The only way to attain eternal life
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Paul is long gone and no way you can harmonize the two. Don’t you find Jesus more than enough for you to be saved? Please don’t attach anyone and anything to the Living Christ Jesus because He alone is the Savior. You need no one, be it Paul or Peter, and nothing, even the bible, but Jesus for your salvation.
There is only one shepherd and one flock in the shepherding job of the Lord Jesus Christ across all generations. The only Pastor/Shepherd and Teacher is the Living Christ Jesus.
I hope you are in this one fold of the Lord and your Pastor and Teacher is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, alive and real!
John 17:3. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Eternal Life is
1. for us to know the Father as the only true God, and
2. for us to know the Father as Jesus, whom He has sent.
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Eternal Life is often mistaken for Immortality. The two are not the same.
Immortality pertains to a body that's immune to death. Eternal Life, on the
other hand, pertains to a soul that's immune to death.
It's possible for people to obtain eternal life prior to obtaining immortality.
For example: Christ had eternal life all along (John 5:26, 1John 1:1-2) but
according to Rom 6:9 and Rev 1:18, he didn't obtain immortality till after his
crucified dead body was restored to life.
Likewise his believing followers have eternal life now (John 5:24, 1John
5:13) but according to Rom 8:23-25, 1Cor 15:51-53, and 1Thss 4:14-17
they won't obtain immortality until their resurrections.
Eternal Life and Immortality are very important benefits primarily because
they protect people from the second death depicted by Rev 20:11-15.
FAQ: Don't people in perdition have eternal life? Wouldn't they have to in
order to be there forever?
REPLY: If they had eternal life; they wouldn't be in perdition.
● John 3:16-17 . . God so loved the world that He gave His one and only
son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For
God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but to save
the world through him.
● John 5:24 . . I assure you; those who listen to my message, and believe in
God who sent me, have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their
sins, but they have already passed from death into life.
● John 10:27-28 . . My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they
follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish.
The thing is: eternal life has more to do with divine qualities than it does
with longevity. Folks in perdition are there because they had only human
nature when they passed on instead departing with the divine nature
mentioned in 2Pet 1:2-4.
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Eternal Life is often mistaken for Immortality. The two are not the same.
Immortality pertains to a body that's immune to death. Eternal Life, on the
other hand, pertains to a soul that's immune to death.
It's possible for people to obtain eternal life prior to obtaining immortality.
For example: Christ had eternal life all along (John 5:26, 1John 1:1-2) but
according to Rom 6:9 and Rev 1:18, he didn't obtain immortality till after his
crucified dead body was restored to life.
Likewise his believing followers have eternal life now (John 5:24, 1John
5:13) but according to Rom 8:23-25, 1Cor 15:51-53, and 1Thss 4:14-17
they won't obtain immortality until their resurrections.
Eternal Life and Immortality are very important benefits primarily because
they protect people from the second death depicted by Rev 20:11-15.
FAQ: Don't people in perdition have eternal life? Wouldn't they have to in
order to be there forever?
REPLY: If they had eternal life; they wouldn't be in perdition.
● John 3:16-17 . . God so loved the world that He gave His one and only
son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For
God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but to save
the world through him.
● John 5:24 . . I assure you; those who listen to my message, and believe in
God who sent me, have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their
sins, but they have already passed from death into life.
● John 10:27-28 . . My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they
follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish.
The thing is: eternal life has more to do with divine qualities than it does
with longevity. Folks in perdition are there because they had only human
nature when they passed on instead departing with the divine nature
mentioned in 2Pet 1:2-4.
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Immortality and eternal life are just terminologies and they are both applicable only to spirit beings. Rotten physical bodies in the grave will be resurrected come resurrection day. But since flesh and blood will not inherit the kingdom of God, only spirit beings are allowed entry in heaven. Therefore the resurrected bodies will be converted to spirit beings through the second death for the sheep to enter heaven, and for the goats to enter hell.
Believers do not experience the second death. From Rev 20
The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to
his deeds. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death— the lake of fire.
And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
You will be resurrected flesh and blood again, how will you enter heaven if you remain in your flesh and blood body?
The second death is not experienced by believers according to Scripture.
I gave the verses.
John 11 v 25-26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. / And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
Let me ask you this,
When we die and are resurrected on Resurrection Day, what kind of body will we have?