his first letter, in chapter 5, verse 11: "This is the testimony: God
has given us eternal life [deathless life, resurrection life], and this
life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the
Son of God does not have life." He may be moral, he may be a nice person,
but he does not yet possess the life of eternity, the resurrection life of
Jesus, because that life comes from Jesus alone.<P>

Now it is a clear biblical fact that Christians who have received Christ
and been born into th