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.
Those who confuse liberation movements
with eternal salvation convert the gospel into an ideological promotion of political and social transformation.
Not exact matches
The true after - life ontology of heaven (note that heaven does not exist, nor hell) is one of an
eternal blissful state of union
with God and others choosing
salvation.
I will be praying for Kerry Egan, that she is saved, because
with such a lack of concern for someones
eternal soul I would question her
salvation ever being real, but if she is saved, then she will have to stand before a Holy God one day at the judgement seat of Christ and give an account of what she has done for Him, I pray that she may yet grab this opportunity she has to change the course of so many souls, before its too late!
If the gospel is not preached
with conviction — the convictions that humanity is in need of
salvation and that Jesus is the Savior who liberates us into the fullness of our humanity and gives us
eternal life — then the gospel will not be believed.
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
First, I don't equate «
salvation»
with receiving
eternal life.
In Heb 5:9,
salvation is directly equated
with one's obedience: «and, once made perfect, he became the source of
eternal salvation for all who OBEY him.»
My disagreements
with the five points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly
with their theology or understanding of Biblical texts, but
with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace,
salvation, atonement, justification,
eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etc, etc..
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.
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.
The content of the gospel as
eternal salvation is either reduced to a social message to ameliorate the conditions of life in this world, or it is equated
with the loftiest wisdom of philosophy and heroic examples of moral achievement.
who
with the lordship position can ever know that they have a personal relationship
with christ and can stand on his promises of the certainty of
salvation and
eternal life.
With Obama, we know where he stands, and while you might disagree with his politics, he is the better choice where souls and eternal salvation are concer
With Obama, we know where he stands, and while you might disagree
with his politics, he is the better choice where souls and eternal salvation are concer
with his politics, he is the better choice where souls and
eternal salvation are concerned.
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).
He needs our view on
salvation, wrath, and
eternal rewards, and our case might be strengthened
with his view of justification, while avoiding the mistakes he makes about works following faith... though really, his point about works is that they follow faith in the Holy Spirit... which is different, and which I could probably agree
with.
Like you, I am not completely happy
with his treatement of good works following faith,
eternal rewards, and the terms «
salvation» and «wrath.»
With all true Christians, Baptists profess loyalty to Jesus Christ the Lord, the
eternal Son of the heavenly Father who «for us and our
salvation» became man.
I divorced and remarried then both me and my husband became Christians, I was fine
with this as we were not Christians before we got remarried, but i commited adultery
with my exhusband and although i know God has forgiven me and my husband has forgiven me it has has an effect on my spirit, i don't feel the same since i commted adultery, i feel unclean and my 100 % security of
eternal salvation isn't there now.
I believe that
eternal life is associated
with salvation.
The second area of confusion that causes people to think they can lose their «
salvation» is when they equate the Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Heaven
with «heaven» or
with eternal life.
We hope that there remains no quarrel
with the orthodoxy of our central affirmations that «The fathers maintained the sacredness of matter and its share in God's saving plans ``; that the flesh is central to the plan of
salvation; that the Incarnation takes place in order to bring about
eternal communion between the Godhead and humanity, and thereby the whole of the physical creation which is summed up in Christ.
Why try to change a world that is so obviously of inferior spiritual significance compared
with the
salvation of
eternal souls for heaven?
Argue about almost anything else that doesn't matter as much as the person you're arguing
with's
eternal salvation.
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.
They said they have made «a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today,» that their faith is very important in their life today; believe that when they die they will go to Heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior; strongly believe they have a personal responsibility to share their religious beliefs about Christ
with non-Christians; firmly believe that Satan exists; strongly believe that
eternal salvation is possible only through grace, not works; strong agree that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; strong assert that the Bible is accurate in all the principles it teaches; and describe God as the all - knowing, all - powerful, perfect deity who created the universe and still rules it today.
«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.»
about the
eternal life in God; nor does anything point to moral improvement and perfection as an indispensable condition for the achievement of this goal... It is only just to say that every man has an inherent right to favorable conditions for him to enjoy all - round development in his striving for a full - blooded life... However one can not agree
with the opinion that where there are no conditions of life worthy of man one can not even speak of
salvation today.
Without it, we need some smart folks to explain it to us because it get's real complicated trying to hold faith, the gospel,
eternal life,
salvation, repentance, and all the other teachings together
with any kind of congruity.
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of
salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of
salvation... the
eternal life in God, «
with the result that appropriation of
eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of
eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»
To bring all who have responded to God's initiative
with love to
salvation, to
eternal bliss» (Pilch, Cultural World of the Apostles, 91).
The one reference that didn't work for me was 2 Timothy 2:10 (NIV) «Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the
salvation that is in Christ Jesus,
with eternal glory.»
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.
Is Paul saying that in addition to «
salvation» (in the temporal sense that comes
with reconciliation
with God in this life) Jesus offers something more that is
eternal?
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.»
Once we come to understand that the
salvation word family almost never (if ever) explicitly refers to
eternal life but instead refers to some sort of deliverance from the calamities of life such as danger, suffering, sickness, and premature death, or to some sort of negative experience at the Judgment Seat of Christ, we can readily teach along
with Scripture that
salvation is conditional upon what we believe and how we behave.
Jesus is that
eternal life and because we are united
with Him at
salvation we have
eternal life right now and because He is
eternal we will live
with Him for all eternity.
While I believe many verses deal
with eternal rewards that are mistakenly used in conjunction
with Salvation, this verse is extremely hard pressed to be viewed in a manner other then
salvation from hell.
= > The purpose of creation was the
salvation of souls into
eternal unity
with God.
Don't fall into CNN or Fox Network lies, they don't care about God or your
eternal salvation, just posting something so Ungodly like this is so Bad, (listen... Get close to Christ the redeemer of mankind) don't get into foolish arguments like this, Hollywood and all media is just the tipping point of the iceberg of something more evil happening, and to believers: get your doctrine straight and don't defend the works of this man (Stephen King) he is not giving glory to God
with his live and work, there's many men of God that need your support that really give glory to God.
«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.»
How can on be so general and irresponsible when it has to do
with serious matters such as
salvation and
eternal life?
Article 19 bears quoting in full: Holy Mother Church has firmly and
with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while living among men, really did and taught for their
eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven (see Acts 1:1).
Rather, assuming that we agree
with your premise — that people who believe these things remain unsaved — there is another entirely viable option: that it is not sufficient to believe these things apart from the promise of
eternal life by faith alone in Christ, but that these these are indeed essential elements of the gospel that must be believed for
salvation.
I'm not actually struggling
with assurance of my
salvation since I believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God and according to the word of God, I have
eternal life.
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.
That I,
with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ; who
with His precious blood has fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that without the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head; yea, that all things must be subservient to my
salvation, wherefore by His Holy Spirit He also assures me of
eternal life, and makes me heartily willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto Him.