Some Thoughts on the FGA vs the GES debate

I am currently watching the discusion going on between the FGA and the GES on Dr. Fred Lybrand's blog, http://fredlybrand.blogspot.com/2009/04/ges-gospel-lybrand-open-letter.html. The first page is the first two hundred comments. At the bottom of that page there is a link that you can click in order to see the rest of the comments. It is a very interesting read.

I did not comment there because my L/S Calvinism would be used by some to divert attention away from the real discusion.

My own thoughts are that the GES has taken their eyes off of Christ and put them on the salvation of man. From there they zero in on the promises of Christ for the appropriation of eternal life. The Gospel of John to them is the only book of the Bible that speaks as the authority to consult concerning the content of saving faith in an gospel presentation to the lost.

Segmenting the Word of God. Manmade divisions into His Word. This is not the way to go.

To them the gospel accounts of Jesus' life and miracles are merely to put forth Christ as qualified to give eternal life to man. I think the apostle John would beg to differ. Jesus came to reveal the Father. He was the last Word of the Father to a lost world. Looking at Jesus was to look at the Father. Hearing Jesus was to hear the Father. Eternal life is knowing both the Father and the Son. John 17:3. Out of that person's belly will flow rivers of living water, which is God the Holy Spirit.

The Gospel of John is about Jesus from begining to end. He came to show us the Father; not to present Himself as qualified to give eternal life. Know Him and you will have eternal life.