This not only gives them hope for their business and to overcome poverty, but a hope for
eternal life as well.
So, before they take off and possibly never see me again, I want to make sure that if they walk away with anything, that it's not me trying to start a friendship, nor trying to explain the sin problem, but instead making clear to them how they can have
eternal life as a free gift by just believing in Him for it.
But I worry that the question of pets in heaven could distort our understanding of
eternal life as described in Scripture and Christian tradition.
Some theologians have seen this rich array of images for
eternal life as cause for alarm.
I know I can not do good enough to «earn»
eternal life as their Scriptures tell me I need to do.
It's because they have not yet believed that He has given
them eternal life as He promised.
sam stone Your reply related to
the eternal life as presented in the Bible.
Instead, he gives us the ultimate gift of
eternal life as His children — a gift we could never earn.
One reason, therefore, for the «absolutely new atmosphere» in the New Testament is to be found in this vivid apprehension of
eternal life as a present possession, so real that he who has it has already received Christ's second coming, passed through the judgment, and been raised from the dead.
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!.
I minister to many people who struggle with grace and
eternal life as a gift.
I have been a proponent of the radical free grace of God for about fifteen years now, by which we get
eternal life as a completely free gift of God, with no strings attached, and no works required on our part to gain, keep, or prove that we have eternal life.
He needs no ticket to
eternal life as he is The Life.
The Christian lives in the hope and in the vista of
eternal life as the gift of God.
In John Baillie's widely acclaimed modern classic, And the Life Everlasting, the biblical doctrine of the resurrection has almost moved out of sight, being replaced by an emphasis on
eternal life as a quality of life which transcends death.
Jesus taught that one can not only lose rewards but
eternal life as well in places like Luke 12:35 - 48:
That is, make sure you know that no matter what you do or say, think or feel, do in the future or have done in the past, that Jesus gives
you eternal life as a completely free gift.
If election is to
eternal life as the Calvinist presumes, then John 6:70 contains the strange teaching that Jesus elected Judas to eternal life, knowing that Judas was (or will be) controlled by the devil.
The trouble with many conventional pictures of heaven is that they describe
eternal life as a vapid and self - centered perpetual enjoyment rather than, as in Dante's Divine Comedy, a rejoicing in the vision of God.
He offers
us eternal life as a free gift.
He now offers
us eternal life as a free gift....
Join the movement for God's peace and justice - and God will give
you eternal life as a gift!
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.
Repeatedly throughout the book, McKnight refers to the gift of
eternal life as «salvation» or «being saved» (e.g., pp. 34, 40).
Rather than see
eternal life as a continuum begun in our baptisms and extended through life into eternity, we were tempted to posit instead a radical discontinuity between «time's wild wintry blast» and our destiny in time to come.
It is possible to believe in Jesus for eternal life (and of course, receive
eternal life as a result), but still not be «saved» from many of the temporal and physical consequences of sin, or from sickness, or from enemies, or from many of the other negative things that can happen in life.
Therefore one has
eternal life as long as one continues to believe — not just from a past moment of belief as would have been otherwise indicated from the aorist or past tense.
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.
(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.
Would I loose
Eternal live as a consquence for my sin eternal live would be a probation and not a GIFT anymore.
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.