"To have eternal life" means to experience life that lasts forever, even after death.
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The bottom line answer for me is that I don't think any of these verses tell us how to determine
who has eternal life and who does not.
I ran into someone this past week who would pose quite a dilemma for some, especially if we are trying to determine if
people have eternal life based on what they believe.
That is it, you are guaranteed eternal life, so if you believe that; You can live like the devil and
still have eternal life.
They teach that if you have patterns of habitual sin in your life, you have good reason to question whether or not you
actually have eternal life.
Finally, there are many who say that if a person
truly has eternal life, they can never lose it, but their good works will prove that they actually have it.
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.
I pray he will be alright and — if he has not already — I pray will come to know Jesus Christ as His Savior who died for him on the Cross for the remission of his sins, and was resurrected so that he might
have an eternal life with God.
The fourth Gospel reports Jesus» saying, «If you love me, you will keep my commandments,» and «He who believes in the
Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.»
I AM, he goes on, the bread from heaven here to do the will of the One who sent me: to help people believe and by
believing have eternal life.
The truth, however, is that while the gospel does tell us how to
have eternal life so that we can go to heaven when we die (I call this «The Target Truth» in The Gospel According to Scripture), this truth is relatively small compared to the large number and wide variety of gospel truths contained within the Scriptures.
I'll bet the only one that has benefited entire NATIONS is the one that says there is only one God who sent his Son who died and rose again so that all mankind may
have eternal life IF they choose to accept it
You then have eternal live
So, before they take off and possibly never see me again, I want to make sure that if they walk away with anything, that it's not me trying to start a friendship, nor trying to explain the sin problem, but instead making clear to them how they can
have eternal life as a free gift by just believing in Him for it.
If Levi did not
have eternal life prior to this event, his actions here did not allow him to receive eternal life either.
I mostly did not include the promise of eternal life, so this is a great reminder to include this wonderful promise to whoever believes in the Lord Jesus
Christ has eternal life.
Just as Israel, as God's elect nation, was elected to serve God in a specific task, but this does not mean that every individual Israelite was regenerate, so also, election elsewhere in Scripture has nothing to do with whether or not
someone has eternal life, but has everything to do with what role God wants them to serve in His plans and purposes for the world.
that whosoever believeth in him should not
perishbut have eternal life (he's god — he makes the rules - he could have done this without the whole dieing on the cross thing)
I have not yet seen an explanation on how Peter and the apostles could
have eternal life without believing in the death and resurrection of Jesus, but how today we must believe it.
They are not the «nones» (using the earlier article featured by David H.), they may
even have eternal life... but they are not the followers of the priorities set and lived by Christ.
And I ended up rejecting it, because I think that the emphasis on the law completely misses the point of the law and misrepresents the good news message of Jesus that anyone and everyone can
have eternal life simply and only by believing in Jesus for it.