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Welcome wajm ,
God from eternity past has purposed to save a multitude of sinners in saving Union with His Son.
The Son takes upon Himself a body of flesh to live a perfect life , and offer Himself for the covenant children given to Him by the Father.
In time the Spirit quickens each one by new birth, saving them from the power of sin

 

FALSE teaching! God wants ALL sinners to repent and turn to Jesus Christ for a new life!

 

Looks like you you have not read 2tim1:9 with any degree of understanding.
Try again.

 

Ii Thess 3:2

 

Remember that the Lord warns through Paul in Galatians chapter 1 about another gospel which is FALSE. Which is the reformed gospel on salvation

 

A few verses come to mind, Ephesians 2:8, "you have been saved." [a modern translation]
Romans 5:9, "Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."
Romans 8:23, ". . . waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."
1 John 3:2, ". . . when he shall appear, we shall be like him; . . ."

 

The three aspects of salvation according to my belief, and the beliefs of many scholars, is as follows:

1) Past salvation refers to when God places a person spiritually into Christ. This is called "positional sanctification." Those set apart (sanctified or made saints) are forgiven not only of their past sins, but also for their present or future sins, because Christ made His sacrifice once for all. (1 Corinthians 1:2) (Romans 6:10)

2) In the present, during our physical lifetime after positional sanctification, we go through "progressive sanctification." Here we strive to follow Christ's commands and instructions to become more like Christ and we engage in our ministry of reconciliation where we diligently work to be effective ambassadors of Christ. During this phase of our salvation, we earn rewards such that we enter heaven "abundantly" provided we build on the foundation of Christ. Otherwise we still get to heaven, but as one escaping from a fire. (Romans 13:13-14) (1 Corinthians 3:15)

3) In the future, at Christ's second coming, we will be physically redeemed. This is our "ultimate sanctification." (Romans 8:23)

 

thats YOUR problem!

 

( Please keep in mind that this evaluation is my own and not representative of any official statements...
But I consider it to be mostly accurate ).

As I see it,
That depends upon which kind of "Baptist" you're speaking with.
Some 4 centuries ( or more ) ago when the term "Baptist" began to be used by their opponents, there were only two kinds of Baptist...
"General Baptists" and "Particular Baptists".

Over the past few hundred years, we come to where we are now...
With 3 "kinds" of Baptists that vary ( sometimes greatly ) on how they view salvation:

1) "Free Will Baptists" are, for the most part, in agreement with loss of salvation and look at it very similar to what John Wesley taught.
Some call this "5 point Arminianism" or even "Wesleyan Arminiansm".

2) "Provisionist / "Traditionalist Baptist" ( I grew up in this from the age of 12 to roughly 37 ) mostly hold to what is found on this chart that describes "Evangelicalism":
http://storage.cloversites.com/makinglifecountministriesinc/documents/Calvinism vs Arminianism vs Evangelicalism.pdf

Some call it "4 point Arminianism", some do not.

3) " Calvinistic Baptists" ( myself included ) are, for the most part, in full agreement with the right side of the chart found here:
Calvinism and Arminianism comparison

Some would call this "5 point Calvinism", some would not.

 

@WAJungleMonkey :

To answer your OP,
I see Paul's references to salvation being developed in quite a bit of detail in the epistles that the Lord had him write to the churches:

Salvation past includes foreknowing ( fore-loving ) an individual before the foundation of the world, predestinating them conformed to the obedient image of Christ, "calling" them through the power of the Spirit and in conjunction with His preached word, justifying them by the blood of His Son, and someday glorifying them with a new body that is completely sin-free and in no way tempts the forgiven sinner ( known to God as a saint and one of His elect ) to stumble into sin anymore.
That salvation is from the penalty of sin.

Salvation present deals with saving His child from their enemies ( Satan included ), from their every trouble, and giving them the power to overcome the world, the flesh and the devil.
Their faith and the comfort of the Holy Spirit are the greatest gifts that the Lord has given to them in this present world.
That salvation is from the power of sin.

Salvation future includes the new glorified body that is completely free from the taint of sin, their being joined, physically, in company with the entire body of Christ, and to see and walk with the Lord Jesus who loved them and gave Himself for them.
This salvation is from the presence of sin.

In other words, the work of God, as a whole, describes a deliverance from all that is sin and what formerly alienated the believer from Him...their heart's desire to love sin and to hate the Lord.
It is also a deliverance to all that is righteous and true, and most especially, a Person...

Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.


For that is what eternal life really is...
To know God and His Son ( John 17:3 ).

He is our exceeding great reward.