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Aw, man this just gets better.
Mainstream Judiasm does not have a concept of justification by faith.
John did not have a Trinity in mind when they wrote. The concept had not yet been invented.
Nor does 3:16 imply hell. Belief at the time would have indicated that many simply would not rise in the end of time, and stay dead since they did not deserve to live eternally. Their lives would end at mortal death, nothing more.
I quibble with this all since this is the problem of your whole argument. You can't get there from here...and you're picking up all sorts of anachronisms and particularities along the way. The end result is a description of these beleifs that is deeply twisted by your analytical framework.
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For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
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