according to biblegateway dot com:

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Okay, simple so far, a classic

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” k

9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

well since they're giving me such strong supporting evidence

for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”[f]

i bet coworker was a real killer in debate class

lmao

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

man i'm almost disappointed, like, she didn't even go deep and pull out any new info

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

and that's it. all the verses. god, all this time wondering and i'm actually disappointed. drawing from a book I don't believe in as your proof - already silly. but no thought was put into this at all. i really wonder if she thinks I've never heard any of that before here in the deep south

I want to make a dirty joke about the "it is with your mouth that you profess your faith," but I will refrain

But wow, yeah, like nobody had ever shared stuff like that with you before.

thank you for that not-joke i think that's a perfect response to the reason coworker recommended the passage

i mean thats certainly someones kink

religiously charged ritual sex

i think giving jesus a bj probably could substitute for the wine and croutons thing

sounds like more fun tbh

XD agree

who is it meant to convert, I wonder

like... someone who has literally never heard of the judeo-christian God before?

right? it's so, so strange. i don't even understand that level of lack of critical thinking. like i'm going to come here from bible-free mars, read it, and be like ohhhh so i have to BELIEVE in jesus before I get to heaven so it all must be true!

I saw a post about how conversion worked more to keep believers in an us vs them mentality than to convert people, and that's the only explanation I've ever heard that makes sense. I did expect coworker to be better at it though

yeah, that makes sense