Salvation

CRITICAL: English-speaking Christian traditions are themselves divided over ‘being saved’ as a single datable past event (revivalist/altar-call traditions) versus an ongoing, lifelong reality (Catholic, Orthodox, many mainline Protestant traditions); this curriculum should state which sense a given passage intends. Also guard against the fully secularized generic sense of ‘salvation’ as any rescue, which strips out the divine agent. Note: ‘justification,’ a key term under this doctrine, is the single most severely false-friend-prone word in this entire registry, since ‘to justify’ in ordinary English means to give a reason or excuse for an action already taken.