Life Eternal Rev. Thomas Mullackal hinking of the fullness and duration of this wonderful life, W. B. Hinson, a great preacher of the last generation, just before his death spoke from his own experience that "I remember a year ago when a doctor told me, 'You have an illness from which you won't recover.' I walked out to where I live five miles from Portland, Oregon, and I looked across at that mountain that I love. I looked at the river in which I rejoice, and I looked at the stately trees that are always God's own poetry to my soul. Then in the evening I looked up into the great sky where God was lighting His lamps, and I said, 'I may not see you many more times, but Mountain, I shall be alive when you are gone; and River, I shall be alive when you cease running toward the sea; and Stars, I shall be alive when you have fallen from your sockets in the great down pulling of the material universe!'"
writer of the fourth gospel – John summarizes his purpose in writing it that “all his readers may have the benefit of life in abundance.” Hence, he says “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name" (John 20:31).
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God –Yahweh, is the source and sustainer of Life. According to Genesis 2:7, "the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." The holy Bible portrayed God as the giver of life and distinguishes living organisms from inanimate things. Abraham believed in God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not (Romans 4:17). We come across uncertain living experiences in varying qualities of life by the length of our days. However, the Bible says God is the creator who even has authority over one's each day. The one who could not comprehend this fact choked in life between sins, worries, worldly pleasures, hunger, sickness and sorrows (Mark 4:19; Luke 12:15). Life in this world is fleeting and uncertain. People are discontent and lacking something in life. Abundant life is the need of the hour and is found in the Bible. The theme of the Bible is the eternal life and the
The origin of life is a mystery that even science can't yet explain fully. However, a combined study of the Gospel of John and the book of Genesis' first chapter establishes the importance of eternal life and the origin of life. The book of Genesis, talks about the origin of life and the gospel of John speaks of Christ who became our light- the life of man. Though the idea of life is the central motif of all the four gospels; the
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