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Drowning
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Learning how to avoid temptation.
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The Fires of Hell:)
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Some people need salvation because they're afraid of dying, and can't cope in a mature fashion. They're being saved from their own fear and cowardice.
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an after life of hell burnning all day everyday.
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The religious theory most dominant in the Western world is that man is "fallen" from the start -- i.e. that we inherited Adam's sin. When he and Eve ate the apple they lost their innocence and that loss has been passed down ever since to future generations. So we're purportedly sinful when born, and need to be redeemed so we're acceptable to God. My opinion about this is that it's a very harmful belief: it reinforces the false notion that humans have a "nature", i.e. an inherent moral status, a defect. This is simply not true, and when you get someone to believe that they start spinning in rapid circles trying to "fix" themselves, or become easy prey for people selling redemption from the supposed defect. Of course every human has the potential to do evil, and we're all tempted, etc. That's undeniable. But we have choices, and those choices have consequences. At every moment in life, we have the ability to interrupt ourselves and look at life freshly, and make new choices. That is our true redemption: the capacity to take personal responsibility for our freedom and its consequences. That's being an adult.
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people want salvation from whatever it is they are afraid of. Whether its death, or fear of losing someone, anything, its just somethong they want to be delivered from so they dont have to face it alone
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The Salvation Army specializes in taking care of poor people. You can donate your old clothes and they will distribute it to the needy and they have soup kitchens to feed the poor. So I guess you could say they are saving the poor from the ravages of poverty and also trying save them from spiritual poverty at the same time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salvation_Army
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