Crowds believed because of the signs, and Jesus didn’t trust a single one of them. Then a top teacher came at night and got told he had to be born again. Nobody births himself.
Strip Hell out of Pascal’s Wager and the math still wrecks the shrug. Missing God forever is not a safe middle. And no man bets himself into the new birth.
Everybody quotes John 3:16. Almost nobody reads the next five verses. Men love the dark and hate the light, and the only ones who come to it are the ones God already worked in.
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Upcoming apologetic
Why Jesus Asked Philip
(John 1:44) (Luke 9:10) (John 6:5-6)
John names Philip’s hometown; Luke names the feeding’s place; only together does Jesus’ bread question to Philip make quiet sense — and John already says it was a test.
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