What happens to a person when they exercise faith for salvation. How the early church understood salvation. First of all let's get a definition of the word salvation. It describes spiritual and eternal deliverance, the present experience of God's power to deliver and refers to the future deliverance at the Second Coming of Christ. Now that we understand the meaning of salvation, it's important to know how one can receive it.
Salvation is received by believing the gospel.
The gospel is good news. Let me explain. We live in a sinful world. Sin came because of the fall of man. Man disobeyed God and sin entered the world as a result of his disobedience.