Sentences with phrase «people have eternal life»

But one should not read into these three divisions some sort of classification about whether or not people have eternal life.

I believe that once a person has eternal life, they always have eternal life.

The approval of God has nothing to do with whether or not a person has eternal life, but instead has to do with whether or not God's finds a person useful and honest in their dealings with others.

Such teachers argue that if you want to know whether a person has eternal life or not, all you have to do is look at how much fruit they produce.

Eternal Security is the belief that once a person has eternal life, they have it forever, no matter what.

All I am saying is that according to Scripture, if a person has eternal life, then they have eternal life eternally.

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Christians believe that a mortal person has an immortal soul, and that this immortal soul can be provided with a resurrected, «sanctified» (which effectively means purified, unblemished, and apparently lacking genitalia) body... the term Eternal Life tends to be used to describe the idea that a «True Believer» in Christ (a term open to many, many interpretations) will have their immortal soul implanted in that resurrected body and they will get to live for all time with Christ, apparently singing a lot and doing very little else.

ddeev... I have always been curious about people that deemed eternal life more desirable than reality.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Without a Triune God there would be no understanding of people having one day, an 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.

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

Do you have a particular group of person in mind, or could you give some examples of who believe that the gospel is only «believe in Jesus for eternal life»?

First, the person may stop resisting, and submit to what the Holy Spirit is saying, and so, having understood that they are a sinner and in need of salvation because judgment is coming, they will believe in Jesus Christ for eternal life.

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?

Lots of people have «lived as a Christian» for years, but never actually believed in Jesus for eternal life.

You have to believe in the right person for the right thing, namely, you have to believe in Jesus for eternal life (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47).

Sure, we can assume that they believe that if people believe in Jesus for eternal life that those people will get it, but the demons themselves can not believe in Jesus for eternal life, because eternal life has not been offered to them by Jesus.

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.

He must have never been a Christian in the first place, or maybe He had eternal life, but he lost it, but one thing is for sure, there is no way that person will be in heaven.»

But if a person truly did believe in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life, and later fell away, I believe they still have eternal life, and God is actively working to restore such a person into fellowship with Him and other believers.

While I would agree that people can not take the first step toward God, I believe that God has taken steps to enable people to believe in Jesus for eternal life, and that this faith is not meritorious.

As seen above, Calvinists sometimes argue that faith would be meritorious if people could believe in Jesus for eternal life, and therefore, faith is a work.

So, right here, in Scripture, we have examples of people who did not believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, but who did have eternal life because they believed in Jesus for it.

Others have noticed this same thing, and we receive daily e-mails and phone calls from people saying they are prayerfully supporting Bob Wilkin, myself, and the ministry of Grace Evangelical Society as we continue to present the offer of eternal life to all who believe in Jesus for it.

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.

Jesus will not return to earth until every person on earth has heard the good news of eternal life.

Being «in» Christ is a special New Testament concept for people who have believed in Jesus for eternal life.

Yes, faith is a function of the will, but since the will has the ability to function, it is not unreasonable for God to invite people to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

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.

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.

I think that as people respond to the revelation they have received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospehave received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the GospeHave Never Heard the Gospel?).

So when I am talking with someone, I will often take a little gospel of John, I prefer the ones called Living Water since they have little notes that remind me what verses are key, and what the verses mean, and in just a minute or two, can show a person from Scripture that to get eternal life, all they have to do is believe in Jesus for it.

The difference between faith and works, of course, is that while the latter are «works» and no one can have enough works to earn or merit eternal life, faith is not a work, is not meritorious, and does not help a person earn or gain eternal life.

When the gospel, the kingdom of God, and the offer of eternal life are rightly proclaimed, they have great drawing power to all who are unregenerate, for they contain the light and life that people have been searching for, but not finding.

Many people search the Bible for in them they think they have eternal life, but when we bring them the Scriptures they don't believe us (John 5:38,39).

It is in others nature to believe in the spirit and eternal life, it requires faith - a gift that these people do not have.

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If it has no bearing on how people receive eternal life, why would John bother to write it as a way to tell people how to receive eternal life (John 20:30 - 31)?

When people believe that the word anathema, or accursed, means «going to hell when you die,» they think that Paul is wishing he could go to hell if only all his fellow Israelites would receive eternal life instead.

Of course, for most people, before they can ever believe in Jesus for eternal life, they need to have other beliefs about themselves, the existence and nature of God, and some other biblical truths.

If people believe in Jesus for eternal life, they have it!

Yet when most people are reading their Bibles (and they have their spiritual - colored glasses on), and read about some sort of sin that brings death, they put a spiritual twist on it, and think it is referring to spiritual death, or losing your eternal life, or something like that.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

It can leave many people thinking that they are going to heaven because they have «prayed a prayer» yet never understood that eternal life is received by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

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?

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.

This would then have nothing to do with whether or not the unregenerate person could understand the offer of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ, and believe in Him as a result.