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Was there any promise of eternal life associated with any of the Mosaic Law. For instance, was animal sacrifice promised with eternal life? No. Eternal life is foretold in the Old Testament, but never as a promise associated to obedience to Mosaic Law. The following verses refer to life after death, hinting at the eternal nature of life. This ...

From my experience, I have found two things to help teenagers. : When I talk about heaven, I'm always quick to point out that the "golden harp on a cloud" picture that we have of heaven isn't biblical, and frankly it would be kinda boring. Instead, I point out that eternal life with God is anything but static- we re still growing in heaven! Don't focus as ...

Unfortunately, some things that are professed in Christianity simply cannot be proven by any known scientific methods that I am aware of. It is, for the most part, a mystery to those of us who are still living. If the students are in a Catechism class, I would suggest simply teaching what is part of the catechism and referencing what the catechism says ...

Yes, there is. What happens to Satan? The New Testament is the story of Christ's victory over sin and death. This happened with his death and resurrection, but the final accomplishment of his victory is delayed until the end of time. Matthew 25:31-46 quotes Jesus saying that at that time, he will return to judge all people. 1 Corinthians 15:22-26 explains ...

Salvation is often mentioned, and Psalms 9 carries the idea that the soul lives on after death, but the most direct teaching I could find is in Daniel 12:2 Daniel 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt. Here are some of the more obvious teachings ...

John's thought in his letter includes verses 18 and 20. Here's 1 John 2:18-20 (NRSV) Children, it is the last hour! As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. From this we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with ...

There is a distinction between living forever on earth and eternal life. Although we are not given overt and explicity details about this, it appears that the tree of life enabled Adam and Eve to live forever on earth. Prior to the Fall, this was great. After the Fall, however, this would have caused mankind to remain in an unredeemed body that is ...

I think we're reading our cultural bias back into this text - namely by saying that it is talking about salvation in terms of "in" or "out" and our soteriological context. That is a very Western concept, and was largely foreign to the apostles. For them, salvation was found only in the Church (referring here to the gathered and 'sent' people of God, not to a ...

First off I'd like to state that this is, in my opinion, clearly not a parable because the Bible does not state it as one like it does in these many citations: Matthew 13:18 Luke 6:39 Luke 12:16 Luke 15:3 Luke 18:1 Luke 18:9 Luke 19:11 If Jesus was speaking of reality then 'The End' had technically already come. Is this correct? So, to answer this ...

Are they not into it because they do not feel it is real or because they don't care about the difference? If they think that living forever (in some sense) and living only for a normal human lifespan are equivalent, you can invite thought-experiments about what things would be like for them in 40, 60, 80 years. Most teenagers have plenty of imagination to ...

I agree with David and Affable Geek's answers: teens tend to think they are indestructible so you might not break through. Lord willing, they will survive long enough to remember your wise teaching. A suggestion that I have which probably can't be applied to your situation is to take a look at John Piper's Desiring God. According to Piper, God isn't just ...

This article gives an argument for an alternate interpretation of the passage that does not conflict with conditional security. The author states that: Clearly then 1 John 2:19 is speaking of these gnostic teachers who went out from the apostles claiming to be super apostles and above the apostles. However, they did not continue in the doctrine of the ...

In this passage Jesus is telling a Parable. Parables are stories intended to make specific points. They are not descriptions of reality. They are not "true stories". If you try push them too hard you will lose the point that is being made. We have no reason to think that there actually was a person called Lazarus to whom this happened. There is no reason to ...

I don't know that the average teenager would find this answer persuasive, but here's how I see it: Ask any teenager why he should go to school. Most understand that the purpose of school is to prepare you for adult life. You have to know enough math to be able to at least handle routine tasks like figuring out if you can afford that house or apartment on ...

It is correct that the written Hebrew Scriptures, aka the "Old Testament", says nothing specific about the afterlife. For that reason, the Sadduccees held that there was no life after death and no punishment for sins after death. Mark 12:18. The Pharisees, in contrast, believed in an afterlife and believed that the concept had been retained in the "Oral ...

First, if we take the tree to symbolize a pledge to Adam the immortality and all that life required, based on continued obedience to all the commands of God, then the tree was a pledge to Adam that so long as he did not eat from the forbidden tree he would have lived forever. This is reasonable. Second, by sinning Adam lost that immortality, therefore the ...

Your question seems to imply that the group in this verse includes all people who become Christians and then leave the faith. However, as @Gilbert Le Blanc pointed out, by giving context to the verse, the thought is referring to a specific group who were not believers. So the verse does not refer to everyone who ceases to call themselves Christian.

I would say that this passage, given the context, is referring to the body of Christ when John says "us". That would indicate eternal security of your salvation. However, if one wanted to interpret the passage to say that by "us", John is referring to a particular group of people (a group of teachers, a particular assembly of believers, etc.), then in that ...

There are indeed many verses that speak of Hell as being eternal although there aren't so many that make the clear that the punishment is also eternal. Here are a couple: Matthew 25:46 (NIV) “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 (NIV) 8 He will punish those who do not know God ...

Aristotle (384-322 BC) talked about zoe versus psyche in his treatise De Anima ("On the Soul"). However, his concept of the mortal and immortal components of the complete human is a bit different than our current understanding. An excerpt from the Catholic Encyclopedia discusses this: For Aristotle, in the case of living natural bodies the vital ...