I mostly did not include the promise of eternal life, so this is a great reminder to include this wonderful promise to whoever believes in the Lord Jesus
Christ has eternal life.
Not exact matches
Glen Beck is a Christian if you believe that saved means that we get to
live in the afterlife with a chance to
have eternal life in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus
Christ are if we are worthy enough by doing good works to progress to be there and that God's grace comes after all we can do.
He goes on to say that just as sin came into the world through Adam, so
has eternal life come into the world through
Christ.
Christians believe that a mortal person
has an immortal soul, and that this immortal soul can be provided with a resurrected, «sanctified» (which effectively means purified, unblemished, and apparently lacking genitalia) body... the term
Eternal Life tends to be used to describe the idea that a «True Believer» in
Christ (a term open to many, many interpretations) will
have their immortal soul implanted in that resurrected body and they will get to
live for all time with
Christ, apparently singing a lot and doing very little else.
We
have the best product ever invented — hope,
eternal life, and salvation from hell through
Christ.
To
have grain and
have it «more abundantly» decalres rather outrightly that there are many «grain» therefore for
Christ to say that we «might
have [it] more abundantly» declares without much doubt that we become
eternal in the
Life / death
Life / death struggles throughout eternity.
If
eternal life is the main reason you
've accepted
Christ into your
life, then, as so many others
have, you
have missed the point of Christianity.
- turn from sin and believe in the death for our sins burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus
Christ and you shall
have eternal life in heaven!
But those who got to know Jesus
Christ and believed in his name will be saved because Jesus
Christ been innocent paid with his
life on the Cross for all your sins so that all who believe in Jesus
Christ will not perish and
have eternal life with the Father in heaven.
God is doing something about all the destruction of this world, and
has a solution — Faith in His Son Jesus
Christ will get you forgiveness of all your sins,
eternal life in an immortal body, and everything good you could ever imagine, both now and in heaven.
Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of
Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall
have eternal life... there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God.»
The western church, Catholic and Protestant,
has seized on the idea of a «Redeemer,» that is, a buy back merchant deal in which Jesus
Christ must be a human / divine sacrifice in order to «buy back» (redeem) humanity's right to
eternal life.
If we
have the Bible, but not
Christ, we will surely miss the point because
eternal life does not spring from Scripture (Jn 5:39 - 40), instead, the Life Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it should
life does not spring from Scripture (Jn 5:39 - 40), instead, the
Life Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it should
Life Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it should be.
Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there
eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as
eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus
Christ to
eternal life.I believe the term salvation
has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to
eternal life but saved from ourselves
Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be
Christ like.In the
eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent
First, the person may stop resisting, and submit to what the Holy Spirit is saying, and so,
having understood that they are a sinner and in need of salvation because judgment is coming, they will believe in Jesus
Christ for
eternal life.
Victory over death
has been won for us by
Christ on the cross: «In the context of Christian faith, the drama of evolution merges inseparably with the (abysmal) death and (grounding) resurrection of Jesus and, in him, with the
eternal drama that is the Trinitarian
life of God.»
If you
have believed in Jesus
Christ for
eternal life, then you are saved, and it is no longer possible for you to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
Only one theological position
has ever resulted in the Romans 6:1 question, and it is the position which says that
eternal life is by grace alone through faith alone in
Christ alone, and that once a person
has received
eternal life in this way, it can never be lost.And when we realize the truth of this, it is incredibly liberating.
We
have already seen how everywhere in the Bible, 99 times in the book of John alone, the single and only condition for receiving
eternal life is believing in Jesus
Christ for it.
But if a person truly did believe in Jesus
Christ alone for
eternal life, and later fell away, I believe they still
have eternal life, and God is actively working to restore such a person into fellowship with Him and other believers.
If
eternal life can be lost, or if simple faith in
Christ is not enough, works
have been added somewhere into the equation.
You see, the relationship I
have with Jesus
Christ I only
have because I believed in Jesus for
eternal life.
While I believe in
eternal security, I still get the question, «What about someone who grew up a Christian,
lived as a Christian for years, then quit, denounced
Christ, and hasn't followed him since?»
A believer is someone who
has believed in Jesus
Christ alone for
eternal life.
John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed,
had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure
eternal life through works, and thus
Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.
Being «in»
Christ is a special New Testament concept for people who
have believed in Jesus for
eternal life.
They will need to learn that the body of
Christ is of great faith - building benefit from the cradle to the grave, the Word of God is not just a book full of good ideas to
live by, Jesus isn't just a good friend to
have in a pinch — He is the Way, the Truth, and the
Life — the only way to the Father and eternal l
Life — the only way to the Father and
eternal lifelife.
If you
have not yet trusted in
Christ as Savior then receive Him, be willing to follow Him as He leads you, and ask God's forgiveness through faith in
Christ and you will
have eternal life.
I know I
have eternal life through faith in
Christ Jesus as my Savior.
Jesus announced God's ultimate plan: «And this is
eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ whom thou
has sent» (John 17:3).
All who are born again
have freely responded to God's drawing and
have trusted in
Christ and Him alone for
eternal life (See Bob Wilkin, «The Lord Opened Her Heart»; «What About Those Who Die Without Hearing the Message of
Christ?»)
* John 17:3: «Now this is
eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom you
have sent.»
who with the lordship position can ever know that they
have a personal relationship with
christ and can stand on his promises of the certainty of salvation and
eternal life.
If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything
has remained the same that is really necessary for
life as well as for death: the crucified and risen
Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of
eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.
Consider that
having our «names written is heaven» is actually the record of those who
have believed in Jesus
Christ and are assured
eternal life (Luke 10:20, Hebrews 12:23).
Mankind was seperated from GOD because of ADAM and that is why we can only
have eternal life thru JESUS
CHRIST.
The Book of
Life, on the other hand, seems to refer to those who have eternal life, that is, those how have life in Chr
Life, on the other hand, seems to refer to those who
have eternal life, that is, those how have life in Chr
life, that is, those how
have life in Chr
life in
Christ.
Romans 3:23 23 for all
have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 6:23 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life in [a]
Christ Jesus our Lord.
And in the area of how to get to heaven, God's Word says that all you
have to do is believe in Jesus
Christ alone for
eternal life (John 3:16).
Though it can sometimes refer simply to an encouraging message (1 Thess 3:6), and Jesus often used the term to describe the coming of the Kingdom of God (cf. Matt 4:23; 9:35), Paul is the one who used the word in his writings, and he uses the word most often in reference to describe the complete chain of events regarding what God
has done for sinful humanity through Jesus
Christ to provide
eternal life for them.
No, since it's God's heaven, I think he gets to make the rules on how to enter, and according to what He
has written, anyone who just believes in Jesus
Christ alone,
has eternal life.
If you
have received this grace through repentance of sin, you
have an
eternal faith relationship with The Lord
Christ Jesus, He dwells in you, you die to self, and it is
Christ that
lives in you, therefore your works are of
Christ, and this is an ongoing, daily process.
9:12) and we know that even if our bodies are healed, that
would be great for now, but this «meat sack» will still one day fall to corruption, like everything else, until the day when
Christ returns and resurrects us to
eternal life.
The Bible says, «whosoever believeth on me shall not perish but
have eternal life», that is the definition of who can be a Christian (follower of Jesus
Christ).
It can leave many people thinking that they are going to heaven because they
have «prayed a prayer» yet never understood that
eternal life is received by grace alone through faith alone in
Christ alone.
... But it pleased God that by foolishness of preaching the gospel of salvation through Jesus
Christ His son, mankind should be saved: that whoever belives, and puts his trust in Him, will not perish but
have eternal life.
The good news is, that
Christ came to planet earth as an atonement of sins, for all those that believe in Him and
have accepted His plan of salvation to
eternal life.
This
would then
have nothing to do with whether or not the unregenerate person could understand the offer of
eternal life through faith in Jesus
Christ, and believe in Him as a result.
There
have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we
have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in
Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with
Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in
Christ with healing and
eternal life....
And those who
live in
Christ have what the Johannine writer called «
eternal life» with him.