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You make salvation so complicated.

Ever read John 3:16?
must believe everything Christ revealed and the apostolic church teaches per His command mt 28:19

Jn 3:16 1 Jn 5:13 Perpetual faith
mt 3:8 2 cor 7:10 fruits of repentance
Jn 15:4 abide in Christ & bear fruit
Lk 3:9 bear fruit
Lk 1:75 acts 10:35 deeds of righteousness
phil 1:11 fruits of righteousness
mt 26:41 watch and pray
mk 24:48 watch and pray
Lk 21:36 Watch and pray, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
mt 7:7 ask and you shall receive
Lk 9:23 phil 1:29 daily, deny thyself, take up thy cross and follow me.
ps 23:3 leads in paths (deeds) of righteousness acts 10:35
mt 7:14 narrow road that leads to life
2 pet 3:18 grow in grace
heb 6:12 faith & patience
heb 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
rev 2:19 faith, patience, & works
rev 14:12 commandments, patience, & faith
mt 19:17 Jn 14:21 1 cor 7:19 1Jn 3:24 1 Jn 5:2-3 rev 12:17 keep the commandments
eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
mt 10:22 mk 13:13 mt 24:13 endure to the end in patient suffering
heb 6:15 after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
rev 2:10 he who overcomes I shall give the crown of life!

Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

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.
(eternal salvation)
 
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It's the same cpontext as John 3:16
same term has different meaning!

"eternal life"

Eternal life has two parts:

part one) grace that we receive now in this life with the initial grace of justification which we can increase by good works and lose by sin.

part two) eternal salvation after death, judgment, eternal life in the glories of heaven.

((eternal life refers to grace))

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.

1 Jn 2:25
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

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 refers to eternal salvation))

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.

thks
 

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must believe everything Christ revealed

Salvation was actually revealed as church doctrine by Paul the Apostle., tho it was completed by Jesus on The Cross 2000 yrs ago.

What Paul revealed is that "all who believe in Jesus shall be saved", for as long as God lives.

Salvatoin is easy to receive.....as it only costs the sinner their FAITH........while it Cost God's Son His Blood and Death to make God's Salvation available, as the FREE= "Gift of Salvation".
 
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I learned about my eternal salvation from the bible.

John 3:16
selective scripture

faith alone?

repentance & conversion Acts 3:19
patience Luke 21:19, Luke 8:15, Romans 5:3-5, Colossians 1:11, 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:4, 1 Timothy 6:11, 2 Timothy 3:10,
Titus 2:2, Hebrews 6:12, Hebrews 10:36, James 1:3-4, James 5:10,
2 pet 1:6, rev 14:12
perpetual faith Jn 3:16
confession of Christ before men
mt 10:32
confess rom 10:9-10
diligently seek heb 11:6
confidence heb 10:35
add to faith 2 pet 1:5
faith without charity avails nothing
1 cor 13:2
three are eternal faith, hope, & charity 1 cor 13:13

whole counsel of God

thks