dig into what the Bible actually says, from misunderstood verses like John 3:16 and Habakkuk 1:13 to Old Testament books like Leviticus and Jonah, and how the whole story points to Jesus.
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Does God Really Turn Away From Sin? What Habakkuk 1:13 Actually Says
It gets handed to us as a settled fact about God. He is so holy that He cannot look at sin. He cannot be in the same room with it. He has to turn His face away when it shows up. It sounds reverent. It sounds like the kind of thing that ought to be true.
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What Is the Unforgivable Sin?
The old preachers used to say it this way, and I think they had it right: the man who fears he has committed this sin has given the clearest possible proof that he has not.
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Taking the Lord's Name in Vain Isn't Mainly About Swearing
The third commandment isn't primarily about what comes out of your mouth. It's about what you do with a name you've been given to carry.
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Why Leviticus Matters
Leviticus is not a rulebook God eventually gave up on. It's the vocabulary God spent centuries teaching His people, so that when a Man died on a hill outside Jerusalem, they would know exactly what they were looking at
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Jonah Is a Comedy, and the Joke Is on the Prophet
I do not mean the Bible is a joke book. I mean that Jonah is written the way a satirist writes. It is full of irony and exaggeration and absurdity, the kind of story that makes you laugh at the main character right up until the moment you realize you have been laughing at yourself.
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How the Passover Points Straight to the Cross
When we put our faith in Jesus, when we trust that His blood covers us, our standing before God is not based on our performance. It's based on His sacrifice.
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What Most Christians Get Wrong About the Old Testament
Most Christians treat the Old Testament like the boring prequel they skip to get to Jesus. But what if that's exactly why so much of the New Testament doesn't make sense to them?
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