Sentences with phrase «life eternal with»

And Man is defined in his basic rights and dignities as a creature made in the image and likeness of God and destined for life eternal with his Maker.

Because of that Word (Christ Jesus) we will have another life... life eternal with Him.

Apart from scriptural clues and theological reflection, no one can say what life eternal with God will be like either.

Not exact matches

Before the «Dispensation of Grace» of God, by which we are saved through «Faith in Jesus Christ» as Lord and our personal Savior, Jesus Christ fulfilled the «Law of God» on our behalf during His ministry on earth, died on the «Holy Cross» for the «Remission of Our Sins» once and for all, descended to hell and defeated death, then rose from the dead on the third day bringing us «Eternal Life» and «Reconciliation» with God the Father!

We are people, people who strive to live as well as we can with the time given us and do not expect that we are owed some eternal existence.

If Christians are wrong, they will only rot in the grave as unbelievers do; but if Christians are right, they will live forever in a painless, righteous world with eternal bodies, while unbelievers suffer forever in torture.

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.

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.

You sheep believe anything that you are told so long as it is consistent with your eternal life belief.

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.

Are you really happy with your head in the sand, living in a myth of fear that if you look elsewhere you risk eternal flames?

It's God's way not just of providing us with margin but of providing us with a spiritual and eternal perspective on our lives.

It also seems quite hard to swallow that a person could spend his or her life helping the poor, counseling the down and out, building homes for Habitat for Humanity, giving millions to charitable causes, assisting those with disabilities and mental health issues, and without a sincere acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior, be doomed to eternal condemnation and suffering, no getting out early for good behavior.

For those who don't see it as a free gift look at it this way: - You work hard and you get paid — it's not always easy but the reward is financial security You live with and for God and you get eternal happiness — life isn't easy but the reward is breathtaking.

The true after - life ontology of heaven (note that heaven does not exist, nor hell) is one of an eternal blissful state of union with God and others choosing salvation.

The main point is that these poeple know Christ and are assured eternal life in heaven with God the Father.

And the gospel responds to such longings with powerful assurances of eternal life and deliverance.

Thus friendship with Jesus Christ enables us to gain a glimpse, here and now, of eternal life within the light and life of the Trinity, a communion of radical self - giving and receptivity.

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.

In the saints, whose lives aim at eternal communion with God and with fellow human beings, Taylor identifies practical reasoners par excellence.

The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law on our behalf, died on the Holy Cross for the remission of our sins (became sin and curse for us) descended to hell and defeated death (keys of which were held by Satan,) rose from the dead on the third day bringing us eternal life and reconciliation with God the Father, then ascended to Heaven promising us the Holy Spirit and preparing the place for us.

From a human point of view it seems ridiculous that a human being could torture, maim, and kill others relentlessly during her lifetime or that he could sexually abuse child after child with no remorse and then upon a sincere deathbed confession of Jesus Christ as Savior, be granted eternal life, no questions asked.

@HawaiiGuest «Eternal torture and all - loving are mutually exclusive concepts» @Chad «not so at all, God allows us to live with the consequences of our decision.

Seems like you and your god are the hateful ones, what with threats of eternal torture for «sins» of a short mortal life, and similar horrors throughout your evil storybook a.k.a. bible.

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.

This gets crazier and crazier and Christians still ~ * believe * ~ in eternal life after death, zombie messiahs, moral shades of gray bundled in with loose and literal biblical interpretations... how do Christian's «brains» still function?

Apparently you just ignored the whole point that there is a difference between the concepts of «immortality», where everyone will be resurrected and become immortal no matter who you are since physical death came abut through Adam and the fall, and «eternal life», which is living with God or in other words it deals with the quality of that immortal life.

While an admonition such as «Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return» sounds like the solemn - admonitory, the point of the memento mori is to contemplate worldly death in order to fit oneself for otherworldly life in communion with other eternal souls, not somehow to find comfort in the commonality of our mortal lot.

Paul was talking to CHRISTIANS and talking about th eternal life with God... use the context..

But since he endowed all of his intelligent creation with free will, they were free to choose God as their Ruler, and live forever, or sin and reject God and lose eternal life.

How can one consider a christian of another denomination is not recognized or brought to the fullness of the eternal life if they are not in total union with the Catholic Faith.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

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.

If the gospel is not preached with conviction — the convictions that humanity is in need of salvation and that Jesus is the Savior who liberates us into the fullness of our humanity and gives us eternal life — then the gospel will not be believed.

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!

God is love, and He gives the gift of eternal life for free to anyone, atheist, murderer, rapist, et al., who asks for it with a repentant heart.

Here is a link about obtaining eternal life with Jesus.

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.

A very good moral believer and non believer are very normal with similar lives yet the believer lives with eternal hope while the non believer lives with finite man.

But live it with eternity in mind, and this short live becomes filled with eternal significance.

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

2nd choice with your free will, love and follow satan's lies and your spirit dies while living on earth, go to paradise, still hate Jesus, Day of the Lord, and you get your wish, perish into the eternal flames, no eternity for you.

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.

First, I don't equate «salvation» with receiving eternal life.

But those who take that statement as a sufficient declaration of the condition for appropriating eternal life (such as those affiliated with the GES) surely do not believe that this alone is the gospel!

They use the love of a Christian trying to point out sin and trying to point to Jesus and eternal life with God as being unlovely or judgemental.

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.