Two types of salvation?

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I was intrigued by the recent resurrected thread titled two types of salvation. In reading the original thread, I was not sure what the OP was proposing. However, it did raise what I thought was an interesting question. Was salvation different in the Old Testament?

Eze 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Does this mean that dying in a situation of law fulfillment would qualify one to be resurrected to life?

Dan 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Would this be different than the eternal life one has as a Christian placed into the body of Christ?

Eph 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved

Eph 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

The use of present tense indicates to me that we have salvation (new and eternal life) when we are “made alive” in Christ. This would seem different than what the faithful of Israel could expect.

 

[Van]

I was intrigued by the recent resurrected thread titled two types of salvation. In reading the original thread, I was not sure what the OP was proposing. However, it did raise what I thought was an interesting question. Was salvation different in the Old Testament?

Eze 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Does this mean that dying in a situation of law fulfillment would qualify one to be resurrected to life?

Dan 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Would this be different than the eternal life one has as a Christian placed into the body of Christ?

Eph 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved

Eph 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

The use of present tense indicates to me that we have salvation (new and eternal life) when we are “made alive” in Christ. This would seem different than what the faithful of Israel could expect.

Yes the New Covenant is different than the Old Covenant.

What was different? The means of entry!

Under the Old Covenant if a person's faith was credited as righteous, they had gained approval through faith. But they did not receive (at that pre-Christ time) what was promised. There were not spiritually born anew nor indwelt with the Holy Spirit. When they died, they were taken to "Abraham's bosom" where they waited in comfort until Christ died as the Lamb of God.

Once Christ died, then the OT Saints were led like captives to heaven, having been made perfect by the washing of regeneration.

Now the entry differs, when God credits a lost person's faith as righteousness, He immediately sets them apart (the sanctifying work of the Spirit) into Christ where they undergo the washing of regeneration, and are then indwelt during the remainder of their physical life, and forever.

 

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1 Timothy 2:3-6, For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

John 14:6, . . . Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Salvation has always been through God's Son.

John 1:18, No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.