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INTRODUCTION
Is it possible to understand the gospel message, serve as an officer in a church, be sure of your salvation, and yet still not get into heaven when you die? Matthew, one of the original twelve disciples, answered this question clearly. Yes, on “that day”, many will stand before God and hear Him say, “I know you not; depart from me.” (Matthew 7:23 KJV)
The assumption is all professing Christians want salvation. Salvation is obtained when you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that God sent His only son, Jesus to die for your sins and God raised him from the dead . (Romans 10:9-10 KJV) By this confession, you are saved from the penalty of sin, from the power of sin, and from the presence of sin.
The doctrine of salvation contains various aspects. The intent of this research paper is to provide a general overview of salvation from the angle of justification, propitiation, grace, redemption, and sanctification.
SALVATION
There was a time a person would use a roadmap to get from one location to another. Some also would stop and ask for directions. Today, you seldom see paper maps and people stopping at a local gas station for directions. Many vehicles come with a navigation system that provides a real-time map of the vehicle’s current location as well as systematic directions to requested destination.
Similar to a navigation system, the Roman Road is a means to guide a person to salvation. It uses verses from the Book of Romans as a method of explaining why you need salvation, how God provided salvation, how you can receive salvation, and what are the results of salvation.
The first step towards salvation on the Roman Road is to understand that “all have sinned and co...
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...e. This is God’s salvation plan.
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“Recovering the Scandal of the Cross,” (Green, Baker) presents an alternative means of thinking for Christians theologically. The author’s task of interpreting culture and communicating within a culture is incredibly difficult. Much of the biblical teaching of God is rooted into communicating to a specific group of people and a certain culture. Yet God has chosen the Bible as the method of communicating himself to the world. Green and Baker begin to lay the groundwork of historical influence of atonement from Anselm and Irenaeus. They later introduce ideas from Charles Hodge and penal substitution. There are four major models of explanations of the atonement: Christus Victor, penal substitution, satisfaction and moral influence. Although others are mentioned in the book, this sets the stage of the historic dilemma from which they can view atonement in their discussion of tradition.
Spirit), the nature of man and the need for salvation, and sin and the means of atonement.
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Schreiner does an excellent job of explaining the four major viewpoints commonly held today – loss-of-salvation view, loss-of-rewards view, tests-of-genuineness view, and hypothetical loss-of salvation view – and provides an accurate representation of supporting evidence for each view. He then succinctly reveals the major flaws within each view, and provides the biblical basis for his own view; namely, God’s means-of-salvation view. To support his view, Schreiner uses chapter 2 to stress the importance of understanding salvation in the framework of already-but-not-yet, and chapter 3 is utilized to examine the nature of saving faith as seen throughout Scripture. Schreiner does an excellent job of using Scri...
In light of its growing popularity many individuals, including scholars and lay-people, claim that traces of this controversial view of salvation can be found in Paul’s Epistles—most notably in Romans 5:18-21. Consequently, making Paul a possible Universalist. Therefore, in this thematic essay I explore the basic understanding of Universalism in the first century Greco-Roman context as well as diverse interpretations of Romans 5—in order to determine if one can properly support such a claim beyond the interpretation of a seclu...
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The process of salvation, after the acceptance of Christ as Lord and savior, begins with a commitment to personal transformation. Moral and theological virtues are part of the Medieval view of personal transformation which are recounted by Aquinas in Summa of the Summa and embodied in Dante’s Purgatorio.
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The Doctrine of Salvation (Soteriology). God provides us with everything we need; we see this in Genesis where he provided Adam with everything he needed. Jesus became a man by reincarnation; a verse to support this is John 1:14 “
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Salvation, in Christianity, is defined as the state of being saved from sin or evil (Merriam-Webster). The word salvation is mentioned in one hundred and fifty-eight different verses in the Bible (The Holy Bible: KJV). It is written in John 3:16 that “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” According to that verse, God loves us so much that he gave the life of his only Son so that we could obtain salvation from the sin and evil within the world. The verse also explains that by believing in God and that God sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins we can have life everlasting in heaven with him. Numerous times salvation and the Christian faith can seem confusing to those who are not Christians. However, as the verse John 3:16 explains, salvation is in actuality simple. Hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of the one true God, repenting of sin, and confessing that Jesus Christ is God’s son who was sent to die on the cross for the sin of all mankind is how we can obtain salvation and have eternal life in heaven.