John 2/3

So, I left of at John 3:8

Nic says, and I'm assuming he's speaking without guile or cynicism considering how Jesus responds, "how can these things be?"

Jesus is like "you're a smart guy, a religious professor, but you still don't get it? This is reality, We talk about what we know and what we've seen, but you don't think it's true" Is Jesus speaking in the royal we here? It seems so, because this is a sort of (gentle?) accusation against the religious teachers of the day. He says that he told Nic about earthly things and he wasn't getting it, how would he understand heavenly things. So, salvation is an earthly occurrence, as real and natural to God as birth is to us.

He says that no one has gone up into Heaven except the guy who came down from heaven, himself, the Son of Man. I'm not entirely sure about this part, except that I know that all of John is Jesus as God, and surely it is a heavenly trait to be able to dwell in and leave heaven at will. Then, on the tails of claiming to be God he refers to Moses and gives prophesy of his crucifixion.

Maybe, he says that he knows that Nic won't get it, but then it's like, "don't you get it, I'm God, I know about Heaven because I've been there, and like was prophesied, I'm going to die. (and then we go into those oh-so-famous verses) "because God so loved the world." This is directly connected to statements about Jesus imminent death, and to heavenly things that Nic won't understand. God gave his only Son. CS Lewis talks about it like Jesus steaming forth from the father, always a product of him always will be, a constant state of coming forth while being bound with. So he was the first born of all creation by his essence of coming forth from the father, but there was never a time when he was disconnected nor a time when he did not come forth from the father, so he is first Born and also God, From the father and equal with the father. It's whoever believes in the Son will not perish but have everlasting life. One thing you see throughout the Bible is that when people realized that Jesus really was who he said he was, they were usually on bended knee before him. Like that scene in the last episode with the 9^th doctor on Doctor Who, where Rose comes out of the TARDIS carrying the entirety of the time vortex inside herself and she says that she sees all that has been and all that will be and that she creates things and ends things and alters time and the Doctor, seeing her and knowing what she is, drops to his knees before her. There's a lot of "you really are the Son of God." And then people follow him. So, then, believing isn't simply acknowledgement, believing is "getting it," is realizing that this is a big deal, this is something to dedicate your life to. It's also not about just believing in 'God' but in Christ. The Jews believe in God, but they don't know Christ.

Then he says that God didn't send him here to condemn the world, but to save it, through him. This was the manner of the salvation God was offering to everyone. He then says that whoever believes is not condemned, but whoever doesn't is already condemned. So, there's the duality of believing is a changing of mind, saves you, but you're also damned beforehand when you don't believe. You were already condemned, but you can be un-condemned through belief in Jesus Christ. Then he says "and this is the judgment." Maybe "and this is the truth that is declared after all the argument are set forth," "the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil." He already knew that most people would reject him, because they preferred their dark hidey holes, where things weren't exposed, because next he says "for everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come into the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." I know that when I read this I think 'oh, but people do evil in the light all the time now.' And they didn't before? They sacrificed their children to idols, they reveled, they fed people to lions, they soothsaid. All in the light of day, all government sanctioned. But this is what they do, they defend it, they get defensive about it, they don't want it examined or looked at. I think that is a kind of hiding in itself. I think this hiding becomes particularly clear when the gospel is brought into account. Then people want to leave, or they become almost violent in their defense. See, the world is dark, so they do their deeds in darkness, but the gospel exposes them and they don't like that. They prefer to do their deeds in darkness at light of day, rather than be exposed. "but whoever does what is true comes into the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God." Those who serve are not shy about the light. They want others to know, not of his or her own deeds but of God who made them happen. How significant that we want to hide our own evil in darkness but we wish for light on deeds that are not ours alone when we do what is true.

Also, I assume someone else was there since it got written about. Either that or Nic converted and later told an apostle. Though, I assume that the timing of Nic's visit would probably put Jesus with his apostles.