The Difference Between Religion and Eternal Life

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
Our goal as Christians is not Heaven but eternal life. Eternal life in the inward man is Christ. He Himself is the Resurrection and the Life.
Eternal life in the outward man is immortality. This also is Christ. We will not gain immortality until the Lord comes. Then we must be qualified and competent to receive immortality in our outward form by being resurrected in our inward nature.
I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. (Philippians 3:10,11)
Religion is constructed by human beings, not by Christ. In fact, religion tends to divide the one Body of Christ into warring factions.
All those who are filled with the Life of Christ are one with the Oneness of God.
The Lord told us that when we are one in Him and the Father, the world will understand that it is the Father who has sent Christ into the world, and that the Father loves the members of the Body of Christ just as He loves the Head.
I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. (John 17:23)
I believe that before Jesus returns there will be one church on the earth without spot or wrinkle. When the people of the world see this perfect church, made one in the Father and Christ, they will believe in Christ and in His saints.
When we consider the state of the Church today, the competing factions, the idea of the Church being one holy Body of Christ appears to be fantasy. Yet, Christ prayed for it and so it shall come to pass.
We must ask ourselves why the one Church is divided as it is. The answer is, the spirit of religion, of Babylon.