God says if we stay in him, we will reap good and
have eternal life with him, but not in this world, as he says this is NOT his world.
But those who got to know Jesus Christ and believed in his name will be saved because Jesus Christ been innocent paid with his life on the Cross for all your sins so that all who believe in Jesus Christ will not perish and
have eternal life with the Father in heaven.
Yet, while we were yet sinners God provided a way for us to
have eternal life with Him.
«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and
we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».
I pray he will be alright and — if he has not already — I pray will come to know Jesus Christ as His Savior who died for him on the Cross for the remission of his sins, and was resurrected so that he might
have an eternal life with God.
I go on the truth of his Word and the promise that I can
have eternal life with Him John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son (to suffer for me in my place for my sins) that whosoever believes on him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
The reason is that the sting of death was removed and all that want can
have eternal life with God in Christ.
Not exact matches
In so doing, he
has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He
has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and
living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He
has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may
live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He
has promised!
I
've read many posts by atheists asking those who believe in God and
eternal life, etc to stop consoling
with fairy tales, etc..
Glen Beck is a Christian if you believe that saved means that we get to
live in the afterlife
with a chance to
have eternal life in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are if we are worthy enough by doing good works to progress to be there and that God's grace comes after all we can do.
Christians believe that a mortal person
has an immortal soul, and that this immortal soul can be provided
with a resurrected, «sanctified» (which effectively means purified, unblemished, and apparently lacking genitalia) body... the term
Eternal Life tends to be used to describe the idea that a «True Believer» in Christ (a term open to many, many interpretations) will
have their immortal soul implanted in that resurrected body and they will get to
live for all time
with Christ, apparently singing a lot and doing very little else.
That means immortality is just overcoming physical death and
live forever, but
eternal life is where an immortal gets to
have a
life; a
life with God.
Death is pretty much the last frontier, which is why I think christianity
with it's promise of
eternal life has such a toehold in the western psyche.
A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could
have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter
life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels
eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless
lives, yet cursed his other children
with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and
has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally,
with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
But it is not nearly as confusing once we realize that to be «saved» in James 2
has nothing whatsoever to do
with gaining
eternal life and going to heaven when we die.
Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation
has nothing to do
with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.
Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt
have the power to
live a christian
life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i
had never received salvation because i
had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation
having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there
eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our
eternal life.brentnz
John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which
has nothing to do
with receiving
eternal life, and everything to do
with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.
Most of the time, this deliverance
has nothing to do
with gaining
eternal life or going to heaven when we die, but instead, refers to some sort of temporal deliverance from calamity.
For if those
with faith come up short we
have lost nothing for we were happy in hoping for
eternal life, but if those without faith come up short then they
have to face the reality that they rejected God and they missed out on the greatest opportunity, plus they probably were never truly happy in this
life.
My new view is that election
has little to do
with who gets
eternal life and who doesn't.
Victory over death
has been won for us by Christ on the cross: «In the context of Christian faith, the drama of evolution merges inseparably
with the (abysmal) death and (grounding) resurrection of Jesus and, in him,
with the
eternal drama that is the Trinitarian
life of God.»
What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid
eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)--
Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content
with this
life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I
have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship
with god (I
've never seen or heard from any gods nor
have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.
This «believing» (or faith)
has nothing whatsoever to do
with eternal life.
Craig, you
have not provided nearly enough evidence to cause me to let my guard down and count on the theory that no matter what I do or don't do I can expect to be rewarded by Jesus
with eternal life.
But if a person truly did believe in Jesus Christ alone for
eternal life, and later fell away, I believe they still
have eternal life, and God is actively working to restore such a person into fellowship
with Him and other believers.
To consider why this is so, let us go back to the very beginning, the institution of the Eucharist... Approximately two thousand years ago, Jesus
had a roller - coaster Holy Week ride, which ultimately saw Him, through God's power, famously defeat sin and death, thereby providing us
with the possibility of
eternal life.
You see, the relationship I
have with Jesus Christ I only
have because I believed in Jesus for
eternal life.
See 1 John 1:2 — «The
LIFE appeared; we
have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you THE
ETERNAL LIFE, which was
with the Father and
has appeared to us.»
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.»
So,
with the help of the spirit, and in light of a relationship we
have with a person, we share
with them whatever is necessary to help them believe in Jesus for
eternal life.
In fact it
would be a greater blessing from the Christian perspective because I
would then get to inherit
eternal life and be
with my Savior, whom I long to see.
So when I am talking
with someone, I will often take a little gospel of John, I prefer the ones called
Living Water since they
have little notes that remind me what verses are key, and what the verses mean, and in just a minute or two, can show a person from Scripture that to get
eternal life, all they
have to do is believe in Jesus for it.
He gave you the gift of
life and an
eternal soul - you
have a choice on this earth how to
live your
life and that will be how you will also spend eternity —
with God or without Him.
If you want the bottom line, if you boil the Gospel down to it's essential ingredient, if you want to simplify the Gospel message as much as possible, you end up
with the single statement — whoever believes in Jesus for
eternal life has it.
who
with the lordship position can ever know that they
have a personal relationship
with christ and can stand on his promises of the certainty of salvation and
eternal life.
On the other hand, there were other men who disagreed: Tertullian, who believed that the soul
would live on forever, that the wicked
would suffer misery in proportion to the righteous» reward; St. Augustine, who came up
with the doctrines of Original Sin and Predestination (some
would be saved, the rest
would be damned); and Jerome, who
would end up retranslating the Latin Bible into what
would become the Latin Vulgate and
would twist various scriptures that talked about eonian chastening into teaching
eternal torment.
The mounting opposition to the death penalty in Europe since the Enlightenment
has gone hand in hand
with a decline of faith in
eternal life.
But when we understand that the gospel contains both truths, about how to receive
eternal life and properly
live this
life, then we can stop arguing about the role of faith and works in the gospel and see that both
have their proper place
with proper results.
It's about a personal relationship
with Jesus, where Jesus reaches down to man and says you
have access to
eternal life by putting your trust in me.
Jesus said: «no one who
has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — along
with persecutions — and in the age to come
eternal life» (Mark 10:29 - 30).
It
has nothing to do
with eternal life or God's kingdom.
If you
have received this grace through repentance of sin, you
have an
eternal faith relationship
with The Lord Christ Jesus, He dwells in you, you die to self, and it is Christ that
lives in you, therefore your works are of Christ, and this is an ongoing, daily process.
you
would understand that the word «save»
has nothing to do
with eternal life.
Why threaten me
with eternal fire, when my God
has already promised me
eternal life... these silly sentiments and misguided stabs in the dark will only further serve to confuse the masses more.
I don't need the promise of
eternal life to make me treat others
with the dignity and respect I
would like to receive and I
have friends from all walks of
life.
Most of the time in the Bible, the word «save» (and saved)
have nothing to do
with eternal life.
I
have a third approach which says that Hebrews 6 and 10
have nothing whatsoever to do
with keeping
eternal life.
The ten people who already
have eternal life and who know the basics of the faith so they can read the Bible and learn to follow Jesus on their own, or the ten people who are standing
with one foot in hell, are wrapped in the chains of the devil, and are pleading and praying to God, if He is out there, to send help in their time of need?
We do nt know what it is, But there his rules, He made us
with a short
life span but a
eternal spirit, He
has plans for us in Heaven, But only those he can trust.
This
would then
have nothing to do
with whether or not the unregenerate person could understand the offer of
eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ, and believe in Him as a result.