Sentences with phrase «made for eternal life»

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Those failures are no reason to lower the bar of expectation, to foreshorten our aspirations to the goodness needed for eternal life; they are a reason to get up, seek reconciliation, and continue on the journey into the life of blessedness the Holy Spirit, «the Counselor» who brings consolation, makes possible.

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!

When we know that we have believed in Jesus for eternal life, and yet we doubt whether or not we have it, we are doubting God and the promises He has made (2 Tim.

I don't disagree (if I am understanding you correctly), but we must make sure we understand the difference between how to receive eternal life (believe in Jesus Christ alone for it), and the logical and theological foundations for that truth (deity of Jesus, death and resurrection of Jesus, sinfulness of humanity, etc., etc., etc.).

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.

Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.

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.

People need to «realize» Christianity is a hoax to make money off them before you can start spewing J.K. Rowling's nonsense as fact... but if you promise eternal life AFTER death and charge people for it, you are guaranteed no one can you prove you wrong.

So believing in Jesus Christ for eternal life WITHOUT walking in love, making a difference, helping others, etc, is meaningless, unless of coarse you are on your death bed or are physically unable to «labor».

No, God chooses, elects, predestines, predetermines, decides, foreordains, commits Himself to make sure that every person who believes in Jesus for eternal life, will finally and ultimately be glorified into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.

We do nt know what it is, But there his rules, He made us with a short life span but a eternal spirit, He has plans for us in Heaven, But only those he can trust.

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).»

By stating that no sacrifice for sin is left in Hebrews 10:26, the author of Hebrews is making a very similar point to that made in Hebrews 6, namely, that the Hebrew Christians came to recognize that the Levitical sacrificial system did not grant them eternal life or forgiveness of sins.

We may prepare for our next section, then, by affirming that, for Christian faith, by the prevenient Action of God a human life was taken and made into the instrument for the gracious divine operation; in more traditional idiom, the eternal Word, Self - Expression of very God, was clothed with a true humanity, crowning the rest of God's work in and for God's human children.

Make sure you have believed in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life.

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.

When we place faith in Christ for eternal life, doesn't this also make us God's children?»

While the resurrection of Jesus is about God making eternal life available to those who believe in Him for it, this is only a tiny scratch in the surface of what the resurrection is really about.

Make us ever - grateful for those who, for over two centuries, have given their lives in freedom's defense; we commend their noble souls to your eternal care, as even now we beg the protection of your mighty arm upon our men and women in uniform.

But here again the point has been made by the Orthodox themselves that the hunger for meaning and eternal life is not merely «over and beyond» but also «within and through» the anguished longing for humanity.

Then, one day, it hit me: While the resurrection of Jesus is about God making eternal life available to those who believe in Him for it, this is only a tiny scratch in the surface of what the resurrection is really about.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»

We should honor great men, saintly men are noble examples for us, but no great or saintly man can reveal God's mystery to us and bind us with God; no man can take away our guilt and make us certain of the completion of life in eternal life.

Jesus alone made it possible for me to have eternal life because He alone is righteous, and He alone took the full punishment for my sins so that I could enter into God's presence.

It makes more sense to have an eternal soul that lives life after life, to learn new experiences than it does to have one life, die and then float around singing praises to a god that can't be bothered to even visit for 2000 years.

A: «It is life that I love; Life that does not make me fear death, For the life which I prefer to all else is Eternal life, Which awaits those who have lived faithfully in this World.&ralife that I love; Life that does not make me fear death, For the life which I prefer to all else is Eternal life, Which awaits those who have lived faithfully in this World.&raLife that does not make me fear death, For the life which I prefer to all else is Eternal life, Which awaits those who have lived faithfully in this World.&ralife which I prefer to all else is Eternal life, Which awaits those who have lived faithfully in this World.&ralife, Which awaits those who have lived faithfully in this World.»

If Christianity continues to tell you that WHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejected.

«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».

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.

The Gospel is the amazing news that by faith alone we are made unconditionally and irrevocably eternally secure.There are no buts or what ifs only a constant absolute our Lord Jesus.He is God and He guaranteed Eternal Life as a free gift if we believe Him for it.What a Gospel of amazing news!.

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

Gil if we only received one blessing in this life and that was eternal life in Jesus Christ that alone would be enough but we are blessed way more than that because we have been sent his holy spirit to help us overcome our old nature.He never leaves us nor forsakes us whether good or bad happens he strengthens us in our weakness.It says in the bible that the rain falls on both the righteous or the wicked God is fair to all whether they deserve it or not he can not be anything else than a holy righteous loving and fair God.I do nt need to convince you to believe about God he will reveal himself to you if you are seeking the truth as he is the truth.I do nt try and make others believe its pointless.I know without a doubt that i am saved and my sins are forgiven.As a christian it will a joy to be with the Lord there is no fear in death for those that love him.In the meantime i serve him with all my heart until he calls me home.I love talking about the Lord but each of us must walk according to what we believe.I trust my life to Jesus Christ and i choose to follow him who do you follow?

For similarly dispossessed people, the apostle Paul wrote, «For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, but eternal in the heavens» (2 Cor.

If «body» is symbol for the whole person, the answer might be Yes; however, our earthly mode of being is surely so different from heaven that eternal life lived in a form essentially like our present one makes no sense.

Instead of you being concerned about the welfare of these eternal souls as to wondering whether or not they will get the chance for salvation, you get hung up on that somehow because not everyone will get that chance in their mortal lives that somehow that means that God is biased; that in my beliefs as to how God gives out those opprotunities that it doesn't meet to your specifications, then that automatically means that God is biased, when in my beliefs the point is that no matter how you slice it everybody whehter in this life or afterwards will get a chance at learning about the gospel and make their own choices as to whether to follow the gospel or not.

(but even if it didn't that should be obvious) Therefore Gods groundwork for the spectacular future that God has in store for us is built upon love and the way to create that love is for God to forgive us and grant us eternal life which is made available to us by the grace of Jesus Christ and the death he took for us all on the cross.

So we must make sure to be ready in our hearts, and to press on in the field of evangelism, so that all nations will hear of God's infinite love for all of us and what He did for all so that we would have eternal life.

, makes people assume that people can not even believe in Jesus for eternal life.

But other people, recognizing that Christ's offer of eternal life to anyone who believes in Him for it is an audacious claim bordering on insanity, want to know how He can make such a claim and how we know He can fulfill it.

It is not only a reasonable hypothesis to say that «eternal object» and «nexus of successive occasions» refer to the pattern of behavioral definiteness sustained by subordinate «living persons» and the regnant society: it is also one of the few hypotheses available for avoiding the «Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness» by not making the entire nexus the locus of subjectively immediate feelings (WEP 183).

Also I think that whatever did that must be God I think that there is an afterlife because if whatever made this wanted to make it they would have made a place for eternal life.

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.

If salvation is so important, I find it disturbing that God didn't make the condition (s) for receiving eternal life clear, being found all in one place.

Common «sins» such as divorce usually make poor candidates for the unforgivable sin since such a position would disqualify many Christians from eternal life.

So when it comes to discipleship and the unbeliever, it seems logical that an unbeliever could seek to learn from Jesus and become more like Jesus in his or her life, before they ever make the commitment to follow Him completely, and definitely before they come to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

For me, it doesn't make sense that John would record that exact phrase that Jesus spoke to mean something less than to believe in Him for eternal liFor me, it doesn't make sense that John would record that exact phrase that Jesus spoke to mean something less than to believe in Him for eternal lifor eternal life.

For me, this makes a lot of sense when seeing how other people come to faith in the Bible when there is no mention of eternal life but simply faith that Jesus is the totally truthful one — the Messiah, the Son of God — the one who can not lie.

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.

All this needs to be made clear, for the word «heaven» appears a good deal more in the New Testament than in the Old Testament, and there is a strong tendency for readers to assume that it means there what later Christian orthodoxy meant by the term, namely, an eternal spiritual sphere above this world where the faithful departed live with God.

We want to live forever so we make up an avenue for eternal life and so as not to exclude, we allow those we dislike to burn forever.