Sentences with phrase «losing eternal life»

Yes, Jesus says He will «vomit» them out of His mouth (Revelation 3:16), but this has nothing to do with losing eternal life.

Some take from this, therefore, that those who fail to faithfully love, serve, and honor Jesus throughout their life will in the end have their name blotted out of the Book of Life, thus losing their eternal life.

Whichever approach you choose, it is important to note that while Scripture does teach about getting blotted out of the Book of Life, this does not ever refer to losing eternal life.

Yet when most people are reading their Bibles (and they have their spiritual - colored glasses on), and read about some sort of sin that brings death, they put a spiritual twist on it, and think it is referring to spiritual death, or losing your eternal life, or something like that.

But if you tell people they can't lose their salvation and they, as a result, resist or delay responding to God's discipline and end up losing eternal life... Wow!!!

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.

A belief that you can lose eternal life causes you to be motivated by fear.

I do not see how people who believe that we can lose eternal life can speak of it as everlasting or eternal life.

You see, they say that if you sin, you may lose eternal life.

And there is nothing we can do to lose eternal life — it is all of grace.

Since it is about the election and rejection of Israel for God's purposes, many believe that Romans 9 teaches that even after we receive eternal life, if we fail to live according to God's purposes, we either lose our eternal life or we prove we never had it in the first place.

But if the Book of Life contains the names of people who have eternal life, then when Revelation 3:5 talks about blotting someone's name out of the book of life, does this mean it is possible to lose eternal life?

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.

Nowhere is the author making the point that if people sin willfully, or even if they return to an empty form of religion which accomplished nothing, that this proves that they do not have eternal life, lost their eternal life, or never had it in the first place.

That is, if we know something is wrong, and we do it anyway, we lose eternal life because according to Hebrews 10:26, there is no sacrifice that covers willful sin.

But if a Christian can not lose eternal life, then why should we not just go sin all we want?

Because although we can not lose eternal life, there is much to lose by sinning!

However, lots of people struggle with various passages in the Bible which seem to indicate that a person can lose their eternal life by being blotted out of the book of life.

If you believe that the presence of ongoing sin in a person's life causes them to lose their eternal life, you might be a legalist.

I am not yet sure if eternal life is separate from salvation, but while I believe that «once receiving eternal life, always receiving eternal life» is not theoretically true, I do believe that it is virtually impossible to lose eternal life once you have received the Holy Spirit by believing in Christ.

But like you, I don't see this as meaning we will lose our eternal life.

Choices for sin, though they do not cause someone to lose their eternal life once they have it, can cause serious long - term consequences in the life of the believer.

Not exact matches

Decide for God and you get eternal life if you're right and lose basically nothing if you're wrong.

You have nothing to lose (there is no charge at any of their meetings) and there may be eternal life to gain.

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

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

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.

That is why in my article above, I tried to only refer to «eternal life» when I was writing about what could not be lost.

He must have never been a Christian in the first place, or maybe He had eternal life, but he lost it, but one thing is for sure, there is no way that person will be in heaven.»

The Israelites (a type for Christians) were saved out of Egypt (the world) and lost their salvation (eternal life) in the desert because they stopped believing.

If eternal life can be lost, or if simple faith in Christ is not enough, works have been added somewhere into the equation.

I believe that if eternal life can be lost, it has the wrong name.

I'm guessing that you distinguish salvation as the process or steps leading to redemption vs. eternal life which per your view can not be lost.

The opposite of this confident rest in the grace of God, is a constant effort to please and appease God and keep the eternal life that we don't want to lose.

Did these believers who already have eternal life then lose their salvation?

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.

The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for 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.

In fact, getting a seminary degree has resulted in many losing the sure knowledge that they had eternal life.

Many Christians insist on the false - teaching that Eternal - Life can be lost.

Only Christ knows what is in a persons heart, this pope is reaching out to the lost in a positive way with the message of Christ love, which is very important as there are many lost souls that need to hear the message of Christ's love, hope, forgiveness and eternal life that is available only in Christ Jesus.

John has another such parable, in which the thought takes a deeper turn: «A grain of wheat remains a solitary grain unless it falls into the ground and dies; but if it dies, it bears a rich harvest»; 27 and then, with an echo of Luke's language about «hating» one's own life, «The man who loves himself is lost, but he who hates himself [in this world] will be kept safe [for eternal life].»

Thus Jesus His disciples sent: Go teach ye every nation, That lost in sin they must repent; And flee from condemnation: He that believes and is baptized, Obtains a mighty blessing; A new - born man, no more he dies, Eternal life possessing, A joyful heir of Heaven.

Finally, there are many who say that if a person truly has eternal life, they can never lose it, but their good works will prove that they actually have it.

So while there are all sorts of things a Christian can lose by sinning, eternal life is not one of them.

Craig i thought what you wrote was really good and agree with you.Enduring to the end is not that the person hasnt already received eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ as once done that is a done deal.Enduring to the end is to encourage those who are persecuted to keep believing in Christ and do nt lose there faith and trust in God and to be strong in the faith.In doing so they will get there reward from the Lord because they trusted him more than the fear of death.They overcame them there persecuters with love for the Lord that is true courage.brentnz

If eternal life can be lost, then we must say that Jesus was hiding the truth.

As long as we think that the word «salvation» refers to forgiveness of sin, eternal life, escaping hell, and going to heaven when we die, we will always be confused about whether or not Christians can lose salvation.

’17 The same teaching is expressed by the Fourth Evangelist as, «The man who loves himself is lost, but he who hates himself in this world will be kept safe for eternal life.

1) that eternal life given on the basis of faith alone, in Christ alone, apart from works; 2) that eternal security is part of the gift of eternal life; 3) that assurance of salvation is through faith in Christ's promise of eternal life, and not by looking at one's own works 4) Christians can apostatize in this life, and are still eternally secure 5) eternal rewards are earned by faithful works, and lost by unfaithfulness 6) unlimited atonement 7) free - will to respond to God's drawing or not