“Cain, Christ, and the Children of God” « reformed blogging. by Act of love making

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:03:01 -0400

“Cain, Christ, and the Children of God” « reformed blogging.

by Act of love making @ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:03:01 -0400
In John's gospel as in this epistle, it is not by the believer's act of love (cf. 1 John 4:19), but by faith in Christ that one has eternal life. Jesus Christ makes it clear that, “whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. ... For those of the world “went out,” confirming the fact and making it “plain that they are all not of us” (2:19), but those who confess, “that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh [are] from God” (4:2). ...