Soteriology – What is salvation? – Kyle Dingus

https://www.fourthavenue.church/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/09072025-WorshipWEB-1.m4a   Soteriology Below is an excerpt from today’s talk on Soteriology from Kyle. Good morning! Before we get started this morning, as that last song was reminding us of the importance of the power of prayer. Tonight we are beginning Alpha. It’s very exciting and very nerve racking at the same time and we are expecting and hopeful that God is going to do really amazing things through it. I’m going to ask for all of you guys to set an alarm at 6:30 tonight or around there and just say a prayer for us as we’re sharing the love of Jesus with people. So it’s going to be an awesome time. We are going through a series currently called Foundations. Looking at the foundational core truths of the Christian faith. We’ve talked about the Bible and how the Bible is our primary authority for knowing God and living the good life and how God created human beings in the image of God. We as humans have sinned and have fallen short of the Glory of God and we have a sinful nature. We are broken as people. We talked last week about the bridge between God and man and Jesus and it’s a really good precursor for what we are talking about today. We talked about the nature and character of Jesus and we are examining today a lot of the work of Jesus, what Jesus accomplished on the cross and the resurrection. We are talking about Soteriology, the study of salvation. In Islam you were saved if God decides to save you based upon your good deeds. If you practice the five pillars, if you lived a submissive life, if your good deeds ultimately outweighed your bad deeds then you might make it to paradise. In Hinduism and Buddhism life is suffering. We are trapped into this never ending cycle of reincarnation and the goal is to do enough good deeds to earn enough Karma to get off the cycle of suffering and achieve unity with the divine essence.