John 1.18

by | Sep 8, 2021 | Christianity, God's Nature, Jesus as God

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known. This verse gives us more support for the idea of the trinitarian God, and it shows some of the difficulty associated with talking about him. A rephrasing of the verse would be...

John 1. 15-17

by | Sep 8, 2021 | Christianity, God's Love, Grace, Salvation

15.(John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) We will look at the testimony of John the Baptist shortly, as this verse is repeated in verse 30 as a part of a fuller...

John 1.13

by | Aug 22, 2021 | Christianity, God's Sovereignty, Salvation

…who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John continues to describe the wonderful consequences for those who trusted Jesus. John has identified them as becoming children of God, which is like saying they have been...

John 1.12

by | Aug 22, 2021 | Christianity, Faith, God's Love

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God…  So far John has focused on the sad irony of a created people rejecting its Creator. He shifts his focus here to point out that, in contrast to the general...

John 1.4

by | Jul 9, 2021 | Christianity, God's Nature, Jesus as God

John 1.4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. John continues his thinking from the first three verses of his Gospel, mindful of the creation passage of Genesis One. God is the creator of life so, Jesus, being God, is also the creator of life.  The...