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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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    Athanasius of Alexandria
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    Revelation 22:18-19, Acts 8:26-40, Hebrews 4:12, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Isaiah 55:10-11, Psalm 119:105
    These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let ...

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    Lewis B. Smedes
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    John 6:44, Luke 15:11-32, Acts 9:1-19, Romans 3:24, John 1:12-13, Titus 3:5, Ephesians 2:8-9
    God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

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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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    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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    Bill Hull
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    Matthew 16:24-25, Acts 9:1-19, Mark 10:17-22, Ephesians 4:1-2, John 8:31-32, Luke 9:23, Matthew 28:18-20
    All who are called to salvation are called to discipleship, no exceptions, no excuses!

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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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    Jürgen Moltmann
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    Genesis 12:1–3, Exodus 19:5–6, Isaiah 49:6, Acts 20:21, Acts 1:8, Psalm 67:1–2
    It is not the church that has a mission of salvation to fulfill in the world; it is the mission of the Son and the Spirit through the Father that includes the church.

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    Cyril of Alexandria
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    Luke 12:49
    We affirm that the fire that Christ sent out is for humanity's salvation and profit... The fire is the saving message of the gospel and the power of its commandments... The gospel ignites all of u...

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    Lauren F. Winner
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    Esther 4:12-17, Genesis 50:19-21 , 1 Kings 19:11-13, Luke 24:13-32, Romans 8:28, Psalm 77:19
    Though God is at work, God hides… You have a choice: see God here or not; see salvation, or see only human courage; see the divine subtly at work, or see chance, luck of the draw on this day of lots.

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    Julie Canlis
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    2 Samuel 9:6-13, Exodus 4:22-23 , Romans 8:14-17, Ephesians 1:3-6, Psalm 68:5-6
    Adoption … is not the cause merely of a partial salvation, but bestows salvation entire…

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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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    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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    Ludwig Feurbach (For Contrast)
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    Psalm 24:1, Mark 4:35-41, Colossians 1:16-17, Romans 1:20, Psalm 19:1-2
    Nature, the world, has no value, no interest for Christians. The Christian thinks only of himself and the salvation of his soul.

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    C.H. Lenski
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    Titus 3:4-5, Luke 23:39-43, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Romans 6:23, Matthew 20:1-16, Ephesians 2:8-9
    The generosity and the magnanimity of God are so great that he accepts nothing from us without rewarding it beyond all computation. . . The vast disproportion existing between our work and God’s rewar...

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    Dag Hammarskjöld
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    Matthew 18:12-14, John 9:1-12, Acts 8:26-40, Philippians 2:3-4, Galatians 6:2, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, John 13:34-35
    It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Origen of Alexandria
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    Revelation 14:6-7, Acts 12:5-11, Luke 2:8-14, Luke 1:26-38, Daniel 6:22, Luke 15:10, Psalm 91:11
    This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Acts 16:25-34, Romans 15:13, Psalm 126:3, John 21:15-19, Ephesians 2:4-5
    If we are saved by grace alone, this salvation is a constant source of amazed delight. Nothing is mundane or matter-of-fact about our lives. It is a miracle we are Christians, and the Gospel, which cr...

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    Christopher Lasch
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    Matthew 11:28-30, Luke 10:39-42, Colossians 3:1-2, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:19-21
    People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic securit...

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    Randy Alcorn
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    John 21:15-19, Jonah 3:4, 2 Samuel 12:1-4, Mark 10:17-22, John 8:1-11, Titus 2:11-12, Ephesians 4:15
    If we minimize grace, the world sees no hope for salvation. If we minimize truth, the world sees no need for salvation.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 3:23-24, Mark 10:17-22, Ephesians 2:8-9, Isaiah 64:6, Revelation 3:15-16, Matthew 7:21-23
    A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult...

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    Author
    Randy Alcorn
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    John 21:15-19, Jonah 3:4, 2 Samuel 12:1-4, Mark 10:17-22, John 8:1-11, Titus 2:11-12, Ephesians 4:15
    If we minimize grace, the world sees no hope for salvation. If we minimize truth, the world sees no need for salvation.

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    Sam Allberry
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    Genesis 3:, Philippians 2:6-8, Romans 5:8, Isaiah 53:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:21
    The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to ...

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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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