Understanding the Concept of Eternal Life

DAY 289 CHALLENGE “Christians can’t lose salvation. Scripture says, ‘He who believes in the Son has eternal life’ (John 3:36a), and if life is eternal, it can’t end.” DEFENSE This fails to understand both the biblical concept of eternal life and other things Scripture says. A basic truth of linguistics is that you can’t define a term simply by looking at its parts; you must look at how it’s used in practice. To violate this principle is to commit the etymological fallacy (e.g., the word awful is a combination of awe and full; it originally meant something full of awe and that thus insp...