Spiritual health is the most important thing.

• John 5:2-9
• John 5:13-15 – It doesn’t seem that Jesus is telling the man he was lame because of sin. Jesus is saying that if the man sins, something worse than lameness will befall him, namely hell.

I need to double-check if I am mistaken.

• John 5:10, 16
• The Jews thought that this was a sin, but the fact that Jesus commanded it shows it was not.

Don’t see a contradiction where there is harmony.

• John 5:17-18 – The Jews thought this was blasphemy, not understanding who Jesus was.
• John 5:19-24
• Jesus gives four lines of evidence to show He was the Christ:
  • John 5:30-36 – The testimony of John the Baptist (1) and His own works (2).
  • John 5:37-38 – God the Father bore witness of Jesus (possibly His baptism – Matthew 3:17) (3).
  • John 14:24
  • John 5:39-40 – The scriptures also testify of Jesus (4).
  • John 5:45-47
  • Luke 24:27
• How are you saved?
  • Ephesians 1:7
  • I Peter 3:21
  • James 2:24
  • Ephesians 2:8
  • Acts 3:19
  • Romans 10:10
  • Titus 3:5
  • All of these are true! It is wrong for us to try to drive wedges between them.