Progressive Salvation

Progressive Salvation


Catholicism teaches that the redemption Jesus Christ purchased by His death on the cross was delivered it to the Catholic Church to be distributed to men through the sacraments.
THE NEW PARISH CATECHISM, Page 52 says, The Church gives grace to the people through the Sacraments. The Catholic Church makes us share in God's life through Baptism, and feeds us with the Body and Blood of Christ in Holy Communion. We receive the grace of Christian maturity in the Sacrament of Conformation; and our sins are forgiven through confession.
According to the Catholic Church salvation is a process that begins at baptism and kept alive through the sacraments. If the Catholic has faith in Jesus Christ and participates in the sacraments they will be saved. Many non-Catholic churches have adopted simular progressive views of salvation.Trinity Fellowship, a nondenominational mega church in Amarillo Texas, posted this definition of salvation on their website. http://tfchurch.org/about/statement-of-faith/

Salvation is not a one-time event that saves us from hell—it is a lifestyle of loving, obeying, serving, and becoming more like Christ who saved us.

Progressive salvation is not a Bible doctrine. Salvation is instant and complete at the moment a sinner places his trust in the Lord Jesus. Paul explains this in Ephesians 1:13,
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
The sinner hears the gospel, trust in Christ and is sealed by the Holy Spirit. Paul goes on to say in Colossians 2:11
...ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
At the moment of salvation the believer is spiritually separated, or cut away from his flesh so that sin can no longer separate him fro God.
Romans 8:23 says that we are "waiting for the redemption of our body."
It is our bodies that are still subject to sin and death. Spiritually we that have experienced the new birth have entered into Christ rest. Hebrews 4:10 says,
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Spiritual maturity of the believer is progressive not the redemption that saves us from Gods wrath. Progressive salvation is a tool of Satan used to keep man from resting in the completed redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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[socrateskantian]

This guy creates a completely false dilemma. Justification is by faith and is a one time immediate thing that was created by Christ's death on the cross but sanctification is different. It takes time. He is again just trying to run down the Catholic church. Have you seen the V between his eye brows? There is something wrong here. There is no love there, but anger and hatred.

[Kyouryuu5000]

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9).

[SkullVodka]

I think that it is funny when christians use the word "progressive" when it comes to describing anything to do with christianity.

[the1response]

Wow! Thanks for the enlightening comment. Great video interex100! I went to the church website you spoke about and verified what you said. Thanks for pointing that out. It will help me as I witness to friends that attend that church.