Christian View of Salvation | Rapp Report Daily 004 | Andrew Rappaport | SFE | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we looked at yesterday, Christianity believes that man has a sin nature.
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- We are born in a state where we are depraved. That does not mean that we do things as bad as we could, but it does mean that because we are in a state where we have a sin nature, we violate
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- God's law, we need a Savior. What makes Christianity unique is that the Savior is provided by God Himself.
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- You end up seeing that God Himself became a man, Jesus Christ, to die as a payment of sin.
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- It is only within Christianity that we have a Savior who does all of the work.
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- This is one of the things that makes Christianity unique. It is that God does 100 % of the work and humans do not add anything.
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- Any effort, any works that is added to salvation becomes a works -based salvation.
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- Christianity believes that men are saved through God alone, by what
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- God did. It's by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. This is where we differ from other false religions.
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- It's that God does 100 % of the work, therefore God gets 100 % of the credit.
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- Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.