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The word salvation (not only in English but also in Greek Original of Gospel) is double-fold. It means both when we are saved and when we save others. That is it may mean not only salvation but also ability to save.

When you are saved you receive something. What you receive? You receive salvation, and salvation is the ability to save. When one is saved (in biblical sense) he receives the ability to save.

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The ability to save (may be not actual ability but a potential ability which may be trained to become actual in the future) is what one receives when he is saved.

That is when we are saved by the Lord we, as the salvation develops in us, receive desire to save, talents, new mode of mind, knowledge of salvation, the things which are needed to save.

What in this world a man saved from a catastrophe receives from the savers? He receives food, clothes, etc. Certainly in Christian salvation saved should also receive such things, if possible and needed. But in Lord's plan of salvation a saved receives salvation itself.

It could be compared to alien contact which would give mankind high technology. What spiritual technology gives us Lord in salvation? It is salvation itself what He gives, the greatest gift what can be given, the most high cost technology. In salvation we receive salvation. The matter is that God seeing our pitiful condition (spiritual poverty, so to say) decided to freely give us something great (very costly) to make us rich (saved).

And so God has decided to give us salvation. Salvation is a very valuable thing. So the salvation is a solution of this problem to make us rich (saved) because salvation is very costly and anyone who has received it becomes spiritually rich.

It could be compared to a humorous situation if one would ask for help because he is poor and would receive as help the book How to help poors. But if this book would cost $100000 this would really solve his problem (poverty). It is the God way to do this thing (salvation).

God could give us food. But He gives us life. See (Jn. 10:10) ... I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. One could help an aborigine by providing him food, clothes, etc.; but one instead would help him by making him an American or European, it is what biblical salvation is like.

Tags: Salvation, Christian salvation.