The Ransom for All

John 12:47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. John 12:48 He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day. NOTE:  Unless otherwise stated, all scriptural quotes are from the World English Bible version; Greek and Hebrew words are transliterated into English; God’s Holy Name has supplied as “Jehovah”. Some have argued that the latter part of John 12:48 should be translated as: “That very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day.” Does this really make sense, in view of the context? Just before this, Jesus spoke of saving the world: “If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.” (John 12:47, World English) While we haven’t been able to find a translation that renders the Greek KRINO (translit...

The question has been raised as to whether all Jews will be saved. The direct answer is that all Jews and all Gentiles who, in this age, are not the “faith” seed of Abraham will be saved from the condemnation in Adam, without first accepting Christ, since they will be raised in the last day. They could not be raised from the dead except that the blood of Christ be applied to save, deliver, bring them out of, the wages of that condemnation, which would have been eternal death, had it not been for Christ’s sacrifice. Thus, yes, all Jews are to be saved, but this does not mean that all Jews will live forever; we believe that they also could come under the second condemnation, if they do not wish to conform to what is written in the books opened in the last day. — John 12:47,48; Romans 5:12-19; 6:23; 1 Corinthians 15:21,22; Hosea 13:14. Those who are of the ‘faith’ seed of Abraham, on the other hand, are, in this age, reckoned, counted, as saved from Adamic condemnation by faith i...

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Is one justified by faith or is one justified by works? Do Paul and James disagree regarding justification? “Faith without works is dead.”- James 2:20 MANY have supposed that there is doctrinal conflict between the apostle Paul and James, the former holding faith as the important feature of Christianity, the latter insisting that works take precedence. More or less this conflict of thought has come down the ages and is with us today; indeed, some who take the view who believe that justification is by faith alone have often, in effect, said that James was wrong in what he stated. We hold that there was no such conflict between the two Bible writers, and that the subject, rightly understood, leaves no room for disputation. Paul insists that none could be justified by works of the law, because none could obey that law perfectly, and that, therefore, all Jews were under condemnation along with the whole world. (Romans 3:8-31; Galatians 2:16; 3:11) He points out that the original...