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    N. T. Wright
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    Romans 14:17, John 6:1-14, Matthew 5:7, Matthew 4:18-22, Luke 17:20-21
    The call to ‘believe in the gospel’, or to ‘believe in me’, does not suggest that Jesus was inviting Galilean villagers to embrace a body of doctrine — not even a basic ‘theory’ about ‘salvation’ and ...

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    Eugene H. Peterson
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    This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up al...

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    Michael Gorman
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    Romans 8:19-21, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, Philippians 3:20-21, Colossians 1:16-18, Revelation 21:, 2 Corinthians 5:17
    Salvation in the New Testament is consistently portrayed not as escape from creation but as the redemption and transformation of creation.

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    Pope Francis
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    1 Corinthians 2:14, Romans 8:14, John 14:26, 1 Corinthians 2:10-12, John 16:13
    We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of Theology, but without the Spirit we cannot understand. It is the Spirit that makes us realize the truth or — in the words of Our ...

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    Fred Sanders
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    We meet the triune God as he gives himself to us in the history of salvation, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Specifically, we meet the Trinity as the incarnate Son, his heavenly Father w...

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    Albert Wolters
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    The whole course of history [is] a movement from a garden to a city, and it fundamentally affirms that movement ... Redemption in Jesus Christ reaches just as far as the fall. The horizon of creation ...

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    Lesslie Newbigin
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    Galatians 6:2, Acts 2:42-47, Matthew 22:37-40, Ephesians 4:15-16, 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, Genesis 12:3
    From its very beginning the Bible sees human life in terms of relationships...The Bible does not speak about "humanity" but about "all the families of the earth" or "all the n...

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    Karl Barth
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    Acts 7:54-60, Psalm 23:4, Acts 2:1-4, John 14:26, Luke 15:11-32, Romans 5:8
    In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man's Lord who is before him, above him, after him, and thence also with him in history, the locus of man...

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    Darrell Guder
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    Mission is the result of god’s initiative, rooted in god’s purposes to restore and heal creation. “Mission” means “sending,” and it is the central biblical theme describing the purpose of God’s action...

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    Jeremy Driscoll
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    The meaning of the whole creation and the whole of human history is contained here in ritual form and in the people who enact the ritual. This action will cause the Church to be: to do Eucharist is to...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Romans 6:23, John 1:12-13, Ephesians 1:3-10, Ephesians 2:1-10, John 3:3-6, 16-18, Galatians 2:20
    The work of salvation is God’s work from beginning to end. He loved us when we were dead, and made us alive in Christ.

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    John Chrysostom
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    Matthew 2:1-12
    Yet for all that, God, for the salvation of them that were in error, endured to be served by these things, whereby those without were used to serve devils; only He slightly altered them; that He might...

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 5:31-32, 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:6-8, Mark 2:17, Isaiah 1:18, Micah 7:18-19
    It is quite enough that you have sinned. Now let go of it. Don’t let your despondency lead to an even greater offence. The Lord says, ‘I do not wish the death of the sinner, but rather that he repent ...

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    Vinoth Ramachandra
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    Colossians 1:19-20, Matthew 6:10, Isaiah 65:17, Revelation 21:1-4, Romans 8:19-21
    [Biblical] salvation lies not in an escape from this world but in the transformation of this world…. You will not find hope for the world in any of the religious systems or philosophies of humankind…....

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    Ambrose of Milan
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    Matthew 2:1-12
    ​​The Lord called the Magi by a star; He called the fishermen by fish; He called the tax collector at the money table. He lowered Himself to each, that He might raise all to salvation.

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    N. T. Wright
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    Galatians 2:20, 1 Corinthians 15:3, John 3:16
    The early Christian writers used some stunning expressions of delight and gratitude when they mentioned Jesus’s death. Think of Paul saying, “He loved me and gave himself for me” (Gal. 2:20), or “The ...

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    N. T. Wright
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    2 Corinthians 5:17-20, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 10:25-37, Titus 2:11-14, Matthew 5:14-16
    How we are saved is closely linked to the question of what we are saved for.

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    B. B. Warfield
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    Ephesians 2:1-10
    It [salvation] is all of God; nothing is, in the ultimate analysis, of man. Man provides only the sinner to be saved: God provides the entire salvation.

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    Barbara Brown Taylor
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    Psalm 139:23-24, Luke 18:9-14, James 1:5, Romans 12:2, Proverbs 3:5-6
    The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

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    N. T. Wright
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    1 Peter 1:18-19, Romans 8:30, Colossians 1:13-14, Romans 5:1, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 1:7
    Dealing with sin, saving humans from it, giving them grace, forgiveness, justification, glorification-all this was the purpose of the single covenant from the beginning, now fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

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    Donna Barber
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    2 Peter 3:18, Acts 9:1-19, Luke 15:11-32, Colossians 3:9-10, Romans 12:2
    Though conversion may be pinpointed to a moment, salvation is a process that continues over a lifetime. I am still being saved from old ways of thinking and behaving and am coming to new understanding...

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    Thomas Aquinas
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    1 Corinthians 1:18-19, Acts 9:1-19, Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:26-38, Romans 11:33-34, John 1:14
    Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

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    Timothy Keller
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    John 14:6, Genesis 11:1-9, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 1:25, Proverbs 3:5-6, Jeremiah 17:5
    Sin is looking to something else besides God for your salvation. It is putting yourself in the place of God, becoming your own savior and lord, as it were.

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    Hans Urs von Balthasar
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    Romans 5:18-19, Exodus 1:14, Luke 15:11-32, John 3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 15:22, Romans 3:23-24, Genesis 3:1-7
    The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

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    H. W. Robinson
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    James 1:22, Matthew 26:36-46, Genesis 22:1-19, Romans 12:1-2, John 14:15, 1 Samuel 15:22, Deuteronomy 6:4-5
    This is salvation in the deeper and more spiritual sense of the Old Testament. . . . But even in the religion of the Law, . . . obedience to the revealed will of Yahweh is recognized as the supreme en...

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    Benedicta Ward
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    1 John 3:18, John 13:1-17, Luke 10:25-37, Matthew 4:18-22, James 1:22, Romans 12:1, Mark 10:15
    It is possible also to come at Christianity from a rather different point of view as well, seeing it as something not too difficult but too simple for us, too basic, something to be apprehended theref...

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    Robert Mounce
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    Redemptive history remains incomplete until Christ returns. It is for the final act in the great drama of redemption that the church awaits with longing. .

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    Kevin DeYoung
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    Romans 5:1, Acts 9:1-9, Luke 23:39-43, Titus 3:5, Galatians 2:16
    At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification exc...

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    J. Richard Middleton
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    Matthew 25:34-40, Acts 2:42-47, Matthew 21:12-13, Luke 10:25-37, Romans 12:2, Matthew 5:13-16
    To focus our expectation in an otherworldly salvation has the potential to dissipate our resistance to societal evil and the dedication needed to work for the redemptive transformation of this world.

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    Curtis Hutson
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    2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 John 3:9, James 2:17, Colossians 2:6-7, Titus 3:5-7
    You don’t turn from sin to get saved. You get saved to turn from sin.
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