Word Salad Salvation

Snippet from Internet:

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Broadly speaking, one might say that salvation is the overriding theme of the entire Bible. But since it is a multidimensional theme with a wide range of meaning, simple definitions are impossible. The biblical writers speak of salvation as a reality with at once spiritual and physical, individual and communal, objective and subjective, eternal and historical dimensions. Since the biblical writers view salvation as a historical reality, the temporal dimensions of past, present, and future further intensify and deepen the concept. Salvation is a process with a beginning and an end. Further, salvation involves the paradox of human freedom and divine election. Despite the complexity of these dimensions, the Bible constantly speaks about salvation in the context of some very simple and concrete relationships — between humans and God, between human beings, and between human beings and nature. ​

On the other hand "salvation" can be defined as being transferred into Christ's spiritual body. Thus the person is described as being "in Christ." This does not mean being into His teachings, or promises, or some other ethereal concept, but refers simply and plainly as be spiritually relocated from being spiritually "in Adam" or "in the realm of darkness" to being located spiritually within Christ and being sealed within Him such that we are "in Christ" and He is "in us."

 

Good grief, I have posted whole threads on the subject.

 

Here is one:

Colossians 1:13 NASB
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, ​

And of course your citation of Corinthians 1:30 is spot on! It is because of God's action alone, we are within Christ's spiritual body. We were baptized into Him. We are united with Him. We are made alive together with Him. We were sealed in Him by the Holy Spirit.

 

When we were given to Him, He promised not to cast us out!! John 6:37

 

1 Peter 2:9-10
But you are A CHOSEN PEOPLE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR GOD’S OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.

What occurs if God puts a human spirit into Christ's spiritual body?
1) Election
2) Redemption
3) Salvation
4) Regeneration (Made Spiritually Alive)
5) Born spiritually anew as a child of God, and beloved family member.
6) Receive Mercy and Forgiveness forever
7) Made Perfect and enrolled in heaven
8) Complete Reconciliation with God
9) Sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit forever
10) Our faith protected by the power of God
11) Made a new creation, created for good works
12) Positional Sanctification Completed
13) Progressive Sanctification Inaugurated
14) Given a measure of faith meaning a sphere of ministry as an Ambassador of Christ.
15) Heir as a child of God to our bodily redemption at Christ's second coming.

 

Hi JonC, perhaps we have a different understanding of "word salad?"

1) Broadly speaking
2) One might say
3) The overriding theme
4) It is a multidimensional theme
5) Wide range of meanings
6) Salvation as a reality
7) Individual and communal
8) Objective and Subjective
9) Eternal and Historical
10) Salvation is a process
11) Involves the Paradox
12) Simple and Concrete

How about "if you were put into Christ by God, you are saved, if not you are condemned?"
Salvation is simple, a child can understand.

The effort to make the simple complex seems like a jobs program for seminary students.