Salvation by Gabriel and Ricky

1. In our opinion salvation is the opportunity of going to heaven through faith and good works.

Faith is believing in the Holy Trinity which is God the father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus the son.  And believing that Jesus died for our sins.

2.  Paul presents two main models for salvation in the book of Romans, the judicial model and the participationist model.  The judicial model is easier for us to wrap our heads around and therefore it will be the only one mentioned.  The judicial model is based upon the idea that God is the lawmaker and the judge.  God has made the laws and everybody in the world, not just the Jews, have broken these laws.  The punishment for breaking these laws is death, but the solution for this punishment is the death of someone who does not deserve death.  Jesus was this someone and God brought him back from the death because he was satisfied with the punishment.  Through this model humans can be saved by trusting that God will find it acceptable, it was not by earning or deserving it, it was by someone else's sacrifice for us. 

3. Christianity is the belief that God's son, Jesus Christ, came down to Earth to die for our sins and save us from eternal death.  Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected three days later.  People can be saved through belief in the one true God and that his son Jesus Christ died for our sins.  God loves us all.