2 Corinthians 5:14-19
Jesus Died for All Mankind
14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.
John 3:16-17
God So LOVES the World
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 17:2-3
Now This is Eternal Life
2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Paul tells us that out of Jesus’ LOVE He died for all mankind, and does not count our sins against us -because of His death on the cross...So Jesus died for every man, woman, and child and took away each of our sins...But having died for all mankind, one has to believe to gain the fruit of His taking away our sins...St. John tells us that God so LOVES the world that He sent and gave His Son to us, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life...God promises us eternal life by believing in His Son...Then Jesus tells us much of the same when He says this about eternal life...Jesus says, "Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent."...
We have to believe that God sent Jesus to die on the cross for us and to hold that in our hearts when we die...And by doing that we gain eternal life...