This is also not something that is
needed for salvation as we are already forgiven for ALL our sins, even those sins we have yet to commit.
We are invited to emulate both virtues, for only if we can remain mindful of our
own need for salvation will we be able to resist our impatience, the temptation to ask God to «bring it on» and obliterate the bad guys.
At the time of the Old Testament, God's Covenants were in place for His people of the time, as revealed first verbally from generation to generation, then when Hebrew became a written language, by Moses and the prophets, and through all time the intended audience knew as much about their condition and
need for salvation as God wanted them to know at the time.
And you, David, as a preacher of the gospel of Christ — why do you preach Jesus and
the need for salvation to mankind?
Assuming
a need for salvation, it is through God's suffering that we can be saved, whether we acknowledge it, are aware of it, or have been at all exposed to the concept.
None of your statement has anything to say about the science that I posted, and your sad conjecture that humans have inborn sin and
a need for salvation is just laughable.
= > it is the atheist that says he is without sin thus has
no need for salvation..
For instance, there was
no need for salvation, no need for sacrifice and the messiah was not supposed to be divine.
It should be noted that we are therefore concerned with the fact that a social entity is
needed for salvation.
Yes Jesus is
needed for salvation and sanctification and glorification.
I believe, for example, that Christians are entirely free to adopt and adapt Buddhist meditational practices as long as they do not suppose that
they need these for their salvation or that engaging in such practices lifts them to a higher spiritual level than their fellow Christians who do not do so.
That's when we become souls tortured by
the need for salvation, but a reluctance to embrace Christ.
Now gnosticism is a religion which takes
the need for salvation seriously, and it presented a real problem to Christians, for much of its teaching seemed to parallel the Christian.
Though of course no one is without evil and hence
the need for salvation.
When writing Romans Paul quickly establishes
the need for salvation on the basis that primals, Greeks and Jews — all alike — are sinners.
Those in the practical fields accomplish this adjudication by testing against «the psychological disabilities, the power plays and hidden interests, the structural constrictions, and the stinginess and meanness that preoccupies much of life in every context» — in short, by encounter with «sin, and
the need for salvation.»
John is the torture, who believes sacrifice is
needed for salvation and sees you through some gruesome scenes.