savedness

noun

Etymology

From saved + -ness.

Definitions

  1. The quality of being saved, or rescued from the consequences of sin.

    • The conviction that man exists in the modality of lostness, so that he must undergo a metamorphosis in order to be found in the modality of savedness, is something that is derived from special revelation.
    • Our savedness is not our privilege but our responsibility. To reduce the scope of the saving work of God, to say that Christ died "to save me," is to say far too little, and thus to distort the gospel.
    • Could a person ever lose this savedness? If so, how and at what point?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA