1 John 4:8
God is Love
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Seek God With Your Heart
29 But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
John 1:1-4
The Word Became Flesh
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
John 14:6-7
Jesus is Truth
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
John 1:14
The Word Became Flesh
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Matthew 9:10-13
Jesus Came for Sinners
10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
1 Peter 3:18
The Word Put to Death in the Flesh
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Jesus Died for Our Sins, Then Resurrected from the Dead
1 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.
Revelations 1:18
The Word is Alive
18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
John 8:21-24
When We Believe in Him our Sins are Forgiven
21 Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”
22 This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?”
23 But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.”
John 3:16-18
Key to Eternal Life
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.18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
John 17:3
This is Eternal Life
3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
If you believe that Jesus is the Truth, and He was who He said He was there is a necessity to believe...I guess it would not be necessary if you do not want eternal life, and you are happy with your life on earth, and happy with the way you have lived, and are prepared and ready to die...But He gives us eternal life...And He tells us that eternal life is to know God, and the One He sent...
I have a need to believe in God and His Son...It maybe the Holy Spirit nudging me forward to God and Jesus...Maybe because I am made in God's Image...Maybe I need a Savior, because I know I sin...
God created the world and man, and gave us Jesus -who died for us on the cross...He is our Golden Key to eternal life...He is the very hope for our soul that someday, at the end of the ages He will bring peace to this world...He will bring peace to our souls...
The verses tell the story...God's Plan from the very beginning was LOVE, because He is LOVE...We are to seek Him with our hearts, and know Him from the Bible, or other believers, or by inquiry, or other means...He was with Jesus, who St. John calls the Word, from the beginning...The Word is the Truth to all Things...God sent His Son into our world not to be mad at us or condemn us, but to save us...Jesus tells us He came to earth not for the righteous, but for us sinners so we must realize that we do sin)...Jesus was put to death, by the very ones He came to save...Jesus died on the cross for our sins...They buried Him, and three days later He resurrected from the dead...He was dead, but now He is alive forever and ever...When we believe in Him our sins are forgiven...The key to eternal life is to know God, and that He Loves the world, and whoever believes in Him and the One He sent is saved...We shall have eternal life when we know these things...