Have or Not Have Eternal Life?
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John 17:3 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Read the context: John 17
Ponder:
? What does "this is" mean? What does "that" mean?
? How many other Gods can there be other than "the only true" one?
? What does "and" Jesus Christ mean?
JNE: Jesus Christ was a human being. He had a human mother. He was birthed in a human way. He walked, talked, breathed, bled, looked, ate, rested, died like a human being. YET, Jesus Christ had no human father, could read people's minds, heal illness and injuries, control the weather, raise the dead back to life, accurately predict the future, effectively forgive sin, do and say things that only a true God could do. Jesus Christ lived with God from The Beginning, He was in fact God from the beginning. How could Jesus Christ do God-like things, and be God-like things if there is only One True God? People understandably argue that if Jesus were the One God, why would He pray to Himself, how could He be both human and Divine? These are reasonable questions. But the doubting questions only seriously consider the human-perspective. A sincerely honest person must consider these questions from a God-perspective as much as possible.
A being who would claim, as Jesus did, that He is: the light of the world, the way the truth and the Life, the resurrection and the life, One with the Father God, coming again, and here in 17:3 that "Eternal Life is to know God and Himself, is either a colossal liar, seriously self-deceived, or indeed God Himself. And, as God, He can be, do and say things beyond our full human understanding.
If God declares and demonstrates Himself to be ONE, while being Father, Son and Holy Spirit, anyone who claims to believe Him, ought to Believe Him even though it seems impossible.
If "knowing God and Jesus Christ" is "Eternal Life," to deny that They are in some Divine way "The Only True God" is to not have "Eternal Life."
John 17:3 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Read the context: John 17
Ponder:
? What does "this is" mean? What does "that" mean?
? How many other Gods can there be other than "the only true" one?
? What does "and" Jesus Christ mean?
JNE: Jesus Christ was a human being. He had a human mother. He was birthed in a human way. He walked, talked, breathed, bled, looked, ate, rested, died like a human being. YET, Jesus Christ had no human father, could read people's minds, heal illness and injuries, control the weather, raise the dead back to life, accurately predict the future, effectively forgive sin, do and say things that only a true God could do. Jesus Christ lived with God from The Beginning, He was in fact God from the beginning. How could Jesus Christ do God-like things, and be God-like things if there is only One True God? People understandably argue that if Jesus were the One God, why would He pray to Himself, how could He be both human and Divine? These are reasonable questions. But the doubting questions only seriously consider the human-perspective. A sincerely honest person must consider these questions from a God-perspective as much as possible.
A being who would claim, as Jesus did, that He is: the light of the world, the way the truth and the Life, the resurrection and the life, One with the Father God, coming again, and here in 17:3 that "Eternal Life is to know God and Himself, is either a colossal liar, seriously self-deceived, or indeed God Himself. And, as God, He can be, do and say things beyond our full human understanding.
If God declares and demonstrates Himself to be ONE, while being Father, Son and Holy Spirit, anyone who claims to believe Him, ought to Believe Him even though it seems impossible.
If "knowing God and Jesus Christ" is "Eternal Life," to deny that They are in some Divine way "The Only True God" is to not have "Eternal Life."