What Is Salvation? What Does It Mean To Be Saved?

Psalm 25:5, 115:14-16; Luke 4:43; Matthew 19:17; Revelation 19:10; John 1:17; 1 Samuel 15:22; John 27:29, 10:24, 12:47; Romans 10:9, 8:2; Isaiah 56:6-8; Romans 8:14-17; Ephesians 2:18-22; Exodus 14:30; John 4:22; Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13, 10:4; 1 Chronicles 11:14; 2 Chronicles 6:41; Psalm 37:39; 1 John 5:6-12; John 3:3-5; 1 Peter 1:22-23; John 3:9-10, 7:21-23, 4:22, 17:3; Matthew 16:19


We are walking in today:  What Is Salvation?  What Does It Mean To Be Saved?

Fiveamprayer, remember that the Bible was written by Jews, to Jews, from Jews.  We have to seek to understand scripture from the Hebraic mindset.  The authors were from and in that culture and that directly effects their writings.  How can we hope to corrrectly divide the word of Almighty God with our western/Hellenistic mindset?  Different cultures place value on different things and approach ideas in very different ways.  The good of the community mindset is Hebraic for example while the Greek looks to the good of the individual.  Let us study and see what scripture will show us today. 
There is actually not a scripture that says to accept Jesus Christ to be saved and go to heaven.  We are to worship Him in spirit and in truth.  So is heaven a place or an idea?  The kingdom of Heaven or the heavenly realm can be experienced now!  Eternal life begins before you die and is so strong that it does not cease even in our death.  Fiveamprayer, in the presence of Yahweh we are saved!
Replacement theology not only erroneously teaches the Christian church has replaced Israel but actually goes as far as divorcing the Hebraic roots of the first century church--at the hand of the early Christian church fathers.  Let me ask you a question--is Israel the children of God?  If so would there ever be a time that a parent would replace their children for another child?  Another child could be adopted and included into the family but replacement?  What parent would allow this?  To hear this again click here.