Deathbed Salvation

[deacon blues]

Originally Posted by Le Penseur

Amen! And thank you!

His expression of faith and trust in Christ led to his salvation, and it's the same for us. I'm in agreement with your statements in the first paragraph - it's not fair - at least not according to our human sense of justice - that the latecomers receive the same reward. But God's sense of justice is so much more righteous than ours we cannot even comprehend it. But our salvation is dependent upon our trusting acceptance of the work that Jesus did for us (because we could not). Any time you add anything to faith (for by grace are ye saved through faith) it becomes works/legalism.

The problem is confounded by dispensationalism, IMO. Nobody was EVER saved under the law. NOBODY! The only way that anyone in all the history of time has ever been saved was through faith in Christ. That's how Abraham was saved - because he had faith concerning God's promises (which all pointed to His promise to provide a Messiah) - and he was counted righteous because of it. When you start breaking up the story into different "dispensations" wherein God saves people in different ways, you end up with the mess we have today. Dispensationalism, IMO, is what props up the OP hermeneutic. But if one can understand that everything before Christ points to Christ, and the new covenant exalts Christ, the scripture record becomes less disjointed and more unified.

Blessings!

Great post.mlove the thoughts on dispensationalism