User:Alan347/eternal life
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In Christianity the term Eternal life is is a unique gift from God, based on the model of the Resurrection of Jesus not an inherent part of human existence.
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The Resurrection of Jesus is as a unique event through which death was conquered "once for all", permitting Christians to experience eternal life now.
Johannine writings specifically present the view of eternal life as pertaining to the present, so those who accept Christ can possess life "here and now" as well as in eternity, for they have "passed from death to life", as in John 5:24 and 1John 3:13.
In the Pauline epistles life becomes possible in the person of Jesus Christ. And by the grace of God and through faith in Christ humans can receive the gift of eternal life (e.g. Romans 3:25). Paul views the Gospel as the power for eternal life as in Romans 6:22, Romans 5:10