Reference Text: John 17:1-5, 'The historical Jesus prays for himself'
The Bible describes eternal life as immortality, immortal soul and everlasting life. In John 17:3 Jesus declared, “Now this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent”. Jesus modeled the presence and transforming work of the incarnate Christ in human hearts, souls, minds and lives into eternal life.
In Mark 8:27-30, when Peter identified Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ of Faith, Jesus cautioned his followers not to tell people that he was the Christ, to avoid more confusion about his identity. In John 17:6-11, Jesus places his disciples before God in prayer. When speaking from his spiritual body as a living soul, Jesus identified himself as the Son of God [John 17:3].
Jesus taught and modeled mankind's successful quest for eternal life through the Christ of Faith, by living the Paschal Mystery. By following the historical Jesus in rejecting the inappropriate dominion of the mind of the flesh, turning to the indwelling Christ of Faith, obeying God's will and following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery, every Christ-centered believer in all the world religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups can know God, the Christ of Faith, the Holy Spirit and eternal life.
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