The Saving
Process
We also see evidence
that “being saved” is not just a point in time, rather it is a process that
takes us THROUGH a period of time.
Matthew 10:22
22 And you shall
be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end
shall be saved.
How does keeping the
commandments and “enduring till the end” fit in with salvation? Also, how does
that compare to other verses that indicate that our faith or belief is
sufficient for salvation?
Believe, and You
Shall Be Saved
One problem is that
any time you translate from one language to another, you have to do a certain
amount of interpretation. Although in our language the words “faith” or “belief”
mean “to have a knowledge of,” in the first century they meant more than that.
In Edward Nydle’s
Beginner’s Torah Lesson #6 he says:
To the average
Believer "faith" is a mental activity that involves intellectual assent to the
truth found in the Scriptures. It remains in the realm of the mind with no
action attached to it. We say a prayer and you are "saved" by faith. This is NOT
the Hebraic or Scriptural concept of belief. (Ya’akov-James 1:19-25; 2:12-26).
We have allowed the Greeks to redefine our Scriptural words to fit their
philosophy. Let us return to the Hebrew once again to obtain our word
definitions and meanings with the Hebrew mind-set.
The Hebrew verb AMAN means "faith, trust, believe,