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.
SOTERIA: Salvation, the Savior and the Saved (4)
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.