Biblical Perspectives, Vol. 9 No. 1-2, 2001.
Review article
Salvation
Ivan T. Blazen
; Loma Linda University, CA, SAD
Abstract
Salvation is the universal theme of Scrip ture. All other major themes are subdivisions or explications of it. Th e form of salvation varies, but the underlying structure is the same: God visits His people and delivers them from those problems or powers that imperil
their existence. From the beginning, when God clothed the guilty and shamed parents of the human race, to the day when God’s people enter the New Jerusalem, God is viewed as dynamically involved with the de liverance of the human race. Th is is so much the
case that the word “Savior” is not only coordinated with the name “God,” but becomes a definition of it, a name for God. As God is the “God of our salvation” (1 Chron. 16:35; Ps. 79:9; Hab. 3:18), so He is called and sometimes addressed as “Savior” (2 Sam. 22:3; Isa.
43:3; 45:15; Jer. 14:8; Luke 1:47; 1 Tim. 1:1; 2:3; Titus 1:3; 2:10; Jude 25). God may employ various human agents to eff ect His purposes, but it is He alone who saves (Isa. 43:11; 45:21). “Deliverance belongs to the Lord” (Ps. 3:8), who has, does, and will deliver people “out of all their troubles” (34:17). He wishes none to be lost (2 Peter 3:9), but all to be saved (1 Tim. 2:4), through Jesus’name (Matt. 1:21; Acts 4:12; 1 Th ess. 5:9; Rom. 10:13).
In sharing human suff ering Jesus has become the pioneer and source of eternal salvation to all who follow Him (Heb. 2:10; 5:9).
Keywords
Salvation; Savior; God’s-Plan-of-Salvation; Covenant
Hrčak ID:
99740
URI
Publication date:
10.12.2001.
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