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Bible Study for New Believers
What is Salvation?
For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
You have come to faith, trust, and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and are developing an understanding of repentance--turning your ways--in following Him. This well-known term "Being Saved" is now applied to you. But what does it mean?
God's Part in Salvation
Your option to become a Christian is not initiation and membership in a club. It isn't an organization, affiliation, alliance, coalition, society, association, community, social order, or institution. It is not a class, clan or government you chose, into which you have been recruited, inducted, enrolled, and gained admission. Without delineating Christianity here (that is for another study), let's first address the miracle that lead to your decision to follow Jesus Christ. In reality, this choice you have made, the decision for faith in Christ and a relationship with God, wasn't one initiated by you, as strange as that sounds.
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day."
-Jesus Christ, John 6:44
The fall of man, separation from God as described in the Bible, occurred the moment in which humanity first disobeyed God, resulting in a profound shift in the relationship between God and mankind. This event is chronicled in the Book of Genesis, where Adam and Eve, the first humans, are tempted by the serpent (symbolized as Satan) to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which God had expressly forbidden. Their decision to ignore God's command, the introduction of sin into the world, leads to their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. This act of disobedience not only alters the fate of Adam and Eve but also sets the stage for the theological understanding of sin and redemption throughout the entirety of Scripture. The fall illustrates the struggle between free will and divine law, underscoring humanity's propensity for rebellion and the need for salvation.
From the Garden of Eden, when rebellion to God (sin) entered the world, through Old Testament prophets and completed in the New Testament through Jesus Christ (Messiah, Savior of the World, Lamb of God), God promises the human race a means of salvation from sin.
God chose him as your ransom long before the world began, but now in these last days he has been revealed for your sake.
-1 Peter 1:20