Sentences with phrase «about life eternal»
On one level Jesus heals a cripple, opens the eyes of the blind or raises the dead, but on another level he reveals a truth about life eternal which God makes available in Jesus Christ.
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The history of government welfare programs is overwhelmingly biased towards expansion; hence, President Reagan's quote about a government program being the closest thing to eternal life we will see on earth.
And in the end you, who do nt believe in God, stand before a very real God to give an account for your eternal life... One thing about media is that media mostly announces the bad things that go on in the world, barely the positives.
Have those misconceptions about the Law given to the Jews clearly explained and find out why God allows suffering and where the idea of a hellfire really came from and what the truth is that leads to eternal life.
tallulah: Talking to someone on their death bed about eternal life is a most important discussion point.
If she's not witnessing to the person and talking to them about eternal life through Jesus Christ, she's not ultimately doing them any good.
God controls all of life and all of evolution, he isn't worried about time as he is eternal and time isn't an issuefor him.
ddeev... I have always been curious about people that deemed eternal life more desirable than reality.
I was just curious about the mindset of those who deemed non existence more desirable than eternal life, even when viewing the Christian option as hypothetical.
There is nothing significant about assuming or debating which eternal life Judas is enduring.
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.
Paul was talking to CHRISTIANS and talking about th eternal life with God... use the context..
God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.
Here is a link about obtaining eternal life with Jesus.
These verses, though quite popular as texts about how to receive eternal life by grace alone through faith alone, are actually about what God has done to rescue us from the condition described in Ephesians 2:1 - 3, so that we can become what is described in Ephesians 2:11 - 22.
The Gospel includes an offer of eternal life, it includes a message about the forgiveness of sins, it includes facts about the death and resurrection of Jesus, but these by themselves are not the entire Gospel.
Without the truths of the death and resurrection of Jesus, there is no gospel, but the gospel is way more than a message about justification and how to get eternal life.
The debate over «Once Saved, Saved Saved» is easily solved, however, when we realize that almost none of those verses which talk about «salvation» are actually talking about eternal life.
And for the majority of Christians, who hold to the traditional Christian view of hell, these matters really are about (eternal) life and death.
He was basically saying that as long as a Christian got something out about sin, hell, and believing in Jesus for eternal life, their duty to warn others was fulfilled.
Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz
think about it... GOD SO LOVED YOU THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON THAT IF YOU BELIEVE IN HIM (JESUS) YOU WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
That is something to worry about — that there are people who can't imagine living for the common good and who feel they must believe in eternal punishment else they will do things that they think we all should fear.
First and foremost in the thinking of these Next Christians is the rediscovery that the gospel is not just about evangelism so people can receive eternal life and go to heaven when they die (cf. pp. 66, 192).
But this passage is not talking about how to receive eternal life, but is instead talking about how God rescued us from our enslavement to the sin of death and showed us a new way of life in Jesus Christ.
While that is not desirable, which is worse: to occasionally fall into sin ourselves, knowing that such sin is covered by the grace of the cross, OR telling the whole world that although we've been rescued from sin and death and the devil, they can just go to hell because all we care about is our own eternal life?
John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.
One popular view about the unforgivable sin is that it occurs when someone fails to believe in Jesus for eternal life.
If they know nothing about God, Jesus, their own separation from God, or anything else, why would they believe in Jesus for eternal life?
It is not about eternal life, cooperating with God to receive forgiveness of sins, or anything like this.
The gospel is not just about how to receive eternal life, but also about how to live this life.
The term salvation is more appropriately used in this sense because we are talking about a finality: the decision whether one will attain eternal life.
That is why in my article above, I tried to only refer to «eternal life» when I was writing about what could not be lost.
Again, most of the references you refer to are talking about something other than eternal life.
Once we clarify what these words mean, a lot of confusion get pushed away about what the Bible teaches regarding eternal life and the condition for receiving it.
So based on this idea about being able to give up the gift of eternal life if we want to, is there a Scripture reference for that?
Regarding Hebrew 5:9 and Revelation 14:12, I don't think that either reference is talking about how to receive 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?»
There is nothing here about believing in Jesus for eternal life, and you do not get eternal life by believing that God can clothe and feed someone.
Of course, when we realize that baptism is NOT required for eternal life, then this entire debate fades away into meaninglessness, but we already talked about this...
If we are talking about how to receive eternal life, it is not simple belief that matters, but believing in the right person for the right thing.
They needed to be among the assembly yesterday of about 3000 believers in three different services that heard the message of the cross given and the simple message of the gift of eternal life by believing in the one that was nailed to the cross for our sins.
I think that much of the confusion about the security of eternal life comes from this simple misunderstanding.
Since the gospel is about way more than just receiving eternal life but is also about how God's people are to live their lives in this world, then the goal of living out the gospel is not primarily to rescue people from hell so they can go to heaven when they die.
Since it is about the election and rejection of Israel for God's purposes, many believe that Romans 9 teaches that even after we receive eternal life, if we fail to live according to God's purposes, we either lose our eternal life or we prove we never had it in the first place.
Not only was he not given the clear message about how to receive eternal life, he was also given a false message.
The plan of creation is to bring about souls that will join the eternal life.
While Peter does teach that baptism saves us, a careful study of the context reveals that Peter is not talking about gaining eternal life and going to heaven when we die.
He is talking about a finite world that is infinitely holy, a world of time that is filled with life that is eternal.
In 1 Peter 3:21, Peter is not writing about how to gain eternal life.