The Bible says eternal life is a gift.
I mean, if I give you a gift,
that means that I paid for it.
If I say this is a gift to you,
and I require one peso, it is not a gift.
I mean, it's a great deal for a phone,
but that's not a gift
if I require anything for you to pay.
Now, if I gave you a cell phone as a gift,
and then I saw you just pouring water on it
and throwing it on the phone,
I'd be pretty upset
that you're just destroying the gift that I gave you.
But since it's a gift,
you can do whatever you want with it.
Here's the thing.
There's a lot of people that believe in Christ,
and they never go to church,
they never read the Bible,
they're not really obeying God's commandments.
Well, God gave it as a gift.
That gift is eternal life.
God is not lying about it being a gift.
He's not lying about it being eternal life,
meaning it will not be taken back if you mess up,
because it was a gift.