“Let me make this perfectly clear to you: Anyone who
hears the words I speak and as a result places his or her faith in the Father
who sent me has eternal life and will no longer be under condemnation. These people pass over from looming eternal
death into the realm of everlasting life.” John 5:24 EFP
Though the claims of Christianity are
stunning, the salvation described in the core of Christianity is even more
stunning. Jesus states it here succinctly:
Believe and live. Believe and pass from an
inevitable and final death to a glorious reality of perfect and perpetual life.
It’s so simple! And it’s at the core of Christianity. There are no loopholes. No escape clauses. No qualifiers. Believe and receive the gift of eternal
life—now. Your sentence of death is
removed and the promise of eternal life is put in its place. It’s almost as if at times I am afraid of how
permissive this sounds that I am tempted to explain it away or qualify it
somehow. But the statement stands firmly
as a concise salvific declaration of Jesus.
Help me believe, Lord!
What happens after this moment may be
up for debate, but this truth remains in all its beauty. Let it stand!
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