Answers About the Nature of Our Salvation:

  1. What is God? (Acts 17:23)
Theologians have tried to describe God in many ways.  God is the substance of all the human virtues.  He is all wisdom and knows all.  He can do all that we're unable to do, and is the depository of all the goodness to which we aspire.  In other words, God is omnipotent (can do all), omniscient (knows all), and omnipresent (everywhere).  On the other hand, we can describe God comparing him with our human limitations.  For example, we are mortals, but God is immortal; we're fallible, but he is infallible.  God is eternal and imperishable spirit.  He has no beginning or end.  He is fully conscious of himself ("I am").  He is fully moral and responsible ("Let us make").  He's the essence of love and loves.  He is also an honest judge - totally righteous and faithful.  God is the Father of creation, the maker of all that exists.  He is almighty and holds the universe up.  He exists outside the Universe (theologians call this transcendence), although his presence fills all of creation (theologians say that is immanent), and governs it.  He exists within nature, but isn't nature, nor subject to its laws, as pantheists say.  He is the source of life and all that exists.  The best description of God is the name which he revealed to the first Israelites, Jehovah.  Jehovahis sometimes translated as "Lord".  Specialists believe that it comes from an ancient form of the Hebrew verb "to be", whose literal significance would be "that thanks to whom (all) that is exists".

  2. What does the Bible say about the Trinity?(II Cor. 13:14)
The Trinity is one of the great theological mysteries. Some think that as we are monotheists and believe in only one God, we can't accept the concept of the Trinity. But the Bible teaches that the divinity consists of three persons - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - , each one of them fully God and full manifestation of the divine nature (Luke 3:21,22).
The Father is the core person of the Trinity, the Creator, the primary cause, the original idea, the concept of all that which has been and will be created. Jesus said, "My father worked until now, and I work" (John 5:17).
The Son is the "Word" or expression of God - the "Only Begotten" of the Father - He himself is God. Moreover, as God incarnate, he shows us the Father (John 14:9). The Son of God is as much an agent of the creation as the only Redeemer of humanity.
The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, comes from the Father and is worshipped and glorified alongside the Father and the Son. He inspired the Scriptures, pours his power over God's people, and "convinces the world of sin, righteousness and justice" (John 16:8).
The three persons of the Deity are eternal. The Father exists and has existed eternally. His expression, the Son, always existed with Him. The Father always loved the Son and the Son loved and served the Father. The Spirit of God, who has existed for eternity, is in the loving relationship. It's not that the Father existed first, the Son later and finally the Spirit. The three have always been, before anything existed, three distinct persons in only one God. On the occasion of Jesus' baptism, the three persons of the Trinity were present and performing a specific function. The Father spoke from heaven, the Son fulfilled all righteousness and the Spirit descended upon the Son as a dove (Matt. 3:16,17).
The Trinity is a mystery that, someday, can be clearly understood. For now, we know that the Bible speaks of it and Jesus revealed it; the Christian church has confessed and safeguarded this precious truth from the beginning (I Cor. 12:4-6; II Cor. 13:14; Eph. 4:4-6; II Thes. 2:13,14).

  3. What should be done in order to be saved?(John 3:3)
To be saved, you should turn your back on sin, believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, and receive him as Lord and Savior of your life.
Step by step, try to follow the following process. First, you should reflect on your life and then abandon everything that is contrary to God's will. This moving away from self-serving attitudes and handing them over to God is called repentance(Matt. 3:7-10; Acts 3:19).
Second, you should confess that Jesus died on the Cross in order to pardon your sins. Accept him as Savior so that he may cleanse you of sin, as the substitute who paid for your guilt. (Rom. 5:9,10; Titus 2:14).
Third, you should ask him to become the Lord of your life, admitting openly and publicly that Jesus is not only your Savior, but your Lord (I John 2:23).
The Bible says that to all those who receive him he gives power to become sons of God (John 1:12). Therefore, when you receive him and open your heart to him, he enters you - in your inner being - through the Holy Spirit, and begins to live in you. From this moment, it's your privilege and calling to confess that which God has done for your life.