have pride of place in any treatment and understanding of Paul’s soteriology. But if certain metaphors, such as propitiation, underscore the objective side of salvation, other metaphors, including huiothesia, tend to focus more on what happens to us—that is, they look at salvation from the subjective or experiential side and focus more on the result of what is achieved for the people of God.20 Whichever way we look at it, salvation, according to the apostle Paul, is profound and many sided. Stated
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