Suffering and Three-phase Salvation

Seminary Room N310

This presentation develops the relationship between three-phase salvation and the relief from suffering. Adventism has often focused its explanation of Salvation on moral perfection to the detriment of the more holistic implications. The relief of suffering is one option by which the Adventist expression of salvation could be more holistically developed. Justification is the relief of the suffering caused by guilt, shame, and condemnation. Sanctification is the relief of suffering which is caused by the personal responsibility of each individual both upon themselves and others around them. Glorification or entire sanctification is the relief from suffering from those things where are beyond the control of the individual such as natural evil.