Sentences with phrase «eternal life begins»

Eternal life begins when we accept Christ as Lord and savior.

Eternal life begins by faith in Christ, and when it has begun death can have no more dominion over us.

But as John's Gospel repeatedly assures us, eternal life begins here — where we are — as we «believe» in Christ.

Eternal life begins here!

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Kamprad's plan from the beginning was to set up «eternal life» for IKEA, which meant keeping it off the stock market and securing it within a

Hitchens claimed that believing in God was equivalent to life in an eternal totalitarian state: «It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute of your life, before you're born and, even worse and where the real fun begins, after you're dead.

Religion, including your phony promises of heaven and eternal life, doesn't even begin to meet that standard.

Then they will understand that physical death is the beginning of eternal life in paradise.

I always begin to answer that question by emphasizing that although the answer is «No,» the real question is, «Have you believed in Jesus for eternal life?»

You are right that God is eternal, having had no beginning (this being incomprehensible by us) and is the Creator of the universe and all life.

To consider why this is so, let us go back to the very beginning, the institution of the Eucharist... Approximately two thousand years ago, Jesus had a roller - coaster Holy Week ride, which ultimately saw Him, through God's power, famously defeat sin and death, thereby providing us with the possibility of eternal life.

Traveling this path begins with understanding that there is a difference between believing in Christ for eternal life and following Christ for the abundant life (John 10:10).

If we can understand how Jewish people were saved prior to the death and resurrection of Jesus, then we can begin to answer how other people around the world may be able to receive eternal life before they have heard about Jesus.

But we can really do this only if we slowly begin to believe from the very centre of our heart in God, in Jesus Christ, in his grace, and in eternal life.

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.

The full realization of God as companion ends our impotence and solitariness, and thus ends religion — and begins that life which is eternal in both quality and scope because it is the life of God animating our human being.

And when I write «the complete chain of events» I mean the complete chain, beginning with God eternal love for humanity, including the creation of mankind and their subsequent fall, and going through God's calling of Israel, His work through them during their checkered history, the birth, life, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus, and looking forward to the return of Jesus and the new heavens, the new earth, and our eternal existence with God.

If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.

Eternal life in this affirmative sense, as indicated in the Gospel of John, is not simply continuance after death; it is a quality of life which begins here and is endless.

The life and death of Jesus are not simply events in time; they are windows into the eternal heart of God, whereby we see the suffering and redeeming love of God which has been suffering and redeeming since the beginning of time and will be beyond the end of time.

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...

In the last chapter we explained that the «resurrection of the dead» expresses the hope that the whole of a man's life from beginning to end will be raised before the divine Judgment Seat and be accepted by God as possessing something of value which will give it an eternal meaning.

If they do not have the good works to back up their claim, then they never really had eternal life to begin with.

Note, however, that the ending our physical existence is the opportunity to begin eternal life with Him... and eternity of joy.

Mike i like what you wrote about the relationship with Christ its all about that.To me the gospel description is found in that verse it covers our fathers love that he has always loved us from the beginning when he created us it covers the reason why Jesus was sent to put things right to remove our sin guilt and shame and to receive from him new life his life eternal but it is just as real today and tomorrow and forever.brentnz

I also point out how while the gospel does promise eternal life, that life begins here and now, and the vast majority of the gospel is concerned with how we live our life now.

This event convinced Dawson to not only witness to others, but when somebody believed in Jesus for eternal life to immediately begin discipling them.

The story begins with the great assize «when the Son of man comes in his glory,» and it ends with the decisive verdict of assignment either to eternal punishment or to eternal life.

Man as we know him today, man of metaphysics, of abstract thought, the creator of his own environment, the space - traveller, the moulder of himself, the man of God and of grace and of the promise of eternal life, precisely this man who is radically distinct from any animal and who at the moment of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance of his biological pre-history into these realms of his existence remote from the animals, was there when man began to exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentiality.

We inherit eternal life if we live by it, not as a reward, but because through the Law and God's grace we already begin to share in God's life.

Recall the opening words of the First Epistle of John: «We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life» this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us...» First John states the primal truth that Christian faith rests on witness to what has happened in history, hence the honored place of the martyrs (witnesses) in Christian memory.

When we notice, then, that the Fourth Gospel begins not with the baptism and birth, but with the eternal Logos, who «was in the beginning with God,» it is not unnatural to decide that belief in the pre-existence of Jesus was the culmination of a process of exalting the earthly career which began with the fact of the resurrection and moved backward step by step till not only the whole of the earthly life was included but a divine pre-existence was affirmed as well.

If Christianity continues to tell you that WHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejected.

«When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.»

Though it is critically important for someone to believe in Jesus for eternal life, this is only the beginning of all that God has for us in Jesus Christ.

In this sense there is a «day of judgment,» (I John 4:17) an ultimate denouement in which «the world passeth away, and the lust thereof,» (I John 2:17) and an eternal fulfillment of the life in Christ that begins here.

Such was the beginning of the Bible's conception of the afterworld, and the development of thought from this crude primitiveness of Sheol to the New Testament's doctrine of eternal life constitutes one of the most significant contributions of the Scriptures to religious history.

The eternal life thus begun would of course lead on to resurrection and continued eternal life in the age to come.

«Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world — stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death — and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image of the brightness of the Eternal Love?

Second, since we do not know when the tribulation will begin, we do know that when it does, it will be very difficult, if not impossible for people on earth during that time to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

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This is the beginning the first pang — of the resurrection of the body into eternal life.

We shall perceive the eternal justice of things; for we shall recognise that the world is itself the Last Judgment on it, and we shall begin to understand why it is that everything that lives must pay the penalty of its existence, first in living and then in dying.

Eternal life is not an infinite existence beginning with say baby fintronics who wakes up in heaven.

Eternal life is present now (5:24); judgment is happening now (10:26 - 28); even though the disciples in John's gospel have trouble understanding Jesus (as they did in Mark), at the very beginning of the gospel Jesus is described by John the Baptist as «the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world» (1:29).

Eternal life is a construct I do not think we can really grasp as it does not have beginning and end as we been conditioned to over generations.

«Eternal life is not what begins after temporal life; it is the eternal presence of the totality of life.Eternal life is not what begins after temporal life; it is the eternal presence of the totality of life.eternal presence of the totality of life.»

So, when you talk to people, you begin with if they believe in Jesus they can have eternal life?

But before I get to my practice, it is probably best to begin with what Stegall says a person must believe to receive eternal life.

So, when I evangelize, I always begin with the gospel invitation and tell them that if they believe in Jesus, He guarantees them eternal life.