You do realize you asked me about the Savior and I gave you Scripture to show that our Father is also referred to as the Savior, correct?
Do you seriously think our Lord will be offended that I see both He and our Father to be Savior because that's what He - the Word of God - has had written?
If you'd like to turn this over now from Savior to eternal life, try these words from Jesus about eternal life: 24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word
and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. (Jn. 5:24 NKJ)
- Faith Alone in Christ Alone?
As I said, a really great exercise is to sit quietly and read the Gospels with a strict focus on how Jesus glorifies our Father in so many places and in so many was. The mutual glorification in the Godhead is really quite beautiful. What Jesus says made me sit back many years ago and just meditate (cc:
@Rufus so you know I also do this) on His relationship with our Father and how He as our first-born brother (Rom8:29) reveals this to us.
Don't forget our Heavenly Father
@rogerg
No, I don't think He would be offended by that, but what I believe He is offended by are those who do not believe Jesus is the Christ, and therefore, do not believe Jesus is the one whom the Father specifically sent to save His people. In other words, should we not believe Jesus is Christ and Saviour, and as Saviour He alone saves, they (in effect) would be saying Jesus wasn't sent by the Father as Saviour. Therefore, disbelieving the Father's claims about Jesus and calling God a liar. So, should we not believe each and every one of them regarding Christ, then we don't believe any of them because all are interrelated and dependent upon each other.
Regarding Jhn 5:24:
24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word
and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. (Jn. 5:24 NKJ)
Also note:
[Jhn 6:47 KJV]
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
[Mat 19:29 KJV]
29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and
shall inherit everlasting life.
[Jhn 12:25 KJV] 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world s
hall keep it unto life eternal.
Along with these verses, there are other supposed requirements that need to be fulfilled by us in order to be saved. However, that interpretation cannot be correct because were they actually required, and should we do one but not all then we would not become saved. This would place one at odds with the others. Instead, what is being demonstrated by those and other like verses, is that they are attributes that result FROM salvation, manifested by/within those saved who actually do them, but not the cause of (their) salvation.
As I recall, studier, my question to you was whether you believe that anything outside of salvation by Christ (given He is the Saviour), is needed to become saved - whether He had accomplished all and bestows it, in its fullness, simply through grace, or if you believe our works are also an essential component of salvation in addition to Christ? If you believe that Christ is the Saviour, then it must follow that you also believe He alone saves apart from any of our actions. However, based upon your prior post, my understanding is that you believe our works a necessary part of becoming saved. Is that still true?
The Saviour is God, which includes the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (as there is but one God), who was manifested as Jesus in the earthly personage of the Christ. He is life eternal and freely bestows that life (Himself) at His in-dwelling of those He saves. He is the realization of their promised inheritance but only to those chosen before the foundation of the world as beneficiaries of His will - the elect.
Jesus glorified and prayed to the Father in the gospels because He, even though (being) God incarnate, took upon Himself the form of a servant made in the likeness of men (Phl 2:7). By temporarily setting aside His power as God and being in the form of a man, He rightly prayed to the Father, but never ceased to be God.