Salvation

The Hebrew root yasha’ (“save, deliver”) gives the noun yəshû‘â and the name Yeshua/Jesus. In the Old Testament it covers concrete rescues — from Pharaoh, from the Philistines, from sickness — and develops into a richer eschatological hope: the LORD as saviour of his people (Isa.43.3). The Greek sōzō in the New Testament holds the same range, from physical healing (Mar.5.34) to the final deliverance of the soul (1Pe.1.9). Paul gives the doctrinal centre: salvation is by grace through faith, not works (Eph.2.8–9), grounded in Christ’s death and resurrection (Rom.10.9–10), and applied by the Spirit through regeneration (Tit.3.5). Christian theology since the patristic period has distinguished three tenses: past (justified — declared righteous), present (being sanctified), future (will be glorified). The benefits include forgiveness, adoption, reconciliation, and ultimately the resurrection of the body. The agent is God; the means is faith; the basis is Christ.