Sentences with phrase «matter of eternal life»

This film is such an amusing spin on the vampire legend that being a dedicated fan isn't a matter of eternal life and death.

So it becomes a matter of eternal life, or eternal death.

Not exact matches

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.

And for the majority of Christians, who hold to the traditional Christian view of hell, these matters really are about (eternal) life and death.

The crux of the matter reduces down from halls of rationalism to be the person of Christ by means of his Holy Spirit speaking through the heart and mouth of the believing saint, revealing himself as The Gift of eternal life.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

You can believe all of those things about Jesus and God, which are good things to believe, but if you don't believe in Jesus for eternal life, none of it matters.

When our conclusions regarding regarding troubling passages in the NT contradict the clear, positive statements out of the mouth of Jesus in John 3:16, 18, 5:24, and elsewhere, regarding eternal life being a simple matter of faith we need to keep seeking until our understanding of those passages agrees with that He said.

We've been surely warned that it's a matter of life and death... eternal life and death!

If facts don't matter to you religion is a great option; no responsibility for one's actions and the empty promise of eternal life.

the wages of sin is DEATH but the gift of God is ETERNAL LIFE thru Jesus Christ our LORD... no matter what schemes or plans man comes up with to avoid the TRUTH, TRUTH will always will be TRUTH, you can't change TRUTH and because JESUS is true and his word is true and is a God that can't lie nor is he the son of man to repent then that means unless you repent you shall all likewise perish Luke 13:5..

If despite all this he is obedient to God's word and thinks what is noble and holy of men, believes (it is not easy) that he is a child of God, loved by God and worthy of an eternal life which is already operative and growing within him, he will not be haughty and proud, will not - regard what is promised as a matter of course as his inalienable dignity.

One such is this, which with a characteristic, understated directness goes to the heart of the matter: «Unless our lives are thoroughly centred on God and eternal life with him in his Kingdom, it is not likely that we shall accomplish much work for him on earth» (p49).

In this matter (as in many others), the opinion of those who do not believe in Jesus for eternal life trumps the opinion of those who do.

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.

doesn't matter... those are merely words of a bunch of men over a long period of time who then edited the book to fit their own personal agenda of controlling weak minded people with fear mongering and promises of eternal life.

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.

The first view of life eternal is that it is a matter of man's participation in God's life.

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

The point of the matter is believing the gospel as articulated by Paul in 1 Cor 15:3 ff falls short of receiving eternal life.

«It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics [of cosmology]... If [non-Christians] find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?

They are matters, quite literally, of life and death, of eternal life and eternal death, of ultimate bliss or final misery.

I mean, honestly, what kind of bovine excrement omniscient being designs a universe that obeys a set of rules (physics), but designs a sentient being that He will then cast into eternal torment at death — no matter how good the being was during its life — unless that being has faith in His son?

One thing that is for sure, for all of us, no matter when, where, or how we celebrate Easter, is that we are celebrating the gift of eternal life that is only through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

«Donna Leon's Venetian mysteries never disappoint, calling up the romantic sights and sounds of La Serenissima even as they acquaint us with the practical matters that concern the city's residents... The Waters of Eternal Youth... [is] a bittersweet story that makes us appreciate Brunetti's philosophical take on the indignities, insanities, and cruelties of life.»