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Brother Mike
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Sorry about that Brother, I sort of threw "Salvation" in there on a last moment thought thing.
Salvation and saved do not mean eternal life, born again, or anything like that in how we use them today. Aionios Zoe would be the correct Greek for Eternal life.
Does Salvation and Saved mean Eternal life and born again? Yes, and no. The literal Greek NO, in context some places yes. It's important to understand what the Holy Spirit is saying to us in context. Context is so important as opposed to the exact meaning of the Word.
The STrongs Word study is a Greek study. The other part of Strongs and Thayer are just definitions where the author attempted to explain words in the way they understood the context of how they were used.
In other words, Strongs and Thayer are definitions that relate to the authors understanding, not an actual Greek and Hebrew study. Makes it frustrating, but it's the way it is.
So, a Greek word like Theos (God) which means a deity or being that is immortal, has a different meaning depending on the definition the person gives it.
Thayer: Theos
2) the Godhead, trinity
2a) God the Father, the first person in the trinity
2b) Christ, the second person of the trinity
2c) Holy Spirit, the third person in the trinity
Strongs: Theos
Of uncertain affinity; a deity, especially (with G3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively a magistrate; by Hebraism very: - X exceeding, God, god [-ly, -ward].
You can see that one mans believes in Trinity, so his definition of Theos is different For Joseph Henery (Thayer) that it is for James Strong (Strongs) Both men are Methodist, but James Strong did not believe in the Trinity.
The Actual Greek just means a immortal being of uncertain origin or affinity (Needs defined in the Greek Article)
Jesus introduced Eternal life and life in Him. So when read by those back in the day, the Words Salvation and Saved covered a whole lot more in their minds than it does today. They knew about the law of sin and death, the curse for sin which was sickness, poverty, early death. Jesus came to give life over the one that came to steal, Kill and destroy, so it was understood to them that being the seed of Abraham, they had a covenant with God that protected them from dying early, getting sickness, and living in poverty. So when Saved or Salvation is used, it means a bit more than just being born again. Both Words cover the physical now and eternal later.
Jesus introduced eternal life in Him, so the Holy Spirit did not have a Greek Word for that, that everyone would understand and at the same time denote all Jesus did.
Thayer included all the Word meant by definition and how it was used in scriptures.
Thayer Definition: Salvation Soteria
1) deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation
1a) deliverance from the molestation of enemies
1b) in an ethical sense, that which concludes to the souls safety or salvation
1b1) of Messianic salvation
2) salvation as the present possession of all true Christians
3) future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God.
Strongs just gave more of the Exact Greek Meaning: However James included the Morally part to denote both.
Feminine of a derivative of G4990 as (properly abstract) noun; rescue or safety (physically or morally): - deliver, health, salvation, save, saving.
Saved: Sozo
Thayer Definition:
1) to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction
1a) one (from injury or peril)
1a1) to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health
Strongs:
From a primary word σῶς sōs̄ (contraction for the obsolete σάος saos, “safe”); to save, that is, deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.
When Peter was asked by what authority He used to make a man whole at Gate beautiful, He told them how that man was healed.
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
(Act 4:9-12)
Peter said there is no other name under Heaven by which men can be healed, made whole, put in safety and protected. It was faith in the name of Jesus that healed this man, the same man you rejected and all his promises.
And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
(Act 3:16)
Saved used as being born again sense:
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
(1Pe 3:20)
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
(Jud 1:23)
Here it's used in a physical sense for Earth.
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
(Php 2:12-13)
Staying in the will of God keeps us safe and obeying him while here on Earth. We are to work out that will and plan for ourselves and in it are safety and protection. Our work must be according to the will and plan of God.
1Pe 1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
So to stay in the will of God and protected, we work out our own Soteria doing the plan of God for our life in careful planing and thought.
Blessings.
