Given that you do not hold to the fact that death and sin are the works of the devil, it would be somewhat logical to think that salvation is something entirely different. Heb 2:14 and I John 3:8. If it was not the purpose of Satan to destroy God's creation and the dissolution of man, I would imagine that Christ would not be needed to save man from death, sin and Satan.
so in your view just why did Christ come and from what is He saving you?
Christ saved the world. It has nothing to do with faith. It is all Christ and nothing of man.
However, the purpose of Christ redeeming the world is the same as God creating the world and man. Since God reversed the fall of man, He can now offer eternal life to those that desire to be united with Him, to be healed. to be perfected as human beings.
Adam failed in his vocation in attaining the end which was immortality. Christ came to defeat death, and to grant immortality to man, both body and soul. This is for all men, again has nothing to do with faith. Rom 5:18, I Cor 15:12-22, 52-54.
Salvation in scripture is what Christ did, the atonement, and is universal. It cannot be otherwise. Adam was taken captive by Satan and the condemnation of death was through man's nature. We are all born mortal (universal) Christ in His Incarnation, took on our mortal nature for the express purpose of defeating death to that nature, by His Resurrection, granting life to the world (universal).
It would be quite disingenuous for God to call all men to repentance, and desire that all men come to know Him if He did not give life to all men first. For the Calvinist this poses all kinds of problems since it denies their definition of the fall, it denies the Incarnation of Christ, and Christ's salvation from the fall of man.
To say the least, it would seem quite strange, per scripture, that death is so inconsequencial that it did not need to be defeated. Death, physical death, the condemnation to Adam, dust to dust does not mean the end of man. Heb 2:14-17, Heb 2:9.
What do you think Christ did for you?
so in your view just why did Christ come and from what is He saving you?
Christ saved the world. It has nothing to do with faith. It is all Christ and nothing of man.
However, the purpose of Christ redeeming the world is the same as God creating the world and man. Since God reversed the fall of man, He can now offer eternal life to those that desire to be united with Him, to be healed. to be perfected as human beings.
Adam failed in his vocation in attaining the end which was immortality. Christ came to defeat death, and to grant immortality to man, both body and soul. This is for all men, again has nothing to do with faith. Rom 5:18, I Cor 15:12-22, 52-54.
Salvation in scripture is what Christ did, the atonement, and is universal. It cannot be otherwise. Adam was taken captive by Satan and the condemnation of death was through man's nature. We are all born mortal (universal) Christ in His Incarnation, took on our mortal nature for the express purpose of defeating death to that nature, by His Resurrection, granting life to the world (universal).
It would be quite disingenuous for God to call all men to repentance, and desire that all men come to know Him if He did not give life to all men first. For the Calvinist this poses all kinds of problems since it denies their definition of the fall, it denies the Incarnation of Christ, and Christ's salvation from the fall of man.
To say the least, it would seem quite strange, per scripture, that death is so inconsequencial that it did not need to be defeated. Death, physical death, the condemnation to Adam, dust to dust does not mean the end of man. Heb 2:14-17, Heb 2:9.
What do you think Christ did for you?
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