Sentences with phrase «individuals for eternal life»

Though Genesis 12:1 - 3 does not contain the words «elect» or «chosen,» this passage is often cited as a defense of God's Unconditional Election of some individuals for eternal life.

But John 5.28 - 29 suggests that in some way works are effecting the salvation of the individual for eternal life and from eternal death.

Not exact matches

There are many things that affect eternal life for an individual.

Just as Israel, as God's elect nation, was elected to serve God in a specific task, but this does not mean that every individual Israelite was regenerate, so also, election elsewhere in Scripture has nothing to do with whether or not someone has eternal life, but has everything to do with what role God wants them to serve in His plans and purposes for the world.

«14 He adds,»... we must break once for all with the idea of death as simple destruction of an individual... individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration of a book he says, «Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the book.

History is not merely a platform on which individuals are prepared for inward blessings or for eternal life.

Whether this future is conceived as eternal life for the individual, or a new heaven and a new earth for mankind, or as the conquest of evil in or beyond human history, the trajectory is toward the future, the eschaton.

God chooses certain individuals for a task, not for eternal life.

It appears also as a nationalism in which man is taught to live and die for his own race or country as the ultimate worthful reality, and which requires the promotion of national power and glory at the expense of other nations as well as of the individuals with their own direct relation to the eternal.

But never to eternal life or eternal death; He chooses groups or individuals for certain tasks.

To be sure, in his eternal wisdom, God elected those whom he chose for eternal life and banned the remainder to perdition, but the way he chose to make known his election was through his Word and Spirit, which created a relationship of covenant between himself and each of his elect; thus, the relation between God and the individual was grounded on covenant.

About Blog Eve Wilson bridges healing for individuals, soul groups and the planet, returning us to wholeness; with ascension work - helping all life to raise in vibration so our physical experience finds unity with our eternal spiritual essence.

About Blog Eve Wilson bridges healing for individuals, soul groups and the planet, returning us to wholeness; with ascension work - helping all life to raise in vibration so our physical experience finds unity with our eternal spiritual essence.