Sentences with phrase «have eternal life so»

The truth, however, is that while the gospel does tell us how to have eternal life so that we can go to heaven when we die (I call this «The Target Truth» in The Gospel According to Scripture), this truth is relatively small compared to the large number and wide variety of gospel truths contained within the Scriptures.

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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.

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!

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.»

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.

You might want to start there, since no other god was brutually beaten and crucified on your behalf, so that you may have eternal life.

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.

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.

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, 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.»

@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?

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.

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.»

I do believe in eternal security, so I would say that although we are citizens of the Kingdom of God through faith in Jesus, we can still live according to some of the rules (and consequences) of the Kingdom of Darkness.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

First, the person may stop resisting, and submit to what the Holy Spirit is saying, and so, having understood that they are a sinner and in need of salvation because judgment is coming, they will believe in Jesus Christ for eternal life.

And so how thankful we can be that He never, not once in all of Scripture, tells us that in order to receive eternal life, we have to promise Him certain things or a certain level of obedience.

So our heavenly Father would very much like for us to be saved and, therefore, has ordained for us, not eternal fire but heaven and eternal life.

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.

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 are sinners and can never work ourselves into the perfect righteousness that God requires, and so God sent Jesus to live and die and rise again, so that whoever believes in Him might have eternal life (John 3:16; 5; 24; 6:47; Rom 4:4 - 5; Eph 2:8 - 9, etc..)

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.

So often, it seems that such is the presentation of the Good News — if you will conform outwardly to this shape, this liturgy, this behavior... then... you will have eternal life.

Instead, John is concerned that these genuine believers to whom he is writing — who already have been regenerated, who already have eternal life, and who are already born of God — will abide and remain in that position of being born of God, so that their righteousness, fellowship, and faith will grow and increase daily.

So, right here, in Scripture, we have examples of people who did not believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, but who did have eternal life because they believed in Jesus for it.

Especially you have loved us so much that you sent your beloved son to us, so that all who believe in him may not be lost, 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.

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).

Others teach a form of Christian reincarnation so that before a person's eternal life is finally determined, they get to live a life in which they have the opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel.

All people have the ability to respond to the light of revelation that they have received, and if people respond, God has obligated Himself to make sure that they receive more light so that they too may believe in Jesus for eternal life.

So could we not apply that same logic to 1 John 3:15 and say that someone who hates their brother / sister does not have eternal life?

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.

In other words, when you hate others, it is not the eternal life you have from God that is leading you to do so, but is instead because you are following the principle of death which comes from this world.

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 write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.»

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.

Praise be to Jesus who suffered so much that we may have eternal life and have it abundantly.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

Personally, I'd prefer there be an Option C that states: «Religion itself has no saving power, so no religion (including my own) leads to eternal life.»

So while the Book of the Living seems to refer to everyone who is alive at the time, the Book of Life refers to everyone who has eternal life (Dan 12:1; Php 4:3; Rev 21:Life refers to everyone who has eternal life (Dan 12:1; Php 4:3; Rev 21:life (Dan 12:1; Php 4:3; Rev 21:27).

John 5:39 — 40, NET: «You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me, but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.»

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??