Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being salvable; the possibility of being saved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness.
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- noun The quality or condition of being
salvable .
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Examples
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Divers other reasons might be used to evert this fancy, that would make the purchase of Christ, in respect of us, not to be the remission of sins, but a possibility of it; not salvation, but a salvability; not reconciliation and peace with God, but the opening of a door towards it; — but I shall use them in assigning the right end of the death of Christ.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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They ignore dogmatic beliefs, and assume the salvability of the whole race and the possibility of realising the kingdom of God on earth.
The New Theology 1911
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It enables us to see how the human and divine were blended in Jesus without making Him essentially different from the rest of the human race; it enables us to realise our own true origin and to believe in the salvability of every soul that has ever come to moral consciousness.
The New Theology 1911
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The fact that a soul can suffer proves its salvability beyond dispute.
The New Theology 1911
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When we read General Booth's expressions of confidence in the salvability of mankind and note the intrepid audacity with which he sallies forth like another David to attack the huge Goliath who threatens the hosts of our modern Israel, and remember that he is no mere shepherd boy fresh from the fold, but one who for forty years of his life has lived and laboured in an atmosphere saturated with emanations from every form of human vice and wretchedness, then we feel somewhat as did Moses when he stood before the burning bush, "and he looked, and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed."
Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" Commissioner Booth-Tucker 1891
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[This remarkable passage on the salvability and accountability of the heathen is noteworthy.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Rel.ii. c. 9) and have no difficulty even in supposing the acceptableness of these works, and the salvability of those who do them.
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