Sentences with phrase «requirement for eternal life»

Boyd also reveals a basic misunderstanding of other key ideas as well, such as the term «salvation,» the requirements for eternal life, and the concepts of great faith, small faith, etc..

Can you even point to one verse in the bible (or passage) that gives all the requirements for eternal life, and all the understandings necessary of those requirements, or must you necessarily cut and paste your checklist together?

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John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed, had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure eternal life through works, and thus Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.

But precisely for this reason all Christians do not only receive a complete and supposedly concrete natural law which is communicated to them by the official representatives of the Church, they also find out for them - selves the actual requirements of public life, so that all may have as much freedom as possible, a freedom that can act with God in view and thus create that personal finality which receives God himself as its eternal meaning.

(Mark 10:23 - 27) Renunciation is the rule for all, (Mark 8:34 - 37; 10:21, 28:31) and the compensations are as simply and absolutely set forth as is the requirement: the good things of this life, such as they are, the blessings of family and of property, will be shared by all within the community, «now in this present time: houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.»

So if we think that «saves us» means we receive eternal life, then the clear conclusion is that baptism is a requirement for gaining or keeping our eternal life.