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[[File:Joy to the world.jpg|thumbnail|right|300px|The 1719 English hymn "[[Joy]] to the World" is a popular Christmas carol. It was written by the English minister and hymnist Isaac Watts.]]
[[File:Joy to the world.jpg|thumbnail|right|300px|The 1719 English hymn "[[Joy]] to the World" is a popular Christmas carol. It was written by the English minister and hymnist Isaac Watts.]]
'''Eternal life''' has two complementary meanings in the [[New Testament]]:
'''Eternal life''' has two complementary meanings in the [[New Testament]]:
*its primary meaning, as repeatedly used in the [[Gospel of John]], includes immediate, complete, perpetual [[joy]]/[[happiness]] in this life as a general rule ([[Solomon]] indicated that there is a time to mourn and a time to dance (Ecclesiastes 3:4) and there is a time for everything under the sun), thereby overcoming [[anxiety]], [[addiction]], and pain, now and forever;<ref>John 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, and 12.</ref>
*its primary meaning, as repeatedly used in the [[Gospel of John]], includes immediate, complete, perpetual [[joy]]/[[happiness]] in this life as a general rule ([[Solomon]] indicated that there is a time to mourn and a time to [[dance]] (Ecclesiastes 3:4) and there is a time for everything under the sun), thereby overcoming [[anxiety]], [[addiction]], and pain, now and forever;<ref>John 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, and 12.</ref>
*its merely futuristic, temporal meaning, as used once in an identical manner by the [[Gospels]] of [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]], [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]], [[Gospel of Luke|Luke]], is realizing endless happiness in [[heaven]],<ref>Matthew 25:46; Mark 9:44; Luke 18:30</ref> and to some extent the fullness of life in this lifetime to those that embraced his lessons on living a good life.
*its merely futuristic, temporal meaning, as used once in an identical manner by the [[Gospels]] of [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]], [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]], [[Gospel of Luke|Luke]], is realizing endless happiness in [[heaven]],<ref>Matthew 25:46; Mark 9:44; Luke 18:30</ref> and to some extent the fullness of life in this lifetime to those that embraced his lessons on living a good life.