An In-depth Study to Demystify God's Plan of Salvation, the “Scarlet Thread” Through Biblical and Doctrinal Truths

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FIRST DRAFT-CHAPTER 11

Introduction1

a)Purpose Statement1

b)Thesis1

c)Background1

d)Warrant for This Study3

i)Direction of many Sermons3

ii)Messages of contemporary Church and Gospel Music4

iii)Reduction in “Sunday” or “Church” School5

iv)Lack of Understanding7

e)Types and Organization of Research7

FIRST DRAFT-CHAPTER 1

Introduction

Purpose Statement

The purpose of this paper is to understand and demystify the God's plan of salvation. This study aims to simplify the understanding of the salvation story from its grass root. It is to provide a rudimentary understanding for today's unbelieving society. Novice and mature believers, walking unnecessarily in blind faith, are among the targeted group to perceive, from a different perspective, the simplicity and reader friendliness of God's Word.

Thesis

All knowing is just God. God knows how to say what He intends to say to His people without the need of any interpreter. He has revealed His truth in a way which is understood easily by all the readers. Plan of Salvation is God's design to redeem fallen humanity, which could revive in the near future, and achieve eternal life. Jesus took on his shoulders the punishment for our sins (on the cross of Calvary), that whoever believes in him shall not perish in eternal damnation, but to reach the glorified eternal life.

Background

Salvation is a biblical word and most Christians would say that God's salvation of fallen humanity and the world is the central theme of Scripture. It is important to determine both what the Articles teach about salvation and whether what they teach. This deliverance by God could be small or great and done through a person, or group, or thing, or it could be miraculous, done by the direct work of the mighty hand of God working through some combination of agents (Manas, 1997).

In the Old Testament the central act and chief model of salvation is God's deliverance of Israel from slavery in Egypt. In the New Testament the central act of salvation is the deliverance of sinners through the birth, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In both cases the beginning point is a predicament beyond self-salvation, a bondage or slavery from which the group or individual could not rescue. In both cases salvation leads to the beginning of a proper relationship with God in which true freedom and godly life are to be found (Malphurs,2004). The Old Testament provides the outline and pattern for salvation and the New Testament builds upon it and deepens the predicament to a universal condition of the guilt of sin, leading to the final and eternal rescue that begins in the present and never ends. Thus the New Testament provides the fulfillment of the salvation of which the Old Testament was a type and preparation. Together they are part of one biblical story of God's salvation in Christ that ends in a new heaven and new earth in which only joy and righteousness dwell. Traditionally, among Christians, a major goal is to obtain ...