Sentences with phrase «as life eternal»

Not exact matches

I do not read your minds (or «hear your prayers» as you like to call it) and you are not going to achieve immortality (or «eternal life» as you like to call it) no matter how many commandments from Iron Age Palestine you choose to «keep».

Before the «Dispensation of Grace» of God, by which we are saved through «Faith in Jesus Christ» as Lord and our personal Savior, Jesus Christ fulfilled the «Law of God» on our behalf during His ministry on earth, died on the «Holy Cross» for the «Remission of Our Sins» once and for all, descended to hell and defeated death, then rose from the dead on the third day bringing us «Eternal Life» and «Reconciliation» with God the Father!

The Main «benefits» (if you want to call it that way), are Eternal Life in HIS KINGDOM and in Heaven as as HIS child.

It is common knowledge that it is a guarantee of the bible that Christ will give you the proof of the down payment or proof that He adopts you as a child of God and bound for heaven and eternal life.

We are people, people who strive to live as well as we can with the time given us and do not expect that we are owed some eternal existence.

If Christians are wrong, they will only rot in the grave as unbelievers do; but if Christians are right, they will live forever in a painless, righteous world with eternal bodies, while unbelievers suffer forever in torture.

That would be your fault not Gods as you have been given the gift of life eternal.

In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!

If u understand the difference between eternal life and immortality as used in Christianity please explain.

God says if we stay in him, we will reap good and have eternal life with him, but not in this world, as he says this is NOT his world.

You sheep believe anything that you are told so long as it is consistent with your eternal life belief.

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.

Do you think that, as a person is dying, they want to discuss whether or not they believe in God, Jesus, or eternal life?

That being a spiritual death or being outcasted from God whereas overcoming that spiritual death and returning to God is the gift of «eternal life» as opposed to immortality.

It also seems quite hard to swallow that a person could spend his or her life helping the poor, counseling the down and out, building homes for Habitat for Humanity, giving millions to charitable causes, assisting those with disabilities and mental health issues, and without a sincere acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior, be doomed to eternal condemnation and suffering, no getting out early for good behavior.

For those who don't see it as a free gift look at it this way: - You work hard and you get paid — it's not always easy but the reward is financial security You live with and for God and you get eternal happiness — life isn't easy but the reward is breathtaking.

By seeking inwardly this will be revealed and you will be «back home» living in harmony feeling the eternal love as the energy of life.

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.

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.

«Sure, eternal life is transcendent life,» they admit; «but in the meantime, we're called to love our neighbors as ourselves, which means attending actively to the welfare of the world.

For the King of all the Gods created by GOD is the God Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior and Redeemer of godly men, whose rigtheousness in Word and / or in Deeds will bring to them an abundancy of living many lives within the mainframes of the eternal 1st Domain, that is called by us as being the Atomic Cosmos.

I am sick of hearing bible - spouting zealots as Nicholas would say, asking Jesus for eternal live and forgiveness.

But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

From a human point of view it seems ridiculous that a human being could torture, maim, and kill others relentlessly during her lifetime or that he could sexually abuse child after child with no remorse and then upon a sincere deathbed confession of Jesus Christ as Savior, be granted eternal life, no questions asked.

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.

But as previously mentioned, your belief in non existence is no more or less a verifiable reality than my belief in eternal life.

This is a simplification of the complex Hindu understanding of history as determined by the past lives of others: that we are all stuck in an eternal cycle of suffering perpetuated by reincarnation.

While an admonition such as «Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return» sounds like the solemn - admonitory, the point of the memento mori is to contemplate worldly death in order to fit oneself for otherworldly life in communion with other eternal souls, not somehow to find comfort in the commonality of our mortal lot.

I have bad news for you then, we do live as eternal spirits, the reason for our life and our destiny can be found in Spiritism.

(1 Timothy 6: 12 - 16) Again showing a difference between eternal life and immortality, and the the encouragement is to lay hold of eternal life as opposed to laying hold of immortality.

But since he endowed all of his intelligent creation with free will, they were free to choose God as their Ruler, and live forever, or sin and reject God and lose eternal life.

But that shouldn't frighten us as Christians, because Jesus has promised that He will give eternal life to all those who put their faith in Him (John 10:28).

@STLBroker: As opposed to the theists who think they know the entire universe was created just so they would have somewhere to stand while an all powerful being gazes lovingly at them then grants them eternal life?

Isnt that the same as eternal if you don't believe in life after death?

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

But it is not nearly as confusing once we realize that to be «saved» in James 2 has nothing whatsoever to do with gaining eternal life and going to heaven when we die.

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.

By focusing on the inner dynamic of God's eternal life as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Barth is able to avoid two errors: a static understanding of eternity, and one completely divorced from all temporality.

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 shouldlife 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 shouldLife Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it should be.

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

20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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.

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

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!

And just as there are certainties we have learned from nature, such as the laws of science, gravity, and thermodynamics, there are also certainties we can learn from Scripture, such as the holiness of God, our own sinfulness, and our need to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

They use the love of a Christian trying to point out sin and trying to point to Jesus and eternal life with God as being unlovely or judgemental.

In such circumstances the fundamental gospel promise of forgiveness and eternal life is heard as genuine Good News.

So you see Keith you are special created for a purpose in this stage of transit test life... as true life is the eternal life that which comes after death on resurrection and Judgment day... God Bless

As part of the package, he has made eternal life available through faith.