There's some confusion in your tenses. You keep speaking of salvation past tense: "salvation was earned" "after salvation is achieved" "salvation was achieved".
But the scriptures don't exclusively speak of salvation is past tense. St Paul uses past, present, and future tense for the verb to be saved. I showed you examples of the present tense - being saved, and the future tense we can see for example will be saved in Romans 5:9-10.
You're talking about credit, merit, earning, whatever. I'm not. Salvation is an event that happened on the cross - the mighty act that the Lord performed with His own arm, trampling down death by death, becoming the firstborn of the dead, delivering us from hades, granting the world the Great Mercy. He "trod the winepress alone" as Isaiah 63:3 says. So this manner of speaking is perfectly correct, and of course we see St Paul speak of it in this.
But we participate in this saving once for all sacrifice, in our lives, day by day. This is why St Paul, St Luke, speaks of salvation as a thing which has occurred, is occurring, and will occur in the future. We were saved by Christ's trampling down of death through His Resurrection. We are being saved through the work of the holy Spirit. And we will be saved when He comes again.
Not because we have earned it, or merited it, or did it apart from Christ, or apart from the Cross. It is because He works in us, and with us, we are God's synergoi, as St Paul puts it. Salvation is "faith working through love." What we do matters. This is why St Paul can just as easily speak of the saints as those who have been saved as warn them - if you do these things you "will not inherit the Kingdom". Or exhort them to say - "God is not mocked, for whatever a person sows, that he will also reap" and "we will reap if we do not lose heart."
We will be saved at the judgment, as St Paul teaches, when each one receives good or evil according to what we have done (2 Cor 5:10). How is a person saved? Through keeping the commandments, says the Lord (Matthew 19:16-19). How will we be judged in the end? By our acts (Matthew 7:21, 7:26, 25:40; John 5:28-29).
Acknowledging that we are being saved, through our co-working with the Holy Spirit who continuously gives us grace, in no way diminishes or takes away from the salvation achieved by Christ Jesus on the cross.
You speak of what separates those who are perishing and those who are alive? The scriptures are quite clear on this point. It is not merely that Christ died on the cross - because He died for all (2 Cor 5:14-15) - but not all are living. Narrowing salvation to ONLY the cross, ignores the ongoing work of the Spirit.
But the scriptures don't exclusively speak of salvation is past tense. St Paul uses past, present, and future tense for the verb to be saved. I showed you examples of the present tense - being saved, and the future tense we can see for example will be saved in Romans 5:9-10.
You're talking about credit, merit, earning, whatever. I'm not. Salvation is an event that happened on the cross - the mighty act that the Lord performed with His own arm, trampling down death by death, becoming the firstborn of the dead, delivering us from hades, granting the world the Great Mercy. He "trod the winepress alone" as Isaiah 63:3 says. So this manner of speaking is perfectly correct, and of course we see St Paul speak of it in this.
But we participate in this saving once for all sacrifice, in our lives, day by day. This is why St Paul, St Luke, speaks of salvation as a thing which has occurred, is occurring, and will occur in the future. We were saved by Christ's trampling down of death through His Resurrection. We are being saved through the work of the holy Spirit. And we will be saved when He comes again.
Not because we have earned it, or merited it, or did it apart from Christ, or apart from the Cross. It is because He works in us, and with us, we are God's synergoi, as St Paul puts it. Salvation is "faith working through love." What we do matters. This is why St Paul can just as easily speak of the saints as those who have been saved as warn them - if you do these things you "will not inherit the Kingdom". Or exhort them to say - "God is not mocked, for whatever a person sows, that he will also reap" and "we will reap if we do not lose heart."
We will be saved at the judgment, as St Paul teaches, when each one receives good or evil according to what we have done (2 Cor 5:10). How is a person saved? Through keeping the commandments, says the Lord (Matthew 19:16-19). How will we be judged in the end? By our acts (Matthew 7:21, 7:26, 25:40; John 5:28-29).
Acknowledging that we are being saved, through our co-working with the Holy Spirit who continuously gives us grace, in no way diminishes or takes away from the salvation achieved by Christ Jesus on the cross.
You speak of what separates those who are perishing and those who are alive? The scriptures are quite clear on this point. It is not merely that Christ died on the cross - because He died for all (2 Cor 5:14-15) - but not all are living. Narrowing salvation to ONLY the cross, ignores the ongoing work of the Spirit.