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Getting “Saved”: The Whole Story of Salvation in the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does it mean to “get saved”? Is conversion a gift of God’s grace but the post-conversion Christian life in our own hands? Is the covenant relationship sustained by a sense of personal gratitude for God’s past gift of conversion—or is post-conversion faithfulness itself an ongoing gift from God? In this book, Charles H. Talbert and Jason A. Whitlark, together with Andrew E. Arterbury,...

salvifically to the “meritorious” obedience of those seeking him. However, Campbell has recently argued that this “covenantal nomism” has simply shifted the location of “legalism” from “getting in” the covenant to “staying in,” since, as 2 Peter emphasizes, those within the covenant must now maintain a life of sustained obedience in order to inherit its promises, at the heart of which is entrance into the eternal kingdom itself (see again 1:8–11)! In view of such an emphasis, eschatological salvation
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