Have you ever realized that the words everlasting and eternal don't mean the same thing? Yet they are interchangeable in some of the verses that talk about life after death. Everlasting life is really talking about the life we will have with or without God forever, but eternal life has no beginning. (Mind Blown). So, when we accept Christ and are given eternal life, whose life do we now possess? My physical body had a beginning but now that I am spiritually united with Christ, I have eternal life - life with no beginning or end. Having eternal life means that you now possess God's divine life. Andrew Farley puts it this way, "Eternal life is not your life made better. Eternal life is not your life made longer. Eternal life is an altogether different life - a life not your own now imparted to you. Eternal life is Christ's life." John 14:19 says because Christ lives, I also will live. Colossians 3:4 says when Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
It doesn't matter that your family jokes about you being an "oops baby". You were God's idea before you were your parents 'mistake'. Before the world existed, God knew you (Jeremiah 1:5). And now that we have eternal life in Christ, we are able to live a new life. A life united with God. A force that had no beginning!
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