For God loved the world so much. Love caused God to act through Jesus to set men free! This verse says: (1) God is love. (2) Instead of hating the world, he loved it. (3) He gave his only Son because of this love. [Note: not to appease wrath, but because of love. The other religions of the world appease the wrath of an angry god. Christianity is unique in showing the God who acts in history to make it possible to change men.] (4) He came to keep men from dying eternally. His only Son. Seth Wilson writes on this: "MONOGENES has been mistakenly treated in English translations for hundreds of years as if it were MONOGENNETOS, from GENNAO, which WOULD MEAN "only one begotten." Of the two words, John chose to use the one which means UNIQUE rather than ONLY-BEGOTTEN." TEV makes clear that Jesus is God's unique Son. It correctly translates the Greek word MONOGENES. Compare note on Hebrews 11:17.

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