Everlasting life is yours now already.
The promise of eternal life refers to a life that is to be lived outside of time. God exists within another plane residing outside of all time. Man exists within the physical planes, and which includes time.
The promise of eternal life is simply telling us that we can return to God, and live with him outside of the effects of time once more again. The truth about eternal life is that we already have it. We just need to accept it again through its portal into this world, and which is Jesus Christ in the Christian traditional way of thinking.
The word eternal makes no sense at all to one that has again been re-connected to God. Eternal only applies to those who have not yet accepted God as being within themselves. Time is only measured by the untimed part of ourselves. This is the only way that we can understand that eternal is really the already existing status quo, and that it has always existed like so for all of us.
It is only us that ever moves ourselves away from being eternal beings in our own hearts already. Only the changeless remains eternal. All else subject to change is only ever a projection being made from out of the illusionary nature of time.
If we think that we have a beginning, this beginning will continue forever. There are no beginnings or endings. All only ever exists eternally now to be witnessed and simply experienced by all created parts of the oneness that we have come to be known as God. Only the beginningless is eternal and everlasting without end. This truth proves to us that if we are eternal beings we also had no beginning. Our beginning is merely an illusion that we are holding onto.
Acceptance of our self as eternal and as the source also of all knowledge, is the only way to live from true love. Life constructs itself within time into a newly formed web to catch new aspects of itself from new experiences gathered from within itself loving itself again from its apparent separation. Life in truth though remains untimed, and it exists and has its home only within eternity.
It is only from the eternal that harmony and perfection, and balance and truth are matched to life by creating itself from within love. Eternal reality is unmoving and unchanging, and yet it is solely responsible for all movement and all change.
How is this contradiction made possible?
Eternality is like the great ocean itself. Life is the droplets of water, and love is the creator of the movement within the waters. Love moves life into different parts of itself to meet itself, and so to find itself from within itself.
Wisdom is transmitted in this way from love to each single droplet of itself in its great mighty and infinitely immense ocean. It's all a matter of love expressing itself through life eternally given to it from God.
Eternal life is a combination of life living within God and his love. When we do not love, we are separated away from experiencing eternal life, living instead in eternal pain of a sort. Eternal life is the truth of love living in you now. It is no more, nor no less than this.
This verse is to found in the bible at John 10:27,28.
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life."
What could it really be meaning here, except that Jesus or God gives his own parts or his sheep their eternal life.
Love is loving itself fully only when some of itself is not being segregated away in any other part.
When all works together as a whole, eternal life is then granted back again to each working part or to God's sheep, and which still all live within him only by freely choosing to do so. It is only by rejecting freely this promised eternal life that we reject God then as well. Of course in doing this, we are also rejecting our own true self.
We only ever die to ourselves in doing this however, and we never die to God. Hell is only the death that takes place within us through separation, and from being cut off voluntarily from the never ending love of God.
Everything is eternal and is held forever within God. All of our experiences go back to God when we allow them to by loving God. Hope is the concept of love loving unknowingly from itself. When love re-experiences itself and gains conscious awareness and wisdom of its own ability to love, hope is rekindled again within the part and so leads to the whole now living within the part as well.
Hope and faith bring the part back into God, and then love does the rest. Everything is eternal in the sense that nothing is ever lost. Hope is a step that helps us to move back into ourselves, and therefore also back into God.
What is everlasting life and what is the gate that takes us into this eternity?
It is only ever allowing pressure from outward sources that ever moves you away from yourself. You mistake the outer non existing illusionary world for the real world whenever you are doing this.
Your true self is the gate to eternity. Everlasting life only ever exists within you when you accept it as you, and so allow the real you as soul to really be you now. When you allow God in, you come in with him to be then the part of God that you are meant to be within him.
Living as the God within you is the only way to know that you are living from the everlasting power source of love. Eternal love is existing already right now within our own hearts. We only need to embrace this love and to live from it to also have the eternal life that we only think that we don't yet have.