Then surely John has forgotten a little something: according to Genesis, God created the world, and created man -- and created man with the NEED (which is felt as a "desire of the flesh") to eat what was available. And God went further, and created woman -- for the man to NEED (experienced as desire) to go into and procreate with.
These things do in fact, therefore, "originate with the Father."
No, but I can understand why you say that.
People make the same mistake you do. Only a few days ago, I had to help someone come to understand how the word world is used.
The person quickly got it though.
Like yourself, sometimes we read something without giving much thought to it, and sometimes we don't have a foundation, or background knowledge, on which to build.
First, there is no part of Genesis that mentions the word world.
The first usage of the word world (Hebrew
tebel), is in Job 34:13 - Who put him in charge of the earth, And who appointed him over the whole world?
Of this Hebrew word, we read
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/8398.htmWhy is
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
inhabited (1), inhabited world (1), world (34).
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
confusion
From
yabal; the earth (
as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe;
by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a partic. Land, as Babylonia, Palestine --
habitable part,
world.
Why it it significant to note that the focus is on the
inhabitants, rather than the globe?
The Bible refers to the world in a different sense, than most people do.
Take note of a few references...
(John 1:9, 10) The true light that gives light to every sort of man was about to come into the world.
He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him, but the world did not know him.
Take note that the world did not know him is not to say the globe, or physical rock earth, did not know him. It was the inhabitants. See
Kosmos. Note the definition.Order.
Now that we have a little background...
(John 3:16, 17) “For
God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life. For
God did not send his Son into the world for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved through him.
Not to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Again, that is not referring to the rock - the globe.
This post would get very lengthy if I showed more references to clarify the usage of the word world, but in brief, it refers to humanity, but more specifically,
humanity (the order of inhabitants) that are
alienated from God.
Hence why John wrote, "
The world is passing away, and it's desires... but he that does the will of God, remains forever."
John also wrote this...
We know that we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one. 1 John 5:19
It's the reason Jesus himself said...
"The world has no reason to hate you, but it hates me, because I bear witness about it that its works are wicked." (John 7:7)
"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you." (John 15:18, 19)
Even the Pharisees understood this.
(John 12:19) So the Pharisees said among themselves: “You see that you are not getting anywhere. Look!
The whole world has gone after him.”
It's quite clear to understand much of the Bible, when one has that background knowledge.
It also shows the importance of understanding. It's a vital "ingredient" in grasping the truth of God's word.
It's long, but you could read more about it in
this encyclopedia.
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You misunderstood, obviously.
