The Eternal Gospel

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Chapter I. What is understood by the word Salvation in Holy Scripture:

§. 1. By Salvation original: Seeligkeit. This term carries a dual meaning of both "blessedness" and "salvation," referring to the state of the soul's eternal happiness., the Holy Spirit in Holy Scripture refers not only to the redemption from every evil that came upon us through Adam’s fall The biblical account of the first sin in the Garden of Eden, which the author views as the origin of human suffering., but also the bestowal of everything good. This was earned for us through Christ’s obedience, incarnation original: Menschwerdung; literally "becoming human.", suffering, death, and resurrection; it is granted to us in Baptism, revealed through the Word, and sealed through the holy Sacraments.

For just as Adam, through his fall into sin, did not only lose all the good things that were given to us by God in the Creation, but conversely brought every evil upon us—such as sin, curse, wrath, death, judgment, darkness, hell, damnation, and all manner of plagues and punishments, both temporal and eternal. Therefore we all...