rush@cwrudg.UUCP (rush) (09/23/86)
In article <1019@tekcrl.UUCP> daveh@tekcrl.UUCP (Dave Hatcher) writes: > > What is saved? > > I asked this question and got nothing even close to what I > was looking for. > > Maybe first I should be asking..In the Christian definition; > What are we? > What are our parts. (soul, body, spirit, ect) I hope this is what you are looking for... I understand that being saved is being reconciled to God after having realized our estrangement, and that we are indeed the ones who have left the knowledge of God behind us ("all we like sheep have gone astray/ every one to his own way" - Isaiah something). Second Corinthians 5:17-19 spell it out quite well (in my opinion): "Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold new things have come. Now all these thing are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation." In response to you questions about the nature of humanity, scripture does indeed state that we are made body, soul and spirit; however the nature of these thing is not made plain. It is my personal opinion that the soul is the seat of our personality, and the spirit is the essential nature of our being, the "I" as it were in "I am". If you still are hungry for knowledge on this subject I suggest that you search the scriptures that speak of the nature of mankind with the aid of a good concordance. > When we are standing in front of God in all of his glory, > (if we are saved) are we standing in front of him in all > the glory of our birthday suits? > Dave Hatcher > The only answer I can provide to this is also from scripture: "For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself." (Phillipians 3:20-21) Scripture is full of tantalizing hints as to the form that the fulfillment of this promise will take. I offer no opinion. Richard Rush - Just another Jesus freak in computer science decvax!cwruecmp!cwrudg!rush until we hook up to cbosgd All scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible unless there is an ambigous reference, in which case the source is my memory.