Sunday, April 12, 2009

Does Easter represent Redemption or Salvation to you?








In religion
Redemption, absolution for past sins and/or protection from damnation
Pidyon HaBen, redemption of the firstborn son in Judaism
Redemptive suffering, a Roman Catholic belief that suffering can absolve one of sins if offered to Jesus




In religion, salvation is the concept that God "saves" humanity from death, as part of His plan to provide for them an eternal life (cf. afterlife). As commonly conceived, God has both the will and the means to realize human salvation, albeit through means regarded as mysterious and transcendent of current human understanding. According to most religious beliefs, salvation is prescribed only for those judged worthy of everlasting life —a conditional concept with general variants ranging from universal salvation (ie. near-absolute salvation) to quite narrow and particular concepts that tend to assert a "one true path [to salvation]."

Conditional immortality, or conditionalism, is the Christian doctrine that the human soul is naturally mortal, and that immortality is granted by God as a gift. Immortality, therefore, is conditional on belief in Jesus Christ; this viewpoint stands in contrast to the more popular doctrine of the natural immortality of the soul. The British Evangelical Alliance ACUTE report states the doctrine is a "significant minority evangelical view" that has "grown within evangelicalism in recent years".

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