What is the purpose of Salvation?

[MamaZ]

What really is the purpose of salvation?

 

[tulc]

What really is the purpose of salvation?

I believe we are saved to serve others:

31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

tulc(and to praise Him)

 

[sunlover1]

Freedom.

 

[MamaZ]

First John 3 is the familiar promise . Verse 1, "See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us." How great is God's love for us? This great, "That we should be called children of God," and such we are. "For this reason the world doesn't know us because it didn't know Him." The world can't recognize the children of God, didn't even recognize Him, how can it recognize us? I love this, verse 2, "Now we are children of God." It is true, we are now children of God. "But it has not yet appeared as yet what we shall be." This isn't the final image. "We know that when He appears we shall be...what?...like Him." Wow! God had a plan and the plan was that there would gather around Christ a redeemed humanity made in His image who would view Him as preeminent and thus forever and ever and ever they would praise and honor and glorify His name...and that's why we were saved.

 

[MamaZ]

We were saved so God could bring us all the way through Glory.. Wow how awesome is the Love that the Father bestows upon His children..That is why I for one know that I do not have to fear the loss of salvation.. For it is Christ who keeps us for His purpose... I love digging into the scriptures and the Lord bringing life to me through His word... Yippeeee

 

[JamesThaddeusMartin]

It is what we were originally created for...life in Him and to be brought into an ever deeper communion with God and others. To become as Christ by grace.

 

[Alethes]

What really is the purpose of salvation?

That is certainly no small question.

But to sum it all up in one sentence:

I believe God's purpose for our salvation is because His desire is to have a family/children, whom He could love with all Who He truly is, and who would freely desire with great joy in their heart, to love and worship Him for Who He truly is...for all eternity.

God bless you!

 

[christianmomof3]

God's eternal purpose is to have a group of people filled with Him as Life to express Him and represent Him.

 

[Emmy]

Dear MamaZ. You had quite a few good replies, and also quite a few reasons why, and for what purpose. I believe the main reason is that God loves, He made us in His image, and He wants us around Him for eternity. We were lost, Jesus found us and died, that we might live. Now we have to become as God always wanted us to be, loving and loyal children to a Perfect Heavenly Father. Jesus told us to love God above everything else, and love each other, as we love ourselves, and become perfect, as God is perfect. We are given years to learn, we have Jesus to help and guide us, and although we might never reach perfection in this imperfect world, we will be well on the way though, when we are ready to leave this world. After we leave our imperfect human bodies, we will be clothed in our perfect bodies, and we will live with our perfect Father in Heaven, and our perfect brothers and sisters. I say this humbly and with love, MamaZ, and send greetings. Emmy, sister in Christ.

 

[ticker]

What is the purpose of Salvation?

?

...what is the purpose of an act of love???

Nothing more than fulfilling a loving desire I'd guess.

 

[ticker]

...I could think of a couple things the result of salvation is to be, however.

 

[JohnPiperFan]

God's purpose in salvation is to glorify Himself as the gloriously gracious Savior.

 

[squint]

From a friend in Jesus

• enemies (Luke 1:71- 74)
• Gentiles (Acts 26:17)
• money (Luke 19:8-10)
• sinking (Mat 8:24-25,Mat 14:30)
• earthly trials (2 Pet 2:9)
• Egyptians (Jude 1:5)
• war (Luke 1:79)
• Death (Mark 15:30-31,Mark 3:4,Luke 6:9,Luke 23:35-39,John 12:27,Acts 27:43; 2 Tim 1:8-10,Heb 5:7; James 5:15,James 5:20)
• sickness (Luke 7:50,Luke 13:16,John 3:16)
• loosing one’s life to save it (Mark 8:34-38,Luke 9:23-25)
• sins (Mat 1:21,Luke 1:77,John 1:29,John 8:33-36,Acts 5:31,Acts 13:36-39,Acts 26:18; 1 Pet 2:21-25)
• slavery to evil behaviour and passions (Tit 3:3-5)
• slavery to sin (Rom 6:16-23,Rom 7:21-25, 8:1-4, 1 Tim 1:15)
• slavery to futility and bondage to decay (Rom 8:19-21)
• slavery to the mastery of darkness (Col 1:13-14)
• captivity to the present evil age (Gal 1:3-4)
• slavery to the elemental spirits of the universe (Gal 4:3-6,Gal 4:31-5:1)
• impiety and worldly passions (Tit 2:11-14)
• a corrupt generation (Acts 2:40)
• the defilements of this world (2 Pet 2:20)
• a pointless life following the ruling powers of evil (Eph 2:1-5)
• futile ways of living (1 Pet 1:18-19, 1Pet 2:1-2?).
• the devil (Mat 6:13,Luke 13:16,Acts 26:18; Heb 2:14-15; Rev 12:10; 2 Tim 4:18)
• our fleshly bodies (Phil 3:20-21)
• going astray (1 Pet 2:21-25)
• not being in the Kingdom of God (Mat 19:23-26)
• saved from God’s wrath (Rom 5:6-11)

enjoy!

squint

 

[Joykins]

Reconciliation with God, resulting in the good works that he created us to perform.

 

[Apollo Celestio]

To defeat sin and death, and to save some of its hostages in the process.

 

[SubtleArt]

What really is the purpose of salvation?

That's a very good question.

God's purpose in salvation is to glorify Himself

 

[r3b0rn]

I believe the purpose of salvation is to demonstrate God's power and bring glory to His great name.

 

[Kristos]

He, indeed, assumed humanity that we might become God. He manifested Himself by means of a body in order that we might perceive the Mind of the unseen Father. He endured shame from men that we might inherit immortality. He Himself was unhurt by this, for He is impassable and incorruptible; but by His own impassability He kept and healed the suffering men on whose account He thus endured. In short, such and so many are the Savior's achievements that follow from His Incarnation, that to try to number them is like gazing at the open sea and trying to count the waves. One cannot see all the waves with one's eyes, for when one tries to do so those that are following on bae one's senses. Even so, when one wants to take in all the achievements of Christ in the body, one cannot do so, even by reckoning them up, for the things that transcend one's thought are always more than those one thinks that one has grasped.​

Athanasius, On the Incarnation, p 50​

 

[Epiphoskei]

What is the purpose of Salvation?

?

...what is the purpose of an act of love???

Nothing more than fulfilling a loving desire I'd guess.

I'd go with this answer. Purpose is an overused word in the modern (especially the evangelical segments of the) church. None of us would dare use the word "purpose" in any of our other close familial relationships. Why with God?

 

[ticker]

Exactomundo!