Re: What 2 verses in N.T. say if you do not "believe," you are "condemned?"

[jack syme]

| "In other words, the fourth
| Gospel is a late theological creation, the church putting words into the
| mouths of John the Baptist and Jesus, and reversing the stress that the
| previous three Gospels had placed on works, on doing, on being forgiven by
| God when we forgave others. "
|
|
| Hmmm
|
| Am I not understanding what you are saying here, or are you guilty of
| not reading the gospels carefully?

The former! You cut your quotation of Ed short. The context was:

    Interestingly the beliefs of the author of this late Gospel are
    also apparent in the prologue, and in the first two chapters where
    the apostles are said to have met Jesus and immediately one of
    them knew he was "the Christ, the Messiah," and also in the fact
    that only in this late Gospel is the Baptist depicted as pointing
    to Jesus and saying, "Behold the Lamb of God who Takes Away the
    Sins of the World." In other words, the fourth Gospel is a late
    theological creation, the church putting words into the mouths of
    John the Baptist and Jesus, ...

So the words allegedly put into the mouth of John the Baptist
(according to Ed) are "Behold the Lamb of God who Takes Away the Sins
of the World."

SA

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