Eternal life is the life Jesus lived; the life of God in a mortal being, transformed by God’s regenerating power into harmony with Himself. “In Him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4). Why did Jesus live thirty-three years if all He came to do was to die for sin? He lived thirty-three years because He had to show what a normal man after God’s pattern was like. He died that through His death we might have the source of life that was in Him (see Romans 5:17). That is why it