I believe these verses speak of the faithfulness of God to the saints
rather than the salvation of every one, although I understand that some could argue that they only refer to those unbelievers who are predestined to be found.
I seem to be missing the gene that makes me seek
more than salvation — I don't know what «closer to Jesus» means.
Third, when I say that God is on the side of the poor and oppressed, I do not mean that God cares more about the salvation of the
poor than the salvation of the rich or that the poor have a special claim to the gospel.
They saw the mission of God as a justice issue rather
than a salvation issue, although of course it is really both.
Here, the salvation is of the spiritual kind, rather
than the salvation from physical enemies, because of the mention of sins in Luke 1:77.
Still, the first seems more
comedy than salvation and is all but rubbed out, the last is reduced to argument, and the one above is just taking a rest.
Perhaps liberal churches have made too much of the Calvinist work ethic, of salvation through works rather
than salvation by grace alone.
Other
than salvation to the one that requests it, I know of no other guarantee.
Insofar as realization of relation with God in one of the dimensions we have discussed excludes communion as a permanent, coequal dimension, it leads to something other
than salvation, And, of course, so long as Christians insist on clinging to distinct identities, relations and communion, they will fail to realize the distinctive religious ends of other traditions.
As power - hungry orc warlock Gul» dan (Daniel Wu) leads an advance party through a Dark Portal from the depleted lands of Draenor to fertile Azeroth, clan chieftain and new father Durotan (Toby Kebbell) begins to wonder whether Gul» dan and his destructive «Fel» magic might in fact be the cause of all the Orcs» woes, rather
than their salvation.