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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian,net.religion
Subject: Re: Acceptance of Christ as a saviour
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 08:37:27 EST
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>
>First of all I reject the concept of salvation as fire insurance, that is,
>going to heaven.  In my perspective salvation is people being reconciled to
>God, people being reconciled to one another, and healing from the 
>consequences of separation from God and one another.  A consequence of
>salvation is going to heaven.
>
>The requirements for salvation is believing God (not belief in God) and
>repentence, which I consider to be inseperable.  To put it another way, in
>order to be saved you must truley want God to save you, that is, you want God
>to change your life.  If all you want is fire insurance and forgiveness of
>sins then you don't want salvation.
>
>How do we know that we are saved (being saved).  The evidence of salvation
>is salvation itself -- a changed (changing) life.
>
I am very glad this was said, and wish I had said it myself in my
original comments on the "salvation" question that was raised.  Too
many people, possibly including some Christians, see "salvation" as
being the winning square in a cosmic game of snakes-and-ladders, instead
of being a continuing state of relationships and thoughts.

  Chris