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    DOCTRINE OF SALVATION INTRODUCTION This week we have studied soteriology or the doctrine of salvation. Salvation must be grounded in the work of Christ and is how God saves what was lost to sin and death and restores life. Salvation is called many things, i.e. redemption, resurrection, victory, peace, rebirth, or ransom. However, the New Testament contains two primary descriptions of salvation, the arrival of God’s kingdom and justification of the ungodly by faith in Christ. (Lecture 2). This paper

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    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

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    Course: Date: Salvation Salvation has been the most common term used in our churches today. But, what is salvation? Since I was a child, my parents always taught me that without salvation I was going to hell. Being so young and innocent, I would look at my parents and ask them, what I need to do to be saved. Their answer was simple. Fear God and stay away from sin; I guess that was my parent’s definition of salvation. Just like my parents, everyone has their own definition of salvation, depending

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    now. The Salvation Army is trying to bring this number down in any way possible. The Salvation Army does much more than just help the homeless, they help anyone in need. The Salvation Army has been around for over 150 years and it is all over the world. Anyone can help the Salvation Army by donating time, money, or goods. The Salvation Army is a great charity because of it’s rich history, all the lives it’s changed, the services they offer, and because anybody can help. The Salvation Army was founded

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    In Langston Hughes’ essay, “Salvation”, Hughes is influenced greatly along his own road to salvation by the older generation in whom he has placed his trust. As he recounts this tale of his own childhood in church, he describes a perversion and destruction of salvation that ultimately leads him to the conclusion that he has not obtained salvation. This exposes a fault within the Christian community in regards to its treatment of children, which has in turn made salvation seemingly unattainable by the

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    Question 2: Salvation in Christianity and Liberation in the Bhakti Tradition. A) How does Hugh of St. Victor’s theological reflection on the work of Christ demonstrate Christianity’s understanding of salvation? B) How does Nanjiyar understand Nammalvar and his work’s contribution to the devotee’s liberation (how does this fit with the path of devotion’s understanding of liberation [community, saint, God])? C) Having studied now two traditions’ understanding of ‘God’s’ response to the human predicament

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    Salvation can be defined as deliverance from sin and consequences, usually through religion or the good deeds of others. Money and gunpowder are two terms that are not often related to salvation, and are actually considered to cause the polar opposite of salvation to take place. In George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, protagonist Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy arms dealer, deems money and gunpowder to be necessary to salvation. His daughter, Barbara, a major in the Salvation Army, disagrees with her

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    The Salvation Army has many financial planning options to help you plan future charitable collaboration with the organization’s goals that are aligned with your various philanthropic missions. With corporate partners such as Papa John’s, JCPenney, and Target, the Salvation Army is dedicated to helping people through everyday poverty related obstacles such as lack of food, shelter and necessary items to live their lives. To help mitigate the threat of hunger that affects American families all over

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    Will All Good People Be Saved? INTRO The popular idea of most people today is that all good people will be saved. a. It seems almost sacrilegious to question this belief, especially when we speak of good people who have departed this life. b. But truth will always hold up to investigation, so there is nothing to be lost from an honest and Scriptural examination of this question. 3. This idea, that all good people will be saved, has been repeated so often that many people simply accept it as truth

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    belief system is the theme of "Salvation". It all began in Heaven when Lucifer (now called Satan or devil) was dismissed from Heaven for stubborn rebellion against the divine government of

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