1 John 5:11-12

1 John 5:11-12

[11] And  this  the record,  that  God  hath given  eternal  life,  and  this  life  in  his  Son.  [12] He that hath  the Son  hath  life;  and he that hath  not  the Son  of God  hath  not  life. 

What does 1 John 5:11-12 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

This is the content of God"s testimony. Eternal life is inseparable from the person of Jesus Christ. Some of the false teachers seem to have tried to separate them (cf. 1 John 2:25-26). Jesus Christ and eternal life are one gift from God.
""Eternal" life is qualitative, not quantitative; it is the highest kind of spiritual and moral life, irrespective of time, which God enables the believer to share in relationship with Jesus." [1]
1 John 5:12 is not an offer of eternal life, such as John 20:30-31, but a confirmation of what God had done for the readers, as the next verse verifies.