Sentences with phrase «just for eternal life»

John wants people to believe in Jesus not just for eternal life, but also for every other aspect of life as well.

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People believe in Jesus Christ for eternal life, the receive the seal of the Holy Spirit in their lives, but then we tell them they can just sit around and relax.

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.

God's grace will cover over that sin, and all other sins if you will just believe in Jesus for eternal life.»

Here then is where we arrive at the point: Just as God calls people to respond to His Word with obedience and righteousness through the exercise of their choices (non-meritorious though they might be) and fully expects them to be able to do so, in the same way, God calls people to believe in Jesus for eternal life, and fully expects them to be able to do so (cf. John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47).

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.

You can't see the book (it's just a symbol anyway), but you can know you have eternal life because you believe the promises of Jesus that He gives eternal life to those who believe in Him for it!

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.

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??

Those lessons don't apply in the eternal second life that is supposedly waiting for us and so we're supposed to strive not to be «good» but just «good enough»

By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated, or foreordained to eternal life through Jesus Christ, to the praise of his glorious grace; others being left to act in their sin to their just condemnation, to the praise of his glorious justice.

Not by presenting us with more evidence, but by appeals to our emotions and / or our fears: Either by using, «Our almighty, all - knowing god will protect you and give you eternal life (security and hope)», or, «Our righteous, just, and holy god will torture you for all eternity if you DO N'T make the jump (using blind faith).»

Instead, just thank Jesus for the eternal life He has given you as a free gift.

But when it comes back, just try to remember what you KNOW to be true from Scripture, that Jesus loves you, forgives you, died for you, and will never let you go because you have eternal life through Him.

Just because God draws, calls, woos, or invites all people to believe in Jesus for eternal life, this does not mean that God universally and irresistibly regenerates all people.

You first do not see the inherint evil in eternal suffering for a minor transgression (namely disbelief), add on top of that your willing acceptance for a life sentence in prison for jaywalking (with the analogy given), well lets just say I was blown away.

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.

When Jesus wants to tell unbelievers to believe in Him for eternal life, He just flat out tells them.

When they believe in Jesus for eternal life, and discover that He forgives them for all of their sins for free, they love to tell their friends about it — just as we see Levi doing here.

If you disagree, just remember that there were many disciples of Jesus in the Gospels who did not believe in Jesus for eternal life, many of whom followed for a while, but then turned back.

I believe that Jesus was teaching an interpretation of the Mosaic law which would make it easier for Jews to keep, and which would open the door of the kingdom to all people, not just to Jews, and that ultimately, eternal life is not about keeping the law anyway, but is all about grace, from first to last.

This was just the kind of religious life portrayed in the New Testament, not only as a model and pattern, but as a challenge and inspiration The New Testament was thus the abiding source of power which enabled man to realize the true life of religion, and Christ was the eternal symbol for the cultus of the Christian Church.

The gospel is good news for all aspects of life, not just good news about how to receive eternal life.

You do nt know, just as we do nt, But I pray for you, because if judgment day comes the rule is this» Deny me in front of your peers, I will deny you in front of my Father - Jesus» So that wonderful eternal life that us believers will be enjoying, you want see, or even be given the chance, you'll be burning in the Depths of bedlam.

Just as every person who believes in Jesus for eternal life is transferred from the living under the power of darkness and brought into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (Col 1:13), so also we who have been so delivered are to take the Kingdom of Heaven with us into the dark and hellish places on earth, so that those who are entrapped and enslaved can also be rescued and delivered.

about the eternal life in God; nor does anything point to moral improvement and perfection as an indispensable condition for the achievement of this goal... It is only just to say that every man has an inherent right to favorable conditions for him to enjoy all - round development in his striving for a full - blooded life... However one can not agree with the opinion that where there are no conditions of life worthy of man one can not even speak of salvation today.

And this comes, not just by believing in Jesus for eternal life — which is emphasized all over in the Gospel of John — but also by believing that Jesus is the Christ, that is, that He is King, Ruler, Master, Lord, and Savior.

While he emphasizes over and over how a person can believe in Jesus for eternal life, John also knows that God wants much more for us than to just believe in Jesus.

«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».

John wants Christians to have all of the life that Jesus has for us, not just eternal life, but also the full experience of eternal life in Jesus Christ.

You could tell someone to believe in Jesus for everlasting life without ever mentioning sin, spiritual death, a substitutionary atonement since these are just fluff or evidences yet they might be a stumbling block so if you just harp on eternal life isn't that neglecting the death and resurrection.

Jeremy thanks for clarifying that eternal life is just in believing in Jesus Christ nice and simple once we believe in him we are saved.brentnz

Not just our need to receive eternal life through faith in Jesus, but recognize our daily need for fellowship with Him and to follow Him wherever He leads.

Yes, this vision of Eternal Recurrence is an acceptance of death as living in the Now, and it is just for this reason that it is opposed to all primordial forms of a coincidentia oppositorum.

then just the eternal life or forgiveness of sins My apologys for the confusion did nt explain myself well.

Just simply Believe in someone named Jesus for eternal life and you are saved.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

The whole world is being exposed to God's message of eternal life, there for the asking, without measuring up or meeting some kind of impossible criterion (Grace is unmerited favor with God), just as you are.

Later (vs 21) after reminding us that Jesus warned us that the church of the last days would be full of mockers, sensual and separating themselves from the rest of us (as McArthur just did, and we do in response) he says» BUT YOU, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Just remember to reiterate time and time again that eternal life is the free gift of God to anyone who believes in Jesus for it.

Just believe for eternal life and you have it not matter what else you may or may not believe.

If you will just believe in Jesus for eternal life, you can go to heaven and be with God forever when you die.

So when we just tell someone, «Believe in Jesus for eternal life» the chances are pretty good that they are not going to believe that.

I'm just saying that SOME may not understand all the implications of the cross work of Christ and His resurrection at the MOMENT they believe in Him for eternal life.

Article 19 bears quoting in full: Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven (see Acts 1:1).

Once a person believes in Jesus for eternal life, they begin their relationship with God just like any baby begins its relationship with its mother: in perfect harmony and peace.

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.

I think you just can't fathom that someone can «just» believe in Jesus for eternal life and have it BECAUSE you think they may be believing in the «WRONG» Jesus.

I owe you my eternal gratitude; I just can't tell you how much this book has changed my life for the better.

I'm just a regular lady who is trying to get eternal life and who's waiting for Jesus to return.