OK, then you disagree with Jesus Christ. He said those who believe HAVE, as in the present tense, eternal life.
Jn 5:24
Ok, you asked me a question.
Here is your quote -
By the way, please explain WHEN you think eternal life is given. Please be specific, as related to WHEN one believes. And back it up with Scripture to support your idea.
Here is the scripture that you asked me to use to back up my answer.
My answer: Eternal Life is given In the age to come.
The scripture I used to back up my answer:
9 So He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, 30 who shall not receive many times more in this present time,
and in the age to come eternal life." Luke 18:29-30
Now here is the scripture that you wouldn't write out.
The scripture that you just gave, as your opinion, then "tagged it" with a scripture reference, as is your habit.
24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and
believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
Verily, verily, I
say unto
you *, He that
heareth my word, and believeth on him that
sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is
passed from death unto life. KJV
Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.
YLT
believeth - Strong's Number: 4100 - Pisteuo
- to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in
- of the thing believed
- to credit, have confidence
- in a moral or religious reference
- used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul
- to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith 1bc) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith
- to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity
- to be intrusted with a thing
Those who believe, are promised by the Lord Jesus Christ, eternal life...in the age to come... eternal life
9 So He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, 30 who shall not receive
many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life." Luke 18:29-30
... eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;
5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who "will render to each one according to his deeds": 7
eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness--indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 10
but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. R
omans 2:5-10
JLB