Not exact matches
Here is my belief: Courtesy of Biblos.com (John 3:16 - 21) 16 «For God so
loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, f that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life.
Indeed, I tend to play melodies that regard show the hugeness of God, His open arms to all mankind, his
love without any conditions, the
giving of
eternal life to anyone that calls upon him, and his willingness to tolerate all forms of religion... even my own.
The New Testament verse is held up by Christians around the globe because it neatly summarizes some key points of Christianity: «For God so
loved the world that he
gave his one and only son, that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have
eternal life.»
Transformed into something that becomes praise of God for the joy of being alive, the joy of
love, the joy of being created male and female in his image and being
given, in our creation, this stunning and amazing invitation to
eternal ecstasy and union with God.»
Our
love is to
give the ancient world of «
eternal cycles of return» a fresh and real history of responsibility, of daring, of potential progress and of threatening degradation.
Finally, read the commentary of the Apostle John on the discussion between Jesus and Niccodemus, «For God so
loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should never perrish, but have
eternal life,» and then you will see and understand what God's
love looks like.
Yet, Heidegger is even less congenial to Christian theology than Kant, for in an important sense Christianity is anthropocentric: «God so
loved the world that He
gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have
eternal life.»
It takes more faith to believe in a universe evolving from nothing or from
eternal matter than to believe in a
loving Creator, existing outside the limit of time, who
gave us this specially designed & tuned universe to explore and to learn about caring for one another even through the midst of difficult experiences.
The Word of God: 16 For God so
loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life.
God
loves you and wants to
give you
eternal life.
For the unshakeable truth of all of history is that «God so
loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have
eternal life.»
God is
love, and He
gives the gift of
eternal life for free to anyone, atheist, murderer, rapist, et al., who asks for it with a repentant heart.
think about it... GOD SO
LOVED YOU THAT HE
GAVE HIS ONLY SON THAT IF YOU BELIEVE IN HIM (JESUS) YOU WILL HAVE
ETERNAL LIFE.
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
Catherine of Siena is especially eloquent on this point: «So it was
love that made you create us and
give us being, just so that we might taste your supreme
eternal good.
That said, I do believe that we can trust in God's promises (to forgive us,
love us, and
give us
eternal life with Himself).
The Servant of God Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to the priests of the world, starting with a passage from St. John: «For God so
loved the world that he
gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have
eternal life.»
We can not remove sin from this world but we can be moved by the
love God
gave us, in his only begotten Son, to share this
love, which is
eternal, forgiving, and powerful, so powerful that it can not be removed by, even, the taking of life — for no sooner do you take the life of such young ones away that, in the next moment, they are with Christ.
John 3:16 - «For God so
loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life.»
Compare the Johannine text: «God so
loved the world, that he
gave his only - begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
eternal life» (John 3:16).
16 «For God so
loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have
eternal life.
The good news, the Gospel, is that while God is holy and we are sinners, and sin deserves punishment, God, out of His great
love for us, sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ to die in our place for our sin so that anyone who wants
eternal life in heaven with God can simply believe in Jesus Christ for it and it will be
given to them.
In the previous chapter we noted one consequence in Augustine's view of sex in which he justifies sexual abstinence because the
giving up of temporal
love for
love of the
eternal is an act of prudence in view of the superiority of the
eternal.25
16For God so greatly
loved and dearly prized the world that He [even]
gave up His only begotten -LRB-[a] unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have
eternal (everlasting) life.
Salvation rests, as does the whole of creation, on the supreme and self consistent
love, the free self -
giving of the one in whom and for whom all things were made in obedience to the Father's
eternal will.
«Therefore the Church
gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous
love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his
eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»
Art. 7 of the Decree on the Missions says in so many words that God can
give in ways known to himself the grace of faith and thus the hope and
love necessary for
eternal life also to those whom the actual message of the gospel has not reached.
We are not sure what a place is that has no God (perhaps you could clue me in on what happens outside the umbrella of a
loving God one that would
give his own son that we might have life
eternal).
When Rob Bell released
Love Wins, a book that made a compelling biblical case against the exclusivist theology that all non-Christians will be condemned to
eternal conscious torment in hell, the Southern Baptist Convention released a resolution that stated: «Being troubled, even deeply troubled, by the implications of the biblical text does not
give us a reason to abandon the text or force it into a mold that rests comfortably with us.
In pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in
love, the shape of the
eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute
giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgotha.
True salvation and
eternal life is being a part of that lush vine that
gives the fruit of life and
love to the world.
The cross of Christ
gives us a pattern, a power, and a symbol of
eternal love.
The Bible says, «God so
loved the world that He
gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have
eternal life»
These images and actions are but visible, embodied signs of an invisible promise — «God so
loved the world that he
gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have
eternal life.»
Those who either
Love and / or Fear GOD or even the Gods; being GOD's Sons, they will be found out and
given their just treats and / or rewards in the abundancies of ever lasting multi-diversities of incarnations into the foreverness realms of
eternal inwardness.
And this
love is characterized, once again, as qualifying the nature of God's power: «Not that you, Divine Omnipotence and
Eternal Wisdom,
gave unwillingly, as though compelled by some sort of necessity, but rather that you freely bestowed your
love, out of the boundless flood of your
loving generosity, upon an unworthy and ungrateful creature.»
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 existe
love, in divine
Love which is then reflected and enacted in human loving, with its association with justice and righteousness and deliverance from loveless existe
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.
It is probably the core, most quintessential Christian belief, that is encapsulated in John 3:16, «For God so
loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life.»
Without the movement of God's unrestricted
love and self -
giving, without the Son's
eternal obedience to the Father, there is no history of Jesus.
The Pope goes on to enlarge upon this «foundational» truth: «This infinite and
eternal love enables us to respond by
giving all our
love in return:
love for God and
love for neighbour.
«For God so
loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life.
Because Tebow's reference is in The Gospel of John, not «The First Letter of John»: ««For God so
loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life.
«God so
loved the world, He
gave his only begotten son so whoever believes in Him will have
eternal life»
«God so
loved the world, He
gave his only begotten son so whoever believes in him shall have
eternal life».
One could add various Scriptures in reply to the Calvinist interpretations, e.g.: For God
loved the world in this way: He
gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have
eternal life.
For God so
loved the world that He
gave His only begotten son that ALL who believed in Him should not perish would have
eternal life.
16 For God
loved the world so much that he
gave his only Son [a] so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life.
lerxst, why don't you be honest and add,»... the one who later came to America and preached to the natives, the one who was born of the Heavenly Father and his wife, Heavenly Mother, the one who leads all towards
eternal progression of glory instead of a life in
love given once and for all.»
«God so
loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son and whoever believes in him shall have
eternal life».