Sentences with phrase «mean eternal salvation»

Does the word salvation, according to the Bible, mean eternal salvation or does this mean this worldly improvements?

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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

In Scripture, the word «save» (saved, salvation, Savior, etc) almost never means «gain eternal life so you can go to heaven when you die.»

No other structure in the world can be called on to promise eternal salvation, and when such salvific claims are made in the name of some nation, race, social class, religion, or ideology, the church must fight such idolatry and blasphemy with all its means of persuasion, even to the point of martyrdom.

Just as habit and tradition have formed our soterian Gospel, so also, habit and tradition have caused us to speak of «salvation» when what we really mean is «eternal life.»

A study of Beliefs That Count will provide a fine opportunity for rethinking our basic Christian beliefs in regard to such doctrines as God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, man, the Bible, the meaning of sin and salvation, the kingdom of God, and eternal life.

Most Christians I know are raised to fear a vindictive God and eternal hell, derive pleasure from the thought that God will provide «evildoers» and non-Christians with their comeuppance and use God as a means to acquire material, trivial things (existence of mega-churches, buy my book, this is the only way to salvation, pray to God so that my football team wins).

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.

Sure, God's salvation is unspeakably powerful and it is eternal (meaning that it never ends for the faithful) but God does not force it upon us if we decide we don't want it for whatever reason such as the cost of maintaining it is too high.

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

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.»

Not that God grants them eternal life or salvation, then takes it away when they become old enough to be accountable, it merely means that there exists a conditional form of grace for children that God will redeem them if they die (Deuteronomy 1:39, 2 Samuel 12:16 - 23)

Instead of you being concerned about the welfare of these eternal souls as to wondering whether or not they will get the chance for salvation, you get hung up on that somehow because not everyone will get that chance in their mortal lives that somehow that means that God is biased; that in my beliefs as to how God gives out those opprotunities that it doesn't meet to your specifications, then that automatically means that God is biased, when in my beliefs the point is that no matter how you slice it everybody whehter in this life or afterwards will get a chance at learning about the gospel and make their own choices as to whether to follow the gospel or not.

So in this passage, while repentance is a condition for «salvation» (whatever that means in the context of 2 Cor 7), the Bible doesn't say anywhere that repentance is a condition for eternal life.

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 ****.»

But today we abhor the very notion of eternal suffering inflicted; and that arbitrary dealing - out of salvation and damnation to selected individuals, of which Jonathan Edwards could persuade himself that he had not only a conviction, but a «delightful conviction,» as of a doctrine «exceeding pleasant, bright, and sweet,» appears to us, if sovereignly anything, sovereignly irrational and mean.

For much of Christian history believers affirmed that apart from Christ there is no salvation, and they understood this to mean that those who did not have faith in Christ were condemned to eternal torments.

If there is salvation only for those who believe in Christ, as «extreme Christians» affirm, and salvation for them means eternal life in God, then what will be the fate of the great majority of the people of Asia, or more than two - thirds of the human race?

And after this, Jesus himself sent out by means of them, from east to west, the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.»

They speak, it is true, to persons for whom the conception of salvation has lost its ancient theological meaning, but who labor nevertheless with the same eternal human difficulty.