Not so sure about that.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. (Mark 16:16)For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. (John 3:16-18)
Salvation apparently comes to any ... any ... who believe in Jesus (and, apparently, are willing to admit and act on that belief). Distressingly simple.
I suspect that nobody -- not Glenn Beck, nor even Dr. Mohler -- really understands Jesus well enough to believe in what He truly is. And yet I suspect that Jesus understands and makes allowances for our lack of knowledge: it is the fact of believing at all, our basic mindset, that matters, not the correctness of our personal image of what Jesus really is.
The meaning of the crucifixion is discussed in Hebrews 10: "And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." (Heb. 10:10)
Sanctification means "to free from sin: Purify."
Jesus' sacrifice was "for all" -- it's sanctification for everyone who ever lived. And yet He says that not everyone will be saved. So although sanctification is no doubt necessary for salvation (we must be clean before we can be with God), it is not sufficient.
The resurrection is interesting: Jesus, who is co-eternal with God (John 1), cannot die. The resurrection was not necessary for Jesus' sake. The resurrection of Jesus was done for our sake -- to show us, I guess, that even death cannot stand up to God.
The crucifiction cannot stand without the ressurection.... ‘Sin brings forth death’...the crucifiction paid the price....the ressurection brought salvation to eternal life.
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