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NASB | Psalm 68:19 ¶ Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 68:19 ¶ Blessed be the Lord, who bears our burden day by day, The God who is our salvation! Selah. |
Subject: Salvation: Instantaneous, progressive? |
Bible Note: Dear Randy, Greetings to you as well! We may not totally disagree on this subject, my friend.. :-) However, I believe that this post is "crossing threads" with your other thread in its subject matter... When a person is saved by grace through faith, there are several instantaneous facets of salvation that occur: substitution, redemption from sin, reconciliation, propitiation, forgiveness, acceptance, deliverance and cleansing from sin, justification, adoption and eternal life. However, the "experimental" part of salvation is sanctification, which is both instantaneous and progressive. From your response, I am not quite sure what is the basis for your disagreement. I do not believe that any "observation" on your part of the salvation of another person would serve as any basis for you saying that salvation is 'progressive', since you have said yourself "Is it not possible that God sees that which we cannot?".. Therefore, I'm not sure that you can prove through Scripture that salvation as a whole acts in such a way. However, if we solely relied on our experience to justify our beliefs, then I would still hold that salvation is instantaneous, based upon my own salvation experience! And only YOU know what YOU have experienced, my friend! :-) Blessings to you, Nolan |