Sentences with phrase «eternal life while»

Jesus teaches life, love and eternal life while other religions teach discipline, oppression, bondage, and condemnation that ultimately leads to the grave.

The only difference between the two definitions is that the first talks about eternal life while the second talks about salvation.

In other words, God has the right to do whatever He wants, and if He wants to elect some to eternal life while condemning others to eternal damnation, who are we to talk back to God?

Not exact matches

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.

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.

While it does not appear to me that bin Laden in any way obeyed the Laws of God, and thereby lived out of love, and therefore, yes, is more than likely facing eternal perdition, I can not know that.

While an admonition such as «Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return» sounds like the solemn - admonitory, the point of the memento mori is to contemplate worldly death in order to fit oneself for otherworldly life in communion with other eternal souls, not somehow to find comfort in the commonality of our mortal lot.

@STLBroker: As opposed to the theists who think they know the entire universe was created just so they would have somewhere to stand while an all powerful being gazes lovingly at them then grants them eternal life?

A very good moral believer and non believer are very normal with similar lives yet the believer lives with eternal hope while the non believer lives with finite man.

2nd choice with your free will, love and follow satan's lies and your spirit dies while living on earth, go to paradise, still hate Jesus, Day of the Lord, and you get your wish, perish into the eternal flames, no eternity for you.

While that is not desirable, which is worse: to occasionally fall into sin ourselves, knowing that such sin is covered by the grace of the cross, OR telling the whole world that although we've been rescued from sin and death and the devil, they can just go to hell because all we care about is our own eternal life?

While I would agree that people can not take the first step toward God, I believe that God has taken steps to enable people to believe in Jesus for eternal life, and that this faith is not meritorious.

While I believe in eternal security, I still get the question, «What about someone who grew up a Christian, lived as a Christian for years, then quit, denounced Christ, and hasn't followed him since?»

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.

While the death and resurrection of Jesus are central to the Gospel, believing in the resurrection of Jesus is not required for a person to receive eternal life from Jesus.

So while the vision of an eternal life among the fairy and Jesus might sound great, we know it doesn't exist.

While Peter does teach that baptism saves us, a careful study of the context reveals that Peter is not talking about gaining eternal life and going to heaven when we die.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

Is God's Final Judgment one of «eternal» hell for mankind who didn't repent while here on earth... despite the fact that Jesus said, «It is finished»... and Jesus «wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth»... and Jesus is «our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.»

While it may be true that justification and eternal life are very closely related, they are nevertheless distinct in biblical theology.

The good news, the Gospel, is that while God is holy and we are sinners, and sin deserves punishment, God, out of His great love for us, sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ to die in our place for our sin so that anyone who wants eternal life in heaven with God can simply believe in Jesus Christ for it and it will be given to them.

The difference between faith and works, of course, is that while the latter are «works» and no one can have enough works to earn or merit eternal life, faith is not a work, is not meritorious, and does not help a person earn or gain eternal life.

The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.»

So if one person is thinking only about the parts of the gospel that tell a person how to go to heaven when they die or receive eternal life (faith alone in Christ alone), while another person is thinking about the parts of the gospel which tell followers of Jesus how to live on this earth (discipleship, obedience, faithful living), but both persons keep using the term «gospel,» the argument quickly becomes quite messy.

So while the Book of the Living seems to refer to everyone who is alive at the time, the Book of Life refers to everyone who has eternal life (Dan 12:1; Php 4:3; Rev 21:Life refers to everyone who has eternal life (Dan 12:1; Php 4:3; Rev 21:life (Dan 12:1; Php 4:3; Rev 21:27).

So, while I certainly appreciate your, what I believe to be a «sincere» gesture with your quotes from the book of Luke to... «save my eternal soul,» I only wish you peace in your life... and should there happen to be an after - life... and... it happens to be exactly as you think, maybe you can put in a good word for me with St. Peter at the Pearlies!!!

While there are many texts which tell readers how to receive eternal life by faith alone, the vast majority of the Bible is intended to encourage and inspire those who have received eternal life to live in light of the free gift they have already received.

So while foreknowledge and election are certainly taught in Jeremiah 1:4 - 5, it is not an election to eternal life, but an election to service.

While I am in sympathy with your plight and suffering you endured while traveling in the Middle East, if you are truly a present Christian you should be a follower of Christ's words and life and be concerned for men who face eternal damnation as Jesus taWhile I am in sympathy with your plight and suffering you endured while traveling in the Middle East, if you are truly a present Christian you should be a follower of Christ's words and life and be concerned for men who face eternal damnation as Jesus tawhile traveling in the Middle East, if you are truly a present Christian you should be a follower of Christ's words and life and be concerned for men who face eternal damnation as Jesus taught.

So while we are supposedly united on «faith alone in Christ alone for eternal life» there's not a lot of agreement on what that means.

Please let us learn about medicine so we can beat You and Your little game of torturing us while we yet live on this planet, as we know You are a Sadistic Son - Of - A-B + ch who is not satisfied giving us eternal torture in the fiery lake.

In the first place, praying for God's help reminds us that we are not in control of the world or even of our own life, while reminding us that we are living in the presence of an infinite and eternal being.

While you wait, remember God's many promises in Scripture, that He loves you and will never leave you nor forsake you, and that you have eternal life because you have believed in Jesus for it.

And while we would hope and expect that people who have eternal life will live lives of increasing holiness and obedience, the fact that God has given us freedom means that a life of good works is not guaranteed.

So while there are all sorts of things a Christian can lose by sinning, eternal life is not one of them.

While initially it might seem that Paul is referring to the initial act of faith in Jesus Christ by which people receive eternal life, the following verse shows that this is not at all what Paul is referring to.

Yet, while we were yet sinners God provided a way for us to have eternal life with Him.

While God can (and does) forgive everyone, not everyone believes in Jesus for eternal life.

While we can agree with the Calvinist that Jesus» words are blunt and forceful about the choice that He made, we must disagree with the Calvinist that the choice Jesus is talking about is in regards to who receives eternal life.

Some Calvinists (though not all) hold to reprobation — which is the belief that God not only decided whom He would choose for eternal life, but also chose whom He would send to eternal damnation — while others flatly deny it.

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.

Whichever approach you choose, it is important to note that while Scripture does teach about getting blotted out of the Book of Life, this does not ever refer to losing eternal lLife, this does not ever refer to losing eternal lifelife.

If you disagree, just remember that there were many disciples of Jesus in the Gospels who did not believe in Jesus for eternal life, many of whom followed for a while, but then turned back.

While he hung there, he constantly proclaimed the Gospel to those who passed by, pleading with them to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

While it is appealing to say that eternal life is by grace alone and nothing else, the cry of the Reformation and the center of the Gospel message in the Bible is that eternal life is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone.

While the details of our eternal life with our glorified body, with each other, and with God are necessarily sketchy at best, it is clear that some thought has been given to Bernard Williams» concern for boredom.

While some might disagree with the view that «boyhood» is not old enough as an ideal for our body, few are likely to dispute another feature of eternal life, that of «freedom from noxious passions, internal and external.»

While good works play absolutely no part in getting, keeping, or proving our eternal life, good works nevertheless can «save» us.

While the resurrection of Jesus is about God making eternal life available to those who believe in Him for it, this is only a tiny scratch in the surface of what the resurrection is really about.

He argued that while each human being has a very tiny life span, or finite appearance in the whole of space - time of the universe, humanity is also an eternal intelligible essence.