### individual decision:

Salvation
* actually term of healing.
* also has to do with being made whole, being made healthy, being healed
  - is ascribed to all the three persons, who are equally concerned in it
* appears to be a state of being.
* beginning that has no end.
* belongs to the soul alone, for the body is by nature subject to corruption.
* broad term referring to the whole application of redemption to the sinner.
* can also mean all different sorts of healing.
* change of allegiance and of governmental relationships
  - direction
* comes by believing in the One who came and died for our sins
  - from the Greek word, soteria, which means deliverance
* comes through faith and confession
  - the belief of the truth
* comprises both forgiveness and sanctification.
* consequence of redemption.
* continuing process involving growth in the Christian life.
* continuous process.
* cosmic event that helps people facing devastation.
* expresses itself in the ongoing process in which the believer is involved.
* free gift for all who want it.
* gift of grace received by faith
  - to be accepted
* goes into existence and is given form in the flesh.
  - deliverance from the power and dominion of sin
* implies escape from Samsara which is associated with birth, old age and death.
* includes repentance, regeneration, sanctification, and glorification
  - sanctification, and that life-long process
* involves daily repentance and daily renewal through the forgiveness of sins
  - justification, sanctification, and glorification
  - redemption, regeneration, sanctification and glorifications
  - the redemption of the whole man
* is about becoming whole
  - achieved by detachment from the finite self and attachement to reality as a whole
  - all of grace
* is also a present reality
  - process that continues throughout our life on earth
  - salvation from death
  - the exodus from the dominion of darkness into the kingdom of light
  - always by grace and judgment is always on the basis of human works
* is an individual decision
  - matter
  - inner thing, a thing of the heart
  - inner, spiritual act
* is an ongoing process of spiritual refinement
  - throughout our lives
  - unearned blessing given to an unworthy sinner
  - applied through faith
  - as much a direction of growth as a state of being
  - associated with our compliance
  - at the point of faith without obedience
  - atonement, sacrifice, sanctification, holiness, cleansed by the blood, etc
* is attained by perfection of the soul through successive lives
  - the individual, through faith in Jesus as saviour
* is based on human effort
  - work through implementing the five pillars in life
* is both an individual and a collective matter
  - the reward of endurance, and the free gift of grace
* is by faith and faith alone
  - grace alone through faith which is manifested in good works
* is by grace through faith alone
* is by grace, but rewards and punishment are by works
  - through faith, in baptism, to perform good works
  - conditional on righteousness
  - conditioned on a person's faith
  - deliverance from spiritual death and habits caused by sin
* is deliverance from the effects of sin
  - power and effects of sin
  - dependent upon our adherence to moral law
  - directed at the whole world
  - equivalent to ordination for ministry
  - extended universally to humankind
  - faith and obedience
* is for all who believe and obey the gospel
  - every person, in every place, in every time
  - freedom from sin
  - given without the intervention of priests, church, creeds or baptism
  - in a person
  - located in confessions
* is meant both spiritually and physically
  - for all humanity
  - more than just forgiveness of sins
  - never dependent upon how one feels, but upon what one believes
* is offered to all as a free gift, to be freely accepted by all
  - people as a gift
  - sinners
  - only the beginning of emotional health
  - past, present, and future
  - received by grace through faith, apart from good works
  - rescuings
  - restoration to the prelapsarian state
  - resurrection from the dead
  - safety
* is salvation for now as well as for eternity
  - self-esteem or wholeness
* is the Gospel of Peace
  - appropriation of what was secured in redemption
  - end result of belief matched with action
  - first step in a journey of a lifetime
* is the forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life
  - freeing of the soul from confinements physical, mental and spiritual
  - losing of all desire
  - message of the Bible from beginning to end
* is the most important doctrine in the Bible
  - gift that a person can receive
  - new start of a new life
  - object for which they look
  - personal knowledge of that One who came to seek and save that which was lost
  - rescue of the whole person
  - soundness of our being, total wholeness in all areas, body, soul, and spirit
  - union with the absolute
* lies in a universal love for mankind.
* life-long process of being on the potter's wheel.
* matter of cosmic dimensions.
* matter of faith and the heart
  - or belief
* means deliverance from danger or destruction
  - escape from the body and the physical world
  - holy wholeness in our full beings - spirit, soul and body
  - liberation from sin, death, and evil
  - life, forgiveness, healing, wholeness
  - that a person begins a new life
  - to save or to heal, to deliver or to bring into safety
* now concept The Bible speaks of the immediacy of salvation.
* occurs after one has believed and been baptized.
* personal matter with any repenting sinner
  - possession
* personal, internal experience.
* pertains only to a part of man rather than to the whole being.
* process, the ongoing process of becoming.
* produces a change within, that breaks the chain of sin.
* product of relationship.
* radical transference from one realm into another, from one authority to another.
* refers to our release from the eternal consequences of our sin.
* rests on an ethic of righteousness and grace.
* soul taken from sinner to saint.
* state of justification rather than membership in a group.
* thing of the present, as well as of the past and future.
* work done in our life by the Holy Spirit.