Prycejosh1987
May I ask why you didn't choose being saved by grace, or being saved by believing, or being saved in baptism, or being saved by inviting Jesus into your heart?
There are so many different ways of salvation taught today, I was honestly wondering what brought you to your choice?
God bless
My name is OLIGOS
This is a good question. I believe we should all have a common understanding that there is salvation as in being born again, or regenerated. Which I tend to refer to as “initial salvation” or what is known as salvation by faith.
Then there is receiving the salvation of our souls, at the end of our faith, or as an end result of our faith; ie keeping the faith, or enduring to the end. This is where we receive on the Day of Judgement. Such phrases as “inherit eternal life“ or the “hope of salvation” or the “hope of eternal life” point to this.
This verse actually contains both “initial salvation“, as well as it refers to the “hope of eternal life“.
But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:4-7
Initial Salvation; regeneration, born again.
- not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Receiving the salvation of our soul; inheriting eternal life
- that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
So we see there is being saved by grace through faith.
Saved in the past.
We continue to be saved, as we continue to believe.
Saved in the present.
We have the hope of eternal life to come.
Future salvation; receiving the salvation of our soul.
whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:8-9
- receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.
JLB