Quotes about Redemption

How Can We Know for Sure That We'll Go to Heaven?

R. A. Torrey writes, "We will not be disembodied spirits in the world to come, but redeemed spirits, in redeemed bodies, in a redeemed universe.

God] hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to abandon the work of his hands—in fact, he sacrifices his own Son to save his original project. Humankind, which has botched its original mandate and the whole creation along with it, is given another chance in Christ; we are reinstated as God's managers on earth. The original good creation is to be restored."[2]

Albert Wolters points out that most of Christ's miracles "are miracles of restoration—restoration to health, restoration to life, restoration to freedom from demonic possession. Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

Biblical religion . . . views the whole course of history as a movement from a garden to a city, and it fundamentally affirms that movement. . . . Redemption in Jesus Christ reaches just as far as the fall.

Religion professor Albert Wolters, in Creation Regained, writes, "[God] hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to abandon the work of his hands—in fact, he sacrifices his own Son to save his original project. Humankind, which has botched its original mandate and the whole creation along with it, is given another chance in Christ; we are reinstated as God's managers on earth. The original good creation is to be restored."74

Christ's resurrection is the forerunner of our own, and our resurrection is the forerunner of the earth's.

Christ is and will forever remain both God (from Heaven) and man (of earth). I

The gospel is far greater than most of us imagine.

God could have created us without loving us, but He would not have gone to the Cross without loving us.

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell." —J. C. Ryle

When our sin reached its full horror, God's love was displayed in all its glory. If you doubt God's love for you, look at the cross.