Sentences with phrase «have eternal life as»

So, before they take off and possibly never see me again, I want to make sure that if they walk away with anything, that it's not me trying to start a friendship, nor trying to explain the sin problem, but instead making clear to them how they can have eternal life as a free gift by just believing in Him for it.

Therefore one has eternal life as long as one continues to believe — not just from a past moment of belief as would have been otherwise indicated from the aorist or past tense.

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That would be your fault not Gods as you have been given the gift of life eternal.

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!

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.

He goes on to say that just as sin came into the world through Adam, so has eternal life come into the world through Christ.

If eternal life is the main reason you've accepted Christ into your life, then, as so many others have, you have missed the point of Christianity.

I am sick of hearing bible - spouting zealots as Nicholas would say, asking Jesus for eternal live and forgiveness.

I have bad news for you then, we do live as eternal spirits, the reason for our life and our destiny can be found in Spiritism.

But that shouldn't frighten us as Christians, because Jesus has promised that He will give eternal life to all those who put their faith in Him (John 10:28).

@STLBroker: As opposed to the theists who think they know the entire universe was created just so they would have somewhere to stand while an all powerful being gazes lovingly at them then grants them eternal life?

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.

These verses, though quite popular as texts about how to receive eternal life by grace alone through faith alone, are actually about what God has done to rescue us from the condition described in Ephesians 2:1 - 3, so that we can become what is described in Ephesians 2:11 - 22.

If we have the Bible, but not Christ, we will surely miss the point because eternal life does not spring from Scripture (Jn 5:39 - 40), instead, the Life Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it shouldlife does not spring from Scripture (Jn 5:39 - 40), instead, the Life Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it shouldLife Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it should be.

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.

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

And just as there are certainties we have learned from nature, such as the laws of science, gravity, and thermodynamics, there are also certainties we can learn from Scripture, such as the holiness of God, our own sinfulness, and our need to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

As part of the package, he has made eternal life available through faith.

Due to the fact that it is understood to be referring to eternal life and going to heaven when we die, numerous texts are misinterpreted and misapplied so that what should be understood as a passage that encourages and instructs us on how to live our lives so that we can experience God's life now becomes a passage on how to live our lives so that we can prove that we will have eternal life in the future.

Lots of people have «lived as a Christian» for years, but never actually believed in Jesus for eternal life.

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As seen above, Calvinists sometimes argue that faith would be meritorious if people could believe in Jesus for eternal life, and therefore, faith is a work.

having said that can one sin as much as she / he wants without loosing Eternal live?

While I believe in eternal security, I still get the question, «What about someone who grew up a Christian, lived as a Christian for years, then quit, denounced Christ, and hasn't followed him since?»

Just as believing that the earth orbits around the sun does not give me eternal life, so also, none of the beliefs I have just stated in the previous paragraph will give me eternal life by believing them.

Others have noticed this same thing, and we receive daily e-mails and phone calls from people saying they are prayerfully supporting Bob Wilkin, myself, and the ministry of Grace Evangelical Society as we continue to present the offer of eternal life to all who believe in Jesus for it.

The word «perish» (Greek apollumi) means «to die» or «to be destroyed», as in my favourite verse, John 3:16: they «shall not perish but have eternal life».

John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed, had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure eternal life through works, and thus Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.

John is not saying that if we do not walk as Jesus did then this means we do not actually have eternal life.

As Jesus told the Scribes and Pharisees, «You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.

If you have not yet trusted in Christ as Savior then receive Him, be willing to follow Him as He leads you, and ask God's forgiveness through faith in Christ and you will have eternal life.

I think that as people respond to the revelation they have received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospehave received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the GospeHave Never Heard the Gospel?).

I know I have eternal life through faith in Christ Jesus as my Savior.

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.

As you have said, in the Old Testament days «by faith we have eternal live.»

5.5) which exactly parallel a common Jewish usage, except that there the synonyms «age to come» or «eternal life» would be used rather than Kingdom of God, as, for example, in the question in Mark 10.14 or the promise in Matt.

Just as habit and tradition have formed our soterian Gospel, so also, habit and tradition have caused us to speak of «salvation» when what we really mean is «eternal life.»

Consider further that the Book of Life, as it applies to unbelievers, is a record of those who have offered perfect obedience before God and are thus worthy of eternal life when they are judged by God on the basis of their works at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6 - 16, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:10 - 12, Revelations 20:11 - 15), none of whose names will actually be found in the Book of Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - Life, as it applies to unbelievers, is a record of those who have offered perfect obedience before God and are thus worthy of eternal life when they are judged by God on the basis of their works at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6 - 16, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:10 - 12, Revelations 20:11 - 15), none of whose names will actually be found in the Book of Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - life when they are judged by God on the basis of their works at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6 - 16, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:10 - 12, Revelations 20:11 - 15), none of whose names will actually be found in the Book of Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - 22).

If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything has remained the same that is really necessary for life as well as for death: the crucified and risen Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.

I remember being terrified as a child that I had committed some unknown sin which would separate me eternally from God, and so several times a day, I would ask God to forgive me of all known and unknown sins, and would once again ask God to save me and give me eternal life.

If it has no bearing on how people receive eternal life, why would John bother to write it as a way to tell people how to receive eternal life (John 20:30 - 31)?

In the end, Paul's message in the first half of his letter to the Romans points to one single truth: Because God has done everything necessary as far as our eternal life is concerned, there is absolutely nothing we (or anyone or anything else) can do to lose our eternal life once we have it.

The debate has raged over whether or not the gospel requires works as a way to earn, keep, or prove one's eternal life.

They believe in a Church which has the courage, not only to proclaim an eternal life as God's gift and the hope of men, but also to declare that, and how, man has to shape this world of his and its conditions according to the will of God.

It's a wonderful clever way to never have to prove anything, «just die and you'll see»... but make sure you give plenty of your gold to the Priests... for they inform God upon your death that you have paid your monetary dues on earth as a Christian and then ~ * boom * ~ eternal life.

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).

Is it possible that the reason that the Corinthians were so concerned about baptism is that they had been taught by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that salvation and the promise of the resurrection of the dead and eternal life are received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000 years??

Death has no longer any power over us as we who believe have received the gift of eternal life.