Can Anyone Be Saved?

Can Anyone Be Saved???  Yes!!!        R.D.Ice
About 200 years ago, Raccoon John Smith, one of our pioneer "restoration" preachers, preached a sermon which he said was not "true" yet which helped to clear the air about salvation.  He preached: Universal Damnation - that no one at all could be saved.

Using logic:
The righteous are scarcely saved.
There is none righteous.
Therefore no one can be saved.
And:
Offend in part, guilty of all.
We all offend in part.
Therefore we each are guilty of all.

Logically, then, no one can be saved and all are lost!

This helps us understand the scripture which says: "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."  Romans 6:23  What we could not do because of sin and sinfulness, God did in Christ Jesus.
"So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.3 The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin's control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.4 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit." Romans 8:1-4 (NLT)
Jesus died as God's Lamb not only to forgive our sins, but to save us from sin's penalty - death.  The Law said (Ezekiel 18:20): "The soul (individual) who sins shall die."  This death penalty of sin shows how destructive sin really is.  After Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden, they tried to cover their shame with fig leaves, which began to perish the moment they were picked.  They did not know what death meant, but they were about to learn its sad terrible meaning.  They didn't know that those leaves were going to wither and die, and that their sin would be exposed again.  But God intervened.  "And the Lord God made clothes from animal skins for Adam and his wife."  Genesis 3:21 NLT  This implies that God Himself made the first animal sacrifice for sin - the innocent atoning for the guilty.
"For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.  But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe."  Gal. 3:21-22
Paul explains in Phil. 3:8-11.  "I no longer count on my own goodness or my ability to obey God's law, but I trust Christ to save me.  For God's own way of making us right with Himself depends on faith.  As a result I can really know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised Him from the dead." NLT
Faith = I believe!
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God" (Acts 8:37).
I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead and that HE is alive forevermore!  (Romans 10:9-10).
I believe that God for Christ's sake has accepted me (Romans 5:6-11; 2 Cor. 5:17-21).
I believe that I must accept the fact that He has accepted me and that I must reach out in faith to "obey the gospel" and live a new life.  (Romans 10:13).
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable (sensible, true worship) service.  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove (experience) what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."  (Romans 12:1-2)