Sentences with phrase «secure eternal life»

This line: «We are able to save ourselves or reform ourselves or do anything to produce or secure eternal life for ourselves...» there should be a «not» between the «are» and «able,» right?

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.

In my own evangelism, I nearly always refer to the death and resurrection of Jesus as the means by which Jesus secured eternal life for those who believe in Him.

Not exact matches

Kamprad's plan from the beginning was to set up «eternal life» for IKEA, which meant keeping it off the stock market and securing it within a

but eternal live is as secure as God is gracious to grant one his spirit as a GIFT the moment she / he believes.

It's like, «as long as my eternal destiny is secure, as long as my life is all planned out and taken care of by God, who gives a damn about anyone else!»

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

The rich man's secure status in life led him to keep asking the wrong question: What can I do to inherit eternal life?

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

The Bible teaches that if you have believed in Jesus for eternal life, you are safe and secure in the arms of Jesus forever.

[2] Rather, He predestined, He decided beforehand, not that some would receive eternal life and others be condemned to eternal death, but that those who placed faith in Jesus Christ would be adopted as God's sons — would be eternally secure, would make it finally to heaven, and would be conformed to the image of His Son.

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.

Once a person has believed in Jesus for eternal life, they are safe and secure in the arms of Jesus forever, and nothing can take them out of God's hand.

If we (we = persons who have believed in eternal life and are therefore secure in Him forever) sin, become aware of that sin (may have done it intentionally), choose tom ignore that sin and continue to practice it, then we (1) do NOT lose the judicial forgiveness of God that accompanies our salvation but (2) do not experience «family» forgiveness.