Salvation History: A Primer
Salvation history is the active participation of God through human history in the salvation of mankind. The culmination of salvation history is the person of Jesus Christ - His preaching, teaching, passion, death, and resurrection. In every age, God works in concert with human beings to make the gospel message known throughout the world. Human beings are incapable of saving ourselves. Salvation, like eternal life, is a gift only God can give. Let's go back to the very beginning. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve lived together in perfect harmony and happiness. God and man, man and woman shared an intimacy we can only imagine. We call this intimacy original intimacy . Existing in perfect happiness, man's free will is preserved. If God had made us robots, loving only Him and serving only Him, we could not properly speaking be said to love. Love by definition is a free choice. Enter the snake. The evil one said God really didn't love Adam and Eve. The e