So what is John 3:16 to you? Good News or Bad News. I would have said good just a few years ago. Today I see this passage very differently. If Hitler were to have written something on this order: for Germany has so loved the whole world that it gave one of it sons {Hitler} to establish the Aryan race once and for all as the primary race, that whoever is of the Ayran race will enjoy the benefits of the best in life and whoever is not a part well . . . we got concentration camps for you....would this then be good news or bad news? It should not be news at all. The only slight difficulty is we cannot wash our minds of the images of emasculated stacked bodies, or curling smoke from incinerators, or heaps of ashes! In that milieu, in that time period, in Germany at that time, there were the awful consequences of xenophobia. The out-group was destroyed. Literally! There is a similar horrible reality in the much less lovely words of: "that whosoever believeth in in him shoul