If you think this, then I can not agree with you. Because again, it is a gift. A promise.
If God says you HAVE eternal life. Yet in reality, you may still die, Then you do not have eternal life. You have what would be called conditional life.
You continue to make it all about you. (you need to buy the ticket, You need to get on the plane..etc etc
You need to make it all about God..
The interesting thing about language is adjectives can be used to imply emphasis in different ways.
So in Christ we have life, the life that is eternal, the life of God. If I call this life eternal life, meaning it is the life that comes from walking with God. If I lose this walk, I lose eternal life, the life that is in God.
Gifts. I see a gift as a thing, an object. Now if I distinguish between life as we have now as humans, and life we have in fellowship with God, then the life I have in God I can call eternal life. And this life, this communion can be a gift.
If life is the same in Christ as it is in the world as humans, but goes on into eternity, I could call this eternal life, to distinguish the life that does not end. Now the promise is not the gift, the not dying is the gift. But I can frame this gift is not delivered now, but when everyone who is not written in the Lambs book of life is throne into the fire.
It is interesting to explore this nuances, buried in such a simple term, eternal life.
I like your observation it is all about me. But this misses the point. It is all about Jesus, but we need to respond. If we do not respond we have nothing. It seems you cannot admit our response is a condition for salvation. Those that believe will be saved, those that confess etc.
If you want a faith with no action, you have universalism, 100%. You also deny scripture. How did Jesus describe heaven?
1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard.
2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 "About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
4 He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.'
5 So they went.
6 "He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?'
7 "'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. "He said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.'
8 "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.'
9 "The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.
10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius.
11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.
12 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.'
13 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius?
14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you.
15 Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'
16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last."
Matt 20:1-16
Salvation is the payment, the same for all, no matter how long one works.
The glorious thing is we work for the Lord, He chose us and we responded, amen.
It is all about God and His Kingdom, love and victory, but no response and we miss it all.
All I can see is this idea of the need to respond, and to walk, is so disliked you have to just disagree. God bless you