Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. The Scriptures are clear that there is no other name by which man can be saved but by Christ alone (Acts 4:12). One can only be delivered by the power of sin through the Lord Jesus Christ. In John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.” The same exclusive statement is made in John 10:7-8 when Jesus said, “Truly, Truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers.” The exclusivity of the gospel is to be preached in this age of plurality. Because of the exclusivity of the gospel, Christians are seen as narrow-minded or intolerant. People say there are many ways to God, and if you believe what you think is true that will be marked by going to heaven. How can Christians say, then, that Jesus Christ is the only way by which one can go to heaven? Jesus made it clear when He said there are only two religious paths: The broad way of works salvation that leads to eternal damnation, and the narrow way which is by faith alone in Christ alone that leads to eternal life (Matt. 7:13-14). Each person is one road or the other. Jesus said He is the only way to God (John 10:7-9; 14:6; Acts 4:12) because He is the truth that reveals who God is (John 1:14, 17; 18:37; Rev. 3:7; 19:11), and He alone possesses the life of God (John 1:4; 5:26; 11:25; 1 John 1; 5:20). This is the exclusivity of the gospel—that Jesus
Salvation describes the deliverance by God for those who believe in him. It is the saving of the soul from sin (and its consequences) through Gods will and grace. Though it takes different forms in every religion, the principle is still the same, often emphasising the necessity of both good works, repentance, and asceticism, as well as divine intervention (in this case the action being the grace of God). If assuming that Christ is the full truth, then the only way to gain access to God after death is through the salvation given by the Christian God. Jesus himself has indicated that a person must hear the word, believe it, repent of past sins, and be willing to confess faith before others, be baptized into Christ for the remission of sins, and then continue to live a faithful life throughout this physical life if we are to go to heaven.
In verse 15, Paul writes, "We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners" Paul seems to be telling his gentile reader that the Torah has no bearing on their salvation. I feel that he purposely or inadvertently gives the law merit more merit than intended by suggesting that Jews are not sinners because they received the law. He draws a distinction between himself and "the gentile sinners" yet he is telling his audience that the ways, some of which are still a part of his own way of life, are irrelevant. He seems to almost make a separation of culture and religion. He seems to be saying that the rectitude of the Jews dates from birth, because the Jewish religion is a part of their culture. Peter claims to
In Langston Hughes’ essay “Salvation,” Langston talks about the first time he is going to be saved from sin. Langston is a young boy around the age of thirteen. He is going to church to see Jesus for the first time. In which case, he truly experiences religion for the first time in his life. Throughout this essay Langston uses many narrative techniques such as, imagery, metaphors, and irony to explain his interpretation of that one night when he did not see Jesus.
The Grace That Keeps This World, by Tom Bailey, is an enthralling novel about the Hazen family who have lived in Lost Lake their whole lives. In this novel Kevin Hazen, a young man of 19, is searching for where he belongs in the world and in his own family. He wants more for his life than the life of survival that his parents have lived their whole lives. The story of the Hazen family is centered around the first day of deer season. For the Hazens, this hunt is more than just a sport. They use the meat of every deer they shoot to help them survive through the winter.
Faith and reason can be viewed as opposites. Faith is an element of belief, something an individual does not necessarily require a reason for accepting without reason. For example, an individual’s reason for believing in God may not seem too rational when they are trying to explain them. They may not even stand up to criticism. On the other hand, reason is constructed as a formula. Faith is basically something we believe in, like something we learn in church. Reason is something we learn in school, such as a math formula.
Gospel is an old English word meaning “good news.” When comparing the four gospels they are all unified, but each gospel can have slight differences to them. Whether is literary structure, length, how many teachings, important events, different significance, geography or chronology; they all are correlated to tell us Jesus’ story, in their own way. In like manner, God didn’t give us one explanation from an confined individual. Rather, God educates us about the broad richness of Jesus’ life through a numerous prophet-witnesses. Moreover, God works through well-documented and a valid history, not through confidential revelations to a single person. The prophetic witnesses of the Gospels endorse the truth that God himself is speaking. Each Gospel
Summary: In the story The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight, the author Scot McKnight took us as the readers step by step through his very own theological beliefs. Mr. McKnight focus through this reading was the questioning of what is the gospel and what are the major differences between Gospel culture and Salvation culture. Within this reading Scot McKnight’s thinking will have all that Christians rethinking what Christianity really is. This reading speaks on how we as people compare the word gospel with the word salvation but, both are two different terms that are expressed differently, and Scot McKnight goes through and explains why both are different. I believe this is a very controversial book because not all will agree with the author. One of the authors biggest arguments was that when many answer the question, “what the gospel is” they typically aren’t answering the question of what is the gospel but are more like presenting the plan of salvation. The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight is a reading that will have you refocusing your mindset when it comes to Christianity. This book speaks on how we as people sometimes forget that life, death, and resurrection, and the assignation of Jesus Christ will always outweigh our personal salvation. This book covers how we as the Christian community have taken the gospel and made it into a plan of salvation as well as a method of persuasion but doing so with understanding a small portion of the gospel but not the full portion
In this bible talk, David Mier focuses on the idea of grace and “Why it is worth fighting for.” He starts off referring to the well-known historical figure, Martin Luther, whose ninety-five theses were a key catalyst in the reformation and schism of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16-century. He goes on to say how within these were complaints that the Catholic Church had strayed from the scriptures, how they were focusing too much on deeds or religious works and not on grace. He argues against this idea, stating that grace is the only way to be saved.
Everybody sins, and we are no different. But unlike some churches, we believe that we are able to repent from the sin or sins we commit. The process we use is called the atonement, and it is the supreme expression of the love of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We can feel this love after we repent, and it is also described as the grace of God or Jesus Christ. Christ loves us and wants us to come back to him, as Moses 1:39 states, it is his work and his glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
The Gospels are stories of Jesus’ life and teachings, told by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in the first four books of the New Testament. There is little difference between the first three, they tell the same stories of jesus but with slight differences. But the gospel of John, the gospel that traditionally appears fourth in the new testament, has many differences to the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. They are used to spread the teachings of jesus, and give us guidance in our lives. ‘Gospel’ is derived from the old english, ‘god-spel’, (‘god’-’good’, ‘spel’- ‘news’). The gospel literally translates to ‘good news’.
Suppose I ask you, “What are the essentials of the gospel message?” Would you be able to articulate them clearly? For the believer to be effective in evangelism, he needs to clearly understand what Scripture declares the gospel is. Please turn to 1 Corinthians 15. The apostle Paul gives us the precise definition and content of the gospel message in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4The Gospel message in its simplest form is this: Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead. Paul mentions Christ’s burial to emphasize the reality of His death. Jesus did not merely fall unconscious on the cross and later become conscious in the tomb and found a way to escape (Swoon hypothesis). He died, and His death was a payment for our sins. Paul also in verses 5 through 8 includes a list of eyewitnesses to support the reality of the resurrection. The gospel literally means “good news”. It is good news because it is an answer to the problem of sin. The good news is that Christ has provided a way for sinners to be forgiven instead of punished. We are all sinners by nature and by choice. We have all failed to live according to God’s standard of perfection (Rom 3:23). Because of this, we are separated from God and deserve to spend eternity in hell (Rom 6:23). By ourselves we can do nothing to be reconciled with God because we cannot pay for our own sin. But God loves us so much that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ to this world to do what we cannot on our behalf. Without ceasing to be God, Jesus became a
What is salvation? The dictionary definition of salvation is, “deliverance from sin and its consequences, believed by Christians to be brought about by faith in Christ.” A modern day example of this is a mother getting a job so she can feed her daughter. When Jesus brought salvation it was much bigger than the mom getting a job, but it is only bigger because Jesus saved humanity when he did it. The problem is that most humans today do not have the drive to go out and get a job to support their family. When Jesus saved the world he not only saved it, but also showed us how to reevaluate how we live.
Salvation comes from the Greek word soteria which means deliverance, and preservation. It is the spiritual and eternal deliverance granted immediately by God to those who accept His conditions of repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus, in whom alone it is to be obtained. It is an experience in which one receives God’s power to be delivered from the bondage of sin. Salvation is of grace through the sacrifice of Jesus the Christ. By His death He made full atonement for the sins of humankind.
We’ve all had something in our lives that has changed them for the good or the bad, or at least if you haven't had it yet it will happen sometime in your life. These experiences mold us into who we are and who we will become. Without these moments in our life, life would get pretty boring. You’d get use to the same old same old, so sometimes you need life to throw you a curveball.
In the Anchor Bible, Joesph A. Fitzmyer interprets the Gospel according to Luke. Fitzmyer starts with Jesus continuing his journey through towns and villages and he is teach and continuing towards Jerusalem. In verse 23 someone asked him, “Sir is it true that only a few are to be saved?” Jesus answers to them in verse 24, “Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to get in, but will not be able to.”