Quotes About Salvation

the Bible is necessary for knowledge leading to salvation, instructions leading to spiritual growth, answers to the ultimate questions, and for knowledge about reality. It is the necessary precondition for all knowledge and for any rational apprehension of God and the universe.

Many Christians forget how bad their lives were before God saved them. They dwell on all the "pleasures of sin" (Hebrews 11:25) that had them in Satan's snare before God "rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves" (Colossians 1:13).

One who comes to God in repentance relies on God's mercy alone. He says, "I can do nothing. I cannot undo what I have done. I cannot pay the debt that I have incurred. All I can do is to place my life in God's hands, and be at his mercy, and let him do whatever he wants with me." This attitude is already an effect of God's mercy at work. He changes the will of the sinner and grants him the gift of repentance.

Revelation 7:9-10 reads: After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.

The Bible says that man is essentially wicked, and that he needs a savior who is qualified to pay for his many transgressions.

it is by God's deliberate design and decree that human wisdom will never attain knowledge of the most basic truth about reality (God) and that it will never attain salvation on its own.

it necessarily follows that it is the Bible that judges and the Bible that damns. God damns to hell whomever the Bible damns to hell. There is no difference.

There is no salvation outside of the Bible because there is no way to know God or his way to salvation outside of the writings of the prophets and the apostles.

Thus "free will" is Satan's slogan, and Arminianism is his creed. On the other hand, the Christian faith declares, "Salvation comes from the LORD" (Jonah 2:9) – really and wholly from God.

God has sovereignly foreordained their complete salvation before the foundation of the world, and because he powerfully preserves them after their conversion. After regeneration, the Spirit of God continues to work within them, powerfully causing them to strive for true knowledge and holiness.

we can credit our salvation only to God's sovereign appointment, and not to a person's choice to follow Christ. This is because a person's choice is not free, but God is the one who causes his choice (Romans 9:18), so that no one may boast before him.

Jesus is saying that no one can have faith in him unless chosen and compelled by the Father.

You are not accountable to me – I am not the one who will send you to hell. You are accountable to God, but he wants me to tell you that.

not the human individuals themselves who chooses those who would come to Christ, it follows that it is the Father who chooses who would receive salvation, and not the human individuals themselves.

let us not be ashamed of the gospel, that God saves his chosen ones by his grace, according to his will and his pleasure, and for his glory.

The sinner is spiritually sick and blind, but more than that, he is also spiritually dead.

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient" (Ephesians 2:1-2).

All human beings are creatures of God, but not all are his children – non-Christians are children of the devil (John 8:44).

Faith is not the cause of election, but election is the cause of faith.

We are saved because God chose us, not because we chose him.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

no Christian should be open-minded about whether Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation – we already know that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. Open-mindedness is often just a mask for ignorance and cowardice.

God is the one who decides whether a person will have faith in Christ, since faith is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8). A person who is spiritually dead cannot produce or exercise faith – God must first regenerate him.

Ask a church if it insists that faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the only way to salvation, the only way to escape endless pain and fire, and you will know whether it is a church of God or a synagogue of Satan. Thus in our weakness, God turns a weapon of the devil into a tool our hands, lest his chosen people be destroyed and wiped out.