Introduction

            What is Salvation?  What is the Gospel?  Those are key questions for every Christian.  Yet most Christians are becoming increasingly confused about these very basic questions because there is an increase in apostasy and heresy.  They are listening to errors.  Some of the confusion comes from ancient times, and is bearing more and more evil fruit.

            If you belong to a typical Evangelical church, it is certain that your church teaches a mixture of contradicting things, some true, and some not.  Rare is the church whose doctrinal statement is error free.      However, I have yet to find a church where the mystery of iniquity does not find some corner to thrive in.   It has been nearly 2000 years since Jesus' resurrection and ascension, which have been filled with cults, religious wars, and the multiplication of many competing forms of Christianity and the growth of mutually contradictory doctrines and teachings all presented in an appealing religious garb.  Sometimes error is presented in a soothing and emotionally sensitive way.  Sometimes it is presented in a spirit of self-righteous slander against truths that should not be slandered.

            I do not mean some trivial doctrine that people disagree about such as whether the rapture is before the tribulation or after it.    Satan is much smarter than to let the gospel go unchallenged while introducing less important disagreements.   Satan has been attacking and confusing the meaning of the most important vocabulary of the bible.   He has spent enormous effort redefining and corrupting terms that Christians take for granted.  The most basic truths of the Gospel and Salvation have frequently been horribly confused, and even perverted among millions of people who call themselves Christians.

            This corruption reaches to the highest levels of religion, into seminaries and schools.   It is found profusely in the scholarly journals.   It is to be found in most sermons preached, and most books written about the Bible.   It is in the commentaries and even in Greek dictionaries.   Even true men of God have been confused and mis-taught many things.   The truth is in the Bible, the word of God.   However, Satan and his agents have spent centuries trying to redefine the meaning of biblical language.   The bible is inerrant in the original languages.  And that is what we will be basing our conclusions on.  It is true that there are a multitude of translations, all