«Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring
us the gifts of eternal salvation....
I would still DESERVE hell no matter how many jumping jacks I did — that is just what I was asked to do to ACCEPT
the gift of eternal salvation.
Not exact matches
Those who are without Christ, facing an eternity in Hell and she has an opportunity to witness to them and tell them
of the most wonderful
gift of Gods
salvation that can change thier
eternal course and she choses to talk to them about something that she thinks makes them feel good.
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.
Repeatedly throughout the book, McKnight refers to the
gift of eternal life as «
salvation» or «being saved» (e.g., pp. 34, 40).
Man was quite rightly given little encouragement to think that his
eternal salvation could be won by his own unaided efforts, for it was the
gift of divine grace.
The way
of the master is an evangilism method in which an individual takes a few questions and asks them to another individual who is trying to get a realistic understanding
of who God is and how Jesus Christ offers us the
gift of salvation and
eternal life.
1) that
eternal life given on the basis
of faith alone, in Christ alone, apart from works; 2) that
eternal security is part
of the
gift of eternal life; 3) that assurance
of salvation is through faith in Christ's promise
of eternal life, and not by looking at one's own works 4) Christians can apostatize in this life, and are still eternally secure 5)
eternal rewards are earned by faithful works, and lost by unfaithfulness 6) unlimited atonement 7) free - will to respond to God's drawing or not
I am in need
of salvation because according to the Bible, the wage
of sin is death, but the
gift of God is
eternal life.
2nd: It is the easiest thing in the world (
salvation - not easy to believe, but once believed the easiest thing because its all a
gift)- now the Christian life
of dsicipleship is not easy - but that isn't the equivalent
of eternal life.