Sentences with phrase «of eternal life if»

How do you know someone is believing in the «right» Jesus by simply telling the He's the guarantor of eternal life if you believe on him?

What are our images of eternal life if not ways of picturing a wider sphere of existence, a more generous personal life, less closed in upon ourselves, less fearful and grasping, more real in every respect?

Yeah, so you're an average American «feeling» the presence of a middle - eastern sky god giving you love and the promise of eternal life if you blindly belief he «sacrificed» his son so he could resurrect himself to save his creation from an eternal damnation he created.

Doesn't that run counter to the religious «promise» of eternal life if only you humble yourself to the service of god «X»?

So based on this idea about being able to give up the gift of eternal life if we want to, is there a Scripture reference for that?

How can one consider a christian of another denomination is not recognized or brought to the fullness of the eternal life if they are not in total union with the Catholic Faith.

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Are you really happy with your head in the sand, living in a myth of fear that if you look elsewhere you risk eternal flames?

But if we dare to say «we found Him» — then, our «religion» should be enriching all people, giving to all people, open to all people, speaking of eternal life, and not condemning any.

Sure, the fairy tale of eternal life would be desirable if it were even remotely possible.

If eternal life is the main reason you've accepted Christ into your life, then, as so many others have, you have missed the point of Christianity.

What makes this especially puzzling is the realization that the discussion is usually within the context of the Christian construct of heaven and eternal life, concepts that would be desired by most, even if only hypothetically.

If that is true of the gospel's most counterintuitive claim — that it is through the unjust death of a just man that the world is redeemed — it is also true of his claim to be the truth that is the way to authentic human life, and to 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.

If the gospel is not preached with conviction — the convictions that humanity is in need of salvation and that Jesus is the Savior who liberates us into the fullness of our humanity and gives us eternal life — then the gospel will not be believed.

Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life... there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God.»

And if He comes and your not ready, you will be left too endure the wrath of the Living God, and in the world to come eternal separation from God.

And if we believe the promise, if we believe what God has said, if we believe in Jesus for eternal life, then we have received the free gift of grace.

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

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.

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.

The fourth Gospel reports Jesus» saying, «If you love me, you will keep my commandments,» and «He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.»

Yet what if the ultimate goal of all things is redemption and eternal life?

But if this is true, then how is eternal life by faith alone and not of works?

The death of Christ is of no value to you if you don't believe in Jesus for eternal life.

So often, it seems that such is the presentation of the Good News — if you will conform outwardly to this shape, this liturgy, this behavior... then... you will have eternal life.

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.

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.).

To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.

Every knee shall bow to him in the end but if you use your free will to accept him now, you can receive the gift of eternal life.

(E.g., They say things like «Jesus did his 99 %, but I must do my 1 %» or «I'm saved now, but if I sin later, I won't be saved any more» or «I accepted the gift of eternal life, but I can give it back if I don't abide.»)

If I am to be convinced that belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus are necessary today to receive eternal life, those are the questions I need answered.

If a person must believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, must they believe that Jesus rose in a glorified, eternal, incorruptible body, and that He went on to ascend into heaven, or can they believe that He went on to live, grow old, and die again of old age like the others who were resurrected in Scripture?

If they believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of all mankind, and if they believe that three days after his death, Jesus Christ rose from the dead and if they believe all of these things, but don't believe in Jesus for eternal life, that person is not saveIf they believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of all mankind, and if they believe that three days after his death, Jesus Christ rose from the dead and if they believe all of these things, but don't believe in Jesus for eternal life, that person is not saveif they believe that three days after his death, Jesus Christ rose from the dead and if they believe all of these things, but don't believe in Jesus for eternal life, that person is not saveif they believe all of these things, but don't believe in Jesus for eternal life, that person is not saved.

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.

If we can understand how Jewish people were saved prior to the death and resurrection of Jesus, then we can begin to answer how other people around the world may be able to receive eternal life before they have heard about Jesus.

Also, I should say that it seemingly puts Jesus is the company of other great philosophical and religious teachers who essentially say the same sorts of things, in their own contexts and in their own times as to how to find «eternal life» a phrase I think speaks of a qualitative type of life, a flourishing, if you will, both now and after death.

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.

No, it is the serious question, of what each man really is according to his eternal vocation, so that he himself shall be conscious that he is following it; and what is even more serious, to ask it as if he were considering his life before God.

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If you do not live in some out - of - the - way place in the world, if you live in a populous city, and you direct your attention outwards, sympathetically engrossing yourself in the people and in what is going on, do you remember each time you throw yourself in this way into the world around you, that in this relation, you relate yourself to yourself as an individual with eternal responsibilitIf you do not live in some out - of - the - way place in the world, if you live in a populous city, and you direct your attention outwards, sympathetically engrossing yourself in the people and in what is going on, do you remember each time you throw yourself in this way into the world around you, that in this relation, you relate yourself to yourself as an individual with eternal responsibilitif you live in a populous city, and you direct your attention outwards, sympathetically engrossing yourself in the people and in what is going on, do you remember each time you throw yourself in this way into the world around you, that in this relation, you relate yourself to yourself as an individual with eternal responsibility?

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.

So if one person is thinking only about the parts of the gospel that tell a person how to go to heaven when they die or receive eternal life (faith alone in Christ alone), while another person is thinking about the parts of the gospel which tell followers of Jesus how to live on this earth (discipleship, obedience, faithful living), but both persons keep using the term «gospel,» the argument quickly becomes quite messy.

But we can really do this only if we slowly begin to believe from the very centre of our heart in God, in Jesus Christ, in his grace, and in eternal life.

But if we unreservedly believe in God, accepting our responsibility to him and hoping in eternal life, this faith will also help us to bear the narrowness and boredom of our life, which has today become worse rather than better.

If you have received this grace through repentance of sin, you have an eternal faith relationship with The Lord Christ Jesus, He dwells in you, you die to self, and it is Christ that lives in you, therefore your works are of Christ, and this is an ongoing, daily process.

If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his deatIf he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his deatif his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.

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).

So now, the author of Hebrews says, if these Hebrew Christians return to the sacrificial system, then there is not sacrifice there which can offer forgiveness of sins or eternal life.

The ten people who already have eternal life and who know the basics of the faith so they can read the Bible and learn to follow Jesus on their own, or the ten people who are standing with one foot in hell, are wrapped in the chains of the devil, and are pleading and praying to God, if He is out there, to send help in their time of need?