Instead, he gives us the ultimate
gift of eternal life as His children — a gift we could never earn.
Repeatedly throughout the book, McKnight refers to
the gift of eternal life as «salvation» or «being saved» (e.g., pp. 34, 40).
Not exact matches
That would be your fault not Gods
as you have been given the
gift of life eternal.
That being a spiritual death or being outcasted from God whereas overcoming that spiritual death and returning to God is the
gift of «
eternal life»
as opposed to immortality.
Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there
eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right
as eternal life is a free
gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ to
eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to
eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the
eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation
of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent
To the best
of my understanding, the deposit
of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation
of all and offers the real possibility
of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized
as the
gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment
of life, one goes to hell, which is
eternal; but the deposit
of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.
The crux
of the matter reduces down from halls
of rationalism to be the person
of Christ by means
of his Holy Spirit speaking through the heart and mouth
of the believing saint, revealing himself
as The
Gift of eternal life.
They believe in a Church which has the courage, not only to proclaim an
eternal life as God's
gift and the hope
of men, but also to declare that, and how, man has to shape this world
of his and its conditions according to the will
of God.
Death has no longer any power over us
as we who believe have received the
gift of eternal life.
He offers us the
gift of eternal life —
of living forever with Him in heaven if we accept Him
as our Lord and Savior.
Third, although the Bible calls people to believe in Jesus for
eternal life, Lopez points out that if faith is a
gift that comes
as a result
of regeneration, then people should not be called to believe in Jesus (for they can not), but should instead be called to hope and pray to God that He might regenerate them.
As you know,
eternal life is a free
gift of God to anyone and everyone who simply believes in Jesus for it (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47).
However, in the first case
of the unreturned
gift, one could say that there always remains a hope for a reciprocal gesture,
as there is in an eschatological reserve: there will always be self - sacrificing in this
life, but in hope
of the
eternal banquet.
The Christian
lives in the hope and in the vista
of eternal life as the
gift of God.
The great riches we have in Jesus not only includes the infinitely valuable free
gift of eternal life, but also includes the resources to break free from patterns
of sin and to
live in our
lives as God wants, calls, and desires us to
live.
As such, there are fantastic chapters on the
gift of eternal life, the truth that faith is not a work, the perseverance
of the saints, and election.
If the ultimate
gift of God is charity,
as stated in the Bible, and those who gain this
gift will gain
eternal life, it is hard to see how anyone could rationalize that it is possible to mix these two philosphies and still gain
eternal life.
We have heard these put forward, in Jesus» own name,
as that which we must do if we truly would receive the
gift of eternal life.
I have been a proponent
of the radical free grace
of God for about fifteen years now, by which we get
eternal life as a completely free
gift of God, with no strings attached, and no works required on our part to gain, keep, or prove that we have
eternal life.
«He that believeth hath
eternal life»; (John 6:47) «He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath
eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out
of death into
life»; (John 5:24) «This is
life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ» (John 17:3)-- this conception
of immortal
life as a present
gift, inhering in the quality
of spirit that Christ bestows, is characteristic
of the Fourth Gospel.
The Gospel is the amazing news that by faith alone we are made unconditionally and irrevocably eternally secure.There are no buts or what ifs only a constant absolute our Lord Jesus.He is God and He guaranteed
Eternal Life as a free
gift if we believe Him for it.What a Gospel
of amazing news!.
And that's the difference between you and me, because I know it, and so I turn my
life and will over to the unseen,
eternal God
as I know him - and because I do, He gives me the greatest
gift of all - peace
of heart, peace
of mind, and peace
of soul.
If you are trying to understand what the Bible says about the free
gift of eternal life, this Study Bible might help you with that
as well.
Martin it is not by works that we are saved but by grace that none should boast.Works do not get us us closer to God but good works come from a heart that loves God and desires to please him.John 3:16 is clear if we believe in Jesus Christ we shall have
eternal life it is based not on what we do or have done but by the grace
of God that has been poured out upon us because
of Jesus Christ.God always gives us assurances or promises the condition to receive
eternal life is to believe in Jesus Christ
as the one who has saved from our sin.Personally i believe that the continued walk will determine our reward from the Lord again its not based on our effort but a trust or faith in God.This does not effect the
gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.