Sentences with phrase «of eternal life which»

The denial of eternal life which is so common among modern Christians is not, as its adherents often claim, a nonegoistic, mature, realistic willingness to face the brutal limitations of finitude; rather, it amounts to a tragically unbelieving denial of God's honor — and thus of God's very existence.

Thankfully, God has provided an antidote to legalism through the free gift of eternal life which is received by grace along through faith alone in Christ alone.

There is the aspect of eternal life which is the free gift of God to all who simply and only believe in Jesus for it, and then there is the ongoing, daily experience of eternal life, which is called «inheriting» eternal life, which is through living by faith.

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.

Not exact matches

Before the «Dispensation of Grace» of God, by which we are saved through «Faith in Jesus Christ» as Lord and our personal Savior, Jesus Christ fulfilled the «Law of God» on our behalf during His ministry on earth, died on the «Holy Cross» for the «Remission of Our Sins» once and for all, descended to hell and defeated death, then rose from the dead on the third day bringing us «Eternal Life» and «Reconciliation» with God the Father!

In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!

God is very fabric of life essance which by way we are eternal creatures on this earth because life we have unbroken chain dating back to eve an adam

The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law on our behalf, died on the Holy Cross for the remission of our sins (became sin and curse for us) descended to hell and defeated death (keys of which were held by Satan,) rose from the dead on the third day bringing us eternal life and reconciliation with God the Father, then ascended to Heaven promising us the Holy Spirit and preparing the place for us.

«Sure, eternal life is transcendent life,» they admit; «but in the meantime, we're called to love our neighbors as ourselves, which means attending actively to the welfare of the world.

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.

Eternal life is in the light which is why we must remain focused on the light not attempts to reconcile observations of darkness which is what the Tree of Knowledge does.

Death is pretty much the last frontier, which is why I think christianity with it's promise of eternal life has such a toehold in the western psyche.

The debate over «Once Saved, Saved Saved» is easily solved, however, when we realize that almost none of those verses which talk about «salvation» are actually talking about eternal life.

You need to be a man or a woman of God's will, you need to do God's will, which is to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

The western church, Catholic and Protestant, has seized on the idea of a «Redeemer,» that is, a buy back merchant deal in which Jesus Christ must be a human / divine sacrifice in order to «buy back» (redeem) humanity's right to eternal life.

There are likely hundreds (maybe thousands) of truths in the gospel which help prepare a person to believe in Jesus for 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?

John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.

Depending on who you read, most Christians have between five and ten propositions which they say constitute the entire gospelm, all of which must be believed for a person to receive eternal life.

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

So you see Keith you are special created for a purpose in this stage of transit test life... as true life is the eternal life that which comes after death on resurrection and Judgment day... God Bless

In other words, whatever the denial of 2 Timothy 2:12 is, it is not taking eternal life from someone who already has it, for this would amount to God denying Himself, which He can not do.

Once you have received the baptism of the Spirit, which all Christians do at the moment they believe in Jesus for eternal life, there is no reversing or undoing it.

The following list of verses which teach that eternal life is by faith alone in Christ alone was compiled by Dr. John Brumett.

Only one theological position has ever resulted in the Romans 6:1 question, and it is the position which says that eternal life is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, and that once a person has received eternal life in this way, it can never be lost.And when we realize the truth of this, it is incredibly liberating.

On one level Jesus heals a cripple, opens the eyes of the blind or raises the dead, but on another level he reveals a truth about life eternal which God makes available in Jesus Christ.

«Salvation» is most often in view, or some other aspect of the Gospel, neither of which is equivalent to eternal life.

To consider why this is so, let us go back to the very beginning, the institution of the Eucharist... Approximately two thousand years ago, Jesus had a roller - coaster Holy Week ride, which ultimately saw Him, through God's power, famously defeat sin and death, thereby providing us with the possibility of eternal life.

Following on the idea that faith is meritorious, and therefore impossible for an unregenerate person to do, Calvinists nevertheless recognize that there are scores of passages all over the New Testament which call unbelievers to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

We can not remove sin from this world but we can be moved by the love God gave us, in his only begotten Son, to share this love, which is eternal, forgiving, and powerful, so powerful that it can not be removed by, even, the taking of life — for no sooner do you take the life of such young ones away that, in the next moment, they are with Christ.

To affirm Eternal Recurrence and renounce autonomous selfhood is to live the Kingdom of God, which is in our midst.

Therefore, it is only in so far as we are, as Paul expresses it, «in Christ», united with him by faith which responds to God's grace reaching out to us in him, that we may hope to be raised to a share in his risen life of communion with the eternal God.

It is this kind of experience which perhaps best explains the meaning of the traditional term «eternal life» — which is now not conceived as an extension in time of our personal existence but as a new dimension of existence into which one can enter during his natural life.

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.

Clearly he retained throughout his life the sense that the ultimate fact is the process itself of which God, the eternal objects, and the temporal occasions are all explanatory.

Death is the absence of eternal life and eternal life is only that which exists in Christ (in the presence of God).

He is not giving tests of life or doctrinal and behavioral indicators by which to determine whether or not you have eternal life.

The love of a man and a woman, lived out in the power of baptismal life, now becomes the sacrament of the love between Christ and his Church, and a witness to the mystery of fidelity and unity from which the «New Eve» is born and by which she lives in her earthly pilgrimage toward the fullness of the eternal wedding.»

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

Others teach a form of Christian reincarnation so that before a person's eternal life is finally determined, they get to live a life in which they have the opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel.

The promise of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel is eminently applicable to the preaching in which he is proclaimed: «Verily I say unto you, He that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not unto judgment, but hath passed out of death into life....

Only with the development which led to the concept of eternal life did another dimension come to be given to the judgment of God.

In other words, when you hate others, it is not the eternal life you have from God that is leading you to do so, but is instead because you are following the principle of death which comes from this world.

Certainly death is now seen as something which lls us with dread (together with the expectation of «bodily pains») rather than, as it was meant to be, the gateway to eternal life.

He wants everyone to come to a knowledge of the truth, and calls everyone to believe in Jesus for eternal life, which is possible through the will.

«Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.»

This function of the will, though it is the responsibility of a person, is not meritorious in any way, for faith is not a work (Rom 4:5), but is simply being persuaded or convinced about what is true, which, in the case of eternal life, is being persuaded that eternal life is the free gift of God to all who believe in Jesus for it.

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.

5.5) which exactly parallel a common Jewish usage, except that there the synonyms «age to come» or «eternal life» would be used rather than Kingdom of God, as, for example, in the question in Mark 10.14 or the promise in Matt.

Hayner reflected on his cancer diagnosis, following Christ when death is imminent, and eternal life in one of his and Labberton's final conversations, which is edited below for clarity and length.