Salvation is a general term, denoting deliverance of varying kinds. It may be used of the healing of disease, of safety in travel and of preservation in times of peril. It may apply to people or to things. In the OT, when Israel was threatened by hostile nations, the term is used of God’s protection. In the Gospels it is often used of Jesus’ healings (“Your faith has saved [i.e., healed] you”). But the term is also used for deliverance from sin and for the ultimate deliverance when the