SOTERIOLOGY
DEFINITION: Soteriology is the union of two Greek words " Soteria " which means Salvation and "Logia " meaning study . So Soteriology is the study of salvation.
INTRODUCTION: It is essential that we have confidence of our salvation. The Bible assures us that we can have assurance of eternal life. Without this conviction it is impossible to live the Christian life. When you study, examine how is your conviction 'the light of the Word of God.
STRUCTURE :
MAN'S CONDITION
SLAVE OF SIN
DEAD SPIRITUAL
SEPARATED FROM GOD
TRUE IDEA OF SALVATION
SALVATION AND THE PAST
SALVATION AND THE FUTURE
JESUS OF SALVATION
2 THE STEPS TO SALVATION
REPENTANCE
CONVERSION
3 THE BASICS FOR SALVATION
THE FUN
THE BLOOD
FAITH
NATURE OF SALVATION
JUSTIFICATION
REGENERATION
Sanctification
GLORIFICATION
SECURITY OF SALVATION
The CALVINISM
The ARMINIANISM
COMPARISON
MAN'S CONDITION
One can not understand the doctrine of salvation without knowing to which the condition of the man who needs it. Let's look at some situations of man without salvation:
Sin slave John 8: 34 Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto you , Whosoever committeth sin is theservant of sin.
The term "slave" means being captive under absolute power, by purchase, inheritance or war.
The term "sin" means transgression of divine law.
Romans 6: 18 free from sin You were, and you became slaves of righteousness.
Scripture shows us that sin can be divided into two classes, namely:
Sin by the Commission is an act that does not meet a condition imposed in other words, is to do what God forbids.
Sin Default Act or effect of omitting, not to do, that is, you fail to do what God commands.
Dead spiritually Rom. 5: 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Spiritual death is somewhat analogous to physical death.
Physical death is the separation between the body and the spirit, when the spirit leaves the body, the body dies. Similarly, when the spirit is separated from God, the spirit dies; just as the body without the spirit is dead without God's spirit is dead, too.
Separated from God, man is spiritually dead and unable, to take the initiative of salvation.
Separated from God This is another condition of man without salvation.
The consequence of Adam's fall, was the exclusion of the presence of God. That is, God no longer walked with Adam in Eden.
Gen. 3: 8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and hid his wife from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Isaiah 59: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God.
TRUE IDEA OF SALVATION
There are several ideas about salvation. Let's mention some of the most important and point out that is more in line with the idea presented by Jesus Christ.
Salvation and the Past Acts 17: 30 But God, not taking into account the ignorance of the times, now commands all men everywhere to repent. Suppose a person who does not know how to swim is about to drown; but fortunately someone salva.A salvation has nothing to do with the past of the person saved.
Salvation and the Future Imagine now, one condemned to death, but pardoned by someone full of kindness and love. This assures the forgiveness condemned the release of comeuppance. This salvation aimed at the salvation of future punishment.
Salvation of Jesus Luke. 9: 24 For whosoever will save asua life shall lose it; But whatever, for my sake, loses his life will save it . Suponhamo s we have a single grain of rice in the world in our hands.To save this seed we have to do? The best way to save it is by planting it, as it gathered hundreds of them
The true idea of salvation is one that includes more things for which we are saved than that of we were saved.
The salvation taught by Jesus emphasizes more the sky with all its glory than hell with all its horror. We are not saved to escape death, but we enjoy eternal life.
I Jo. 3: 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be .
2 THE STEPS TO SALVATION
Matt. 4: 17 From then on Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent - you , because it is the kingdom of heaven.
Matt . 18: 3 And I said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted , and do not become like children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Christ had come into the world, from the bosom of the Father. He could describe the glories of heaven to touch men. But his message was the same: Repentance and conversion.
Repentance True repentance involves the whole person, his whole being, his whole personality.Repentance is not just change in thinking.
John 3: 3 ... Truly I tell you , unless one is born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.
Sunrise new means "a new being a new person that is a new personality."
We will study the repentance in each of the personality of powers: intellect, sensitivity, Volition.
Intellect Intellectually speaking, repentance is a change in the way we think: in God, in our sin, our relationship with others. Before repentance, his mind was focused on material things, now consists of spiritual and eternal things.
Sensitivity The pleasure and joy ceases to be fixed on earthly things of this world to settle in spiritual thing. Repentance man thinks and feels more about God than about sin. In Psalm 51 David weeps for his sins, but regrets much their unfaithfulness to God. "Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: blot out my transgressions according to the multitude of thy tender mercies Against thee,. thee only have I sinned, and done evil in thy sight, that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest , and pure when you judge. "
Volition Before repentance man wants to do his own will, want to address itself, you want to walk in their own way.
Through repentance man goes to want to do God's will and wants to be directed by him, because he is convinced that the direction of God you are the best.
This change in the will of man is, in fact, the most important element in repentance.
Conversion: Conversion is a word used to express the act of the sinner from sin to follow Jesus.
The conversion can and should at all times be repeated in the man sin and turn away from God because it is the act of turning from sin and to approach God.
It is used, generally, the word conversion to mean that first experience of man from sin paras follow Christ.
3 THE BASICS FOR SALVATION
Rom. 3: 24-25 And are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God proposed to be a propitiation through faith in his blood , to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past under the tolerance of God.
The basic elements established for salvation conf. written by the Apostle Paul to the Romans are
1 the . Grace Titus 2: 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men. Grace means, first, favor, or the kindly disposition of God. (Please unmerited). The grace of God to sinners is revealed in the fact that he himself through the atonement of Christ paid the full penalty of sin. Therefore, it can just forgive sin without taking into account the merits or not merits. Grace manifests itself apart from works of men. Grace is known as the Salvation Source.
2 a . The blood I Jo. 1: 7 . The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin Because of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, the believer is set apart to God, your sins forgiven and his purified soul.Blood is known as the Salvation basis .
3 a . Faith Eph. 2: 8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest anyone should boast. By faith recognize the man the need of salvation, and the same faith he is led to believe in Christ Jesus. Heb.11: 6 . But without faith it is impossible to please God, because it is necessary that he who comes to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek Faith leads us to the Savior, Faith puts the truth in Christ mind and the heart.Faith is the bridge that gives passage to the spiritual world, so we conclude that the Faith is the medium for salvation .
NATURE OF SALVATION
Let's look at three aspects of salvation
1 a . Justification Justify is a legal term that means acquit, declare righteous. The defendant, instead of receiving the sentence he receives the acquittal. This acquittal is a free gift of God, placed at our disposal by faith. This doctrine thus defined:. "Justification" is an act of God's free grace by which he forgives all of us and accepts us as righteous in his own eyes only for us to be imputed righteousness of Christ, which we receive by Faith Justification is more than forgiveness of sins, is the removal of condemnation. God erases our sins, and then treats us as if we had never committed a single sin.Therefore Justification is the act of God become righteous sinner. Romans 3: 24,30 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ... therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. the justification is performed in man when it comes to believing in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, as soon as he believes in Jesus, God declares free from condemnation.
Christ Our imputation Rom. 4: 6 ... Blessed is the man to whom God imputes righteousness without works, ... impute is to assign someone responsibility for the acts of another. This is Jesus Christ took our sins, God allowed Jesus paid our debt.
Christ Our Replacement Gal. 3: 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by a curse in our place ... As our substitute, Jesus Christ earned this righteousness for us, dying in our place in order to save us and ensure the forgiveness of our sins. Now we are accepted by God because we were credited the perfect justice of Christ .
Righteousness of Christ I Cor . 1: 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption. This justice was acquired by the atoning death of Christ. His death was perfect act of justice, because it satisfied the law of God. It was also a perfect act of obedience. All this was done for us and put to our credit.
2 a . Regeneration Regenerating means: Restore what is destroyed . When it comes to the human being, Regeneration is a radical change, wrought by the Holy Spirit in the soul of man. This regeneration, reaches, so all of man's faculties namely: Intellect, Volition and sensitivity. The regenerated man does so matter of satisfying his own will as to meet the God. In regeneration, he starts to think differently,feel differently and want differently: everything changes. . II Cor 5: 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, New Creation is; the old has gone, everything is new. The Bible describes regeneration as:
Birth John 3: 3 Jesus answered and said, Verily, I say to you man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God. A person to belong to the covenant made with Israel and enjoy all your rights, needed only born of Jewish parents. To belong to the Messiah's reign, however, a person must be born again.Ezek. 36: 26 Give you'll a new heart and put within you a new spirit; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Quickening The essence of regeneration is a new life given by God through Jesus Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit. Jo. 10: 10 ... I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly. To live is to be alive. To quicken is to life. Vivification: It is the act, the action or effect of living. Enjoy the spiritual life that God has given.
Purification Act or effect of purifying. Titus 3: 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.The soul was washed full of filthiness of life once.
3 a . Sanctification Sanctification is to make holy, separate, consecrate, to make holy. The holy word has many meanings:
Separation represents what is separated from all that is earthly and human. I Pet. 3: 11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Dedication represents what is dedicated to God in order to be their property. Romans 12: 1 Therefore, I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Purification Something separate and dedicated must be purified to be better presented. (immaculate) II Cor . 7: 1 But, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Consecration In order to live a holy and righteous life. . Lev 11: 44 I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy.
Very sharp is found in the Old Testament the idea that holiness consists of a special relationship with God. Things consecrated to the Lord were considered holy: Ark of the Covenant, the Temple, the Tabernacle, the altar, the pots, Priests.
In the New Testament, the idea is that sanctification is the man the process is perfect as He is perfect.
Jesus taught that we should seek to improve themselves increasingly. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
Given the above, we can establish the following:
Sanctification is a process the believer must strive to make progress in sanctification. II Cor.7: 1 . But, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God The process of sanctification can be compared to growth a person, but conditioned on your will .
The divine means of sanctification
The Blood of Christ I John 1: 7 The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
The Holy Spirit Fil. 1: 6 Being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
The Word of God Jn. 17: 17 Sanctify them in the truth : thy word is truth.
LET US SEE BELOW WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE BELIEVER SANCTIFIES
I Thess. 5: 23 The Peace of God himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Body Rom. 12: 1 ... to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Soul I Pet. 1: 22 Having purified your souls
Spirit Sal. 78: 8 ... unstable heart generation, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Glorifying Glorifying means to honor, give glory.
God in his plan of salvation, manifested his glory through Christ Jesus, the sinner may experience this manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
The final act of the salvation process is the believer's glorification of God.
The Glory of God in Us All the while the glory of God demonstrates power, authority, virtue and above all consecration.
It is manifested through faith.
It was given to us through Jesus, and serves to maintain the unity of the Church.
Jô. 17: 24 Father, I desire that where I am, are also with me those you have given me, that they may see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
The Glorification of the body Rom. 8: 30 And those he predestined, he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified; and when he justified, he also glorified.
The body Glorification will occur during the rapture, our body will be transformed into a glorious body. In this act, it will glorification, when we will be incorruptible body, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
We know that the glory of rose is a rose and that of any tree are fruits; but the believer's glory what will?
I Cor . 13: 12 Now we see in mirror, obscurely; then face to face. Now I know in part; then I know evenas also I am known.
Rom.8: 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing eat glory that we shall be revealed.
Glorification is the goal of our service performed
I Cor . 15: 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
The Christian work should be done in the best possible way.
With Love, dedication, volunteer, humble, joy, sacrificial, wisdom etç ...
SECURITY OF SALVATION
Can someone who has accepted Christ as the savior fall from grace?
Those who follow the doctrine of Calvin says no and those who follow the Arminius says yes.
Let us then study the two doctrines:
Calvinism Salvation is all of God; the man has absolutely nothing to do with your salvation.
Romans 8: 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
This is because his will was corrupted with sin. Thus man can not repent without God's help.
Ephesians 1: 4-5 Just as He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before him; and love. In predestined for him, for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will.
The Calvinist doctrine teaches that God has predestined some to be saved and others to be lost.Predestination is the eternal decree of God, for which he decided what will become of each.
Arminianism God's will is that all men be saved, because Christ died for all.
I Tim . 2: 4 Who desires all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth.
The Scriptures teach a predestination, but not individual. He predestined to all who want to be saved.
Titus 2: 11 So the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
Man can choose to accept the grace of God, or can resist it and reject it. Your right to free will always remain.
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