Salvation

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Salvation

• Studies of Religion
• Preliminary Course

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Etymology

• Hebrew Yeshua ? Joshua ? Jesus
• Greek soteria
• Latin salvatio emph. deliverance

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Old Testament

• 1. Regular salvation sickness, danger, enemies
• 2. Salvation-historical events e.g. Passover,
  Exodus
• See Song of Moses Exodus 15

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Song of Moses

•  Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to
  the LORD        "I will sing to the LORD,
         for he is highly exalted.        The
  horse and its rider        he has hurled into
  the sea.
• The LORD is my strength and my song        he
  has become my salvation.        He is my God,
  and I will praise him,        my father's God,
  and I will exalt him.
• Exodus 151-2

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OT Prophecy (eg Isaiah)

• 1. Salvation seen as the future action of God to
  deliver Israel enemies social ills, evils
  etc. (Isaiah 49)   

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2. Messiah

• The hope of the Messiah who will deliver people
  from sin (Isaiah 52-53)
• But he was pierced for our transgressions,
         he was crushed for our iniquities
         the punishment that brought us peace was
  upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
• Isaiah 535

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3. New Creation

• Remedy for the Fall (Genesis 3)
• "Behold, I will create        new heavens and a
  new earth.        The former things will not be
  remembered,        nor will they come to mind.
• Isaiah 6517

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New Testament

• Not well-being, health, etc (Greek)
• Not earthly liberation from circumstances e.g.
  Israel under Babylon (Judaism)
• Var. Liberation Theology
• Salvation re mans relationship with God
• People cannot effect salvation for themselves
  i.e. Luther sola gratia

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The Logic of Salvation (NT)

• Holy God
• Unholy Humanity
• Separation i.e. Curtain in Temple
• Universal Judgment
• Substitute Christ on the Cross
• Eternal Relationship with God

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Hebrews 10

• Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to
  enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
  by a new and living way opened for us through the
  curtain, that is, his body

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The Thirty-Nine Articles

• XVIII Of obtaining eternal Salvation by the Name
  of Christ (1562)
• They are also to be had accursed that presume to
  say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or
  Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent
  to frame his life according to that Law, and the
  light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out
  unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby
  men must be saved.

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Bono-Speak

• There are consequences to actions. The point of
  the death of Christ is that Christ took on the
  sins of the world, so that what we put out did
  not come back to us, and that our sinful nature
  does not reap the obvious death. Thats the
  point. It should keep us humbled its not our
  own good works that get us through the gates of
  Heaven.
• Bono in Bono on Bono Conversations with Michka
  Assayas 2005

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Salvation Now

• Negatively
• Sin and Evil defeated no longer slaves to
  sin.
• Positively
• Freedom to Love Serve God

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Salvation ThenCreation

• Compare Genesis 2
•  This is the account of the heavens and the
  earth when they were created Now the LORD God
  had formed out of the ground all the beasts of
  the field and all the birds of the air. He
  brought them to the man to see what he would name
  them and whatever the man called each living
  creature, that was its name.

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Salvation ThenNew Creation

• I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now
  the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live
  with them. They will be his people, and God
  himself will be with them and be their God. He
  will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will
  be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,
  for the old order of things has passed away."
  Revelation 213-4