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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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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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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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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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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 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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Is there a contradiction between John 6:44 and Matthew 22:14?
Many are called by the gospel. Multitudes hear some degree of gospel and respond to that word that is preached.
But that is not 'coming' to Christ himself.
Within the vast multitude of persons respond …
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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 Peter implying that the righteous can lose their salvation in 1 Peter 4:17-18?
Liddell & Scott reference the Greek word makran in order to explain molis, the idea of being 'a great way off'.
Thayer translates molis as 'with difficulty' or 'not readily'.
Luke uses the word in con …
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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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"... where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched" - Is Jesus' description of ...
God revealed himself in literal fire a number of times. He appeared in a burning bush to Moses, Exodus 3:1-6. Fire came out of the tabernacle from before the Lord and consumed upon the altar the burnt …
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Is Ezekiel 20 talking about works-based salvation when it says "my rules, by which, if a per...
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. [Habakkuk 2:4 KJV]
And he [Abraham] believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousnes …
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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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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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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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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 …