Saved in childbearing... from what?

You would have to clarify what you mean.

 

Whether you want to say childbearing is instrumental, or just the continuing in faith, charity and holiness in sobriety, I don't think it matters. Are we saved by continuing in faith, charity and holiness in sobriety? Not in the ultimate sense, but there is a sense here in 1Tim where it says a woman is. So you could say that these things are instrumental in salvation, the only question is saved from what? Which oddly enough was the title of this thread...

 

What about this one?

1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

What is this saved?

 

I would ask you the same question. But nevertheless it is scripture and has to be dealt with.

 

No takers on this one, huh?

 

I started the thread, I ought to know what the thread is about. It is about the different ways that the bible uses words like saved and salvation. I used the verse in the OP to start the discussion. If you want me to I'll start another one, but I think this one is doing just fine.

 

Here's another one.
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

Would anyone apply this verse to eternal salvation? I think it should be patently obvious that there is some sense in which even believers need to be saved, and that it involves works.

 

Amen, my wife is coming along right behind yours. I pray they would all be saved!

 

I agree with you on all that you have said, but I also think that there is another sense that a believer needs to be saved that is not eternal salvation which is through grace by faith, and is not mere saving of the flesh in this life.

1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

Is that saved from physical death?

1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

What about that one?

More likely, the act of following Christ and keeping these doctrines would lead to the loss of physical life, as was the case for most all the apostles and many other martyrs.

 

Why do you say that if one saves his life in this world, he shall lose it spiritually? What do you mean by that? You are more right than wrong when you say that the saving is related to the rewards in heaven and not eternal salvation. But would not the 'losing' of that life be contrasted to the saving? If the obtaining reward through suffering is called the saving of life, then wouldn't losing the reward and saving the life in this world be the losing of life in the next?

 

OK, so why is that called 'saving your life'?

Mark 8:34-36
34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?