The Christian concept.
2007-03-19 18:18:45 · 8 answers · asked by Lost. at. Sea. 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's redemption by sacrificial death.
Man is separated from God because of sin. Fellowship was broken and the wages of sin is death. Man could not buy his way to righteousness through good works, deeds or rituals. The payment was death. But God provided a loophole, that a substitution could be made. This is where the sacrificial lamb became necessary. Your sins were passed onto the lamb, and the lamb took your payment for sin.
This was a foreshadow for He who was to come. For as Abraham said, "God will provide Himself a Lamb." This was seen when John the Baptist pointed to Jesus and proclaimed "Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world."
If we ask Jesus to be Lord and Savior, we are, in essence, passing our sins onto Him as our personal lamb. Our payment was paid in full on the cross. Which is why Jesus said "Tetelestai" or "paid in full" (commonly translated as "it is finished").
So, with sin paid in full, we now have access to the throne wherein we can cry Abba, Father to the Almighty God. It is through Christ that our sins have been removed and thrown into the deepest ocean and as far as the East is from the West.
1 Cor. 15:1-4
I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.
2007-03-19 18:21:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is based on the notion that we are all sinners, the sin of Adam and Eve having polluted the entire human race ever since, and that there is some procedure (such as "accepting Jesus as one's personal savior") that one can follow to mitigate that sin so as to achieve heaven. There are a few flaws in this thesis:
- The story of Adam and Eve is fiction, as we know from genetic evidence.
- No rational god would attaint a person with a sin that had been commited by another, and you cannot deal rationally with an irrational deity.
- There is no means of demonstrating the existence of god, let alone of what god's opinion might be on any issue. The bible has hundreds of errors, and cannot be used as a reliable guide for anything.
- There is no reason to believe in any sort of heaven, let alone the existence of a procedure that might allow one to get there.
2007-03-20 01:29:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Initially, we are saved from the bondage of sin, born of God, born of His Spirit, cleansed by His blood, joint heirs with Jesus, part of the family of God. This is eternal life in you.
After Salvation (eternal life) is working out our salvation daily. That is obeying God, reading His Word, maturing in Christ. Renewing ones mind in the Gods Word. That helps us make right decisions to follow after the spirit and not after our flesh. This saves us from something every day. We either build on our house everlasting or perishable. When our house gets tested by wind, fire, etc. The perishable gets blown or fried away. What is everlasting is rewards, built on Gods Word & rooted in Faith, Hope & Love.
But the everlasting life is in us who are founded on the Rock foundation. And we still have everlasting life, even if most of what we built with gets fried.
2007-03-20 01:35:47 · answer #3 · answered by LottaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You, as a human created by god, are inherently evil through no fault of your own. You will always fall short of the glory of god, and therefor deserve eternal punishment from god.
However, god sacrificed part of himself to himself, and if you say you believe in that sacrifice, then god will forget how poorly made you are and let you into heaven. According to some, he might even give you a proper body without all the other flaws.
If you don't believe in god's sacrifice, then god will be so angry that his creation continues to be poorly made that he will torture you for ever and ever without end.
That's pretty much the story of salvation.
2007-03-20 01:31:35 · answer #4 · answered by Born of a Broken Man 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When God created the world it was made with certain spiritual laws in place. One of the biggest was that the 'consequences of sin was death'. When man sinned God did not want him to die, so he killed a lamb to atone - or save the man.
Jesus is our final Lamb for all time. His sacrifice is for our salavation. To save us from the consequences of our sin.
2007-03-20 01:25:40 · answer #5 · answered by Christopher 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It means to be saved from God's perfect justice.
If we are born of God we will never face the penalty for our transgressions against His law.
2007-03-20 01:28:09 · answer #6 · answered by Archangel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life". - (Jn. 3:16)
"He that believes on me has everlasting life".- Jesus.. (Jn. 6:47)
"This is eternal life; that they may know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent:. -- Jesus (Jn. 17:3)
"This is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life in in His Son".... (I Jn. 5:11)
) "These things I have written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life"... (I Jn. 5:13
2007-03-20 01:22:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i guess to be saved form the torture of hell
2007-03-20 01:23:50 · answer #8 · answered by jimmy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋