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• God created all things created (Acts 17 24)
• God that made the world and all things therein,
  seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,
  dwelleth not in temples made with hands 25
  Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though
  he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all
  life, and breath, and all things 26 And hath
  made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell
  on all the face of the earth, and hath determined
  the times before appointed, and the bounds of
  their habitation

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• God created all things created (Acts 17 24)
• 27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply
  they might feel after him, and find him, though
  he be not far from every one of us 28 For in
  him we live, and move, and have our being.

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• Jesus and life
• Jesus spoke of eternal life (2 Tim. 1 10, John
  14 6).
• Jesus is the author (John 11 25, 26, 1 4).
• Jesus presents eternal life as a fact and
  reality (Matt. 25 46).
• And these shall go away into everlasting
  punishment but the righteous into life eternal.

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• Eternal, Greek aionios
• Describes duration, either undefined but not
  endless or undefined because endless (W. E.
  Vine).
• 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his
  only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
  him should not perish, but have everlasting life
  (John 3).

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• Eternal, Greek aionios
• In a sense, all, both lost and saved, have
  endless life. Consider Vine on perish
• The idea is not extinction but ruin, loss, not
  of being, but of well-being.
• The lost shall go on forever, but not in a
  qualitative state (cp. Matt. 25 46).

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• Everlasting life
• (aionios)
• The qualitative state in heaven, joy that is
  beyond comparison (Matt. 5 12).

Perish (apoletai) ruin, loss,
not of being, but of well-being (cp. Mark 9 42,
43).
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• 12 He that hath the Son hath life and he that
  hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13 These
  things have I written unto you that believe on
  the name of the Son of God that ye may know that
  ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on
  the name of the Son of God (I John 5).

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• 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that
  cannot lie, promised before the world began
  (Tit. 1).
• 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and
  undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in
  heaven for you (I Pet. 1).

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• Hence, not available in this life. Eternal life
  the inheritance of the people of God is not a
  present possession, but a promise, the
  realization of which much await our entrance into
  the world to come (Mark 10 30, Guy N. Woods on
  I Peter 1 4, Commentary on the New Testament
  Epistles).

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• Those passages which apparently assert the
  possession of eternal life hereare to be
  understood as referring to it in prospect, and
  not in reality. The believer has eternal life in
  prospect and promise, but not in realization
  (Guy N. Woods on I John 5 12, Commentary on the
  New Testament Epistles , compare I John 2 25
  with 5 12, 13).

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