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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>John 3:16 Is About Obedience to Jesus Not Faith in Facts About Events in Jesus' Life as Taught in 1 Cor. 15:1-4</strong></span>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Introduction</strong></span>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">When the English translations of the Greek New Testament were made in the 1526-1611 period, the &ldquo;difficult Greek in which the New Testament is written...<strong>still held mysteries</strong> for&rdquo; English scholars. (Nicolson: 224.) </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">One of those mysteries was the Greek word&nbsp;<strong>pisteuo&nbsp;</strong>in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A16&amp;version=ESV" style="color: #517291;">John 3:16</a>. In over 200 instances of&nbsp;<strong>pisteuo</strong>&nbsp;in the New Testament, not once did the King James Bible render it as&nbsp;<em>obey</em>. (See&nbsp;<strong>Strong&rsquo;s Concordance</strong>.) However, scholars now realize<em>&nbsp;</em><strong>obey&nbsp;</strong>was a common meaning of&nbsp;<strong>pisteuo</strong>&nbsp;in ancient Greek.&nbsp;<strong>Obey</strong> certainly was the meaning of&nbsp;<strong>pisteuo</strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A36&amp;version=ESV" style="color: #517291;">John 3:36</a>&nbsp;(See Part 2, JWOS:&nbsp;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=4V8tMJ75bnwC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=jesus%20words%20on%20salvation&amp;pg=PA448" style="color: #517291;">448</a>). Yet, this obedience-salvation formula is identically repeated in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A16&amp;version=ESV" style="color: #517291;">John 3:16</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Besides John 3:36 helping, one can more easily accept&nbsp;<strong>pisteuo</strong>&nbsp;means&nbsp;<strong>obeys</strong>&nbsp;in John 3:16 when one looks at Apostle John&rsquo;s many quotes of Jesus about obedience. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus in<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A51&amp;version=AMP" style="color: #517291;">&nbsp;John&nbsp;8:51</a>&nbsp;says &ldquo;whoever keeps on obeying (<strong>tereo</strong>) My Teaching&nbsp;should never ever die.&rdquo;&nbsp;(For in depth discussion, see <a href="/recommendedreading/784-john-8-51-obedience-should-save.html">John 8:51 - Obedience Saves</a>.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+15%3A1-10&amp;version=AMP" style="color: #517291;">John 15:1-10</a>, Jesus says a &ldquo;branch in me&rdquo; that does not &ldquo;bear fruit&rdquo; is &ldquo;taken away,&rdquo; &ldquo;cut off from the vine,&rdquo; thrown &ldquo;outside and burned.&rdquo; (For in depth discussion, see <a href="/recommendedreading/780-metaphor-of-the-vine-in-john-15-jwos-ch-20.html">Metaphor of the Vine.</a>)<sup><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></sup></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">John likewise quoted Jesus saying in total accord:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have <strong>done good [things],</strong> unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done<strong> evil [things]</strong>, unto the resurrection of damnation. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+5%3A28-29&amp;version=AMP" style="color: #517291;">John&nbsp;5:28-29</a>&nbsp;KJV). </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">(For full discussion, Those Who Have Done Good Things Are Resurrected in <a href="/recommendedreading/839-those-who-do-good-things-are-resurrected-john-528-29.html">html</a> or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/images/stories/Salvation/Those%20who%20do%20good%20are%20resurrected.pdf">PDF</a>.)</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">We saw again that Apostle John was told that those who obey the commandments (plural) have the right to the tree of life. (Rev. 22:14.) John writes:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Happy [are] the<strong> ones doing His commandments</strong>, so that their right will be to the tree of life, and <strong>they shall enter by the gates into the&nbsp;city</strong>. (Rev 22:14)(ALT)(<span style="background-color: #ffff00;"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation+22%3A14&amp;version=GNV" style="color: #517291;">GSB</a></span>)<sup><strong>4</strong></sup></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">For further discussion, <a href="/recommendedreading/648-right-to-tree-of-life-in-revelation-22.html">Who Has The Right to the Tree of Life</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">We also saw Apostle John writing Jesus&rsquo; words to the Sardisian Christians. They are dead due to having &ldquo;incomplete works.&rdquo; They can prevent the Spirit leaving by repenting and obeying. Through John&rsquo;s pen, Jesus tells them:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: &lsquo;These [things] says the One having the seven spirits of God and the seven stars [i.e., Jesus is speaking]: I know your<em><strong>&nbsp;</strong></em><strong>works</strong>, that you have a name that you live, and<strong><em>&nbsp;</em>you are dead</strong>.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">(2) &lsquo;Become watching [fig., Wake up], and strengthen the rest which you were about to be throwing out, for I have&nbsp;<strong>not found your works having been completed</strong>&nbsp;before My God. (3) Therefore, be remembering how you have received, and be keeping [tereo, <strong>obey</strong>] it, and repent. Therefore, if you will not watch, I will come upon you like a thief, and you shall by no means know what hour I will come upon you.&rdquo;&nbsp;(Rev 3:1-3 ALT)(<span style="background-color: #ffff00;"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation+3%3A1-3&amp;version=WYC" style="color: #517291;">Wycliff "works...full"</a></span>)<sup><strong>5</strong></sup></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">For a complete discussion, see <a href="/recommendedreading/732-chapter-24-lukewarm-works-in-revelation-31-3.html">Incomplete &amp; Lukewarm Works.</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">John another time relays Jesus as saying that lukewarm works by Christians at Laodicea will cause Jesus to spew them out of His mouth.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">I know thy&nbsp;<strong>works, that thou art neither cold nor hot</strong>: I would thou wert cold or hot. (16) So&nbsp;then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,&nbsp;<strong>I will spue thee out of my mouth</strong>. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation+3%3A15-16&amp;version=KJV" style="color: #517291;">Rev 3:15-16 KJV</a>.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Finally, we saw among the many verses that tied eternal life (zoe ainon) to obedience and works was the following words of Jesus recorded by Apostle John in his Gospel:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that<strong><em>&nbsp;</em>hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal</strong>. (26) If any man serve me, let him&nbsp;<strong>follow me</strong>; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+12%3A25-26&amp;version=KJV" style="color: #517291;">John 12:25-26 ASV</a>.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">These passages from the writings of John quoting Jesus are but echoes of what we find in Matthew, Luke and Mark. John is repeatedly emphasizing themes of obedience.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Hence, besides John 3:36, these passages from John make the proposed translation of John 3:16 as about&nbsp;<strong>obedienc<em>e</em></strong>&nbsp;appear far more sensible than translation tradition would suggest. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This change, incidentally, will unite what scholars call the Synoptic-Jesus with the Johannine Jesus. It turns out there are no separate portrayals of Jesus in the mind of Matthew-Mark-Luke versus the mind of John. Rather, the translators have<strong><em>&nbsp;</em>improperly given Jesus two doctrines and two personalities</strong>&nbsp;by erroneously translating John 3:16 in a manner which suits cheap grace doctrine to leave uncorrected even afer scholarship improved and knew John 3:16 was about obedience.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">However, we shall see that the leading evangelical scholars who dared write on this question begrudgingly or with coyness admit&nbsp;<strong>pisteuo</strong>&nbsp;means<strong><em>&nbsp;</em>obey</strong>&nbsp;in John 3:16. It is only the translators who, for some inexplicable reason, continue to hesitate to make this now compellingly-obvious correction. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">For further information, see our video on YouTube -- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=expLPsXbeEY&amp;feature=youtu.be">John 3:16 Should be Translated as "keeps on obeying" Jesus Saves.</a></span></p>
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