SOTERIA: Salvation, the Savior and the Saved (6)
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.
SOTERIA: Salvation, the Savior and the Saved (5)
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.