Due to the fact that it is understood to be referring to eternal life and going to heaven when we die, numerous texts are misinterpreted and misapplied so that what should be understood as a passage that encourages and instructs us on how to live our lives so that we can experience God's life now becomes a passage on how to live our lives so that we can prove that we will have
eternal life in the future.
Not exact matches
In the
future eternal Kingdom of heaven, every person will be able to fulfill their true potential, and
live according to their God - given purpose.
I believe that
in the
future eternal Kingdom, every person will be able to fulfill their true potential, and
live according to their God - given purpose, so they can be the person God made them to be.
If you confuse purification gospel truths with the presentation truth, then you might think it is necessary for a person to repent of their sin or believe
in the
future judgments
in order to receive
eternal life.
While it is true that our past sins are remitted upon redemption, no such claim is made that any single sin committed
in the
future automatically disqualifies one from
eternal life.
But I asked some follow - up questions as well, to see if she was
in any way relying on her past, present, or
future good works
in order to earn, prove, or keep her
eternal life.
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.
God is being created and evolving along with humans and at some time
in the
future humans will develop heaven (
eternal life etc etc) and all those other things considered so desirable.
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 this is so, the Evangelist meant by «
eternal life» not a temporal existence but «a
life which has properly speaking neither past nor
future, but is
lived in God's
eternal Today.
Hardly any serious medical scientist will talk about achieving
life eternal, but they are perfectly comfortable
in projecting cures
in the
future for all of the important lethal diseases.
Please ask yourself: If all the historical, scientific, and prophetic statements
in the Bible are true and accurate, then what about what the Bible says about your having
eternal life (or death) and about the choices you make (or do not make) now that can affect your
eternal future?
Whether this
future is conceived as
eternal life for the individual, or a new heaven and a new earth for mankind, or as the conquest of evil
in or beyond human history, the trajectory is toward the
future, the eschaton.
This enormously transforms his perspective upon the present
life, less through hope of
future reward or fear of punishment than through a sense of the enhanced worthfulness of the present as preparatory to
eternal life in the presence of God.
When you become a Christian by believing
in Jesus for
eternal life, one of the first things that happens to you is the Holy Spirit comes
in and
lives with
in you, and
in that moment, He washes you, He cleanses you, He purifies you of all sin, and provides us with the power to have victory over
future sin.
The Gospel of John applies this to the contrast between this
life and the
future life: «He who loves his
life loses it, and he who hates his
life in this world will keep it for
eternal life» (
in 12:25).
In future posts we will look at other terms that are often confused with «
eternal life,» so stay tuned!
This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and
eternal life — and consider only these
in our modem context,
in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about
in an unsettled world, with an uncertain
future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and
in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.
On John 5: 28, 29, see R. H. Charles: Eschatology; Hebrew, Jewish and Christian, pp. 370 - 372) Moreover,
in the Johannine thought of the
future there doubtless is a consummation
in time by which the quality of spirit constituting
life eternal will be crowned.
The present, therefore,
in Jesus» thought, was not simply Satanic, as current teaching claimed; the kingdom of God was an immediate experience as well as a
future expectation and those who were
in the kingdom, possessing, as they did, a
life with
eternal issues inherent
in it, could triumphantly surmount affliction.
Understanding that God loves you infinitely and completely no matter what you have done
in the past or what you do
in the
future, whether you change or not, this is equivalent to understanding that God gives you
eternal life freely by His grace.
(but even if it didn't that should be obvious) Therefore Gods groundwork for the spectacular
future that God has
in store for us is built upon love and the way to create that love is for God to forgive us and grant us
eternal life which is made available to us by the grace of Jesus Christ and the death he took for us all on the cross.
Our
eternal life is based completely and solely on the finished work of Jesus Christ, and not one bit on what we do or don't do, either
in our past, our present, or our
future.
With this design and its energy infused
in the gemstone, it puts your
life in the perspective of
eternal continuity, placing you, your relationships and your family
in the ongoing chain of
life, created by you, your ancestors and
future generations of your bloodline.
In a
future where you can change your body like changing clothes, nothing is
eternal... except
life itself.