Sentences with phrase «for eternal life as»

This not only gives them hope for their business and to overcome poverty, but a hope for eternal life as well.

Some theologians have seen this rich array of images for eternal life as cause for alarm.

Not exact matches

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!

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.

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!

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 breathtakiFor 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 breathtakifor God and you get eternal happiness — life isn't easy but the reward is breathtaking.

For the King of all the Gods created by GOD is the God Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior and Redeemer of godly men, whose rigtheousness in Word and / or in Deeds will bring to them an abundancy of living many lives within the mainframes of the eternal 1st Domain, that is called by us as being the Atomic Cosmos.

I am sick of hearing bible - spouting zealots as Nicholas would say, asking Jesus for eternal live and forgiveness.

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.

I have bad news for you then, we do live as eternal spirits, the reason for our life and our destiny can be found in Spiritism.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

He was basically saying that as long as a Christian got something out about sin, hell, and believing in Jesus for eternal life, their duty to warn others was fulfilled.

John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.

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!

And just as there are certainties we have learned from nature, such as the laws of science, gravity, and thermodynamics, there are also certainties we can learn from Scripture, such as the holiness of God, our own sinfulness, and our need to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

So you see Keith you are special created for a purpose in this stage of transit test life... as true life is the eternal life that which comes after death on resurrection and Judgment day... God Bless

Lots of people have «lived as a Christian» for years, but never actually believed in Jesus for eternal life.

First, as sinful, unregenerate human beings, people can do nothing good for God, nothing to earn or merit eternal life, and nothing which might put them in God's good graces.

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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.

As seen above, Calvinists sometimes argue that faith would be meritorious if people could believe in Jesus for eternal life, and therefore, faith is a work.

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?»

However Heb 5:9 is pretty clear cut as the words eternal and salvation are conflated in this verse which I think for all practical purposes equates to eternal life.

When you invite a person to believe in Jesus for eternal life, it is unlikely they will do so unless they know some other gospel truths as well.

Others have noticed this same thing, and we receive daily e-mails and phone calls from people saying they are prayerfully supporting Bob Wilkin, myself, and the ministry of Grace Evangelical Society as we continue to present the offer of eternal life to all who believe in Jesus for it.

John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed, had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure eternal life through works, and thus Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.

Being responsible to believe in Jesus for eternal life is not at all the same thing as working to gain, prove, or keep eternal life.

Even if he is a Christian, for example, he can set aside all the particular beliefs about Jesus Christ, God, miracles, salvation, and eternal life that he recognizes as peculiar to that tradition.

Here then is where we arrive at the point: Just as God calls people to respond to His Word with obedience and righteousness through the exercise of their choices (non-meritorious though they might be) and fully expects them to be able to do so, in the same way, God calls people to believe in Jesus for eternal life, and fully expects them to be able to do so (cf. John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47).

We become Christians, as I shared last week, by placing faith in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life.

As for Matthew 19:21 - 24, I don't think Jesus was talking about how to get to heaven or receive eternal life in that text.

If you want the bottom line, if you boil the Gospel down to it's essential ingredient, if you want to simplify the Gospel message as much as possible, you end up with the single statement — whoever believes in Jesus for eternal life has it.

5.5) which exactly parallel a common Jewish usage, except that there the synonyms «age to come» or «eternal life» would be used rather than Kingdom of God, as, for example, in the question in Mark 10.14 or the promise in Matt.

Where the Eternal does not come to heal such a sufferer, what happens, with the aid of cleverness, is about as follows: first, the sufferer lives for some years by an earthly hope; but when this is exhausted and the suffering still continues, then he becomes superstitious, his state of health alternates between drowsiness and burning excitement.

But as I stood where I last saw her alive, feeling again the grief, I remembered what Paul said about the afflictions we face in this life: «For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory» (2 Co. 4:1For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory» (2 Co. 4:1for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory» (2 Co. 4:17).

Thomas Aquinas held that sin calls for the deprivation of some good, such as, in serious cases, the good of temporal or even eternal life.

If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything has remained the same that is really necessary for life as well as for death: the crucified and risen Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.

This was no ordinary treasury, for it promised not only eternal life in the world to come but a handsome return in this world as well.

Though Genesis 12:1 - 3 does not contain the words «elect» or «chosen,» this passage is often cited as a defense of God's Unconditional Election of some individuals for eternal life.

It's a wonderful clever way to never have to prove anything, «just die and you'll see»... but make sure you give plenty of your gold to the Priests... for they inform God upon your death that you have paid your monetary dues on earth as a Christian and then ~ * boom * ~ eternal life.

I hope that when my earth - body dies and my eternal soul is uploaded into the heavens via God's Galactic Internet that my file folder is judged as appropriate for download into a mansion that is more heavenly than this one, but that does not change that life in this mansion is what it is.

Jesus said: «no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — along with persecutions — and in the age to come eternal life» (Mark 10:29 - 30).

People need to «realize» Christianity is a hoax to make money off them before you can start spewing J.K. Rowling's nonsense as fact... but if you promise eternal life AFTER death and charge people for it, you are guaranteed no one can you prove you wrong.

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!!!

Is it possible that the reason that the Corinthians were so concerned about baptism is that they had been taught by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that salvation and the promise of the resurrection of the dead and eternal life are received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000 years??

When you read in the Bible about proclaiming Jesus as Lord, following Jesus, taking up your cross, eternal reward, inheriting the Kingdom, life in the Spirit, faithful living, and on and on and on, the author who wrote that text was primarily thinking of how we should live as followers of Jesus so that we can experience the life God meant for us to live.

Perhaps we can never manage perfectly such a juggling act, but we need to try — to think of human beings both as bodies, for whom the relentless succession of hours and days leads surely to the grave, and as God - aimed spirits, whose every moment is lived in the presence of the Eternal.

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.

So, for example, if your hear a pastor saying, «You have to take up your cross daily and follow Jesus in order to go to heaven when you die,» you can look in the text he is preaching from (maybe Matthew 16:24 - 26 or Luke 9:23 - 26), and see that Jesus is talking about saving your life (which is NOT the same thing as receiving eternal life) by living in a profitable way here on earth (cf. Luke 9:24 - 25).