S1 Bonus What does it mean to be saved

 

Bonus: What does it mean to be saved

It is only by understanding what it means to be saved do we understand human purpose 

Techumanpurpose · Bonus: Salvation and how it matters

Rikk Watts

"It began to dawn on me that we were using a word that really doesn’t mean what

it meant in Roman times. ‘Saviour’ was a well-known political term. There’s a

famous inscription which speaks of Caesar Augustus - ‘it seemed good to the

Greeks of Asia and in the opinion of the High Priest to say the following - Since

Providence which has ordered all things and is deeply interested in our life, has set

in most perfect order by giving us Augustus, whom she filled with virtue that he

might benefit mankind - sending him a saviour, both for us and for our descendants,

that he might end war and arrange all things.’

Pay attention to the language here. No one is talking about going to heaven, about

sins forgiven. The term ‘saviour’ here has to do with concrete changes in the lives

and the world in which people of the first century lived,worked, and sought to

bring up their families. This was real life stuff.

There’s nothing here about somewhere beyond the blue. Being saved by a saviour

had a well-known economic and political meaning. It was a word from everyday

life. Augustus was considered the people’s Saviour because he’d restored peace to

the empire. He was their benefactor."

The point then is that Jesus is the one that brings and shows what Yahweh's good order looks like.
We need to reflect the good order that Jesus reveals.

ORDER

Indeed order probably pervades the whole Bible.

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Salvation