Question 1

What does "Salvation" mean in the King James Bible?

Accepted Answer

In the KJV, "Salvation" means "God's rescue and restoration of the whole person — body, mind, and spirit, now and forever." The spaciousness. Yeshuah came from a root meaning 'to be wide/spacious' -- salvation was being brought from a narrow, crushing, confined place into wide-open freedom. It was comprehensive: body, mind, spirit, community, now and forever. Jesus's name (Yeshua) literally meant 'God delivers into spacious freedom.'

Question 2

Why did the word "Salvation" disappear from modern English?

Accepted Answer

Hebrew yeshuah ('deliverance/rescue/spaciousness/victory') reduced to 'going to heaven when you die.' The present-tense, comprehensive liberation became a future-tense, afterlife-only concept. The word was at peak usage around 1611 and declined by still used but narrowed (~1900).

Question 3

What modern word replaced "Salvation"?

Accepted Answer

"Salvation" was replaced by: "going to heaven" (though this afterlife only; yeshuah included physical rescue, political liberation, healing, and restoration in the present); "being saved" (though this passive and once-for-all; salvation in hebrew was ongoing divine rescue and was also the root of jesus's name -- yeshua); "eternal life" (though this future-oriented; yeshuah was often experienced now -- the red sea parting was salvation).

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