You need to read your bible more and learn. JOhn wrote in his epistle that he wrote those things so we may know we have eternal life-now!
1 JOhn 5:13 have is in teh present active indicative. So those who believe in teh name of Jesus have now eternal life- not probationary eternal life, or temporary eternal life- but eternal life.
And you do not even know what Jesus did on teh cross it appears. Sin is not the issue- but faith is.
Eph. 2:8-10
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time
You do not even know what grace, mercy, justification and sanctification are! Nor who performs these in a believers life.
No amount of good works will earn you any closer to heaven, nor any amount of bad works in a born again child of God will cause them to lose their relationship with god the Father.
Go and learn the difference between relationship and fellowship.
Salvation in a nutshell!
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, (redemption) and purify unto himself a peculiar people,(justification) zealous of good works. (Sanctification) Jn 15:4 abide in Christ / Mt 10:22 endures to the end Shall be saved. (Salvation)
(((definition of terms)))
"first we must agree on these terms or we can never attain to an understanding"
The process of salvation!
(any part of the process of salvation can be called salvation or the past tense saved especially the redemption which was accomplished by Christ)
((Redemption))
eph 2:1
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
eph 2:5
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
eph 2:8
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
((Justification))
Romans 3:24
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Rom 5:10
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, (redemption) much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. (righteousness)
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{ before justification works? no!
"justification is a free gift"
after justification works? yes }
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((Union))
Jn 15:5 apart from Christ? nothing!
Phil 4:13 with Christ? all things!
Ps 23:4 Thou art with me...
Isa 53:3 by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.
1 Jn 1:6-7
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
((sanctification))
eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
practice of the virtues: faith, hope, & charity etc.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: (impossible without works) mt 26:41 watch & pray / heb 12:4 James 4:7 resist / eph 6:10-18 armor of God / Lk 9:23 phil 1:29 suffering
((grace enables good works))
Jn 15:5
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
2 cor 12:9
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Romans 1:5
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Colossians 1:6
Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
((Perseverance))
Rom 8:13-17 but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rom 11:22 if thou continue in his goodness:
1 cor 7:24 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1 cor 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1 cor 13:13 (3) three things are eternal; faith, hope and charity and the greatest is charity.
2 thes 1:4 faith & patience
heb 6:12 faith and patience inherit the promises.
Romans 2:7 patience
James 1:4 patience a perfect work
Hebrews 10:36
need of patience
Gal 5:2-4 fallen
Gal 5:25 if we live in the spirit
Col 1:21-23 If ye continue in the faith
Col 2:5 steadfast
2 Tim 2:3 endure hardship
2 Tim 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
1 tim 5:12 lost faith
1 pet 2:20 if we suffer patiently
1 Jn 2:24-28 grace must abide in us
1 Jn 3:6 abideth in Him (Christ)
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Heb 3:4-6 if we hold fast
Heb 6:4-9 if they fall away
Heb 12:7 if ye endure
Heb 12:22-25 if we turn away
James 1:12 endureth
((Perseverance unto death))
mk 13:13
He who endures to the end shall be saved.
mt 10:22
He who endures to the end shall be saved.
mt 24:13
He who endures to the end shall be saved.
rev 2:10
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
((Judgement))
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:
((eternal life: grace))
(life & union now)
Jn 1:16
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Jn 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Jn 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
2 cor 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; (grace)
1 Jn 5:13
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
1 Jn 5:20
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
((eternal life: full eternal salvation in the next life))
mt 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
mk 10:30
But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Romans 6:22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
Hebrews 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Romans 2:7
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
1 Jn 2:25
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
2 pet 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
((Gloification))
Glorification: crowned by God if we suffer with Christ!
(rom 8:17 2 tim 2:12)
questions are welcome
