Westboro,
Seeing as how you know more about the Bible than probably five to ten people, would you do the honors of giving me your interpretation of this verse: Something about John 1:5 (“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”) is really beautiful to me…
Clay
Hi Clay –
The LIGHT is the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, e.g. “God hates fags.”
The darkness is the mass of mankind and the world generally, e.g. The Catholic Whore, etc. They will NEVER comprehend the truth! See these words from our dear Lord: Matthew 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Then, He tells why, to wit: Matthew 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
But – I like to look to some men that says it good – here is Bible expositor John Gill on verse 5 – it is truly beautiful:
And the light shineth in darkness, &c.] Which, through sin, came upon the minds of men; who are naturally in the dark about the nature and perfections of God; about sin, and the consequences of it; about Christ, and salvation by him; about the Spirit of God, and his work upon the soul; and about the Scriptures of truth, and the doctrines of the Gospel. Man was created a knowing creature, but, not content with his knowledge, sins, and is banished from the presence of God, the fountain of light; which brought a darkness on him, and his posterity, and which is increased in them by personal iniquity, and in which Satan, the god of this world, has an hand; and sometimes they are left to judicial blindness, and which issues in worse darkness, if grace prevents not: now amidst this darkness there were some remains of the light of nature: with respect to the being of God, which shines in the works of creation and providence and to the worship of God, though very dimly; and to the knowledge of moral good and evil:
and the darkness comprehended it not; or “perceived it not”; as the Syriac version renders it. By the light of nature, and the remains of it, men could not come to any clear and distinct knowledge of the above things; and much less to any knowledge of the true way of salvation: unless, rather by the light should be meant, the light of the Messiah, or of the Gospel shining in the figures, types, and shadows of the law, and in the prophecies and promises of the Old Testament: and yet, such was the darkness upon the minds of men, that they could not very distinctly apprehend it, and much less fully comprehend it, so that there was need of a fresh and fuller revelation.
Thanks for asking.
Your friends at Westboro Baptist Church