BibleGateway.com most searched Scripture passage 2011: Jeremiah 29:11
This is the most searched for Scripture passage on BibleGateway:
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Followed by, John 3:16, of course……
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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January 27th, 2012 at 10:41 am
John 3:16 tends to be misread as meaning God so loved people, it actually uses the greek kosmos, meaning physical world rather than oikoumene which would have meant inhabited world. A small point, but something that might encourage people to think of the physical world as worth being looked after.
January 27th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Romans 8 verses 38 – 39.
“I am persuaded that nothing . . . . will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ our Lord”
The literal translation is “persuaded”! Not just “convinced”. I have looked at it, wrestled with it and come to a conclusion.
To Professor Dawkins and others;- “please note that I too have doubted. I have been there and come through to a new understanding of the reality of God.
January 27th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Terry, that’s a view of faith common in Scotland and why so many of our ministers have first degrees in law! Its down to forensic argument and balance of probabilities. Not sure that works for me.
January 27th, 2012 at 2:43 pm
@Gordon,
Interesting that “Civic Scotland” put a statue of David Hume intimidatingly guarding Edinburgh’s High Court – Oh the Terror!
Chic Murray would have been more appropriate.
January 27th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
David Hume who fell in the Nor Loch and a passing woman refused to help pull him out until he had recited the Lord’s prayer.
January 27th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
@Gordon,
A church on every corner and pubs in between, Scots used to get drunk on spirituality – whiskey and wrath, now things are so tight you can almost hear the people being crushed.
February 4th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
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