Sentences with phrase «who has eternal life»

If God doesn't choose who has eternal life and who does not, how then do we receive it?

What this means is that election has nothing to do with who has eternal life and who does not, and everything to do with God's choice of certain people and nations to perform certain tasks and purposes in He plan for the world.

They see that word «saved» in Luke 8:12 and think that it is referring to how to determine who has eternal life.

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.

The third phrase, the Lamb's Book of Life, refers to a book which contains the names of every person who has eternal life in Jesus Christ.

The word «saved» is what makes many people think this parable is about how to determine who has eternal life and who does not.

One common view (which I held for many years) is that there are two books, the Book of Life, which contains the list of everyone who is alive, and the Lamb's Book of Life, which contains the list of everyone who has eternal life in Jesus.

So while the Book of the Living seems to refer to everyone who is alive at the time, the Book of Life refers to everyone who has eternal life (Dan 12:1; Php 4:3; Rev 21:27).

None of us has any knowledge or authority to say who is going to heaven or hell or who has eternal life.

Including the word «abiding» however, says that someone who has eternal life might actually murder someone, but if they do, it is not because they have (or don't have) eternal life, but simply because they are not acting according to the eternal life that they have from God.

But if the Book of Life contains the names of people who have eternal life, then when Revelation 3:5 talks about blotting someone's name out of the book of life, does this mean it is possible to lose eternal life?

The Book of Life, on the other hand, seems to refer to those who have eternal life, that is, those how have life in Christ.

After all, though many identify the spiritual man with those who have eternal life, and the fleshly man with those who do not, what then are we to do with the soulish man?

And while we would hope and expect that people who have eternal life will live lives of increasing holiness and obedience, the fact that God has given us freedom means that a life of good works is not guaranteed.

The difference between those who have eternal life and those who don't, is that the first group believed in Jesus for eternal life.

Therefore, eventually, at the end of human history, the Book of Life will contain only the names of people who have eternal life in Jesus.

Yes, they are still believers who have eternal life and will go to heaven when they die,»

But there is another book, called the Lamb's book of life, which contains all the names of those who have eternal life through faith in Christ.

Of course, all who have eternal life are also chosen.

If God does not elect certain ones to receive eternal life, and if all who have eternal life, are also the ones who get chosen by God to perform certain tasks, how does one receive eternal life?

So John 7:38 - 39 (that Andrew referred to in an earlier post) is also speaking of believers who had eternal life.

Not exact matches

40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.»

In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!

I've read many posts by atheists asking those who believe in God and eternal life, etc to stop consoling with fairy tales, etc..

Is there a step of faith in believing that Jesus is the Son of God and that He came and died for a sinner like me and that He rose again to prove that He is God and that He defeated Satan, sin and death and has given eternal life to all who believe in Him?

Regardless of some pagan uses in the past, Easter today is the day to remember and be thankful for a God who sent is only begotten son, who was without transgression, to die for our sins and then be raised from the dead that all who believe in Him may have eternal life.

29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold [c] and will inherit eternal life.

The penalty of hell is unimaginably horrific, I have nothing but pity for those who willingly choose it over eternal life in heaven.

But those who got to know Jesus Christ and believed in his name will be saved because Jesus Christ been innocent paid with his life on the Cross for all your sins so that all who believe in Jesus Christ will not perish and have eternal life with the Father in heaven.

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.

But that shouldn't frighten us as Christians, because Jesus has promised that He will give eternal life to all those who put their faith in Him (John 10:28).

@STLBroker: As opposed to the theists who think they know the entire universe was created just so they would have somewhere to stand while an all powerful being gazes lovingly at them then grants them eternal life?

Religion is one lie after another: the lie of original sin, the lie of eternal life, the lie of hell, the lie of answered prayer, the lie that life can have no meaning without religion, the lie that religion is the source of morality, the lie of creationism, the lie of a spy - in - the - sky who hears your every word and reads your every thought.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Depending on who you read, most Christians have between five and ten propositions which they say constitute the entire gospelm, all of which must be believed for a person to receive eternal life.

In the end, rest assured that those who believe in the Lord and his promise will have eternal life.

Do you have a particular group of person in mind, or could you give some examples of who believe that the gospel is only «believe in Jesus for eternal life»?

My new view is that election has little to do with who gets eternal life and who doesn't.

The Lord promised that those who have left everything to follow Him will be repaid a hundredfold in this life and inherit eternal life.

In other words, whatever the denial of 2 Timothy 2:12 is, it is not taking eternal life from someone who already has it, for this would amount to God denying Himself, which He can not do.

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.»

An oft - quoted and familiar verse related to God's promise of eternal life to those who would simply believe is John 3:16.

The first implies that anyone who murders proves that they do not have eternal life.

He said that anyone who believes in him has eternal life (John 6:47).

Again, this verse is sometimes used to defend the idea that anyone who commits murder proves that he / she does not have eternal life, but «belongs to» the evil one.

While I believe in eternal security, I still get the question, «What about someone who grew up a Christian, lived as a Christian for years, then quit, denounced Christ, and hasn't followed him since?»

A believer is someone who has believed in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life.

Did these believers who already have eternal life then lose their salvation?

Instead, John is concerned that these genuine believers to whom he is writing — who already have been regenerated, who already have eternal life, and who are already born of God — will abide and remain in that position of being born of God, so that their righteousness, fellowship, and faith will grow and increase daily.

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.