"In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." (John 14:2)
Or, as the NIV says, "If it were not so, would I have told you...?" Of course not. Jesus is, "the Truth," and can only speak Truth.
Jesus tells humanity, "If it were not so, I would have told you". What Jesus is affirming is that He only speaks Truth, because He is Truth, and, "The Words I speak to you they are spirit and they are life." The humanists say, "It is not so. Besides, How do we really know these words are Jesus' Words?" I ask them, How do you know the words of Plato, Aquinas, Thomas Jefferson, which you may read, are their words? You are only reading words which someone has told you are their words. The world lives "by faith" also. It's just a perverted "faith."
The life which I am now living, the life by which I pray to live in the rest of this sojourn is the life of which Paul speaks in Galatians 2:20 (Berean Literal Bible), "I live through faith from the Son of God...." Why is our "faith" the, "faith from the Son of God?" Faith "from" me and you would not be faith. We have nothing upon which to base any faith other than the very, "God-Breathed," Words. Faith is not a feeling. Faith is not a mental conviction.
The Bible tells us that faith is a, "gift," literally, "present," from the Living Triune God, "....and this not of yourselves." I say with Paul, "Thanks be to God for His indescribable, unspeakable, gift too wonderful for words."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I so thank You for Your gift of, "faith from the Son of God." Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
