The church and its members have a special and exclusive calling to be witnesses of God's
promise of eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
The Bible is so ambiguous, it's not even clear what exactly is required for its main
promise of eternal salvation, that any of the good teachings in it are rendered meaningless by the evil teachings that are in it.
Not exact matches
No other structure in the world can be called on to
promise eternal salvation, and when such salvific claims are made in the name
of some nation, race, social class, religion, or ideology, the church must fight such idolatry and blasphemy with all its means
of persuasion, even to the point
of martyrdom.
who with the lordship position can ever know that they have a personal relationship with christ and can stand on his
promises of the certainty
of salvation and
eternal life.
Assurance
of salvation is based on God's
promises in Scripture that those who believe in Jesus will receive
eternal life.
Is it possible that the reason that the Corinthians were so concerned about baptism is that they had been taught by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that
salvation and the
promise of the resurrection
of the dead and
eternal life are received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000 years??
1) that
eternal life given on the basis
of faith alone, in Christ alone, apart from works; 2) that
eternal security is part
of the gift
of eternal life; 3) that assurance
of salvation is through faith in Christ's
promise of eternal life, and not by looking at one's own works 4) Christians can apostatize in this life, and are still eternally secure 5)
eternal rewards are earned by faithful works, and lost by unfaithfulness 6) unlimited atonement 7) free - will to respond to God's drawing or not
In communities under siege from plague, wars and malnutrition, the Virgin's breast was a symbol
of God's loving provision
of life, the nourishment and care that sustain life, and the
salvation that
promises eternal life.
We spell out this great Word
of God — Jesus Christ — reconciliation,
salvation, forgiveness
of sins,
promise of eternal life, fulfilment
of all things in God's own life.
bro.Jeremy; if our
salvation is not secured then
eternal life is never offered at all, or it is just a merely false
promise of God.
They all worshiped very powerful beings — that, after all, is what gods and goddesses are — and the more recently imported cults were very much concerned to offer
salvation, including the
promise of eternal life, to their adherents.
The book
of Hebrews has more words like confidence, boldness, assurance, confirmation, access,
promises, hope,
eternal redemption,
eternal salvation and
eternal inheritance than any other book
of the Bible.
At that time I had absolute assurance
of my
eternal salvation BECAUSE God
promised it to me in His Word (John 3:16).
Rather, assuming that we agree with your premise — that people who believe these things remain unsaved — there is another entirely viable option: that it is not sufficient to believe these things apart from the
promise of eternal life by faith alone in Christ, but that these these are indeed essential elements
of the gospel that must be believed for
salvation.