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1 | if you are saved are you always saved? | Bible general Archive 3 | scoop715 | 162896 | ||
There is no such thing as once saved always saved. If that were the case there would have been no reason for Jesus to die on the Christ and rise again as a sacrifice and savior of the world. When you accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior ...you are saved...but you can lose your salvation if you do not cultivate it. It is the same as any other gift. When God gives you the gift of salvation, you could compare it to someone giving you a plot of land as a garden. The garden is yours, but if you do not cultivate the garden and pull the weeds and do what YOU need to do to keep it in good condition, it can fall into disrepair and look like a patch of weeds. It is still a garden, but who would know it. Your "fruits" would not be evident. No, I am not a fruit picker, but I am a fruit inspector and people know you by your fruits. There is nothing you can do to become saved except accept Jesus as your personal savior, but you have to walk the walk of faith, once you receive that gift. There is a judgement day for all of us and many who we think will be in heaven will not be there. We will all have to give an account. We have to maintain and be strong until the day of Jesus Christ. To make sure Our names are written in the Book of Life. Choose Life. There is no such thing as once saved always saved. Anyone can backslide. Make your election sure. Study to show thyself approved. Watch and pray. Always be ready. Salvation is free, but it ain't cheap. | ||||||
2 | if you are saved are you always saved? | Bible general Archive 3 | humbledbyhisgrace | 162911 | ||
Hey Scoop, You said "Salvation is free, but it ain't cheap". Very good point! Salvation was truly not cheap. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ had to suffer for our salvation and die on the cross for our salvation. He understood there was nothing at all we could do for ourselves to save ourselves. Yet He loved us enough that even as sinners He went to the cross for our sins so that He alone could provide a way for us to be saved for our sins. We didn't have to do anything at all. Ours was only to accept His free gift. Praise God for being willing and capable of paying the price for our sin! Now, was your statement "Salvation is free, but not cheap" referring to what I said above or are you saying there is some price that we have to pay for it also? Steve |
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3 | What is the definition of salvation? | Bible general Archive 3 | AGB | 162915 | ||
What is the definition of salvation? | ||||||
4 | What is the definition of salvation? | Bible general Archive 3 | BradK | 162921 | ||
Hi AGB, The definition could be very broad by including both OT and NT. I'll confine my response to a few points in relation to the NT from The New Bible Dictionary: In the NT we begin with the general observation that the ‘religious’ usage of a moral/spiritual deliverance becomes almost wholly dominant as far as the idea of salvation is concerned. Non-religious usage is virtually confined to saving from acute danger to life (Acts 27:20, 31; Mk. 15:30; Heb. 5:7.) Paul claims that the Scriptures ‘are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus’ (2 Tim. 3:15ff.) and provide the ingredients essential for the enjoyment of a full-orbed salvation. Enlarging and applying the OT concept of the righteousness of God, which itself had adumbrations of the saving righteousness of the NT, Paul shows how there is no salvation by means of the law, since it could only indicate the presence and excite the reactionary activity of sin and stop men’s mouths in their guilt before God (Rom. 3:19; Gal. 2:16). Salvation is provided as the free gift of the righteous God acting in grace towards the undeserving sinner who, by the gift of faith, trusts in the righteousness of Christ who has redeemed him by his death and justified him by his resurrection. God, for Christ’s sake, justifies the unmeriting sinner (i.e. reckons to him the perfect righteousness of Christ and regards him as if he had not sinned), forgives his sin, reconciles him to himself in and through Christ ‘making peace by the blood of his cross’ (2 Cor. 5:18; Rom. 5:11; Col. 1:20), adopts him into his family (Gal. 4:5f.; Eph. 1:13; 2 Cor. 1:22), giving him the seal, earnest, and firstfruits of his Spirit in his heart, and so making him a new creation. By the same Spirit the subsequent resources of salvation enable him to walk in newness of life, mortifying the deeds of the body increasingly (Rom. 8:13) until ultimately he is conformed to Christ (Rom. 8:29) and his salvation is consummated in glory (Phil. 3:21). Salvation is moral and spiritual. Salvation relates to a deliverance from sin and its consequences and hence from guilt (Rom. 5:1; Heb. 10:22, from the law and its curse (Gal. 3:13; Col. 2:14) from death (1 Pet. 1:3–5; 1 Cor. 15:51–56), from judgment (Rom. 5:9; Heb. 9:28, also from fear (Heb. 2:15; 2 Tim. 1:7, 9f.) and bondage (Tit. 2:11–3:6; Gal 5:1f). It is important to indicate the negative implications of this, i.e. what Christian salvation does not include. Salvation does not imply material prosperity or worldly success (Acts 3:6; 2 Cor. 6:10), nor does it promise physical health and well-being. One must be careful not to overstate this particular negative, as clearly remarkable healings did and do take place and ‘healing’ is a gift of the Spirit to the church (Acts 3:9; 9:34; 20:9f.; 1 Cor. 12:28). But healing is not invariable, and hence is in no sense a ‘right’ to the saved man (1 Tim. 5:23; 2 Tim. 4:20; Phil. 2:25f.; 2 Cor. 12:7–9). Further, salvation does not include deliverance from physical hardship and danger (1 Cor. 4:9–13; 2 Cor. 11:23–28), nor even, perhaps, seemingly tragic events (Mt. 5:45?). It does not mean being absolved from social injustice and ill-treatment (1 Cor. 7:20–24; 1 Pet. 2:18–25). I hope this helps, BradK |
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