They had enough information to know that the Christ would come and
give them eternal life when they believed in Him.
Not exact matches
when the man and woman left their creator they
gave up the health and
eternal life he offered and were put out of paradise.
Jeremy in theory
eternal life i believe can not be discarded once
given there are two choices to enter into Gods kingdom or to reject God and be thrown into the lake of fire.The same consequences are in effect now
when we choose God we choose
life when we choose sin we suffer the consequences of death to our body soul and spirit.But the choice is always ours.brentnz
But
when we believe in Jesus for
eternal life, we get a new name, a name that the world would not
give us, a name that tells everybody we are going to be different.
The point is this: Stop thinking that
when you share the Four Spiritual Laws, or the Romans Road, or the plan of salvation, or
given an altar call, or invite someone to believe in Jesus for
eternal life, or any of the other myriad of things that Christians today call «sharing the gospel,» stop thinking that you have actually shared the Gospel.
The bottom line is that the holiness we need comes not from our own works, but from Jesus Christ Himself, who
gives it to us freely
when we believe in Him for
eternal life.
Since all of our sins were yet future to God
when Jesus died on the cross, He is not surprised by any sin we commit, nor does He ever regret
giving us
eternal life and therefore take it back.
Finally, because of all this, the Christian proclamation has as its end - product the bringing to the hearers an awareness of the reality of newness of
life — what in the Fourth Gospel is called «
eternal life» and «abundant
life», what St. Paul is getting at
when he speaks of «
life in Christ» as possessing a particular and specific quality of
giving - and - receiving in love, in divine Love which is then reflected and enacted in human loving, with its association with justice and righteousness and deliverance from loveless existence.
The connection of Christ's resurrection with our hope of
eternal life is understood
when we see that it is Jesus, the man who
gave his
life trusting the divine love, whom we know as the risen and present Christ.
So why do so many people not believe that He is telling the truth
when He says He
gives eternal life to anyone who believes in Him for it?
Yes,
when people in the church remind you that Christ loves to raise people from the dead and
give them
eternal life with Himself... it's just awful.
When a rich, young ruler comes to Jesus to ask how to inherit
eternal life, Jesus tells him that he must sell all he has and
give the money to the poor (Luke 18:18 - 23).
Then we are told that
when we believe in Jesus for
eternal life, He
give us His righteousness.
He says that
when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ, although we will have the wonderful gift of
eternal life, the issue that day will be what you did in this
life with the gifts and talents and abilities God
gave you.
Now since
when is that a belief that has ever
given anybody
eternal life?
And the very best news that anyone will ever hear is that we have
eternal when we believe Jesus for justification and
eternal life: «For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
«Who will need an
eternal life -
giving God
when eternal life is available by alternative and real means?»
Instead of you being concerned about the welfare of these
eternal souls as to wondering whether or not they will get the chance for salvation, you get hung up on that somehow because not everyone will get that chance in their mortal
lives that somehow that means that God is biased; that in my beliefs as to how God
gives out those opprotunities that it doesn't meet to your specifications, then that automatically means that God is biased,
when in my beliefs the point is that no matter how you slice it everybody whehter in this
life or afterwards will get a chance at learning about the gospel and make their own choices as to whether to follow the gospel or not.
Therefore, to talk about faith in Jesus Christ for
eternal life is to say that we believe that Jesus is speaking the truth
when He says that He
gives eternal life to those who believe in Him for it (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47; etc.).
Grace is only cheapened
when we try to add human effort such as requiring people to have a changed heart,
life, lifestyle, mind and character in order to assure them that God loves and forgives them and freely
gives them
eternal life.
When you believe God's Word, specifically when you believe what it says about Jesus, that God gives eternal life to everyone who believes in Jesus for it, like Abram, you are declared righteousness by
When you believe God's Word, specifically
when you believe what it says about Jesus, that God gives eternal life to everyone who believes in Jesus for it, like Abram, you are declared righteousness by
when you believe what it says about Jesus, that God
gives eternal life to everyone who believes in Jesus for it, like Abram, you are declared righteousness by God.
I just want to express to the world (at least those who read this) that Jesus will
give anyone
eternal life when they believe His promise of John 3:16.
You on the other hand
gave your
eternal life ticket back
when you decided to go contrary to God.
«It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably
giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics [of cosmology]... If [non-Christians] find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of
eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven,
when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?