Re: What 2 verses in N.T. say if you do not "believe," you are "condemned?"

Ok I apologize then.

I was not sure whether or not he was referring to the author of the text, or
that quotation.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stein A. Stromme" <stromme@mi.uib.no>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 3:20 AM
Subject: Re: What 2 verses in N.T. say if you do not "believe," you are
"condemned?"

> [jack syme]
>
> | "In other words, the fourth
> | Gospel is a late theological creation, the church putting words into the
> | mouths of John the Baptist and Jesus, and reversing the stress that the
> | previous three Gospels had placed on works, on doing, on being forgiven
> by
> | God when we forgave others. "
> |
> |
> | Hmmm
> |
> | Am I not understanding what you are saying here, or are you guilty of
> | not reading the gospels carefully?
>
> The former! You cut your quotation of Ed short. The context was:
>
> Interestingly the beliefs of the author of this late Gospel are
> also apparent in the prologue, and in the first two chapters where
> the apostles are said to have met Jesus and immediately one of
> them knew he was "the Christ, the Messiah," and also in the fact
> that only in this late Gospel is the Baptist depicted as pointing
> to Jesus and saying, "Behold the Lamb of God who Takes Away the
> Sins of the World." In other words, the fourth Gospel is a late
> theological creation, the church putting words into the mouths of
> John the Baptist and Jesus, ...
>
> So the words allegedly put into the mouth of John the Baptist
> (according to Ed) are "Behold the Lamb of God who Takes Away the Sins
> of the World."
>
> SA
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