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What is salvation, and why do I need it?​

 

Because of the fall (Gen. 3; Rom. 5), all mankind fell from perfect obedience to and relationship with God. This is how sin — and, with it, death — entered the world. Salvation is God’s act of setting Christians free from bondage to sin, death and the devil; declaring them righteous on account of the work of Christ; and giving them eternal life with Him. To reject salvation is to reject God Himself, which is to choose hell, from which God and His love are absent.

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https://www.lcms.org/what-we-believe/beliefs

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