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Originally Posted by Nina
One more question:
Unless You believe that I am He...
Why do You believe the unbeliever of this Scripture will die in his sins?
Blessings,
Nina
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Hi Nina, I'm not tbpew and cannot speak to everything that he can... but I think I follow his line of reasoning on this.
To answer this question (
Unless You believe that I am He...) we should ask, "He Who?" I know the word "he" is italicized in the KJV and all, but still the grammar implies a pronoun, and even if it didn't we're still left to ask ourselves, "Who is the guy from Galilee saying that we have to believe that he is somebody or at least some thing?" "What
is he?"
The context:
Joh 8:21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
Joh 8:22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
Joh 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath;
I am from above: ye are of this world;
I am not of this world.
Joh 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Joh 8:25 Then said they unto him,
Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them,
Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
Joh 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but
he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
Joh 8:27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
Who was "he"? He was the One Who was sent by the Father. That's all this passage is trying to tell us regarding the identity of this man from Galilee. He was sent by "the Father." That's Who He was.
The "unbeliever" will die in their sins because of verse 21. "Wither I go, ye cannot come."
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