Wrong
If it could be lost. ITS NOT ETERNAL. ITS CONDITIONAL
You can have your conditional life.. I will wish you well
Bad logic. If its eternal, it cannot have a beginning either... so if you did not always have it before you existed, you can never get it!
Everyone has eternal existence (called life) in the sense of that our lives do not end at physical death. So there is really nothing special about the distinction of "eternal" unless it speaks of a
quality of life as it does about a life
being without time.
Scripture presents Eternal Life as result of Present Tense faith/belief on Christ. You can pretend that there are no conditions, but that will never make it true. You can force your circular logic on Scripture to make it say what you want, but you will have neither truth or Biblical Christianity.
When you key in on the word "eternal," you fail to see that the quality of "everlasting" is connected to "life" and not to our "having" it or "possessing" it!
The "life" is "eternal," and not the believer! Having Eternal Life does not mean that we have an irrevocable possession of it! Whether we accept Christ and the gift of eternal life or not, has no bearing on the quality of the gift, "eternal life." The gift stays eternal whether we possess it or not! The quality of the "life" is "eternal," whether anyone would ever believe on Christ or not.
If I receive an
eternal Pearl of great price as a gift, it is mine; I "have" an
eternal Pearl. It is something that I should cherish and rejoice in! But what if I trade it in for something I would rather have? What if I no longer cherish the gift or the One that gave it to me. What if I then become careless and then I lose it somewhere?
Even if I cast it away, the Pearl remains eternal! It just ceases to be my possession! According to the Bible, you only "have" Eternal Life on the condition of a present tense faith. The Bible also says that there are several results of a saving faith. It repents, it confesses, it changes the nature of the believer through regeneration, conversion, the New-Birth and sanctification. They are not the same. They bear much fruit because they were created in Jesus Christ unto good works. The condition of "Belief" is more than a whim.
Building a foundation on how you want to define things is no different that the people I know that say that "God is a God of
Love; He would never send anybody to Hell, because that would not be
LOVE!" Their argument, while supremely convincing to them, is no more as sure a foundation for finding Biblical truth as using a single word "eternal" to create a doctrine.