Salvation

Introduction One of the most meaningful passages of Scripture is Romans 1:16–17: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to...

The biblical concepts of free salvation by grace, the end of death, and re-creation are in conflict with current naturalistic theories of origin and the Darwinian explanation of biological diversity. In the Darwinian worldview, there is no God and there is no personal salvation—only the improvement of the species through mutations and natural selection of the fittest. Suffering, struggle for survival, and death are part of the mechanisms that will bring about a better species. This is in stark opposition to the message of the Bible. The conflict between Darwinism and Scripture (and Christian faith) affects ideas related to origins or protology: the origin of the universe, earth, life, and humans. It also affects eschatology: what happens after this life? For the extreme materialistic Darwinist, there is only matter and energy. Darwin spread the idea that we are not valuable, with no hope of personal salvation, awaiting only death. Christ assured us that we are valuable, that He overcame death, and that one day He will completely remove it, giving us hope that this life is not all there is.

Eschatology is one of the major ways theology deals with the issue of theodicy, or the problem of evil. Issues specific to eschatology include the final fate of the wicked, the imperfect believer, the unevangelized pagan, the completeness of God’s victory over evil, and the prospect of evil's full elimination, or its possible re-emergence. Over time theologians have produced a range of eschatological responses to these issues. Some of these responses are outlined, analyzed, and compared with the comprehensive Seventh-day Adventist eschatological vision based in the pre-Advent and millennial judgments.

Sermon presented at the 1988 Annual Council, Nairobi, Kenya (East Africa), by Jan Paulsen, then president of the Trans-European Division; now General Conference vice-president.

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