The Sevenfold Doctrine of Salvation

1 Salvation

As debtors, sinners need forgiveness.

As condemned criminals, they need justification.

As enemies of God, they need reconciliation.

As slaves to sin, they need redemption.

As defiled and unholy, they need sanctification.

As dead, they need newness of life.

As poor strangers, they need adoption.

The seven elements or doctrines of salvation are divine works; they designate the divine side of salvation. The human side of salvation, is conversion, which includes repentance, faith, and baptism.

The seven doctrines of salvation are works which God performs when the sinner properly enters into Christ. When the sinner accepts God's gift of salvation through repentance, faith, and baptism, God lifts him out of the world, places him in Christ, and bestows upon him spiritual riches indicated by the seven doctrines of salvation.

2. Forgiveness

One of the outstanding blessing included in God's gift of salvation is the forgiveness of sins. The forgiven sinner's past life, regardless of what might have been included, exists no more.

He is dead to the past. His life history previous to conversion is considered non-existent. He is treated as if the day he became a Christian were the first day of his life.

Through divine forgiveness, man's sins have been washed away (Acts 22:16) ; he has become as "white as snow" (Isa. 1:18; Psa. 51:7).

His sins have been removed from him " as far as the east is from the west" (Ps.103:12).

 

His iniquities have been subdued, and his sins have been cast into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19.) They have been "blotted out" (lsa. 44:22), "sought for .and not found" (Jer. 50:20), cast behind God's back (Isa. 38:17), and remembered no more (Jer. 31:34).

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Justification and Sanctification

 The Sevenfold Doctrine of Salvation

The seven doctrines of salvation are forgiveness, justification, reconciliation, redemption, sanctification, newness of life, and adoption.

Man in his sevenfold position as sinner needs the

sevenfold salvation

 God has provided through His Son.