The preacher preaches about being saved so you can have eternal life and so many take that to be living forever but there is a problem with this thought. As Christians, we believe there is more than one possible eternal destination - one great, one not so much. But they are, indeed, both beyond this plane and eternal. Everyone lives forever - that part which makes you "you" - does not die when your frame fades away and you sleep for one final time. So being saved cannot mean living forever since everyone already does that and, since our bodies are imperfect, they wear down and eventually stop working so it cannot mean we live eternally in our current form. So what does eternal life mean? Funny you should ask since there is an answer in the Scriptures for John 17:3 says: "Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent".
Eternal life is knowing God. Not knowing about Him or knowing all the right answers to the questions or even knowing any answers for that matter but actually knowing God. This is the eternal life which comes to us through Christ our Lord.
Now consider the words of Jesus in John 5:39-40 “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life." The Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees studied the scripture inside out and backwards, knew and followed every rule and ritual flawlessly and they still did not know God. More importantly though, we find that we can know God - not just about - by coming to Jesus. Through Him we come to know God. To not only know about but truly know and be to be known by God as well. This is eternal life and it is found in Christ.
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