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I guess what I'm trying to figure out is when, for example, Jesus says "I have come that they may have life"......are we sure it's HIS life versus eternal life?

I know "zoe" is often taught as "the uncreated eternal life of God".....but I am not 100% sure myself that's true.

When we see "eternal life" in the Bible.....it's not always just "zoe". It's often "aionios zoe". i.e., it actually has the adjective "eternal" in front of it.

There are instances where "zoe" on its own even means standard, human, mortal, fleeting, physical life, and not "the uncreated life of God".

For example:

Luke 16:25
"But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime [zoe] you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.

1 Corinthians 15:19
If only for this life [zoe] we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

Philippians 1:20
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life [zoe] or by death.

James 4:14
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life [zoe]? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

"Zoe" there is most definitely not the life of Christ, or the eternal uncreated life of God. So I'm not sure that when we see "zoe" we can automatically say "God's life!".

I can't get away from Adam and Eve having access to the tree of life in the garden of Eden. That tree of life is what was said to allow them to live forever, and that tree of life is what we see again in Revelation.....presumably because Christ paid our debt and we are allowed access to it again. In John 10:10 when Jesus says, "I have come that they may have life"....this is what I assume is meant - He takes the punishment for our sins so we can regain access to the tree of life and thus life forever.

I am just struggling to see evidence in Scripture for the thought of "His life does xyz". It disembodies Christ from His own life and it makes it sound like His life has a separate mind of it's own. Is there biblical evidence for "Christ's life doing something" versus just "Christ doing something"?

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