This document discusses the concept of eternal life through Christianity. It provides several biblical passages that indicate eternal life is a real concept and promised to believers in Jesus Christ. The document outlines that believers have hope of eternal life that begins at death when they will be with God, and that Christians have a promise of a resurrected, glorified body when Jesus returns. It describes seven facts about the bodies believers will receive in heaven, including that they will be recognizable, spiritual, and glorious bodies free from limitations of the physical world. The overall message is that eternal life and a resurrected body are real promises for Christians according to the Bible.

2. “Is There Really Such a
Thing As
Eternal Life?”

3. 1 Corinthians 15:19 (NLT)
… if our hope in Christ is
only for this life, we are
more to be pitied than
anyone in the world.

4. John 3:36 (NLT) …
anyone who believes in
God’s Son has eternal life.
Anyone who doesn’t obey
the Son will never
experience eternal life but
remains under God’s
angry judgment.”

5. “If I find in myself a
desire which no
experience in this world
can satisfy, the most
probable explanation is
that I was made for
another world.”
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 1960, p.
119

6. 1. God has placed within us
a hope for immortality!

7. Romans 8:22-23 (NLT)
For we know that all
creation has been
groaning as in the pains
of childbirth right up to
the present time. [23]
And
we believers also groan,
even though we have the
Holy Spirit within us as a
foretaste of future glory,

8. for we long for our bodies
to be released from sin
and suffering. We, too,
wait with eager hope for
the day when God will
give us our full rights as
his adopted children,
including the new bodies
he has promised us.

9. 2. The believer’s hope of
eternal life with Christ is
realized at the moment
of death.

10. 2 Corinthians 5:8 (TLB) …
we are not afraid but are
quite content to die, for
then we will be at home
with the Lord.

11. Luke 23:42-43 (HCSB)
Then he said, “Jesus,
remember me when You
come into Your
kingdom!” [43]
And He said
to him, “ I assure you:
Today you will be with
Me in paradise.”

12. 3. Every Christian has the
promise of a resurrected,
glorified body!

13. 2 Corinthians 5:1-2 (NLT)
For we know that when
this earthly tent we live in
is taken down (that is,
when we die and leave this
earthly body), we will
have a house in heaven, an
eternal body made for us
by God himself and not by
human hands.

14. [2]
We grow weary in our
present bodies, and we
long to put on our
heavenly bodies like new
clothing.

15. 7 Facts About Our
Resurrected Bodies
1. It will be a
recognizable body.
2. It will be a body like
the one Jesus has.

16. 1 John 3:2b (HCSB) …
We know that when He
appears, we will be like
Him, because we will see
Him as He is.

17. 3. It will be a body that will
permit eating.
4. It will be a body in which
the Spirit predominates.
5. It will be a body
unlimited by time,
gravity, or space.

18. Luke 24:41-43 (NLT) Still
they stood there in
disbelief, filled with joy
and wonder. Then he
asked them, “Do you have
anything here to eat?” 42
They gave him a piece of
broiled fish, 43
and he ate it
as they watched.
(John 21:12-13)

19. 1 Cor 15:44b, 49 (NLT) ...
For just as there are
natural bodies, there are
also spiritual bodies. … 49
Just as we are now like the
earthly man, we will
someday be like the
heavenly man.

20. John 20:19 (NLT) That
Sunday evening the
disciples were meeting
behind locked doors
because they were afraid
of the Jewish leaders.
Suddenly, Jesus was
standing there among
them! “Peace be with
you,” he said.

21. John 20:26 (NLT) Eight
days later the disciples
were together again, and
this time Thomas was with
them. The doors were
locked; but suddenly, as
before, Jesus was standing
among them. “Peace be
with you,” he said.

22. 6. It will be an eternal
body.
7. It will be a glorious
body.

23. 2 Corinthians 5:1 (NCV)
We know that our body—
the tent we live in here on
earth—will be destroyed.
But when that happens,
God will have a house for
us. It will not be a house
made by human hands;
instead, it will be a home
in heaven that will last
forever.

24. Romans 8:18 (NASB) For
I consider that the
sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to be
compared with the glory
that is to be revealed to
us.

25. 1 Corinthians 15:42-43a
(NLT) It is the same way
with the resurrection of the
dead. Our earthly bodies
are planted in the ground
when we die, but they will
be raised to live forever. 43
Our bodies are buried in
brokenness, but they will be
raised in glory. …