In chapter two, Paul is telling the Ephesian Christians what they were — they were sinners, what has happened to them —
God provided salvation — and what their future holds.
Admittedly, statutory trade union recognition was introduced under the Employment Relations Act 1999, but this did
not provide the salvation to the dwindling union membership the Trades Union Congress or other unions was expecting.
Both told of a Last Supper linked with the blood sacrifice whose symbolic recreation by eating bread and
wine provided salvation for all worshippers.
New mathematical modelling suggests string theory and its multiple universes may
just provide our salvation — and that could win the controversial theory a few more backers.
This is why the Bible compares the ark to the death and resurrection of Christ, which atones for sin and
provides salvation, as pictured by baptism (1 Peter 3).
Self is sinful and
provides no salvation but only damnation.
Populated with great character actors in a superb ensemble cast, the film sympathetically displays the believable motivations and everyday, idiosyncratic human personalities of the assembled characters, mostly two - bit criminals (one with a family) and a recently - paroled mastermind criminal (Sam Jaffe) who all dream of and long for a quick, million - dollar jewelry store robbery to
provide salvation and a means of getting away for their impoverished lives.
Between these three books, you'll find a good spread of terror and turmoil, regret and redemption, and relationships that
provide both salvation and destruction.