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I don't understand Salvation
By:David D
Date: Sunday, 29 January 2006, 1:48 am
In Response To: Salvation (George)

I've been round and round about this subject on salvation, and never do quite get what it means, no matter how much I read and study the bible.

What is the difference between salvation and eternal life? Why are there different terms for the same thing, if they indeed are the same?

Physical salvation is easy enough for me to grasp, but spiritual salvation is beyond my comprehension. I mean, I wouldn't know how to explain such a concept to someone if I were asked.

I can understand that there is some spiritual change that takes place, or maybe mental or moral... but what it actually means, is kind of fuzzy to me.

Like this "Isreal being saved" stuff -- I just can't grasp what that actually means.

To me, the whole idea of the bible is getting to know God and having a relationship with him, which in turn causes a moral change to happen in one's life. But from evrything that I've read in the bible, salvation seems to me as not just a one-time-thing-and-then-it's-done, sort of thing, but a process in which we are constantly working our way towards perfection.

...the righteous to everlastion life and the wicked to damnation.

If people are righteous and know God, do they not inherit them everlasting life? And what does everlasting life mean?

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