What is saved?
rush
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> What is saved?
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> I asked this question and got nothing even close to what I
> was looking for.
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> Maybe first I should be asking..In the Christian definition;
> What are we?
> What are our parts. (soul, body, spirit, ect)
I hope this is what you are looking for...
I understand that being saved is being reconciled to God after having
realized our estrangement, and that we are indeed the ones who have
left the knowledge of God behind us ("all we like sheep have gone astray/
every one to his own way" - Isaiah something). Second Corinthians 5:17-19
spell it out quite well (in my opinion):
"Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the
old things have passed away; behold new things have come. Now
all these thing are from God, who reconciled us to Himself
through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself
not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed
to us the word of reconciliation."
In response to you questions about the nature of humanity, scripture
does indeed state that we are made body, soul and spirit; however the
nature of these thing is not made plain. It is my personal opinion
that the soul is the seat of our personality, and the spirit is the
essential nature of our being, the "I" as it were in "I am". If you
still are hungry for knowledge on this subject I suggest that you
search the scriptures that speak of the nature of mankind with the
aid of a good concordance.
> When we are standing in front of God in all of his glory,
> (if we are saved) are we standing in front of him in all
> the glory of our birthday suits?
> Dave Hatcher
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The only answer I can provide to this is also from scripture:
"For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly
wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform
the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of
His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to
subject all things to Himself." (Phillipians 3:20-21)
Scripture is full of tantalizing hints as to the form that the fulfillment
of this promise will take. I offer no opinion.
Richard Rush - Just another Jesus freak in computer science
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All scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible
unless there is an ambigous reference, in which case the
source is my memory.