Sentences with phrase «necessary for eternal life»

Do you include Christ's burial and appearances as doctrinal information necessary for eternal life?

How sad the message of Scripture necessary for eternal life called «the gospel» has been abandoned by GES advocates and replaced with «the saving proposition».

According to Jesus, belief in Himself is the «work» that is necessary for eternal life.

Art. 7 of the Decree on the Missions says in so many words that God can give in ways known to himself the grace of faith and thus the hope and love necessary for eternal life also to those whom the actual message of the gospel has not reached.

Not exact matches

If you confuse purification gospel truths with the presentation truth, then you might think it is necessary for a person to repent of their sin or believe in the future judgments in order to receive eternal life.

I do think that belief in the deity of Jesus is a necessary «pre-condition» to believing in Jesus for eternal life.

So, with the help of the spirit, and in light of a relationship we have with a person, we share with them whatever is necessary to help them believe in Jesus for eternal life.

When understood this way, it becomes clear that 1 John 5:1 is not referring at all to the initial faith which grants a person eternal life, but rather to the ongoing faith which is necessary for sanctification and godliness.

If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything has remained the same that is really necessary for life as well as for death: the crucified and risen Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.

We will look at this verse in more detail when we discuss the Calvinistic idea of Limited Atonement, but for now, it is enough to note that even if the whole world lies under the control of the wicked one, Jesus has done what is necessary to liberate the whole world from the evil one so that they can respond to the gospel and believe in Jesus for eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:7 - 13).

There are potentially thousands of preparation truths in the gospel, but I have found that seven of these truths tend to be the most effective and necessary in helping a person come to the place where they believe in Jesus for eternal life.

The work of the Eternal Word of God, present in men spermatically, as Justin Martyr for example put it, offered this possibility of salvation, so that the historical accident of having lived after Jesus or having heard about Him was not the necessary condition of the salvation which God purposed for His human children.

When I read the paper, I came away understanding your view exactly as you have said it yourself — that you believe Christ's death for sins, resurrection, and deity - humanity are not necessary for the lost to believe in order to receive eternal life but they are part of something you can «the gospel» in a very broad sense of all NT revelation.

It was necessary for Him to descend to give those who died prior to His coming the chance of having eternal life, too.

It was necessary for Him to come so that we may have eternal life.

Can you even point to one verse in the bible (or passage) that gives all the requirements for eternal life, and all the understandings necessary of those requirements, or must you necessarily cut and paste your checklist together?

The only specific beef you've raised with the article is that you've stated the cross of Christ is an essential element of the «gospel» but it is not necessary for the lost to believe this to receive eternal life.