Redemption is often used as a synonym for salvation. But in its own right, it is a distinct work of God in salvation, which addresses a specific problem of fallen man—our enslavement to sin.
When I hear people speak of losing salvation, it is a clear indication that their view of salvation is faulty. Such people view salvation as a singular, one time activity of God that must be carefully and fearfully kept, or you lose it. But salvation is not a singular, one time event. It is a chain of activities of God which began at the point a person comes to God by faith in Christ, continue through his life, and perfected at the return of Christ.
Either we don’t understand “eternal life”, or we don’t believe God’s word for it. But we can’t understand it and believe God’s word to be true, and still be afraid of losing the life that we have received. Eternal, Greek aionios, means never to end. The new creation life is not a life that ends! Why? God was not stingy with the gift of His life to us. He gave it abundantly.
The atonement of Christ do not translate to salvation automatically for all humans. God, seeing our bankruptcy, made Jesus the sacrifice for our sins, and has offered salvation from the affliction and power of sin freely to all. But those to whom the offer is made must respond to the offer to either accept or reject it.
Grace is God’s favor given to the undeserving. Grace projects the idea of a gift given, but which the receiver is unworthy of, doesn’t contribute to, or pay for, coming solely by the giver’s magnanimity. This is how the Bible describes salvation—a free gift to unworthy people, who never contributed in anyway to their salvation, and are in no position to pay for it.
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