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God is the author, Christ is the agent and we are the ambassadors of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5)." [2] Although it is only used five times in the Pauline corpus (Romans 5:10-11, 11:15, 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, Ephesians 2:14-17 and Colossians 1:19-22) it is an essential term, describing the "substance" of the gospel and salvation. [3]
[5] Abarbinel paraphrases Isaiah 18:4 "my dwelling place, which is the body, for that is "the tabernacle of the soul"." [6] "House not made with hands, eternal in the heavens": can be interpreted as "glorified body" after resurrection, or "the holy house" in the world to come, [7] which might be intended in Isaiah 56:5 or Proverbs 24:3. [2]
Passages like 2 Corinthians 5:21, are employed to argue for a dual imputation – the imputation of one's sin to Christ and then of his righteousness to believers in him. [ 7 ] In the (Lutheran, Calvinist) Protestant concept, justification is a status before God that is entirely the result of God's activity and that continues even when humans sin.
One died for all, so that all died (2 Corinthians 5:14). [77] This is not only different from substitution, it is the opposite of it." [web 10] By this participation in Christ's death and rising, "one receives forgiveness for past offences, is liberated from the powers of sin, and receives the Spirit."
The title is an allusion to the scriptural statement in 1 Timothy 2:4 that God "intends that all human beings shall be saved." [3] The book was published also as an audiobook narrated by Derek Perkins in 2019, [4] and a paperback edition containing a new preface was released in 2021. [5]
The Emmanuel Association of Churches, another Methodist denomination, states: [2] The witness of the Spirit is that inward impression wrought on the soul, whereby the Spirit of God immediately and directly assures our spirit that the Bible conditions are met for salvation and the work of grace is complete in the soul (Romans 8:15, 16).
An important verse to note is 2 Cor 5:21, "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." (ESV), which has traditionally been interpreted to mean that the Christian has, in some way, become righteous (by infusion or imputation), in exchange for Jesus' sinlessness.
2 Corinthians 4.17-18 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." The Bible (KJV) Kierkegaard moves the reader from the idea of the Creator to that of an eternal salvation. Is there such a thing as an eternal ...