Not exact matches
Yet, Heidegger is even less congenial to Christian theology than Kant, for in an important sense Christianity is anthropocentric: «God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but
have eternal life.»
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!
Of course, if you
have not
yet believed in Jesus for
eternal life, why put it off any longer?
When we know that we
have believed in Jesus for
eternal life, and
yet we doubt whether or not we
have it, we are doubting God and the promises He
has made (2 Tim.
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.
If you
have not
yet trusted in Christ as Savior then receive Him, be willing to follow Him as He leads you, and ask God's forgiveness through faith in Christ and you will
have eternal life.
Yet a third characteristic of Chesterton's holiness was his recognition of sin — especially his own sins — and the urgency to
have them forgiven to receive
eternal life.
Yet when most people are reading their Bibles (and they
have their spiritual - colored glasses on), and read about some sort of sin that brings death, they put a spiritual twist on it, and think it is referring to spiritual death, or losing your
eternal life, or something like that.
It can leave many people thinking that they are going to heaven because they
have «prayed a prayer»
yet never understood that
eternal life is received by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
Yet according to John's Gospel, Jesus said: «Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you
have no
life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
has eternal life» (6:53 f.).
If you
have not
yet believed in Jesus for
eternal life, then the warning that Jesus gave to the religious leaders in Matthew 12:31 - 32 may apply to you as well.
Yet, while we were yet sinners God provided a way for us to have eternal life with H
Yet, while we were
yet sinners God provided a way for us to have eternal life with H
yet sinners God provided a way for us to
have eternal life with Him.
I am not
yet sure if
eternal life is separate from salvation, but while I believe that «once receiving
eternal life, always receiving
eternal life» is not theoretically true, I do believe that it is virtually impossible to lose
eternal life once you
have received the Holy Spirit by believing in Christ.
Yet millions of children
have believed in Jesus for
eternal life without knowing much about the identity of Jesus.
It's because they
have not
yet believed that He
has given them
eternal life as He promised.
Because they haven't
yet believed the part of the gospel which pertains to
eternal life, namely, that
eternal life is given to those who believe in Jesus for it (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47).
The Woman at the well believed that Messiah
would come and tell all things, but she hadn't
yet believed in the Messiah as the giver of
eternal life.
I feel that the common FG view is reductionistic in saying that belief in Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of God can be equated with believing that he guarantees
eternal life and so I'm struggling to find a view that avoids being reductionistic and
yet at the same time allows people to be sure that they
have believed that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God.
A connection you
have yet to forge with someone could be the catalyst to a change in your
life that brings you
eternal happiness.