Eternal life. Either you believe it exists or you choose to believe it doesn’t exist. If you choose to believe it doesn’t exist only to find out it does, and you lose eternal life you’ve lost it because you made the choice to lose it.
People might think they deserve eternal life just for being born. Just for existing they may assume it is theirs automatically. They believe that’s fair after all they didn’t ask to be born. They want to live, to die, and to live again automatically without a thought about anything else.
They want to live after dying but WHERE do they want to live? Some want to live again here on earth in another form, others want to become a spirit entity and just simply roam the earth unseen. There are all sorts of scenarios people love to invent to suit their ideas. A common scenario is the ascent into a place called heaven upon death. Very few actually desire to descend into a place opposite of what they imagine is heaven- hell. A favored belief is heaven, the home of the Creator and Redeemer, or for some simply the home of the Creator and His prophets.
If choosing to believe in eternal life you might have, like this lawyer 2000 years ago, ask God’s Son what you could do to inherit eternal life. Go on, read about it--
Luk 10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luk 10:26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Luk 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luk 10:28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
What was this man told? That He had to continue to follow the moral law- Loving God with all his heart and soul, all his strength and mind. Not only that, he must love His neighbor as he desired and expected, hoped to be loved.
So tell me, loving God with all we are, where is the down side to this? What does it take away from a person to love God? How could it make a person into a bad person, loving God? To those who are self-serving having to love any other than themselves would be a hardship. To those who choose to love others as it serves them not necessarily as they should - to their own hardship- loving God is a problem. God asks us to love Him first and foremost but what does it HURT? How does it hurt anyone to love God that way? Especially if that GOD whose law it is to be loved first also in that same law wants us to love others more than ourselves as well? Any God that would ask us to love Him and hate others is not a God I’d follow. We can HATE sin, but not the sinner, yes? But many want to hate the sinners. They make it their right to hate others and then they tell others they are hating them because God wants them to do so.
My God, the God I believe in would NEVER want me to hate another. I truly can hate SIN but not the sinner. I must! I am only forgiven my own sins as I forgive others sins.
The man who asked Jesus how to inherit eternal life listened to Jesus’ answer and wasn’t satisfied. He wanted it clarified. He wanted to justify himself by his own beliefs expecting Jesus to tell him that his neighbor is someone who believes as he does, but Jesus did NOT do this...read on:
Luk 10:29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Luk 10:30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Luk 10:31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Luk 10:32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
Luk 10:33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
Luk 10:34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Luk 10:35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Luk 10:36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
Luk 10:37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
The truth, we are NOT to think only those we deem worthy of our help are the ones we love, the ones we help, the ones we have compassion upon. If we are loving those who love us.. well read this:
Luk_6:32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Yet many who believe in God believe they can only truly love those who love God as they do. Yet we are to love all. God is judge, we are not judges. We can judge right and wrong, but not the eternal life of another. Even if someone blatantly declares they do not believe in eternal life, we cannot judge that they will not have eternal life. We do not know the end from the beginning. Many a staunch atheist (C.S. Lewis for one) has come to the truth during their lifetime and we dare not presume to judge anyone not knowing what tomorrow will bring for them. We can only PRAY that the TRUTH becomes known, the truth and ONLY the truth.
Please, Father we would know Your TRUTH and only YOUR TRUTH!
Help us to love You and to love others as You will.
We would inherit eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, now and forever!
Forgive us, help us, keep us in You!
We love You with our imperfect love, asking You through Your perfect love to be our righteousness now and forever!
Amen.
People might think they deserve eternal life just for being born. Just for existing they may assume it is theirs automatically. They believe that’s fair after all they didn’t ask to be born. They want to live, to die, and to live again automatically without a thought about anything else.
They want to live after dying but WHERE do they want to live? Some want to live again here on earth in another form, others want to become a spirit entity and just simply roam the earth unseen. There are all sorts of scenarios people love to invent to suit their ideas. A common scenario is the ascent into a place called heaven upon death. Very few actually desire to descend into a place opposite of what they imagine is heaven- hell. A favored belief is heaven, the home of the Creator and Redeemer, or for some simply the home of the Creator and His prophets.
If choosing to believe in eternal life you might have, like this lawyer 2000 years ago, ask God’s Son what you could do to inherit eternal life. Go on, read about it--
Luk 10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luk 10:26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Luk 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luk 10:28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
What was this man told? That He had to continue to follow the moral law- Loving God with all his heart and soul, all his strength and mind. Not only that, he must love His neighbor as he desired and expected, hoped to be loved.
So tell me, loving God with all we are, where is the down side to this? What does it take away from a person to love God? How could it make a person into a bad person, loving God? To those who are self-serving having to love any other than themselves would be a hardship. To those who choose to love others as it serves them not necessarily as they should - to their own hardship- loving God is a problem. God asks us to love Him first and foremost but what does it HURT? How does it hurt anyone to love God that way? Especially if that GOD whose law it is to be loved first also in that same law wants us to love others more than ourselves as well? Any God that would ask us to love Him and hate others is not a God I’d follow. We can HATE sin, but not the sinner, yes? But many want to hate the sinners. They make it their right to hate others and then they tell others they are hating them because God wants them to do so.
My God, the God I believe in would NEVER want me to hate another. I truly can hate SIN but not the sinner. I must! I am only forgiven my own sins as I forgive others sins.
The man who asked Jesus how to inherit eternal life listened to Jesus’ answer and wasn’t satisfied. He wanted it clarified. He wanted to justify himself by his own beliefs expecting Jesus to tell him that his neighbor is someone who believes as he does, but Jesus did NOT do this...read on:
Luk 10:29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Luk 10:30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Luk 10:31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Luk 10:32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
Luk 10:33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
Luk 10:34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Luk 10:35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Luk 10:36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
Luk 10:37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
The truth, we are NOT to think only those we deem worthy of our help are the ones we love, the ones we help, the ones we have compassion upon. If we are loving those who love us.. well read this:
Luk_6:32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Yet many who believe in God believe they can only truly love those who love God as they do. Yet we are to love all. God is judge, we are not judges. We can judge right and wrong, but not the eternal life of another. Even if someone blatantly declares they do not believe in eternal life, we cannot judge that they will not have eternal life. We do not know the end from the beginning. Many a staunch atheist (C.S. Lewis for one) has come to the truth during their lifetime and we dare not presume to judge anyone not knowing what tomorrow will bring for them. We can only PRAY that the TRUTH becomes known, the truth and ONLY the truth.
Please, Father we would know Your TRUTH and only YOUR TRUTH!
Help us to love You and to love others as You will.
We would inherit eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, now and forever!
Forgive us, help us, keep us in You!
We love You with our imperfect love, asking You through Your perfect love to be our righteousness now and forever!
Amen.
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