Now, realistically, the chances of somebody actually believing in Jesus
for eternal life without knowing anything else about Jesus or the Gospel are very small.
I suppose it is possible to believe in Jesus
for eternal life without recognizing that you are a sinner, but I don't think it's very likely.
Yet millions of children have believed in Jesus
for eternal life without knowing much about the identity of Jesus.
I agree that many have believed in Jesus
for eternal life without being able to properly explain it or use the «right» words.
So in this sense, it is unlikely that anyone will believe in Jesus
for eternal life without believing that Jesus is God, but once again, there is a difference between something being likely and something being required.
Of course, who would believe in Jesus
for eternal life without understanding that Jesus is God?
Can we come to believe in Him
for eternal life without understanding his deity?
So believing in Jesus Christ
for eternal life WITHOUT walking in love, making a difference, helping others, etc, is meaningless, unless of coarse you are on your death bed or are physically unable to «labor».
Not exact matches
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.
Regardless of some pagan uses in the past, Easter today is the day to remember and be thankful
for a God who sent is only begotten son, who was
without transgression, to die
for our sins and then be raised from the dead that all who believe in Him may have
eternal life.
To have grain and have it «more abundantly» decalres rather outrightly that there are many «grain» therefore
for Christ to say that we «might have [it] more abundantly» declares
without much doubt that we become
eternal in the
Life / death
Life / death struggles throughout eternity.
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!
For if those with faith come up short we have lost nothing for we were happy in hoping for eternal life, but if those without faith come up short then they have to face the reality that they rejected God and they missed out on the greatest opportunity, plus they probably were never truly happy in this li
For if those with faith come up short we have lost nothing
for we were happy in hoping for eternal life, but if those without faith come up short then they have to face the reality that they rejected God and they missed out on the greatest opportunity, plus they probably were never truly happy in this li
for we were happy in hoping
for eternal life, but if those without faith come up short then they have to face the reality that they rejected God and they missed out on the greatest opportunity, plus they probably were never truly happy in this li
for eternal life, but if those
without faith come up short then they have to face the reality that they rejected God and they missed out on the greatest opportunity, plus they probably were never truly happy in this
life.
What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid
eternal punishment
for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation
for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)--
Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this
life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already,
without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.
Some believe that the unforgivable sin is when you
live your whole
life without believing in Jesus
for eternal life.
All who are born again have freely responded to God's drawing and have trusted in Christ and Him alone
for eternal life (See Bob Wilkin, «The Lord Opened Her Heart»; «What About Those Who Die
Without Hearing the Message of Christ?»)
How could this ethos remain alive unless men still believed, even
without admitting it, that they are children of God destined
for eternal life?
He knows that the pasture every human being,
without exception, craves
for and seeks is
eternal life and this is where He wishes to lead us.
Calvinists focus on the statements in these verses that a «branch can not bear fruit of itself» and that
without Jesus «you can do nothing» and claim that these statement prove that people can not do anything on their own, including believe in Jesus
for eternal life.
Yes i know two counsellors i told one of them about this and i want to know why Jesus Christ
without any mercy sends that person to hell forever to suffer and never ever forgives them even though they didn't commit any thing like murder and that also forever you can forgive that person went in minutes of that sin with in a snap of a finger then only why that sin why not give him another
life in Earth after forgiving and punishing him
for the rest of his sin it is said that god and Jesus Is very merciful then why he is giving such a
life sentence that is much more worse than
eternal nothingness and why doesn't he punish Satun with
eternal nothingness because i think most of the sins in Earth are committed because of him only?
Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are
without a shepherd,
without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness)
for which one must pray
for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King,
living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's
eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth
for the devil or
for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41
You could tell someone to believe in Jesus
for everlasting
life without ever mentioning sin, spiritual death, a substitutionary atonement since these are just fluff or evidences yet they might be a stumbling block so if you just harp on
eternal life isn't that neglecting the death and resurrection.
Gil if we only received one blessing in this
life and that was
eternal life in Jesus Christ that alone would be enough but we are blessed way more than that because we have been sent his holy spirit to help us overcome our old nature.He never leaves us nor forsakes us whether good or bad happens he strengthens us in our weakness.It says in the bible that the rain falls on both the righteous or the wicked God is fair to all whether they deserve it or not he can not be anything else than a holy righteous loving and fair God.I do nt need to convince you to believe about God he will reveal himself to you if you are seeking the truth as he is the truth.I do nt try and make others believe its pointless.I know
without a doubt that i am saved and my sins are forgiven.As a christian it will a joy to be with the Lord there is no fear in death
for those that love him.In the meantime i serve him with all my heart until he calls me home.I love talking about the Lord but each of us must walk according to what we believe.I trust my
life to Jesus Christ and i choose to follow him who do you follow?
Those who received Him will be saved, those who didn't will be on their own,
without covering
for their sins, destined
for eternal separation from God who gave them
life.
The whole world is being exposed to God's message of
eternal life, there
for the asking,
without measuring up or meeting some kind of impossible criterion (Grace is unmerited favor with God), just as you are.
«
For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the UNCLEAN, sanctifies for the PURIFYING of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, CLEANSE your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?&raq
For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the UNCLEAN, sanctifies
for the PURIFYING of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, CLEANSE your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?&raq
for the PURIFYING of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered Himself
without spot to God, CLEANSE your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God?»
In light of the denial of «the gospel» as a technical term
for this message by GES advocates and the insistance that «Jesus guarantees
eternal life to whoever believes in Him» by itself, without any substantiating truth such as His crosswork or Deity, constitutes the message by which sinners are saved, for consistency, Hodge's book should be retitled to «The Promise of Eternal Life Under Siege&
eternal life to whoever believes in Him» by itself, without any substantiating truth such as His crosswork or Deity, constitutes the message by which sinners are saved, for consistency, Hodge's book should be retitled to «The Promise of Eternal Life Under Siege&raq
life to whoever believes in Him» by itself,
without any substantiating truth such as His crosswork or Deity, constitutes the message by which sinners are saved,
for consistency, Hodge's book should be retitled to «The Promise of
Eternal Life Under Siege&
Eternal Life Under Siege&raq
Life Under Siege».
Can a person believe all of this stuff, all these fourteen points,
without believing in Jesus
for eternal life?
That I, with body and soul, both in
life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ; who with His precious blood has fully satisfied
for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that
without the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head; yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation, wherefore by His Holy Spirit He also assures me of
eternal life, and makes me heartily willing and ready, henceforth, to
live unto Him.
... a valid service is performed in satisfying the
eternal human appetite
for gloom and doom (and no virgins were sacrificed), distracting people from the reality of
life, which is that we all are doomed, while the universe, the earth and all that environmentalists hold dear will go remorselessly on and on
without us.