Centuries later,
the search for eternal life wasn't much safer: In 1492, Pope Innocent VIII died after blood transfusions from three healthy boys whose youth he believed he could absorb.
Meanwhile, Larry and Sergei will keep throwing their money at
the search for eternal life, but eh, who are we to complain?
Not exact matches
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).
Affairs often are short -
lived, partly because they fail to realize the dream of
eternal youth
for which the person is
searching.
«
Search the scriptures;
for in them ye think ye have
eternal life: and they are they which testify of me....
From Plato onwards, philosophers have sought to escape from the anxiety of personal freedom by
searching for certainty and objectivity in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of unchanging Platonic Forms, or in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or in an
eternal life with an omniscient, loving, supreme Being.
What you are saying might have some truth in it if we evolved; But since we were created by a thrice holy God, that told us about marrying, who: (marry whom you will, only in the Lord), and how: (Thou shalt not lay with mankind as with womankind), then in order to please him: (
Search the scriptures,
for in them ye think ye have
eternal life...) we have to abstain from this.
Jesus criticized the Pharisees
for doing this when he said, «you
search the scriptures because you think that in them you have
eternal life; it is these that testify about Me» (John 5:39).
(Is not this near to what the Fourth Gospel is saying in 5:39: «Ye
search the Scriptures
for in them ye think ye have
eternal life, but these are they that testify of me, and ye will not come to me that ye may have
life»?)
John 5:39
Search the scriptures;
for in them ye think ye have
eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
«
Search the scriptures;
for in them ye think ye have
eternal life: and they are they which testify of me» John 5:39 Although The Simple Gospel is a compilation of articles and essays written by Jon Cardwell while serving as a missionary - pastor in remote bush Alaska (2002 - 2008), the hope behind this little book is to exhort earnest Bible reading, study and meditations among Christians in these dark times; and further, to encourage an eye upon the scriptures from a perspective that is gospel honoring, Christ exalting, and God glorifying.Jon has often said from the pulpit, «The gospel of Jesus Christ is simple; but it's not simplistic.»
My philosophy is to prepare myself to adapt to
life's persistent questions as opposed to
searching out tea leaves
for answers to
life's
eternal uncertainties.