What is the difference between Salvation in the Old Testament and that found in the New Testament?
Christ said that the least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than the greatest of the Old Testament Prophets, John the Baptist...
What was Salvation in the OT?
What IS Salvation in Christ?
Are they different?
The same?
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Salvation in the OT was not as comprehensive as NT salvation.
The OT believers became sons of God by adoption. Since it was Jesus Christ who introduced and foretold of the possibility of becoming born again, it was not available until he completed his works on earth.
Christians are sons of God by seed, I Peter 1:23 We are born again conceived with seed. God gave to us of His spirit, His spirit is incorruptible. I John 4:13
The OT believers had spirit upon them. They were not born again.
God would put His spirit upon those who He selected for that, but they could lose that spirit. Saul did, David, after one of his errors, realized that he could too.
Psalm 51:11
Jesus Christ paid the price for our sins, we are born again of God's spirit, we cannot lose that spiritual seed. We cannot lose our earthly parents DNA, we cannot lose our Heavenly Father's seed in us.
We are sons of God by seed, not adoption.
God foreknew who would believe His word, Romans 8:29, and with that foreknowledge, used His wisdom to select us, to mark us out beforehand, (poorly translated predestined)
In the sense, as with adoptions, He selected us, the idea of adoption fits, but since adoption is not the same as procreation, we must realize that we are sons by seed. I John 3:1-2, Romans 8:3,14