Why John 3:16 Isn’t About The Crucifixion
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/keithgiles/2018/11/why-john-316-isnt-about-the-crucifixion/
jekylldoc / Matthew
... if you think about what martyrdom means (willingness to die for the truth, even if we are not willing to kill for it) it is a kind of logical conclusion to the notion that our inner state is what God cares about and works with.💟
Jesus recognized (in my view) that God was not seeking to establish by force some compulsion for people to do right by each other.
💟 To move the love of the band of friends up to a political level by the astonishing act of confronting the Romans with his kingship so that as Messiah he would be "defeated". 💟
(And then God provided the resurrection as vindication.)
❤️What stronger statement could be made that "the Kingdom of God is within you."? ❤️
And that faithfulness to true godly values is
... the path to transformation?👍
💘... Paul's vision of the resurrected Jesus on the Damascus Road, except that he had seen another martyr die with forgiveness on his lips, according to Acts.❤️
❤️ He seems to have seen the passion and resurrection as a means of salvation for the Gentiles, a drama so compelling, one might say, that it took the place of the Jewish devotion to Torah as a means of transformation.❤️
His interpretation in terms of the grace of God is a great gift to everyone,
💔a transformative perspective in itself, but one following logically from God's interest in our inner state rather than our outward compliance.💔
That the news of Jesus would also lead to salvation of individuals and of the whole of creation is part of his message.
💟I think only later did the judgment messages get turned into an individualized salvation, all too convenient for the power play by the official church.
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