Savlation
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How is one saved?
How is one saved?
By Believing in Christ? Jn 3:16, Acts 16:31
By Repentance? (Acts 2:38; 2 Pet 3:9)
By the work of the Spirit (Jn 3:5; 2 Cor 3:6)?
By declaring with our mouths (Lk 12:8; Rom 10:9)?
By coming to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim 2:4; Heb 10:26)?
By works (Rom 2:6, 7; James 2:24)?
By grace (Acts 15:11; Eph 2:8)?
By his blood (Rom 5:9; Heb 9:22)?
By his righteousness (Rom 5:17; 2 Pet 1:1)?
By his Cross (Eph 2:16; Col 2:14)?
By Baptism (Acts 2:38 1 Pt 3:9 Titus 3:5)?
Is anyone excluded from salvation?
Is anyone excluded from salvation?
No created thing can remove us from God (Romans 8:39)
It does NOT say that drunkenness immorality, (Eph 5:5)
One position then is that someone who does these things that are incompatible with salvation was never saved. One then can be assured of their salvation and that God “Never knew them”
(Mt 25:41-43)
41 Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; 42 for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’
I’d ask the question, Did Paul (whop probably spoke more about salvation and justification than any other writer) believe with assurance of his salvation? (1 Cor 4:4)
4 I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
Those who do not perform good works?
Those who do not have or never had saving faith? (Mt 7:21)?
(2 Peter 2:20-21)
(Gal 5:4)
(Rom 11:22)
Some Nuance:
Some Nuance:
No person can remove us from God (John 10:28;
22 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.
(Gal 5:4)
(1 Cor 9:27)
(1 Cor 4:4)
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/once-saved-always-saved
https://www.catholic.com/tract/assurance-of-salvation
People will often talk about faith alone, and this may be correct depending on what you mean by faith alone.
Canon ix. If any one shall say, that by faith alone the impious is justified; so as to mean that nothing else is required to co-operate in order unto the obtaining the grace of justification, and that it is not in any respect necessary that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will; let him be anathema.
Theodore Alois Buckley, The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (London: George Routledge and Co., 1851), 43.
So if someone means by faith that it is simply intellectual assent and that nothing else is required, and no movement of the will, this is incorrect, and not supported by scripture.
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.
If someone means the faith that Paul speaks of “Faith working through love” then you can say that our initial justification is by faith alone, but not faith that is alone.
Justification:
Justification:
When was Abraham justified?
At the Promise of circumcision? Rom 4:10-11
When Sacrificing to Isaac? James 2:21
Did he have saving faith when setting out from the Chaldeans? Hebrews 11:8
The definition of Faith and Faith alone