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1 | Is salvation a process or onetime event? | Eph 2:5 | Bill Mc | 16821 | ||
Is salvation a process or a one-time event? I'm studying 'being saved' and some verses speak of it as a past event, like the one referenced above. Other verses seem to speak of being saved as a on-going process. And yet other verses seem to speak of being saved as a future event. Can anyone help me to understand what is meant by 'being saved'? Verses that support salvation as a past event: Eph 2:5,8; 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 3:5 Verses that support salvation as a current, on-going process: Rom 10:9; 1 Cor 1:18; Titus 2:11 Verses that support salvation as a future event: Rom 5:9,10 Thanks for your help, brothers and sisters. In Him, Bill Mc |
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2 | Is salvation a process or onetime event? | Eph 2:5 | Searcher56 | 16837 | ||
Bill Mc, It is all three. I don't know if this works. If you are shipwrecked. When the ship takes you from the raft/ plank you were on, is the present and process, as they take you to land--where you will finally be saved. Being on the plank is the past event. Steve | ||||||
3 | Is salvation a process or onetime event? | Eph 2:5 | charis | 16849 | ||
Dear Steve and Bill, If I may: I also believe that salvation, from our point of view, is a process with an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. (remember Public Speaking or Composition?) From God's lofty vantage, beyond the boundaries of location and time, it might be taken as one 'event.' Thus the seemingly different Scripture references. Steve, to add abit to your 'shipwrecked' theme: First you are saved from the immediate danger by a Provident 'plank,' then onto a 'vehicle,' which brings you to your safe doorstep, then into your 'home,' and the company of loved ones, and the Loving One.' The 'plank' is the Gospel, the Good News of hope in Christ Jesus. The 'vehicle' is the church, under the capable piloting of the Holy Spirit. Finally we arrive 'home' to the eternal assembly of the faithful, and the arms of our loving God. We know not if our return home will be to heaven, or if we shall meet Him in the air, but what a day that will be! The culmination of our salvation experience. Friends, this is the limit of my 'poetic' side, but this melody sings in my heart. In Jesus' name, charis |
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4 | Is salvation a process or onetime event? | Eph 2:5 | Searcher56 | 16860 | ||
Charis, I like your addition. I just thought of it when I was writing Bill. Steve | ||||||