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Questions on Biblical texts relating to the Christian teaching of Soteriology, AKA "Christian Salvation": This tag is for questions on passages used to support, could likely, or prove to impact one's view of Soteriology, while questions on Soteriology itself remain off-topic.

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If Jesus has never sinned and has never done any wrong, why did he tell the The Rich Young R...

The rich young ruler has approached a 'teacher' on earth and called him 'good'. And has asked advice from this (supposed) 'teacher' (who is supposedly 'good') how he might inherit eternal life. Jesus …
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Is Romans 2:12-16 saying that there is hope of works-based salvation for the unevangelized G...

The question is making a divide between two groups of humanity - 'unevangelized gentiles and evangelized gentiles'. The question then says that the first group 'may be saved' . . . . by keeping the l …
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Does the statement "all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God" apply to non-Chris...

Just as the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel (though it can be seen, retrospectively, hinted at in Abraham) so the 'sons of God' come to light in the New Testament but may be retrospecti …
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What does 'everyone' imply in Heb 2:9 ...that He might taste death for everyone

The immediate context which follows and to which the phrase 'for every one he might taste death' (Englishman's Greek New Testament, interlinear - υπερ παντος γευσηται θανατου) is that of : ... in bri …
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Does the Gospel of John teach Christian Universalism?

That the Father sent the Son to be the saviour of the world and that John declares of him ‘Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world’, does not suggest, in any way, a ‘Christian Un …
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Is it possible to have saving faith in Jesus Christ if one has misunderstood who the Jesus C...

Is Paul's intent to deliberately present the person of Christ before explaining the gospel of Christ, perhaps because that one has to be believed in first before his gospel can be believed? A - The i …
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Is the tax collector in Luke 18:14 saved according to Rom 3:28?

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. [Romans 8:30 KJV] The sinner who is justified is re …
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How should Romans 5:18-19 best be translated?

δι ενος δικαιωματος, Romans 5:18, can only mean 'by one righteousness'. Many try (for traditional and doctrinal reasons) to make it mean 'by the righteousness of one', in order to propagate the idea …
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What is meant in 1 Peter 3:21 when it says "baptism now saves you"

In Acts 10:44 to 48 it is made clear that first, those who heard the words of the apostle Peter, received the Holy Spirit. That being evident, it is then that Peter says : Can any man forbid water …
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Who Demands a Ransom?

The word 'ransom' never appears in holy scripture, as such. There is a word lutron which occurs twice, both times used by Jesus who, both times, precedes it by the word anti which is not the same as o …
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What part of man gets saved?

In a previous answer on this site I expressed from scripture that humanity is spirit, soul and body as the apostle says : I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto …
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What is the difference between eternal life and immortality.?

Luke records the words, Luke 8:14, of Jesus when he describes the cares and riches and pleasures of life, using the Greek word bios, life - the time on earth, the living on the planet. Luke also recor …
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Is the blood of Christ for our forgiveness or his death for our forgiveness or both somehow?

Jesus suffered more than mere crucifixion in his hours upon the cross. Obscured by darkness, Matthew 27:45, Mark 15:33, but if we are granted to see it, he suffered for sins not his own, 1 Corinthians …
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Can a righteous person lose their salvation according to Ezekiel 33:12-16?

Abraham believed God and there was evaluated to him unto righteousness. This statement is repeated five times in the Greek scriptures. (I include LXX as one of the times.) 'Accounted' says the KJV and …
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Why were Ananias and Sapphira not given a chance to repent? Acts 5:1-11

Peter tells the guilty party : How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? [Acts 5:9 KJV] Sins against the Holy Spirit are extremely grievous. Jesus makes it clear that t …
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