Every religion claims to offer salvation. Every religion looks at the human condition and offers a solution. In the Christian faith, we have a very clear understanding of what the problem is and what God has done to solve the problem.

Here is a definition of salvation. “Salvation is the deliverance from the temporal and ultimate effects and consequences of our human condition.”

That definition may seem kind of heady. Temporal means the ways we struggle here and now with our human condition. The ultimate effects and consequences of our human condition are what happens to us in the afterlife. Salvation is God’s deliverance from the consequences of the way that we are as human beings.