THE GREATEST VERSE IN THE BIBLE -- JOHN 3:16 -- Preached By Pastor James MacDonald

This guy is the devil.

John 3:16 does not pertain to anyone except Israel. When it says "world" it means the world of Israel. Gentiles were grafted into Christ in the book of Acts 10.

Christian doctrines have twisted the word.

Interpreting the bible through the lens of John 3:16 is no way to do theology

Luke 3:16 is even more powerful than John 3:16. John 3:16 is misunderstood. It is not the greatest verse in the Bible.

Well austin 3:16 says i just whooped your ass

Lets talk about salms lets talk about John 3:16, Austin 3:16 says i just whipped your ass!

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Amen

So you agree that the word "world" is limited in some sense, depending on the context? Good.

Matthew 22:14 "For many are called (Whole world John 3:16), but few are chosen (Elect Romans 9:11)."

Romans 9:11Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election (Election) might stand: not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. ” John 17: 9 (Jesus) I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.

AMAZING.TABTLCJ...JOHN 3:16,17,18.

Amen. This Verse I remember easily bc 3:16 is my birthday(March 16) & Johns my childs name.

And, finally, beginning at around 34:44, James reads into the English word "whoever" a universal ability on the part of fallen man to believe in the gospel concerning the Christ. Wow! Synergism, and God's impotence, guides the entirety of James MacDonald's presentation of Jn.3:16. Jn.3:16 is truly a tremendous passage! It does not need to be abused in such a way as MacDonald has done. Very Sad.

@33:37, James says, "God loves you SO MUCH, that He gave His only Son...." I thought James knew a little Greek? If so, then he would know that the word "so" (Gk.Οὕτως, Houtōs) means, "in this way". The verse would read, "For 'in this way' God loved the world...," or, "In this way, indeed God did love the world...". Quoting it as, "so much," is importing something into the text, namely, it implies some tremendous outpouring of EMOTION on God's part. This is fallacious!

James MacDonald blasting Calvinists (beginning at around 19:30). Reading into Jn.3:16 something that just isn't there is a classic case of eisegesis (reading into the text ones own presuppositions). Does he even attempt to prove that the word "world" in Jn.3:16 means: every single individual human being? Or, that the word "world" even applies to human beings at all? No. Of course not; because it would overthrow his presuppositions.