It is not surprising that it was through a study of Paul that Martin Luther, who had plagued his body in order to be sure of
eternal salvation by the statutory methods of medieval religion, found a great burden fall from his shoulders, when he rediscovered the role of faith in bringing freedom to men.
I was set free in the gospel of grace and in looking for a Church home, I too was confronted with
eternal salvation by the Church Of Christ.
Not exact matches
Again, the very essence of
eternal salvation is completely
by - passed for a discussion on «warm and fuzzy» family ties.
We understand the statement that «we are justified
by grace through faith because of Christ» in terms of the substitutionary atonement and imputed righteousness of Christ, leading to full assurance of
eternal salvation; we seek to testify in all circumstances and contexts to this, the historic Protestant understanding of
salvation by faith alone (sola fide).
Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that
salvation has nothing to do with
eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received
salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there
salvation having once walked
by faith but that does nt effect there
eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking
by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome
by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our
eternal life.brentnz
Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there
eternal life
by there actions
by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as
eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved
by faith in Jesus Christ to
eternal life.I believe the term
salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to
eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the
eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent
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Yet the Church has a duty to safeguard the deposit of faith; we ought to be concerned
by our neighbour's
eternal salvation.
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To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the
salvation of all and offers the real possibility of
salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted
by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is
eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.
The Bible is so ambiguous, it's not even clear what exactly is required for its main promise of
eternal salvation, that any of the good teachings in it are rendered meaningless
by the evil teachings that are in it.
1 Camus, however, never shows any interest in «
eternal salvation,» and it is highly unlikely that Camus was on his way down the trail blazed
by Eliot and Auden.
With astonishing boldness, Francis immediately announced the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Sultan, while emphasising that his own concern was for the
eternal salvation of the Muslim leader, who was apparently deeply moved
by the Holy Man's courage, enthusiasm, and steadfastness.
«Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but
by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of
eternal salvation....
From cleverness and from the moment, or through it and from the moment, a man's destruction is born — if it is a fact that a man's
salvation comes in the
Eternal and
by the
Eternal.
For precisely that culture which can not be materially given
by faith and the Church is nevertheless the earthly duty that determines our
eternal salvation.
This should be done not, indeed, because these might be worthier of
eternal life or even easier to influence, but because the
salvation of all will depend on the acceptance of Christianity
by the leaders of society.
Much of what the west has long taken for granted is now disappearing: the security provided
by Christendom; the Christian way of interpreting reality; the confidence that the Christian path leads to
eternal salvation; and the belief that Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths
by which to live.
Soul -
salvation distorts the Scriptures
by making the soul, and not humanity, the heir of
eternal life.
Is it possible that the reason that the Corinthians were so concerned about baptism is that they had been taught
by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that
salvation and the promise of the resurrection of the dead and
eternal life are received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000 years??
Calvinist's refute that
by quoting the scripture that says those prdestined for
eternal salvation had their names written in the Book of Lif before the foundation of the earth.
Judas was motivated
by how he could gain personal earthly wealth and status, not his
eternal salvation.
... But it pleased God that
by foolishness of preaching the gospel of
salvation through Jesus Christ His son, mankind should be saved: that whoever belives, and puts his trust in Him, will not perish but have
eternal life.
Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience
by the things which he suffered; Heb 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of
eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Man was quite rightly given little encouragement to think that his
eternal salvation could be won
by his own unaided efforts, for it was the gift of divine grace.
Christ manifests the divine will
by his obedience unto death, which means
by denouncing human passions and strivings, revealing in this way God's
eternal thought concerning the
salvation of humankind.
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Blinded
by our lusts we fail to see the divine plan for our own
salvation, and so, blinded, we go to our
eternal doom.
1) that
eternal life given on the basis of faith alone, in Christ alone, apart from works; 2) that
eternal security is part of the gift of
eternal life; 3) that assurance of
salvation is through faith in Christ's promise of
eternal life, and not
by looking at one's own works 4) Christians can apostatize in this life, and are still eternally secure 5)
eternal rewards are earned
by faithful works, and lost
by unfaithfulness 6) unlimited atonement 7) free - will to respond to God's drawing or not
These features differentiate fundamentalists from other evangelical and conservative thinkers who accent the «five smooth stones»
by which the Goliath of secular humanism is to be slain: substitutionary atonement, Christ's imminent return, the reality of
eternal punishment, the necessity of personal assurance of
salvation and the truth of the miracles.
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Such conflicts provoke renewed inquiry into the Koran's puzzling and apparently contradictory attitudes toward Christians and Jews, the «People of the Book»: Muslims are told in the same surah («The Table»), virtually in the same breath, that Christians and Jews will attain
salvation by following their own religion, but that if they deviate from true Koranic doctrine they are subject to earthly punishment and
eternal damnation.
According to Catholic doctrine man can not judge his justification or his
eternal salvation with absolute certainty while he is still a pilgrim, and this is ultimately not contradicted
by the Protestant doctrine of justification either, despite all controversies, because in Lutheranism, too, absolute «fiducial faith» has always been attacked.
Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only
by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's
eternal destiny is determined
by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «
salvation of the Church»).41
To him, all good things — trout as well as
eternal salvation — come
by grace and grace comes
by art and art does not come easy.
No marriage can be sanctioned
by the Church if the very basis of the marriage involves acts that put the couple outside of
eternal salvation.
«Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved
by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience — those too may achieve
eternal salvation.»
Therefore, having earned a reward
by his sacrificial death, we can avail ourselves of the
eternal salvation he has merited.
Thanks Jeremy in my mind i am thinking saved to
eternal life
by faith
salvation is not a good word as it has multiple meanings and not necessarily saved to
eternal life so thanks for correcting appreciate it.brentnz
I am not yet sure if
eternal life is separate from
salvation, but while I believe that «once receiving
eternal life, always receiving
eternal life» is not theoretically true, I do believe that it is virtually impossible to lose
eternal life once you have received the Holy Spirit
by believing in Christ.
«We shall never be clearly persuaded, as we ought to be,» writes John Calvin, «that our
salvation flows from the wellspring of Gods free mercy until we come to know his
eternal election, which illumines God's grace
by this contrast: that God does not indiscriminately adopt all into the hope of
salvation but gives to some what God denies to others»
These «Fathers» spoke of the specific activity of God in Jesus Christ as being indeed the fulfillment, completion, and adequate expression, vis - à - vis men, of the
Eternal Word of God, but they did not regard
salvation as available only through Jesus; even in the Fourth Gospel, it would seem to be the writer's intention to have the Word speak, rather than the historical Jesus in isolation from that Word «who was in the beginning with God», «
by whom all things were made», «who was the light of every man», and who in Jesus Christ was decisively «made flesh and dwelt among us».
elements,
by which I mean such things as faith, worship, sacraments, communion with God, the way of
salvation, and the hope of
eternal life.
What this means is that as long as the word «saved» is incorrectly equated with
eternal life, the concept of «once saved, always saved» can easily be refuted
by pointing out the many places in the Bible where people can lose their «
salvation» because they don't obey God or fulfill the conditions of «
salvation.»
It stood
by the Westminster Confession of the Presbyterians except that it allowed some liberty on the doctrine of God's
eternal election of some to
salvation and others to damnation.
(b) Of the spiritual and
eternal salvation granted immediately
by God to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, e.g., Acts 2:47, 16:31; Rom 8:24; Eph 2:5, 8; 1 Tim 2:4; 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 3:5; of human agency in this, Rom 11:4; 1 Cor 7:16; 9:22
In addition, fundamentalism offers a bonus:
eternal life or
salvation in the world to come, to be won
by taking refuge in a salvific Christ who needs only to be believed in, or in an unchanging Torah that needs only to be obeyed.
If Bell's book is not an argument for universalism, and that Bell's rhetorical questions are not meant to ridicule the traditional beliefs of
eternal conscious suffering, penal substitutionary atonement, and
salvation by faith alone in Christ alone, then the marketing mechanism is a paradigm example of what Harry Frankfurt has defined as «bull ****.»
«In the days of His flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears... He learned obedience through what He suffered; and being made perfect He became the source of
eternal salvation to all who obey Him, being designated
by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.»