Îsâ-Mesîh ve Pavlus Ekseninde Hıristiyan Geleneğinde Kurtuluş
Salvation in the Christian Tradition Axis of Jesus Christ and Paul

Summary/Abstract: In Christianity, salvation is generally explained as Jesus-Messiah centered. However, there are important differences between the salvation theology preached by the historical Jesus-Messiah and the salvation theology shaped by Paul. While the historical Jesus-Messiah stated that salvation would be gained by adherence to religious law, Paul argued that salvation would be achieved through faith. Putting the fall of Adam at the center of his teaching, Paul stated that Adam's sin spread to all people, and therefore every human being born into the world was condemned to sin and death. Stating that the law of Moses could not save people from the whirlpool of sin and death, and those efforts to reach salvation with the law were in vain every time, Paul substituted faith in Jesus Christ in his salvation theology instead of adherence to Jewish religious law. According to Paul, who reshaped the message of Jesus-Messiah, he was no longer a prophet sent to the lost sheep of the Israelites, but the son of God, who was the savior himself and sacrificed himself to save people from the sin committed by the prophet Adam. Thus, Paul, who reinterpreted the Yahwist text in Genesis as the source text for Christianity, put the transhistorical figure of Jesus-Messiah instead of the historical Jesus-Messiah at the center of his teaching. In this context, the importance of belief in Jesus-Messiah with the law of Moses in terms of salvation was discussed in the period of Jesus-Messiah and the first Christian community. While examining the subject, the passages of the Bible were taken into account, and the differences between the salvation theology put forward by the historical Jesus-Messiah and the salvation theology shaped by Paul were emphasized. The change in salvation theology was explained by Paul's reinterpretation of the creation story in the Torah.

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