Nanja
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Many do falsely teach that the world in Jn 3:16 that God so loved is inclusive of all mankind without exception. This they teach wilfully in spite of the various meanings and usages of the word world in scripture. One of the meanings of the word world kosmos is:
any aggregate or general collection of particulars of any sort
For example the collection of all Gods Sheep, or the gathering together of all Gods children constitute a kosmos or world.
Jesus loved His own in the world Jn 13:1
[FONT="]Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father,[B] having loved his own which were in the world[/B], he loved them unto the end.
So His Own here is a world which is contrasted to the world they were in !
Now is world of Jn 3:16 which God in Christ so Loved the same as the ungodly world Peter refers to here 2 Pet 2:5
[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][B]5 [/B][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT="]And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
What about the world Christ refused to pray for Jn 17:9
[/FONT]9 [FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]I pray for them: [/FONT]I pray not for the world, [FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Do you really believe this world is the world of Jn 3:16 that God so Loved in Christ ?[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]What about the world in 1 Jn 5:19 which is distinguished from the children of God:[/FONT]
19 [FONT="]And we know that we[Believers] are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
Is the world God so loved in Christ Jn 3:16 that Christ is the propitiation of 1 Jn 2:2 the same world that shall be condemned 1 Cor 11:32
[/FONT]32 [FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]But when we[Children of God/Believers] are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, [/FONT]that we should not be condemned with the world.
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]So those who teach Jn 3:16 teaches that God so Loved the whole of humanity without exception, because of the word world in Jn 3:16, they are guilty of using the word of God deceitfully.[/FONT]
Absolutely ! When we contrast the scriptures that speak of two different worlds of people, it's obvious that the Salvation Christ provided was exclusively for the World John 3:16 of His People Mat. 1:21, and not for the condemned world of people 1 Cor. 11:32, the generation of vipers Christ spoke of in Mat. 23:32-33, which He Created to suffer eternal shame and contempt.
Mat. 23:32-33
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Dan. 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life John 3:16, and some to shame and everlasting contempt John 3:18, 36.
Rev. 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.