This is the imputation of God’s own eternal life to the believer at salvation, so we can live with God forever as eternal beings. In the original Koiné Greek, the word for eternal life is age-during. There is a difference that separates eternal and everlasting: eternal has no beginning and no end; everlasting has a beginning and no end. God is eternal life. When we believe we gain everlasting life by the imputation of God’s own eternal life.