During Christ's last evening meal with His apostles, on the Thursday preceding the Friday on which He was to die, Jesus offered His friends bread and wine. He asked them to consider the bread and wine as symbols of His body and His blood and promised that everybody who would eat His body and drink His blood would acquire eternal life by doing this.
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Christ's ransom sacrifice opens the way for people to enter God's Kingdom The meaning of the new covenant largely runs parallel with the meaning of the good news which forms the main message of the Greek Scriptures: by having faith in the sin offering of Jesus and by being determined to make use of this sin offering people can acquire a second life in God's Kingdom. |
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The good news: forgiveness of sins and a resurrection for all good people
The followers of Christ know that they have been freed from their sins and from death by means of a high price that Jesus has paid for them: Jesus has allowed Himself to be slaughtered like a lamb and He has ransomed people with His blood.
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Millions of perfect people will live for ever in God's perfect Kingdom
There is something in the Bible that is called God's Holy Secret. These words refer to God's intention to realize His ends with the earth and with man in the course of human history. According to a plan which was kept secret by God for many centuries and only fully explained during Jesus' stay on earth. |
As regards the millions of people who die without having ever heard about JHWH and His Son: everybody who has lived in such a way that the judges can count on it that they will react positively to the good news about God's Kingdom and Jesus' ransom sacrifice will be admitted into God's Kingdom. This group includes all those who have lived in such a way that the judges can be sure that they will be prepared to subject themselves to the rules of this Kingdom