Quiz: Are you Calvinist or Arminian?

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I think I finally understand the doctrine of limited atonement. The atonement is limited, not in its power, but in its application.

Jesus died only for those who would believe in Him, not for those who would reject Him. There are numerous passages in the New Testament which teach this.

Limited Atonement - Because God determined that certain ones should be saved as a result of God’s unconditional election, He determined that Christ should die for the elect alone. All whom God has elected and for whom Christ died will be saved (Matthew 1:21; John 10:11; 17:9; Acts 20:28; Romans 8:32; Ephesians
What is Calvinism and is it biblical? What are the five points of Calvinism? | GotQuestions.org

Limited atonement doesn't mean that those who sincerely desire to be saved will be turned away. Instead, it means that not a drop of Jesus' blood was shed in vain.


Since we don't know the identity of God's elect, we are to preach the Gospel indiscriminately, for it's the hearing of the Gospel by which faith is awakened in the elect:


If you really care about your salvation, that's a sign that you are among the elect.

I donate to India National Inland Mission. Founded by a former Hindu, the organization plants churches throughout India, while operating an orphanage and Bible college:

India National Inland Mission - MinistryWatch.com

Because of God’s enabling grace acting in His elect, I have faith that my support to foreign missions will be fruitful.
 
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Jesus would often say, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Matthew 11:15, Matthew 13:9, Matthew 13:43, Mark 4:9, Luke 8:8, Luke 14:35

How does one receive the spiritual ears to hear the Gospel and respond to it? The answer is God's irresistible (enabling) grace:

Isaiah 50:5
The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears; I have not been rebellious, I have not turned away.

Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;
My ears You have opened;
Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

Job 36:10
He opens their ear to instruction,
And commands that they return from evil.

Job 33:16
Then He opens the ears of men,
And seals their instruction

Revelation 2:7,11,17,29; 3:6,13,22; 13:9
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Irresistible grace doesn't mean that God's elect will never rebel against or resist God's grace, but that God's grace is powerful enough to overcome the elect's rebellion, transform their wills and desires, and lead them to ultimate salvation.

John 6:44
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw (Greek helkó, to drag) him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
 
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The Epistle to the Hebrews presents Jesus as high priest of the New Covenant. Just as the high priest of the Old Covenant offered sacrifice for Israel alone, Jesus offers himself on behalf of the elect alone. (Hebrews 13:11-12)

Limited atonement doesn't mean that those who sincerely desire to be saved will be turned away. (John 6:37) Instead, it means that not a drop of Jesus' blood was shed in vain.

If you really care about your salvation, that's a sign that you are among the elect.
 
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Calvinism is based on the observation that Biblical facts don’t care about your feelings. Many Arminians have said they wouldn’t believe in a God who, in His own good pleasure, chooses to save some and not others.

It’s God’s grace alone which saves, and numerous passages of scripture demonstrate that God’s grace is bestowed upon His elect. If God were obligated to save everyone, that would be justice and not grace.

Unconditional election - is it biblical? | GotQuestions.org

Saving faith is a gift of God’s grace, irrespective of our free-willed efforts to believe or disbelieve. (Mark 9:24, John 6:44, Matthew 11:27, etc.) Christians have nothing to boast about, and this is very humbling. (Ephesians 2:8-9)

All have fallen short of the glory of God, and therefore God isn’t obligated to save anyone. (Romans 3:23) Rather than grumbling that God has chosen to save some and not others, we should be thankful that He’s saved anyone at all.

There is nothing unfair about God’s sovereignty in election.(Romans 9:21) No one who desires to be saved will be turned away. (John 6:37) If you sincerely care about your salvation, that’s a sign you are among God’s elect.

If you truly care about the salvation of the lost, you should support evangelism, since the preaching of the Gospel is the means God has ordained to awaken faith in His elect. Some of the greatest missionaries have been Calvinists.

 
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Calvinism is based on the observation that Biblical facts don’t care about your feelings. Many Arminians have said they wouldn’t believe in a God who, in His own good pleasure, chooses to save some and not others.

Arminianism is based on the observation that Bible facts don't change just to fit Calvinism -- and that is the problem with Calvinism.

In the bible

"God so loved the WORLD" John 3:16 (yes really) not just "the few" of Matt 7.
"God is not willing that ANY should perish" 2 Peter 3 -- not just "the few" of Matt 7.

So when it turns out "That He came to His OWN and His OWN received Him not" John 1:11 it is because of the free will system of Arminianism is the rule for God's Universe not the program/determination methods of some other theories.

No wonder we have Isaiah 5:4

Is 5:4
What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?

The Arminian answer is "under the free will system that God sovereignly ordained - He had done everything there was to do - just as He said - nothing more could be done"

The answer in Calvinism is "we know exactly what MORE you could have done"
 
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Matthew 3:9 beautifully illustrates the doctrine of irresistible grace. If God can raise up children of Abraham from stones, then He can unfailingly turn the hearts of His elect ones from hearts of stone to hearts of flesh.
 
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Matthew 3:9 beautifully illustrates the doctrine of irresistible grace. If God can raise up children of Abraham from stones, then He can unfailingly turn the hearts of His elect ones from hearts of stone to hearts of flesh.
The verse doesn't say that it says this:

and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Where does it talk about "the elect" besides the Jews? (children of Abraham)
 
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The doctrine of free will and the teaching of resistible grace are cruel doctrines. They strip the child of God of the assurance of salvation. Then he must live in constant doubt and fear whether he will ever be saved. That is frightening! That is paralyzing! That is depressing!
http://www.prca.org/resources/publications/books/saved-by-grace-a-study-of-the-five-points-of-calvinism/item/69-chapter-5-irresistible-grace
To know that God chose you, and God called you, and God gave you faith, and will never leave you, and will preserve you, and present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy — that assurance brings an invincible joy and strength and courage into your life.
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-we-believe-about-the-five-points-of-calvinism
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Steps to being a Calvinist:
Step 1: Assemble a series of verses that agree with your decision to become a Calvinist
Step 2: When presented with verses that contradict your decision to become a Calvinist, ignore them
Step 3: "All" is conditionally defined, where it suits your decision to be a Calvinist it means "all," where it doesn't it means "the Elect." Give no basis for including "the Elect" in the semantic domain of "all," what is most important is that you maintain your Calvinism.
Step 4: Ignore any and all discussion to the contrary, simply declare yourself the victor and accuse your opponents of not understanding the Bible/not caring what the Bible says.

That's all it takes, just decide that it is true and that your opponents are simply heretics. Why defend it when all you have to do is declare it to be true?
 
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Jesus would often say, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Matthew 11:15, Matthew 13:9, Matthew 13:43, Mark 4:9, Luke 8:8, Luke 14:35

Who does God give the ears to hear Jesus' voice? His sheep, the elect. Jesus said to the unbelieving Pharisees, "You do not believe because you are not of My sheep," not the other way around.

John 10
15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd...
26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.
27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me...
27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
30 I and My Father are one.”

How do Jesus' sheep receive the spiritual ears to hear and respond to the Gospel? The answer is God’s irresistible (enabling) grace. Isaiah 50:5, Psalm 40:6, Job 36:10, Job 33:16, Revelation 2:7,11,17,29; 3:6,13,22; 13:9

There is nothing unfair about God’s sovereignty in election.(Romans 9:21) No one who desires to be saved will be turned away. (John 6:37) If you sincerely care about your salvation, that’s a sign you are among God’s elect.

If you truly care about the salvation of the lost, you should participate in or financially support evangelism, since the preaching of the Gospel is the means God has ordained to awaken faith in His sheep, the elect. Some of the greatest missionaries have been Calvinists.

Irresistible grace doesn't mean that God's elect will never rebel, but that God's grace is powerful enough to overcome the elect's rebellion, transform their wills and desires, and lead them to ultimate salvation.

John 6:44
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw (Greek helkó, to drag) him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

If you struggle with believing what the Bible teaches, I recommend praying that God opens up the ears of your mind and heart, and then start with reading John’s Gospel.
 
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Calvinism doesn't need to be defended. It just needs to be clearly articulated, directly from the Bible, and whosoever has ears to hear will hear it.

There's no point to Calvinism if it can't be articulated from the Bible. There are numerous passages of scripture supporting the five points of Calvinism, and whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.

Calvinism is the teaching that God saves whoever He chooses (Romans 9:10-24), that even the most obstinate sinner can be transformed by God’s amazing grace (John 6:44). If you have a problem with that, you might have a problem with the Bible, and you might need to stop praying for God to save the lost.

I’m not here to convince non-Calvinists that they must follow Calvinism. I just want them to at least understand its Biblical and historical foundations, so that they will be less likely to condemn Calvinism for something that it isn’t.

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If your apartment building was burning down, and a firefighter died while saving you but not your neighbor, what would your proper response be?

Should you gripe and grumble about how unfair it was that the firefighter gave up his life for you, but not your neighbor? Or should you be thankful for his sacrifice?

If you are among God’s elect, then Jesus suffered the full weight of His wrath in payment of your sins. He willingly died so that you’d have eternal life. There was no way, in your spiritual deadness, that you could save yourself.

There is nothing unfair about God’s sovereignty in election.(Romans 9:21) No one who desires to be saved will be turned away. (John 6:37) If you sincerely care about your salvation, that’s a sign you are among God’s elect.

It’s profoundly humbling to believe that God chose you, irrespective of any merit on your part whatsoever, not even your free-willed efforts to believe or disbelieve, and the proper response is love and obedience. (John 6:44)

If you truly care about the salvation of the lost, you should support evangelism, since the preaching of the Gospel is the means God has ordained to awaken faith in His elect. Some of the greatest missionaries have been Calvinists.

 
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Here are quotations from the church fathers supporting the five points of Calvinism, most of whom from before the time of Augustine:
https://www.apuritansmind.com/arminianism/calvinism-in-the-early-church-the-doctrines-of-grace-taught-by-the-early-church-fathers/


Here are Bible verses supporting the five points of Calvinism:
https://www.gotquestions.org/calvinism.html


Calvinism isn't some awful, scary thing. It's only called "Calvinism" because John Calvin popularized the doctrines of grace, he did not originate them. It's the same doctrines that Augustine taught against Pelagius and Luther taught against Rome.

This is from Martin Luther's 97 Theses, which he wrote before his 95 Theses:
29. The best and infallible preparation for grace and the sole disposition toward grace is the eternal election and predestination of God.
30. On the part of man, however, nothing precedes grace except indisposition and even rebellion against grace.
https://www.uniontheology.org/resources/historical/medieval/the-97-theses
It is a historical fact that, without the doctrines which we today call Calvinism, there would have never been a Reformation.
 
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Arminianism is based on the observation that Bible facts don't change just to fit Calvinism -- and that is the problem with Calvinism.

Instead of throwing accusations at each other, let’s argue from the Bible.

"God so loved the WORLD" John 3:16 (yes really) not just "the few" of Matt 7.

First we should find out if the word “world” means every single person in the world, or if it means every nation, tribe, and ethnicity. When we consider verses like Psalm 5:5, Psalm 11:5, and Romans 9:13, the word “world” in John 3:16 cannot mean every single person on the planet, otherwise we would have a contradiction.

"God is not willing that ANY should perish" 2 Peter 3 -- not just "the few" of Matt 7.

In 2 Peter 3, Peter is writing to believers, which is also clear from the word “beloved” in verse 8. With this is mind, we can understand that the word “all’ in verse 9 is referring to all believers and not every single person on the planet.

So when it turns out "That He came to His OWN and His OWN received Him not" John 1:11 it is because of the free will system of Arminianism is the rule for God's Universe not the program/determination methods of some other theories.

How to you explain John 1:13 where it explains people are born by the will of God and not man?

No wonder we have Isaiah 5:4

Is 5:4
What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?

The Arminian answer is "under the free will system that God sovereignly ordained - He had done everything there was to do - just as He said - nothing more could be done"

The answer in Calvinism is "we know exactly what MORE you could have done"

Of course we know what God will do with His vineyard, because in verse 5 and 6, God explains what He will do. So, no need to guess.
 
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Steps to being a Calvinist:
Step 1: Assemble a series of verses that agree with your decision to become a Calvinist
Step 2: When presented with verses that contradict your decision to become a Calvinist, ignore them
Step 3: "All" is conditionally defined, where it suits your decision to be a Calvinist it means "all," where it doesn't it means "the Elect." Give no basis for including "the Elect" in the semantic domain of "all," what is most important is that you maintain your Calvinism.
Step 4: Ignore any and all discussion to the contrary, simply declare yourself the victor and accuse your opponents of not understanding the Bible/not caring what the Bible says.

That's all it takes, just decide that it is true and that your opponents are simply heretics. Why defend it when all you have to do is declare it to be true?

This is not a good post. Instead, I suggest you try to argue from the Bible why Calvinists are wrong. That way, we can have an edifying discussion were both parties hopefully can learn from each other.
 
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This is not a good post. Instead, I suggest you try to argue from the Bible why Calvinists are wrong. That way, we can have an edifying discussion were both parties hopefully can learn from each other.
Those only turn into bloodbaths, especially as Calvinists get their hackles raised when they can't answer and their decontextualized proof texts are explained in their proper context.
 
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Those only turn into bloodbaths, especially as Calvinists get their hackles raised when they can't answer and their decontextualized proof texts are explained in their proper context.

I believe we can have a civilized discussion even if we disagree.
 
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There's really no point to arguing with an anti-Calvinist. Those who read their own human standards of fairness into the Bible will not listen, no matter how many verses you quote to them.

Calvinists, on the other hand, typically lack the philosophical presuppositions that would prevent them from accepting Arminianism, if it were proved from scripture.

At the end of the day, it's more important to love God than to be right about everything.
1 Corinthians 8:2-3
 
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There's really no point to arguing with an anti-Calvinist. Those who read their own human standards of fairness into the Bible will not listen, no matter how many verses you quote to them.

Calvinists, on the other hand, typically lack the philosophical presuppositions that would prevent them from accepting Arminianism, if it were proved from scripture.

At the end of the day, it's more important to love God than to be right about everything.
1 Corinthians 8:2-3

This is not about "winning an argument". The Bible should humble us, and when discussing theology, that should show in our arguments.
 
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This is not about "winning an argument". The Bible should humble us, and when discussing theology, that should show in our arguments.

Here is a list of verses from the four Gospels supporting the five points of Calvinism that I posted to my blog. The reaction from anti-Calvinists has been foaming at the mouth, lacking in any humility whatsoever:

Total Depravity (Total Inability)

Matthew 7:18
A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.

Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

Mark 10:18
Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 3
3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

John 8:34
Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires.

Unconditional Election

Matthew 11:27
All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen.

Matthew 24
22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Mark 13
20 And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake, whom He chose, He shortened the days.
27 And then He will send His angels, and gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest part of earth to the farthest part of heaven.

Luke 18:7
And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?

John 6
64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him.
65 And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”

John 8:47
Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.

John 13:18
I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 17
2 Since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
6 I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.

Limited Atonement (Definite Atonement, Particular Redemption)

Matthew 1:21
And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.

Matthew 26:28
For this is My blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Luke 1:68
Blessed is the Lord God of Israel,
For He has visited and redeemed His people

John 10
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep

John 11
49 And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
50 nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”
51 Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

John 15
13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends

John 17:9
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

Irresistible (Enabling, Efficacious) Grace

Matthew 3:9
and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children of Abraham from these stones.

Matthew 19
25 When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Luke 24
16 But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.
31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.
45 And He opened up their minds, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

John 1
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3
8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

John 3:27
John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.

John 5
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

John 6
37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws (Greek helkó, “to drag”) him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

John 10:16
And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

John 14
16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another [a]Helper, that He may abide with you forever
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

John 15:26
But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

John 16
8 And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment
13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

Preservation/Perseverance of the Saints

Matthew 6:13
And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.

Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 18
12 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?
13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.
14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Luke 22:32
But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren

John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

John 3
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

John 4:14
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

John 5:24
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.

John 6
35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
36 But I said to you that you have seen Me and yet do not believe.
37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

John 10
27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

John 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

John 18
8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, then let these men go.”
9 This happened so that the words the had spoken would be fulfilled: “I have not lost one of those you gave me.”
 
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