Romans 6:22
22 But [de] now [nuni] being made free [eleutheroo] from [apo] sin [hamartia], and [de] become servants [douloo] to God [theos], ye have [echo] your [humon] fruit [karpos] unto [eis] holiness [hagiasmos], and [de] the end [telos] everlasting [aionios] life [zoe]. KJV-Interlinear
22 But now that you have been
set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to
sanctification and its end, eternal life. ESV
The phrase, everlasting life, stands in stark contrast
to the word for, death, from the previous verse. Both terms stand for equal
duration.
Everlasting life, by definition, means eternal life.
And by the same token, death of an equal duration,
means eternal death.
Those who obey the terms for life, receive the gift of
eternal life.
Those who are disobedient to the terms for life,
receive the curse of eternal death.
The terms for life, come by way of faith. The terms
for death, reject faith, and depend entirely on the works of the individual.
The works of the individual, are wrapped up in the
concept which we call sin. This is mans effort to achieve his own salvation, by
means of his own work, presuming that God will accept mans effort.
Salvation by faith, rejects man’s work, and accepts
only Gods work.
Therefore, eternal death, which is based on the
rejection of faith, results solely from the effort of mans works.
Since Jesus Christ went to the cross and paid the
price for all sin, then sin having been paid in full, is not the basis for
eternal condemnation. However, mans rejection of faith, means that he is
relying on the effort of sin, which is human works, and that becomes the basis
of eternal condemnation.
The two contrasting methods for obtaining salvation,
are mans works, and Gods works.
Faith relies on Gods work, for which man receives no
credit, but is the means of salvation as a gift from God to man, and is
received by man by means of faith.
The fruit, or production, as it were, of faith, is
eternal life.
The fruit, or the production of the sin nature, as it
were, is eternal condemnation.
Just as eternal life is eternal and permanent, and not
temporary, so too, eternal condemnation is not temporary, but is permanent.
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