The Truth about Salvation


What is salvation?

What is the Truth about salvation?

Who can be saved?

How can I be saved?

Why do I need to be saved?

How can I accept Jesus as my personal savior?

What is the gospel?

The gospel of Jesus Christ – What is it?

Is it true that Jesus is the only way to heaven?

What do people mean when they say they believe in Jesus?

What is faith in Jesus? What does it mean to have faith in Jesus?

How can I know Jesus? What does it mean to know Him?

What does it mean to trust in Jesus?

Does Jesus love me?

Can God save me?

Jesus saves – What does this mean?

How can I get right with God?

Will God forgive me?

Does God forgive?

How can a person find God? What does finding God mean?

How can I give my life to God?

Why won't being a good person get me to heaven?

How can I not go to hell?

How can I make sure I'm going to heaven?

Does a person have to fully understand the gospel to go to heaven?

Life after death – Does it really exist?

Is salvation about more than just the afterlife?

How do I receive forgiveness from God?

How is salvation a gift from God?

What do Christians mean by saying they are born again?

What is the new birth?

What must I do to become a child of God?

What is spiritual rebirth?

How can I have a personal relationship with God?

The plan of salvation – What is it?

Is there a specific prayer of salvation?

The sinner's prayer – What is it?

What does it mean to 'ask Jesus into your heart'?

Are there steps to salvation?

What is the meaning of being converted? What is a faith conversion?

What do I need to do to convert to Christianity?

The Romans Road to salvation – What is it?

How is public confession related to salvation (Romans 10:9-10)?

Do the four Gospels present a different message of salvation than the rest of the New Testament?

The four spiritual laws – What are they?

The true gospel – What is it?

The gospel message – What are the essentials?

True religion – What is it?

Why is the phrase 'accepting Christ' used in evangelism if it is not in the Bible?

What is the bad news / good news method of sharing the gospel?

Am I one of the elect? How can I know?

What questions about salvation does soteriology address?

What does Ordo Salutis mean? What is the Order of Salvation?

How are people drawn to salvation? What does it mean for God to draw us to Himself?

The effectual calling / call – What is it?

Is salvation by faith or works or both?

What is the biblical understanding of faith vs. works?

How can you believe in salvation by faith alone when James 2:24 seems to say that salvation is not by faith alone?

Why do so many people believe in salvation by works?

How are good works the result of salvation?

What is the relationship of faith, works, and security in salvation?

Do we contribute anything good to our own salvation?

What does it mean to be saved by grace?

Is household salvation biblical?

Saving grace – What is it?

Sovereign grace – What is it? What is irresistible grace?

What is the difference between mercy and grace?

How does salvation involve both justice and mercy?

What is the significance of "solo Christo"?

What is the significance of "sola gratia"?

What is the significance of "sola fide"?

Why is the doctrine of justification by faith so important?

What does it mean that salvation is by grace through faith?

Spiritual death - what is it?

What is the meaning of Romans 6:23, "the wages of sin is death"?

How are salvation and forgiveness related?

What does it mean that our sins are washed away?

Is it possible for a Christian to lose salvation?

Is baptism required for salvation?

Is baptism necessary for salvation according to Mark 16:16?

Is baptism necessary for salvation according to John 3:5?

Is baptism necessary for salvation according to Acts 2:38?

Is baptism necessary for salvation according to Acts 22:16?

Is baptism necessary for salvation according to Galatians 3:27?

Is baptism necessary for salvation according to 1 Peter 3:21?

Why did Jesus have to die?

What is the meaning of substitutionary atonement?

Is unlimited atonement biblical? Is the atonement provided by Jesus Christ unlimited?

How is Jesus' sacrifice propitiation for our sins?

What is the meaning of expiation?

What was the purpose of animal sacrifices in the Old Testament?

Why was a blood sacrifice required in the Old Testament sacrificial system?

Why is Christianity so bloody?

Since God hates human sacrifice, how is it that Jesus' sacrifice could be the payment for our sins?

How can we say Jesus paid the penalty for our sins? Jesus didn't spend eternity in hell, and isn't that the penalty? How then did Jesus pay the penalty?

How is Jesus a ransom for many? What is ransom theory?

Is the death of Jesus Christ or His resurrection more important?

How do man's free will and God's sovereignty work together in salvation?

What is the connection between predestination / election and foreknowledge?

Am I still saved if I doubt my salvation?

How can a believer have assurance of salvation?

What is the eternal destiny of those who have never heard of Christ?

Do mentally challenged people go to heaven?

Is there an age of accountability in the Bible? What happens to babies that die?

Are some children too young to ask for salvation? Can a 3 or 4 year old truly believe?

Does the Bible say anything about the evangelization of children?

Can an "illegitimate" child, one conceived out of wedlock, be saved?

Is a death bed conversion possible?

Is forgiveness available for any and all of my sin? I have committed ____ sin. Will God forgive me?

Does God forgive big sin? Will God forgive things like murder?

Are there any unforgiveable sins?

How is salvation not about work when faith is required? Isn't faith a work?

What does it mean that faith without works is dead?

Why did Jesus ask the rich young ruler about obeying the commandments? Can salvation come through obedience to commands?

What are some signs of authentic, saving faith?

What is the Christian doctrine of regeneration?

Decisional regeneration/decision theology – What is it?

What is justification according to the Bible?

What is sanctification?

What is glorification according to the Bible?

What does righteousness mean?

What is imputed righteousness? Why does Christ's righteousness need to be imputed to us?

What is Christian redemption? What does it mean to be redeemed?

Christian reconciliation - What is it? Why do we need to be reconciled to God?

Does the Bible teach eternal security?

Is eternal security a license to sin?

Conditional security – What is it?

Is 'once saved always saved' a biblical concept?

Do the Bible's warnings against apostasy imply that salvation is not eternally secure?

Is it possible to 'give back' salvation?

What does the Bible say about backsliding Christians? Are they still saved?

Is it possible for a person to believe in some way and yet not be saved?

Is a Christian who commits suicide still saved?

Will God still forgive you if you keep committing the same sin?

What does it mean that Jesus died for our sins?

What are the theories of the atonement?

What is the doctrine of substitution?

Lordship salvation - What is it?

Free Grace Theology – What is it? What is free grace?

Is repentance necessary for salvation? What is repentance?

Remission of sin – What is it?

Is there a feeling connected to salvation? What if I don't feel saved?

Is salvation possible after death? Is there a second chance for salvation?

Before Jesus died for our sins, could people be saved? How?

What was the way of salvation for those living in the times of the Old Testament?

Did Old Testament believers have eternal security?

What is the concept of progressive revelation as related to salvation?

Can general revelation be enough for a person to be saved?

What is the narrow gate? How narrow is the narrow gate?

In what way is the path for salvation narrow? Why did God make salvation a narrow path?

Easy believism – What is it?

Cheap grace – What is it?

The Book of Life – What is it?

Can a person's name be erased from the Book of Life?

What is the Lamb's book of life? Is it different from the book of life?

Why do some people not turn to God until later in life?

If Jesus is our atonement, why did He die at Passover instead of the Day of Atonement?

Does Romans 2:7 teach works salvation?

What does it mean to have peace with God?

What is a profession of faith?

What does Ephesians 2:8–9 mean?

What is a spiritual awakening?

What does it mean that the gospel brings salvation to the Jew first and then the Gentile?

What is impartation?

What does it mean to be spiritually lost?

What should I do if I'm questioning my salvation?

Why does Romans 10:17 say that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ?

What are the works of the law (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16)?

What is the curse of the law (Galatians 3:10)?

What are the differences between justification and sanctification?

What does it mean to receive Jesus Christ?

How can I know if I have been reborn?

What does it mean to have spiritual life?

Why should I become a Christian?

How can I have a relationship with Jesus?

What does it mean that whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved (Romans 10:13)?

What is the difference between faith and belief?

What does it mean to be born of water and the Spirit (John 3:5)?



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