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In [[Protestantism|Protestant]] Christian sects, eternal life depends upon the sinner receiving God's grace ''(unearned and undeserved blessing stemming from God's love)'' through [[faith]] in [[Jesus]]' death for their sins, his resurrection as the Christ, and accepting his Lordship (authority and guidance) over their lives.  Some Protestant sects also teach that a physical baptism, or obligatory process of transformation or experience of spiritual rebirth, is further required.  Also, Protestantism is divided into groups who believe in the doctrine of [[eternal security]] (once a person becomes a Christian, s/he remains one forever, also referred to by the slogan "once saved, always saved") and those who believe that a person who sins continually without any repentance or penetance was never saved in the first place. Some sects do believe that those who continually sin can lose there salvation, though it is generally believed that it shows that the individual was not fully committed in the first place.

In [[Protestantism|Protestant]] Christian sects, eternal life depends upon the sinner receiving God's grace ''(unearned and undeserved blessing stemming from God's love)'' through [[faith]] in [[Jesus]]' death for their sins, his resurrection as the Christ, and accepting his Lordship (authority and guidance) over their lives.  Some Protestant sects also teach that a physical baptism, or obligatory process of transformation or experience of spiritual rebirth, is further required.  Also, Protestantism is divided into groups who believe in the doctrine of [[eternal security]] (once a person becomes a Christian, s/he remains one forever, also referred to by the slogan "once saved, always saved") and those who believe that a person who sins continually without any repentance or penetance was never saved in the first place. Some sects do believe that those who continually sin can lose there salvation, though it is generally believed that it shows that the individual was not fully committed in the first place.

According to the controversial website "[[Religioustolerance.org]]", "Conservative and mainline Protestant denominations tend to base their belief in heaven on the literal interpretation of certain passages of the Bible, and symbolic interpretations of others. They arrive at very different beliefs because they select different passages to read literally."<ref>[http://www.religioustolerance.org/heav_hel.htm What Christian groups say about the afterlife: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, Reincarnation...] at Religioustolerance.org.</ref>

According to the controversial website "[[Religioustolerance.org]]", "Conservative and mainline Protestant denominations tend to base their belief in heaven on the literal interpretation of certain passages of the Bible, and symbolic interpretations of others. They arrive at very different beliefs because they select different passages to read literally."[http://www.religioustolerance.org/heav_hel.htm What Christian groups say about the afterlife: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, Reincarnation...] at Religioustolerance.org.

===Early Christian writing===

===Early Christian writing===