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John: A Bible Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

The purpose of the Gospel of John is “that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” Central to the Apostle John’s message is the idea of believing. Author Joe Dongell establishes that this believing does not call simply for optimism about life, nor a belief that God exists, but for faith and confidence in the truth that Jesus...

Lest anyone imagine, by misunderstanding Jesus’ quote from Isaiah, that human beings directly encounter God through God’s “teaching,” Jesus reemphasized a foundational truth to the gospel: No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father (6:46). Such a claim cannot be classified as trivial, or as dealing merely in speculative theology. It goes to the heart of the question, “How can human beings come to know God and be saved?” The answer points directly to Jesus
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