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You learn something new every day. Turns out John never wrote the famous story of the adulterous woman whom Jesus saved from the crowds. It was "hinted at" about the fifth century in certain copies and not made part of commentaries on the texts until the tenth century. Bible forensics experts note the vastly different writing style between the passage John: 7:53-8:11 and the rest of John. The evidence for this is too vast. Anyone can research it.
My point is that if we cannot trust what I personally considered to be the "purest" gospel of the four, then what CAN we trust? For example, this calls into question a key text from John's gospel that Calvinists rely on to support their doctrine of limited atonement: John 17:6 6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word." Calvinists love this verse because to them it proves that God from time immemorial had selected certain people for salvation and others for damnation. As this text only appears in John and we have nothing to compare it with until centuries later how can we know it also wasn't added later by some copyist with an agenda, namely to discredit universal salvation?
So, let's see ... Instead of looking to God's Word, the Bible for your answers, you are depending on modern 'forensics experts' to tell you what is right and wrong. Given this mindset, how do you know you can trust 'universal salvation'?
As with everything, there are two sides to the story. People should be aware of the gnostic deletion of Scripture by Wescott and Hort to fit their ideology. The details of this are easily searched for those interested via google search.
Textus Receptus is the most accurate collection of manuscript evidence supported by carbon dating of various manuscripts dated back prior to 70AD. It is the primary source for compilation of the Authorized (not new) King James Version Bible New Testament. It contains John 7.
The Calvanistic concept of "limited atonement" is not scriptural. Jesus Christ died for the sins of the World, but this can only be appropriated on our behalf through coming to God through Jesus Christ receiving his free gift of Salvation through faith. Without Jesus Christ the Justice of the Law falls upon our own person as opposed to being judged on that cross ~2000 years ago.
Foreknowledge looks back to predestination which looks forward toward "election". Those "elect" are not special on their account but special on Jesus Christ's account. Mankind has free choice. The elect are predestined as God inhabits eternity knowing the end from the beginning and knows who is going to choose to respond to the gospel in the end.
All confusion regarding election erodes when one understands Time is a physical dimension created with Space and Matter within the physical universe. God's throne is in the "3rd Heaven" outside the finite universe inhabiting eternity seeing a thousand years as one day.
Universal Reconciliation is an aggressive and subversive doctrine within Christianity which supports the United Nations ideology of universal religion. If all the world are saved through Jesus Christ, than it makes a political move to unite all Religions into one - claiming they all worship the same God in different ways possible even by "Christian" "leadership".
In reality it will be rejecting Jesus Christ as the Only way to God thus rejecting our Creator on a Global Scale.
There is only one place to hide, and that is Jesus Christ, from the Wrath that is about to fall upon this entire creation for rejecting it's Creator-Redeemer. Fear not who can kill the body but fear him who can cast the body and soul into Hell as Jesus Christ himself says.
You learn something new every day. Turns out John never wrote the famous story of the adulterous woman whom Jesus saved from the crowds. It was "hinted at" about the fifth century in certain copies and not made part of commentaries on the texts until the tenth century. Bible forensics experts note the vastly different writing style between the passage John: 7:53-8:11 and the rest of John. The evidence for this is too vast. Anyone can research it.
My point is that if we cannot trust what I personally considered to be the "purest" gospel of the four, then what CAN we trust? For example, this calls into question a key text from John's gospel that Calvinists rely on to support their doctrine of limited atonement: John 17:6 6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word." Calvinists love this verse because to them it proves that God from time immemorial had selected certain people for salvation and others for damnation. As this text only appears in John and we have nothing to compare it with until centuries later how can we know it also wasn't added later by some copyist with an agenda, namely to discredit universal salvation?
Thrill when you come to your senses and judge and discern things in the right frame of mind(righteously) . You know that you know, that what happened in that situation with the woman caught in adultery,as the fragrance of the love and spirit of God all over it. In my mind you have got to be out of your mind to think like a Calvinist( i had leanings towards it in the past)again when you come to your senses you know this.
As with everything, there are two sides to the story. People should be aware of the gnostic deletion of Scripture by Wescott and Hort to fit their ideology. The details of this are easily searched for those interested via google search.
Textus Receptus is the most accurate collection of manuscript evidence supported by carbon dating of various manuscripts dated back prior to 70AD. It is the primary source for compilation of the Authorized (not new) King James Version Bible New Testament. It contains John 7.
The Calvanistic concept of "limited atonement" is not scriptural. Jesus Christ died for the sins of the World, but this can only be appropriated on our behalf through coming to God through Jesus Christ receiving his free gift of Salvation through faith. Without Jesus Christ the Justice of the Law falls upon our own person as opposed to being judged on that cross ~2000 years ago.
Foreknowledge looks back to predestination which looks forward toward "election". Those "elect" are not special on their account but special on Jesus Christ's account. Mankind has free choice. The elect are predestined as God inhabits eternity knowing the end from the beginning and knows who is going to choose to respond to the gospel in the end.
All confusion regarding election erodes when one understands Time is a physical dimension created with Space and Matter within the physical universe. God's throne is in the "3rd Heaven" outside the finite universe inhabiting eternity seeing a thousand years as one day.
Universal Reconciliation is an aggressive and subversive doctrine within Christianity which supports the United Nations ideology of universal religion. If all the world are saved through Jesus Christ, than it makes a political move to unite all Religions into one - claiming they all worship the same God in different ways possible even by "Christian" "leadership".
In reality it will be rejecting Jesus Christ as the Only way to God thus rejecting our Creator on a Global Scale.
There is only one place to hide, and that is Jesus Christ, from the Wrath that is about to fall upon this entire creation for rejecting it's Creator-Redeemer. Fear not who can kill the body but fear him who can cast the body and soul into Hell as Jesus Christ himself says.
You learn something new every day. Turns out John never wrote the famous story of the adulterous woman whom Jesus saved from the crowds. It was "hinted at" about the fifth century in certain copies and not made part of commentaries on the texts until the tenth century. Bible forensics experts note the vastly different writing style between the passage John: 7:53-8:11 and the rest of John. The evidence for this is too vast. Anyone can research it.
My point is that if we cannot trust what I personally considered to be the "purest" gospel of the four, then what CAN we trust? For example, this calls into question a key text from John's gospel that Calvinists rely on to support their doctrine of limited atonement: John 17:6 6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word." Calvinists love this verse because to them it proves that God from time immemorial had selected certain people for salvation and others for damnation. As this text only appears in John and we have nothing to compare it with until centuries later how can we know it also wasn't added later by some copyist with an agenda, namely to discredit universal salvation?
The pericope adulterae in John's Gospel [. . .]is not found in any place in any of the earliest surviving Greek Gospel manuscripts; neither in the two 3rd century papyrus witnesses to John - P66 and P75; nor in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, although all four of these manuscripts may acknowledge the existence of the passage via diacritical marks at the spot.
The first surviving Greek manuscript to contain the pericope is the Latin/Greek diglot Codex Bezae of the late 4th or early 5th century. It is also the earliest surviving Latin manuscript to contain it; 17 of the 23 Old Latin manuscripts of John 7-8 contain at least part of the Pericope. Papias (circa AD 125) refers to a story of Jesus and a woman "accused of many sins" as being found in the Gospel of the Hebrews, which may well refer to this passage; there is a very certain quotation of the pericope adulterae in the 3rd Century Syriac Didascalia Apostolorum; though without indicating John's Gospel.
The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II.24 refers to the passage “And when the elders had set another woman who had sinned before Him, and had left the sentence to Him, and were gone out, our Lord, the Searcher of the hearts, inquiring of her whether the elders had condemned her, and being answered No, He said unto her: “Go thy way therefore, for neither do I condemn thee.” Book II is generally dated to the late third century (Von Drey, Krabbe, Bunsen, Funk).Codex Fuldensis, which is positively dated to AD 546 contains the adulterae pericope. The Second Epistle of Pope Callistus section 6 contains a quote that may be from John 8:11 - "Let him see to it that he sin no more, that the sentence of the Gospel may abide in him: “Go, and sin no more.”" However the epistle quotes from eighth century writings and is not thought to be genuine. [. . .]
So, let's see ... Instead of looking to God's Word, the Bible for your answers, you are depending on modern 'forensics experts' to tell you what is right and wrong. Given this mindset, how do you know you can trust 'universal salvation'?
Being a layman and not a forensic expert...you can use common sense and logic to figure out if something is amiss..for instance over the centuries books have been added and taken away- and some ignored- the gnostic gospels were tossed out (salvation through knowledge)....and little things like Paul writing to Timothy - ending a letter with "by the way it's getting cold - if you can bring me my coat" - he sounds dishonest and maybe should have made the letter shorter like "Bring me my coat"...
ONLY the words emitted directly from the mouth of Christ as best as we can find them- are what is relevant- the rest if filler and not the direct word of God- The direct word came out of Christ- no one else.
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