(but even if it didn't that should be obvious) Therefore Gods groundwork for the spectacular future that God has in store for us is built upon love and the way to create that love is for God to forgive us and
grant us eternal life which is made available to us by the grace of Jesus Christ and the death he took for us all on the cross.
Not exact matches
When understood this way, it becomes clear that 1 John 5:1 is not referring at all to the initial faith
which grants a person
eternal life, but rather to the ongoing faith
which is necessary for sanctification and godliness.
Much of what the west has long taken for
granted is now disappearing: the security provided by Christendom; the Christian way of interpreting reality; the confidence that the Christian path leads to
eternal salvation; and the belief that Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths by
which to
live.
(B) Even if the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth could show that God could
grant eternal life —
which it doesn't — it still gives us no indication that God has any intention of
granting this to any of the rest of us.