Sentences with phrase «write about eternal life»

Most often, when the authors of Scripture want to write about eternal life, they use the words «eternal life» (or «everlasting life» in some translations).

Not exact matches

John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.

That is why in my article above, I tried to only refer to «eternal life» when I was writing about what could not be lost.

In 1 Peter 3:21, Peter is not writing about how to gain eternal life.

When you read in the Bible about proclaiming Jesus as Lord, following Jesus, taking up your cross, eternal reward, inheriting the Kingdom, life in the Spirit, faithful living, and on and on and on, the author who wrote that text was primarily thinking of how we should live as followers of Jesus so that we can experience the life God meant for us to live.

I am attending seminary and love to study the Bible and so my enjoyment of the Bible leads me to write about the grace of God, the unconditional love, and how a person can gain eternal life.

Remember, Paul is not talking in Ephesians about how to receive eternal life; He is writing to Christians about how to live out the life in Christ they already have.

Here is what he wrote about how D. L. Moody used John 5:24 to show him that he could be sure he had eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ:

Mike i like what you wrote about the relationship with Christ its all about that.To me the gospel description is found in that verse it covers our fathers love that he has always loved us from the beginning when he created us it covers the reason why Jesus was sent to put things right to remove our sin guilt and shame and to receive from him new life his life eternal but it is just as real today and tomorrow and forever.brentnz

They are discipleship verses, not verses about how to receive eternal life (which is what I was writing about in my post).

Recently I wrote a post on the All About Eve blog that the theological invitation «Believe in Jesus for eternal life» is more concretely summed up with the statement «God loves you.»

You see, when John wanted to write about how to receive eternal life, he tells us close to 100 times that it is simply by believing in Jesus Christ for it.

In a previous post I wrote about the popular misunderstanding of the word «gospel,» that it refers only to receiving eternal life and going to heaven when you die.I then argued that the gospel is everything related to Jesus Christ.

On scholarly level, I am writing a book about what drives us in life, based upon positive psychology, psych theory and eternal truths from Genesis.