God Gave the One Named Son, with George Kalantzis: John 3:16

It is in this way that God loved the world.

In other words – It's not just God so amazingly, wonderfully, fantastically loved the world.

It is in this way.

That's what that word means.

So in this way, God loved the world.

And then it says, and we've talked about the monogamy, the idea of the what some would say only begotten son, and others have translated unique son, that kind of thing.

But today we're going to talk about a preposition.

Well, it's not there and should not be in our translations, but it is.

All right.

What are we looking at here?

But it is.

And one of the great benefits of being able to read in the ancient languages is is to see what is but also what is not and this is the case here so this is our third attempt at figuring that one verse half an hour this one verse so i'm going to read it from the nlt okay and then we'll see how this works the nlt says this for this is how god loved the world He gave his one and only son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

So we've talked about the manner in which God has loved the world to offer the son.

This is not an emotive relationship.

It's a quality, not a quantity relationship.

We've talked about the theological importance of only begotten, which is that classical term, the older English term that has come.

In other words, it's not one of many or the one that God produced, right? It is a technical theological sense in which the relationship between the Father and the Son is different than any other relationship.

now here's the fun fact that from the beginning of the modern critical editions of the new testament the united bible society the first edition all the way now eight editions into this 29th editions of the nestle allen there is a pronoun that is missing here ah and it's the pronoun he's Here is what the Greek says.

Now, when we include in English the he's word, son, the only begotten.

We're adding the pronoun that does not exist in the text.

The text actually says, he gave the one and only, or the monogenes, right? The one and only son, so that.

What's the difference? In our concept and in our articulation and in our imagination, that pronoun, which is a genitive of possession or procession, right? Relates father and son in a particular relationship, namely that of procession or generation.