Mark

Cheryl,

By the way i did just a quick bit of research to see whether your claim that no lexicons prove my point about the word ‘world’, and unfortunately for you your wrong.

For example if you had a closer look at the ‘Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament’ by Bauer, Arndt and Gingrich you would have seen one of there definitions.

“5.b. of all mankind, but especially of believers as the object of God’s love”

It is also interesting to note what NT references they use to come to this conclusion “J 3:16, 17c, 6:33, 51; 12:47.”

Isn’t it interesting that the very passage we are discussing is confirmed by the lexicon that ‘world’ is for believers (jn 6:33 and also 6:51). That is Jesus gives “life to the world” (believers), supporting my argument. In fact if you did read the lexicons you would have seen the vast amount of applications that the term ‘world’ can have would totally discrediting your presupposition that it has to mean every single person in the world.