Before I respond to your post, I need to know if you are a Roman Catholic. If so, your interpretation of Jesus’ prayer will naturally be in accordance with their ideal of a one world religion.
Or perhaps, you are a liberal who also holds to the ideal of one world-ism. If so, you would also naturally interpret Jesus’ prayer in line with your one world view. If you are a liberal, it makes me to wonder what are you doing on FR in the first place, a conservative site that is against globalism.
Which is it? may I ask.
Well you put me in quite a spot. The reasons are numerous. First, what I am changes not one jot or tittle of Jesus’ prayer in John 17. If I were the pope—the first woman pope, no less—John 17 would still be the inspired Word of God, useful for teaching, edification, exhortation and consolation.
If I were a flaming liberal, ditto. There is no liberal alive who can change one word in the Bible. I.e.: they can rant against the Bible, but the inspired words remain. Nothing in it changes just because there are liberals in the world.
The next problem is that, being a conservative, I don’t like the ‘jump through my hoops, on my command’ routine. Who are you, to interrogate me? I have a record on FR going back to 2000. Over 10,000 posts. Anyone can read them. That being so, why should I cough up all your neat little answers just so you know whether you need to accept God’s word, as conveyed in the 17th chapter of Gospel or John, or not?