IF they understood that Messiah was the giver of eternal life and they had faith in
Him alone for eternal life, then YES, they had eternal life.
They believe all of this, but most of them have not believed in Jesus Christ
alone for eternal life.
God saved me when I believed in Jesus
alone FOR eternal life.
BUT believing in Jesus
alone for eternal life is the TRUTH that causes a person to pass over from death into life.
Also in the case of my grandmother who has passed, her Jesus she believed in isn't the biblical Jesus, God incarnate so even if she believed in the Mormon jesus and that
alone for eternal life does that save her?
Over and over again, we read that anyone who believes in Jesus Christ
alone for eternal life, gets it.
This gift can be received by trusting in Jesus Christ
alone for eternal life.
The only ones who will be accepted by God are those who believe in Jesus Christ
alone for eternal life.
Make sure you have believed in Jesus Christ
alone for eternal life.
So while we are supposedly united on «faith alone in Christ
alone for eternal life» there's not a lot of agreement on what that means.
If, like Peter, you believe in Jesus Christ
alone for eternal life.
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).
When we believe in Jesus
alone for eternal life, God places us IN CHRIST.
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?»)
We become Christians, as I shared last week, by placing faith in Jesus Christ
alone for eternal life.
A believer is someone who has believed in Jesus Christ
alone for eternal life.
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.
I think that many of them at one point believed in Jesus
alone for eternal life, but over time, have come to accept the lies of religion that they need to have the performance and good works in order to keep or prove their eternal life.
Not exact matches
But those who take that statement as a sufficient declaration of the condition
for appropriating
eternal life (such as those affiliated with the GES) surely do not believe that this
alone is the gospel!
But to receive
eternal life, Jesus says that everyone who believes in him
alone for it, will receive it.
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.
I don't disagree (if I am understanding you correctly), but we must make sure we understand the difference between how to receive
eternal life (believe in Jesus Christ
alone for it), and the logical and theological foundations
for that truth (deity of Jesus, death and resurrection of Jesus, sinfulness of humanity, etc., etc., etc.).
All you have to do is believe in Jesus
for eternal life and believe in Him
alone.
«
For you
alone have the words of
eternal life.
I am aware that very few people are ready
for the vision of God at the end of this
life and I have never been at ease with the Protestant view that our
eternal destiny is determined by
life in this world
alone.
For if, as Calvinists teach, God, in eternity past, chose some people to be the beneficiaries of His grace so that they, out of all the people of the world, might
alone receive
eternal life from Him, then Israel, as God's elect people, should all unconditionally receive
eternal life from God.
Jesus
alone made it possible
for me to have
eternal life because He
alone is righteous, and He
alone took the full punishment
for my sins so that I could enter into God's presence.
For this reason — and simply for the sake of the truth — a strong stance on the simplicity and freeness of eternal life by grace alone through faith alone is essenti
For this reason — and simply
for the sake of the truth — a strong stance on the simplicity and freeness of eternal life by grace alone through faith alone is essenti
for the sake of the truth — a strong stance on the simplicity and freeness of
eternal life by grace
alone through faith
alone is essential.
The Gospel is the amazing news that by faith
alone we are made unconditionally and irrevocably eternally secure.There are no buts or what ifs only a constant absolute our Lord Jesus.He is God and He guaranteed
Eternal Life as a free gift if we believe Him
for it.What a Gospel of amazing news!.
Gil if we only received one blessing in this
life and that was
eternal life in Jesus Christ that
alone would be enough but we are blessed way more than that because we have been sent his holy spirit to help us overcome our old nature.He never leaves us nor forsakes us whether good or bad happens he strengthens us in our weakness.It says in the bible that the rain falls on both the righteous or the wicked God is fair to all whether they deserve it or not he can not be anything else than a holy righteous loving and fair God.I do nt need to convince you to believe about God he will reveal himself to you if you are seeking the truth as he is the truth.I do nt try and make others believe its pointless.I know without a doubt that i am saved and my sins are forgiven.As a christian it will a joy to be with the Lord there is no fear in death
for those that love him.In the meantime i serve him with all my heart until he calls me home.I love talking about the Lord but each of us must walk according to what we believe.I trust my
life to Jesus Christ and i choose to follow him who do you follow?
But this says nothing about their ability or lack of ability to do anything good, let
alone their ability or lack of ability to believe in Jesus
for eternal life.
But I like the way Jeremy and Bob start the conversation out --- «Do you know that Jesus gives
eternal life to all who believe in Him
alone for it!»
The assent to the deity of Christ, the death on the cross, and the resurrection does not necessarily lead faith in Christ
alone through His promise, whereby He is the Guarantor of
eternal life to the believer in Him
for it.
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.
If they believe «Jesus» guarantees
eternal life via faith
alone, they are saved — even if they personally do NOT believe this Jesus is God who died
for our sins and rose again.»
- people believe the Savior is named «Jesus» and remain unsaved... - that Jesus» name really isn't «Jesus» He was never called «Jesus» in His
life... - most people don't know the meaning of the name «Jesus»... - you say a person does not need to know ANYTHING about «Jesus» (e.g., that He is a man, that He is God, that He died
for sins and rose again, that He isn't a Mexican somewhere in Tiajuana)-- other than that this guy is the guarantor of
eternal life by faith
alone... - you discount passages that say the lost are saved by the «preaching of the cross» (1Cor.
Also, if I tell a person «you CAN NOT be saved by believing in the Mormon «Jesus» but you must believe in a Jesus who is God and Man, and that His death was the only payment
for your sins, and that He was raised from the death so that He is a
living Savior who offers you
eternal life by Him in Him
alone» — and if they receive / believe exactly what I tell them — assuming, as it sounds, you believe I am teaching a false gospel — do you believe the person would be saved?
We would no longer have one condition
for eternal life, «faith
alone in Christ
alone», but a series of asending steps that must be assented to before they get to «promise of
eternal life by faith
alone in Christ».
This message, however, does not mean, as it has often been interpreted, that the Judgment no longer means anything to him who believes in Christ, but rather that he
alone survives the Judgment who has become a new man through faith in Christ, who has «passed from death to
life» and hence belongs among those who «by patient continuance in well - doing seek
for eternal life.»