Redemption, Salvation, Redeemer

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Jesus dies on the cross

Jesus-Christ is the redeemer of humankind. Through the sufferings of his Passion and his death on the Cross, he redeemed humanity from sin and obtained for every man the possibility of the salvation of his Soul.

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

Salvation

Redemption, Redeemer

  • The Messiah came to preach the Law in its truth and to accomplish Redemption. And the world hates the Law and does not want redemption.[5]
  • Who am I? The Expected, the Promised, the Redeemer.[6]
  • The garden of the Redeemer is the earth and the lilies are its children.[7]
  • Redemption and Incarnation.[8]
  • It is the secret of the Redeemer and the redeemers: to have patience, kindness, constancy, and prayer. Nothing more.[9]
  • Priestly prayer for the Redemption of humanity.[10]
  • Aglae tells Mary the path of redemption of her life of sin.[11]
  • Invocation of the apostle John for the universal redemption of men.[12]
  • "Fiat!" said the Most High, and the world existed. "Fiat!" will say the Redeemer and the world will be redeemed.[13]
  • It is strange this stubbornness, this mental impotence even among the best of those who follow Jesus to understand his greatest Mission... Everything is true from what the sacred Books bear, except this: that the Messiah must suffer and die, and be overcome by men.[14]
  • Redemption will act until the end of ages. Christ will not be inactive for a single moment.[15]
  • Truly, I tell you that She is already redeeming. Do you know what it means to redeem?[16]

Expiation of sins

  • (Jesus) I will have all the sins committed from Adam until this hour, and from this hour until the end of ages. I will expiate all sins of men.[17]
  • This must be and will be... so that, by my pain of betrayal all the lies are annulled, as by my pain of being sold all avarices are expiated, as by my tearing from blasphemy all blasphemies are repaired, and for those who are not believed faith be given to those who are and will be faithless, as by my torture all the faults of the flesh are purified.[18]
  • The Son of man will taste all the bitterness of past, present, and future sins, up to the last sin, in his spirit, before being the Redeemer.[19]
  • As I did for all men, so a Woman will obtain for Women, in a special way, Grace and redemption."[20]

In fundamental Christian texts

In the Bible

  • Accept the words of my mouth and the murmur of my Heart, without cease before you, Yahweh, my rock, my redeemer![21]
  • They remembered: God their rock, God the Most High, their redeemer![22]
  • Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Because of you I have sent someone to Babylon, I have broken all the locks, and the Chaldeans will turn their cries into laments.[23]
  • Thus says Yahweh, king of Israel, Yahweh Sabaoth, his redeemer: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me, there is no God.[24]
  • Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, who formed you from the womb: I am Yahweh, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, firmed the earth, with no one else with me.[25]
  • Our redeemer, Yahweh Sabaoth is his name, the Holy One of Israel, said:[26]
  • Thus says Yahweh your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, I teach you for your good, I lead you in the way you should go.[27]
  • Thus says Yahweh, the redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, to the one who is despised, abhorred by the nation, the slave of the Tyrians: kings will see and rise up, princes will see and bow down, because of Yahweh, who is faithful, the Saint of Israel who chose you.[28]
  • To your oppressors I will feed their own flesh; they shall be drunk with their own blood as with new wine. And all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your savior, your redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.[29]
  • Your creator is your husband; Yahweh Sabaoth is his name, the Holy One of Israel is your redeemer, he is called the God of all the earth.[30]
  • Overflowing with wrath, for a moment I hid my face from you. In eternal love, I have had compassion on you, says Yahweh, your redeemer.[31]
  • Then a redeemer will come to Zion, for those who turn from their sin, in Jacob. Oracle of Yahweh.[32]
  • You shall suck the milk of nations, you shall suck the riches of kings. And you shall know that I am Yahweh who saves you, your redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.[33]
  • Yet you are Our Father. If Abraham did not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us, you, Yahweh, are Our Father, our redeemer, your name from of old.[34]
  • But their Redeemer is strong, Yahweh Sabaoth is his name. He will take up their cause to give rest to the land, but to make the inhabitants of Babylon tremble.[35]

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Salvation

  • The necessity of faith: To Believe in Jesus Christ and in the One who sent him for our salvation is necessary to obtain this salvation.[36]
  • "The whole history of salvation is nothing other than the history of the way and the means by which the one true and unique God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, reveals Himself, reconciles, and unites men who turn away from sin.[37]
  • It is for man that heaven and earth and the sea and the whole of creation exist, and it is to his salvation that God has attached so much importance that He did not even spare His only Son for him.[38]
  • Jesus is the Savior of all men; all need salvation and salvation is offered to all thanks to the Christ.[39]
  • "As the fault of one brought condemnation on all men, so the act of righteousness of one (that of Christ) brings justification that gives life to all."[40]
  • In Jesus, God thus sums up all his history of salvation in the Confession of men.[41]
  • The Virgin Mary "cooperated in the salvation of men with her free faith and obedience.".[42]
  • The promise made to Abraham inaugurates the economy of salvation.[43]
  • God’s intention is the salvation of men, and it is called the Church.[44]
  • It is through the one Catholic Church of Christ, which is the "universal means of salvation," that the fullness of the means of salvation can be obtained.[45]
  • "Outside the Church there is no salvation."[46]
  • The union of Mary with her Son in the work of salvation is manifest from the moment of the virgin conception of Christ until his death.[47]
  • The priests and the Sacraments are pure instruments which our Lord Jesus Christ, the sole author and dispenser of our salvation, wishes to use well to erase our iniquities and give us the Grace of justification.[48]

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