Sentences with phrase «condition of eternal life»

My argument started with the premise that there is only one simple condition of eternal life.

Eternal life is certainly not without repentance, and it is such a vital component of being «born again» that it can be said to be a condition of eternal life.

Faith alone in Christ alone is the only condition of eternal life.

Not exact matches

Indeed, I tend to play melodies that regard show the hugeness of God, His open arms to all mankind, his love without any conditions, the giving of eternal life to anyone that calls upon him, and his willingness to tolerate all forms of religion... even my own.

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!

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.

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 think the Scripture makes a clear distinction between the conditions of receiving eternal life, and the conditions of being a disciple or follower of Jesus.

The content of the gospel as eternal salvation is either reduced to a social message to ameliorate the conditions of life in this world, or it is equated with the loftiest wisdom of philosophy and heroic examples of moral achievement.

They believe in a Church which has the courage, not only to proclaim an eternal life as God's gift and the hope of men, but also to declare that, and how, man has to shape this world of his and its conditions according to the will of God.

Yes, the «CONDITION» was that we had to believe, but when we saw the truth that Jesus was the giver of eternal life, FAITH HAPPENED.

Repentance is something all people should do to avoid the devastating consequences of sin, but repentance is not a condition for receiving eternal life.

One of the reasons people get so confused about the conditions for receiving eternal life is that they equate terms and ideas in the Bible with eternal life which do not refer to eternal life.

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.»

Concern with material continuity also fed theological and artistic speculation about the fate of cut fingernails and hair, the condition and presence of genitals, the age and stature of the resurrected body, the bodies of the saints, the fate of relics, whether bodies in hell are reassembled as completely as those given eternal life and how and whether digested body parts are regurgitated at the resurrection.

Grace means the way in which God deals with our human condition, his active purpose for the creation, his power to redeem and save history from its bloody tragedy, his offer of eternal life.

What this means is that as long as the word «saved» is incorrectly equated with eternal life, the concept of «once saved, always saved» can easily be refuted by pointing out the many places in the Bible where people can lose their «salvation» because they don't obey God or fulfill the conditions of «salvation.»

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.

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.

Repentance is vitally important for living life with God and with each other the way life was meant to be lived, but repentance is not one of the conditions for receiving eternal life from God.

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».

But we are found with a multitude of verses that condition eternal life on simple faith in Christ for it.

Martin it is not by works that we are saved but by grace that none should boast.Works do not get us us closer to God but good works come from a heart that loves God and desires to please him.John 3:16 is clear if we believe in Jesus Christ we shall have eternal life it is based not on what we do or have done but by the grace of God that has been poured out upon us because of Jesus Christ.God always gives us assurances or promises the condition to receive eternal life is to believe in Jesus Christ as the one who has saved from our sin.Personally i believe that the continued walk will determine our reward from the Lord again its not based on our effort but a trust or faith in God.This does not effect the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.