BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY
Salvation and the Afterlife
Turn to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other (Isaiah 45:22).
And He made from one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitation that they should seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him though He is not far from each one of us--for in Him we live and move and exist (Acts 17:26-28).
All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him (Isaiah 53:6).
For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:7-8).
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them (2 Corinthians 5:19).
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21).
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life (John 3:16).
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9).
For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law. But the Scripture has shut up all men under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe (Galatians 3:21-22).
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes (Romans 10:4).
"What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:28-29).
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins (Hebrews 10:4).
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ (Colossians 2:8).
Jesus said to them, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me" (John 14:6).
God is now declaring to men that all everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead (Acts 17:31).
It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment (Hebrews 9:27).
He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God (John 3:18).
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain (Philippians I :21).
We are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8).
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:2).
Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment (John 5:28-29).
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming, then comes the end, when He delivers up the kingdom to... God (I Corinthians 15:22-24).
For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth (Isaiah 65: 17).
And there shall no longer be any curse (Revelation 22:3).
He who overcomes shall inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. But for the cowardly and unbelieving...their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death (Revelation 21:8).
And who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (I John 5:5).
How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? (Hebrews 2:3).