Here is a blog article I found today that bears relevance to our discussions in Mark. It has to do with rethinking what “salvation” means in the Gospels in light of what the word meant to its original audience.
Saved from What? by Dr. Craig Evan Anderson, Ph.D.
Salvation is central to Christianity. Yet, despite the fact that salvation is central to Christian existence, few people seem to understand it.
Perhaps we should expect non-Christians to misunderstand salvation, which most do. But this misunderstanding certainly isn’t limited to non-Christians. Christians themselves often don’t seem to understand the Bible’s concept of salvation.
Christians readily claim that they are “saved.” However, the natural follow-up question to this is: They are saved from what?
As obvious as that follow-up question should be, it does not get asked nearly as often as it should. Consequently, some really weird ideas seem to surround the pop-Christian notion of salvation.
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