Commentary on John Chapter 3 part one

The Church possesses an accurate interpretation of John 3:1-14. Any person still in the flesh on the earth can obtain a spiritual birth into the kingdom of God through faith in Christ as his Savior. Any person who is willing to humble himself to God, admit he is a sinner, repent and believe that only Christ can save him from his sins, will experience the miracle of God's recreation of his soul and spirit to have eternal fellowship with God.

Except for the word "perish," the Church possesses an accurate interpretation of John 3:15-16. The Church's interpretation of the word "perish" can be called into question. The Church interprets this word to mean that unbelievers will suffer torture in the fires of hell forever. The Church interprets this word this way even though Jesus said nothing about such a punishment. The word "perish" in these verses means "to destroy." But the word "destroy" has always meant to break a system down into its constituent elements. If a whole person burns in hell forever, that does not constitute a breakdown of his system. Destruction also never equals annihilation. In God's economy, there exists no such thing as annihilation. God created everything including the laws of nature. The laws of nature reflect the Word of God as Psalm 19:1-6 and Romans 1:19-20 teach. One of the laws of nature states that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed except by God. God never loses anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3;14. Therefore, Jesus had to have meant by His use of the word "perish" that God will break down the system of the unbeliever into its constituent good elements all of which were created by God. Only the individuality of the unbeliever, as a system, will be lost. Matthew 16:25. The unbelief, the deadness, and the sins of the unbeliever are all equal to each other and are totally evil. God will cast the totally evil part of the unbeliever into a lake of fire forever. The lake of fire is impossible for a positive consciousness to understand. The dead there will possess a kind of negative consciousness of their deadness, but they will not be annihilated. They will be in the abyss which non exists nowhere and at no time, and yet they will not be annihilated.