This was in the face of many related heresies all of which drew on the cosmic dualism at the heart of paganism and had a problem accepting the goodness of the body and hence that it participates in divinity or that it can
inherit eternal life in the resurrection.
Jesus» words don't contradict James but they do add more depth to the subject
of inheriting eternal life and doing the will of God.
They took the eighteen brothers, and sisters who had chosen for their part to confess God and
inherit eternal life by becoming his sons and daughters, they bound their hands and feet, they attached them to posts surrounded with mats and they put them with the other prisoners.
29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife [k] or children or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and
inherit eternal life.
elektos - chosen out) Scripture paints this picture that God has predestined individuals to become His children and
inherit eternal life.
The Lord promised that those who have left everything to follow Him will be repaid a hundredfold in this life and
inherit eternal life.
Once a young man came to Jesus and asked what he should do to
inherit eternal life.
In Luke 10, a religious person asks Jesus a straightforward question, «What must I do to
inherit eternal life?»
Man: «Good Master, what can I do that I may
inherit eternal life?»
In fact it would be a greater blessing from the Christian perspective because I would then get to
inherit eternal life and be with my Savior, whom I long to see.
The rich ruler who came to Jesus with the searching question «Good teacher, what shall I do to
inherit eternal life?»
What must we do to
inherit eternal life?
What can I do to
inherit 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?
Then a question from a rich man about what he must do to
inherit eternal life, and the answer is: the one thing you're not willing to do.
«Teacher,» he asked, «what must I do to
inherit eternal life?»
«Luke 10 25, 37 «What shall i do to
inherit eternal life...... go and do likewise» These verses are not advocating works righteousness but it seems incorrect to argue as some evangelicals do that works pay no role at all in inheritting eternal life.
As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, «Good Teacher, what must I do to
inherit eternal life?»
We inherit eternal life if we live by it, not as a reward, but because through the Law and God's grace we already begin to share in God's life.
Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or fields, for my names sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will
inherit eternal life.
Others would say that the essential Christian message is that Christ died to save sinners or that only by believing in Jesus Christ as personal Savior can
one inherit eternal life.
But basically I am convinced that everyone who sincerely desire to
inherit eternal live will live eternally with God and that He is never going to reject anyone because he sincerely believed that Christianity is false.
17And as he traveled on the road, one came running and fell on his knees and asked him and said, «Good teacher, what shall I do that I may
inherit eternal life?»
When a rich, young ruler comes to Jesus to ask how to
inherit eternal life, Jesus tells him that he must sell all he has and give the money to the poor (Luke 18:18 - 23).
«Master, what must I do to
inherit eternal life?»
The history of the Western world has been greatly affected by young people who have asked and asked, «What good deed must I do to
inherit eternal life?»
We are called to preach the law with love, to risk telling people how to live as an act of love, even as our Lord looked with love at the man who asked, «What must I do to
inherit eternal life?»
And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may
inherit eternal life?
In Luke 6, a teacher asks Jesus what must be done to
inherit eternal life.
The first is the so - called Irenaeian theodicy (after the second - century theologian Irenaeus): God permits suffering and evil in order that by them we might come to sufficient maturity so as to be able to
inherit eternal life.
It may be presumed that like the «rich, young, ruler» of the Synoptists, he was asking: «What must I do to
inherit eternal life?»