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Taking as the determinative concept Jesus’ favorite name for God, Father, John interprets the ideal relationship of men to God as that of spiritual children, having the Life – eternal – from the Father. According to John this life of sonship to God, having a definite beginning other than the physical birth, and being manifested in very definite moral and spiritual qualities, defines the very...

While the NT does not offer a full description of the future life with God, it does give positive and unwavering assurance of the fact of such a life. Furthermore, it teaches that the future life is a continuation and flowering of the spiritual life, which the believer possesses here and now. Jn has provided perhaps the richest and the most lucid conceptions of that life to be found anywhere in the NT. His
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