Sentences with phrase «person for eternal life»

The Reformation was obsessed with the idea that nothing anybody DID qualified that person for eternal life.

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You say god is love, yet consigns people to eternal torture for not believing in him regardless of actions in this life.

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.

It also seems quite hard to swallow that a person could spend his or her life helping the poor, counseling the down and out, building homes for Habitat for Humanity, giving millions to charitable causes, assisting those with disabilities and mental health issues, and without a sincere acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior, be doomed to eternal condemnation and suffering, no getting out early for good behavior.

Perhaps god doesn't like a bunch of mindless sheeple, and lets in only people who think for themselves and live honest and compassionate lives because they think it's a good idea, not because they fear eternal punishment.

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!

I, for one, was a person who used to think that the gospel was nothing more than «believe in Jesus for eternal life.»

What we call demons may harass one who follows Jesus and trusts in him for eternal life, but those evil entities, including what we call Satan, do not dwell in that person.

That is, every single person is destined for hell, and God chooses to rescue some of them and give them 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.

When a person believes in Jesus for eternal life, they are immediately regenerated, indwelt, baptized, and sealed by the Holy Spirit.

That is something to worry about — that there are people who can't imagine living for the common good and who feel they must believe in eternal punishment else they will do things that they think we all should fear.

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.

People believe in Jesus Christ for eternal life, the receive the seal of the Holy Spirit in their lives, but then we tell them they can just sit around and relax.

Third, even Zane's famous 2 part articles on «How to Lead a Person to Christ» seems fairly clear that the gospel is «believe in Jesus for eternal life.»

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.

A person needs not know all of these in order to believe in Jesus for eternal life, but most people will need to know at least a few of them before they are ready to believe in Jesus.

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.

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.

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

So if people are totally depraved (see the link list below) so that they can not even believe in Jesus for eternal life or respond positively to God in any way, then God must unilaterally give eternal life to certain people.

First, as sinful, unregenerate human beings, people can do nothing good for God, nothing to earn or merit eternal life, and nothing which might put them in God's good graces.

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.

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.»

People who believe in Jesus for eternal life are the church, whether or not they «attend church.»

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.

After that, people are spirit - baptized the moment they believe in Jesus for eternal life.

While the death and resurrection of Jesus are central to the Gospel, believing in the resurrection of Jesus is not required for a person to receive eternal life from Jesus.

If we are talking about how to receive eternal life, it is not simple belief that matters, but believing in the right person for the right thing.

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.

When you invite a person to believe in Jesus for eternal life, it is unlikely they will do so unless they know some other gospel truths as well.

A person simply needs to believe in Jesus for eternal life to be given it by God.

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.

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 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 saved.

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.

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.

Here then is where we arrive at the point: Just as God calls people to respond to His Word with obedience and righteousness through the exercise of their choices (non-meritorious though they might be) and fully expects them to be able to do so, in the same way, God calls people to believe in Jesus for eternal life, and fully expects them to be able to do so (cf. John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47).

The one essential element of the Gospel is this — a person must believe in Jesus for eternal life.

A person receives eternal life simply and only by believing in Jesus for it.

An extended quote from Robert Wilkin provides further insight into why some believe in Jesus and others do not, and also what God is doing to help all people believe in Jesus for eternal life:

Although, Paul goes on to say that conscience can not provide sufficient revelation for a person to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

Remember that when Jesus walked this earth during His three years of ministry, there were many people who followed Him, but did not believe in Him for eternal life.