Sentences with phrase &laquo;not for eternal salvation&raquo;

To believe in Jesus for your salvation and to have a part in His everlasting Kingdom where sin, death, sorrow, pain, despair, oppression do not exist, and in this life have a moral code that includes loving everyone though not participating in sin and have that hope of eternal life.

The Bible is so ambiguous, it's not even clear what exactly is required for its main promise of eternal salvation, that any of the good teachings in it are rendered meaningless by the evil teachings that are in it.

The true lights of the Church, those who are most important for the eternal salvation of mankind as well as of individuals are not the Pope, the bishops or the cardinals in their red cassocks, but those who possess and radiate most faith, hope and love, most humility and unselfishness, most fortitude in carrying the cross, most happiness and confidence.

For precisely that culture which can not be materially given by faith and the Church is nevertheless the earthly duty that determines our eternal salvation.

Israel's passion is not a co-redemptive passion, achieving for the eternal salvation of souls what is lacking (as concerns application, not merits) in the Savior's sufferings.

Sure, God's salvation is unspeakably powerful and it is eternal (meaning that it never ends for the faithful) but God does not force it upon us if we decide we don't want it for whatever reason such as the cost of maintaining it is too high.

Even if we were to grant (for the sake of argument only) that God could or would intervene in this way in earthly affairs, God's resurrection of this one person can not logically support the likelihood of salvation for the rest of us: (A) It can not prove that God is able to save us from death and grant us eternal life; (B) it can not guarantee that God is interested in doing this; and (C) it does not even show that God will forgive our sins.

The full sentence reads, «This is a good morality for building a decent society, but maybe not one for people interested in things in the next world, like eternal salvation, for example.»

How is it possible to affirm, as Christians traditionally have done, that the violent death of Jesus is central to God's eternal plan for human salvation and, simultaneously, that God is not responsible for the murderous anger of Jesus's opponents, the savage brutality of the Roman guards, or the greedy betrayal of Judas Iscariot?

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

about the eternal life in God; nor does anything point to moral improvement and perfection as an indispensable condition for the achievement of this goal... It is only just to say that every man has an inherent right to favorable conditions for him to enjoy all - round development in his striving for a full - blooded life... However one can not agree with the opinion that where there are no conditions of life worthy of man one can not even speak of salvation today.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»

Thanks Jeremy in my mind i am thinking saved to eternal life by faith salvation is not a good word as it has multiple meanings and not necessarily saved to eternal life so thanks for correcting appreciate it.brentnz

The one reference that didn't work for me was 2 Timothy 2:10 (NIV) «Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.»

The work of the Eternal Word of God, present in men spermatically, as Justin Martyr for example put it, offered this possibility of salvation, so that the historical accident of having lived after Jesus or having heard about Him was not the necessary condition of the salvation which God purposed for His human children.

Not that God grants them eternal life or salvation, then takes it away when they become old enough to be accountable, it merely means that there exists a conditional form of grace for children that God will redeem them if they die (Deuteronomy 1:39, 2 Samuel 12:16 - 23)

Instead of you being concerned about the welfare of these eternal souls as to wondering whether or not they will get the chance for salvation, you get hung up on that somehow because not everyone will get that chance in their mortal lives that somehow that means that God is biased; that in my beliefs as to how God gives out those opprotunities that it doesn't meet to your specifications, then that automatically means that God is biased, when in my beliefs the point is that no matter how you slice it everybody whehter in this life or afterwards will get a chance at learning about the gospel and make their own choices as to whether to follow the gospel or not.

Repentance is not a condition of eternal life.Looking at the contexts surrounding the word, I see that repentance can occur before salvation, or after salvation, but never FOR salvation in the Scriptures.

So in this passage, while repentance is a condition for «salvation» (whatever that means in the context of 2 Cor 7), the Bible doesn't say anywhere that repentance is a condition for eternal life.

If, to the human understanding, the eternal damnation of even one person upsets our desire for a «harmonious cosmos,» this should be motivation not to explain how it would really be harmonious after all, but to pray for the salvation of all.

If Bell's book is not an argument for universalism, and that Bell's rhetorical questions are not meant to ridicule the traditional beliefs of eternal conscious suffering, penal substitutionary atonement, and salvation by faith alone in Christ alone, then the marketing mechanism is a paradigm example of what Harry Frankfurt has defined as «bull ****.»

If they agree that faith alone in Jesus Christ is sufficient for eternal salvation then tell them that they are either divergent from stated Mormon precepts or that they don't really understand what they're «supposed» to believe.

For much of Christian history believers affirmed that apart from Christ there is no salvation, and they understood this to mean that those who did not have faith in Christ were condemned to eternal torments.

John's Gospel is abundantly clear, as are many passages within other NT books that for eternal salvation all a man must do is trust in (believe on) the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.

If salvation is so important, I find it disturbing that God didn't make the condition (s) for receiving eternal life clear, being found all in one place.

Rather, assuming that we agree with your premise — that people who believe these things remain unsaved — there is another entirely viable option: that it is not sufficient to believe these things apart from the promise of eternal life by faith alone in Christ, but that these these are indeed essential elements of the gospel that must be believed for salvation.