Sentences with phrase «conditions for eternal life»

You now have multiple conditions for eternal life.

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.

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».

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!

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.

then we now have another question: «Has the condition for receiving eternal life changed?»

According to Scripture there is but one condition: believe in Christ for eternal life (1 Tim 1:16).

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

There is only one condition for receiving eternal life — and that is believing in Jesus Christ for it.

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.»

But once we understand that the salvation word family almost never (if ever) refers to eternal life, the numerous passages that show various conditions for salvation gain theological clarity.

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.

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.

The only condition for receiving eternal life is believing in Jesus for it.

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.

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.

The only condition in Galatians for eternal life is to believe in Jesus Christ for it.

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

Paul, not sure where you get only those who repented, Jesus is pretty clear the the only condition for receiving eternal life is believing or faithing in Him.

Repentance can lead to receiving eternal life, but is not a condition for it.