Election does not refer to whether or
not you have eternal life.
If we do not get baptized, then we do
not have eternal life.
But most believe that Judas did
not have eternal life.
We do
not have eternal life to bestow.
Those who have never heard His name will not be left unsaved, it's those that have heard the gospels and have chosen to reject the gospels the will
not have eternal life.
it's those that have heard the gospels and have chosen to reject the gospels the will
not have eternal life.
If the person doesn't behave that way, then they must not be the fourth soil, and so must
not have eternal life.
If Levi did
not have eternal life prior to this event, his actions here did not allow him to receive eternal life either.
Well, yes, if someone relies on their own works, then they are not believing in Jesus Christ alone, and hence, do
not have eternal life.
So when Jesus spoke the words which are recorded in John 15:4 - 5, Jesus was not speaking to people who did
not have eternal life, but to those who did.
Unless you eat my body and drink my blood you can
not have eternal life in you.
As you quote: «Unless you eat my body and drink my blood you can
not have eternal life in you.
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.
Are you saying the woman I talked to does
not have eternal life because she believed in some «philosophical Jesus»?
They might argue that until she believed in the historical event of the resurrection of Jesus she does
not have eternal life.
Someone can be a follower of Jesus, but
not have eternal life.
John is not saying that if you hate your brother, you do
not have eternal life.
So could we not apply that same logic to 1 John 3:15 and say that someone who hates their brother / sister does
not have eternal life?
He is not giving tests of life or doctrinal and behavioral indicators by which to determine whether or
not you have eternal life.
Again, this verse is sometimes used to defend the idea that anyone who commits murder proves that he / she does
not have eternal life, but «belongs to» the evil one.
The first implies that anyone who murders proves that they do
not have eternal life.
, but didn't realize that the cross had relevance for her own life, and therefore (according to him) didn't have eternal life (p. 26).
If you don't have eternal life here on earth it does» t matter whether there is an after - life or not.
Not exact matches
Here is my belief: Courtesy of Biblos.com (John 3:16 - 21) 16 «For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, f that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but
have eternal life.
That
would be your fault
not Gods as you
have been given the gift of
life eternal.
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 wor
not in this world, as he says this is
NOT his wor
NOT his world.
The New Testament verse is held up by Christians around the globe because it neatly summarizes some key points of Christianity: «For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whosoever believes in him
would not perish but
have eternal life.»
that whosoever believeth in him should
not perishbut
have eternal life (he's god — he makes the rules - he could
have done this without the whole dieing on the cross thing)
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.
Yet, Heidegger is even less congenial to Christian theology than Kant, for in an important sense Christianity is anthropocentric: «God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should
not perish but
have eternal life.»
Would not restoring the
life of the murdered be more just than
eternal punishment of the murderer?
But that shouldn't frighten us as Christians, because Jesus
has promised that He will give
eternal life to all those who put their faith in Him (John 10:28).
The Word of God: 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but
have eternal life.
You sound like a very selfish child, and I doubt you
would even be a christian if
not for the promise of
eternal life.
For the unshakeable truth of all of history is that «God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should
not perish but
have eternal life.»
I
would say that the angels never
had eternal life, and that
eternal life, once given, can
not be removed,
not even by God.
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.
If we
have the Bible, but
not Christ, we will surely miss the point because
eternal life does not spring from Scripture (Jn 5:39 - 40), instead, the Life Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it should
life does
not spring from Scripture (Jn 5:39 - 40), instead, the
Life Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it should
Life Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it should be.
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
To believe in Jesus for your salvation and to
have a part in His everlasting Kingdom where sin, death, sorrow, pain, despair, oppression do
not exist, and in this
life have a moral code that includes loving everyone though
not participating in sin and
have that hope of
eternal life.
While that is
not desirable, which is worse: to occasionally fall into sin ourselves, knowing that such sin is covered by the grace of the cross, OR telling the whole world that although we
've been rescued from sin and death and the devil, they can just go to hell because all we care about is our own
eternal life?
If a person goes to church, reads their Bible, and calls themselves a Christian, but
has never believed in Jesus for
eternal life (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47), then they
have not received the indwelling Holy Spirit.
But when we believe in Jesus for
eternal life, we get a new name, a name that the world
would not give us, a name that tells everybody we are going to be different.
Of course, if you
have not yet believed in Jesus for
eternal life, why put it off any longer?
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
Jeremiah 31:34 For we know that if the earthly tent we
live in is destroyed, we
have a building from God, an
eternal house in heaven,
not built by human hands.»
My new view is that election
has little to do with who gets
eternal life and who doesn't.
A person does
not need to believe that Jesus is God to receive
eternal life, but why
would they believe in Jesus unless they believed Jesus was God?
They teach that if you
have patterns of habitual sin in your
life, you
have good reason to question whether or
not you actually
have eternal life.
And so how thankful we can be that He never,
not once in all of Scripture, tells us that in order to receive
eternal life, we
have to promise Him certain things or a certain level of obedience.