Justification vs salvation

[tonychanyt]

What is the difference between justification and salvation?

Justification could mean God rendering a favorable verdict or a person demonstrating moral rightness.

Salvation could mean God saving a person for eternal life or just from a temporal danger.

Are they interchangeable?

No, not generally. Both justification and salvation are polysemantic. However, their meanings overlap when God justifies a person by pronouncing a favorable judgment on him and saving him for eternal life. Within that intersection of two meanings, the two words are interchangeable.

How do we know which meaning to apply?

That would depend on the specific verse and context.

 

[Clare73]

What is the difference between justification and salvation?

Justification could mean God rendering a favorable verdict or a person demonstrating moral rightness.

Salvation could mean God saving a person for eternal life or just from a temporal danger.

Are they interchangeable?

No, not generally. Both justification and salvation are polysemantic. However, their meanings overlap when God justifies a person by pronouncing a favorable judgment on him and saving him for eternal life. Within that intersection of two meanings, the two words are interchangeable.

How do we know which meaning to apply?

That would depend on the specific verse and context.

Justification is a declaration of not guilty, a sentence of acquittal.

Salvation is from the wrath of God on sin at the final judgment.

Both are by/through faith.