Who was the first saved?

[Guest Psalm27]

Isn't there a scripture that talks about this? Is it in Hebrews...how they looked for the promise but died before they could actually see it?

I believe the ones that believed by faith that God was going to provide the savior would be saved. After all, it is by faith we are saved, faith in Jesus and accepting his sacrafice on our behalf.

Can't think of the scripture, but I'm sure you all can find it faster than I could, but isnt it in His word that the Holy Spirit seals us until the day of redemption when we fully have salvation..? Or something like that. We are saved now and secured, eternally his, but do we get "full" salvation when we all get our glorified bodies at the second coming? Kinda confused here. Is the Holy Spirit like a down payment on what is to come?

Edited August 26, 2004 by Psalm27

[Nicks Girl]

most definitely Adam and Eve.

[AFaceInTheCrowd]

hummm I would say the thief on the cross.Was there salvation before the cross?Salvation by faith?Good points I believe we are saved by grace

[whatsitmean]

hummm I would say the thief on the cross.Was there salvation before the cross?Salvation by faith?Good points I believe we are saved by grace

Adam and Eve were the first saved, but were they born again?

Is there a difference? I think so.

[AFaceInTheCrowd]

Have to be born-again to be saved

[yukon]

I think it was the thief on the cross

Yukon

[whatsitmean]

I think it was the thief on the cross

Yukon

How could it be the thief on the cross? Surely Abraham and Job and David and many many other OT saints were saved weren't they? What about John the Baptist?

Were they saved in the exact same way or sense you and I are or is there a difference?

All these died in faith, not having recieved the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Hebrews 11:13

But now hath HE obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. Hebrews 8:6

According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and Godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Whereby are given unto us excedding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having excaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1:3-4

[His son]

Adam, and Eve,

Were the first, unless they refused God's offer of grace, or failed to finish the race.

[larryt]

Nothing is heard from Adam directly after he makes his "excuse" to God. Eve does make a statement of faith and believing God when Cain is born.

Ge 4:1

[Jedi4Yahweh]

There were many men before the cross that God consider righteous not because of the law but because they lived by faith and were friends of God and God counted them as righteous.

Enoch

Noah

Abraham

Lot

Elijah

Joseph

Job

David

The Prophets

etc...

But they all believed on him who was, who is, and who is to come.

God bless,