salvational

Leading to deliverance

Salvational means relating to or concerned with salvation—the deliverance from sin or spiritual death in religious contexts.

The word appears in theological discussions: salvational doctrine, salvational themes in the Gospel.

It can extend to secular redemption: The program had an almost salvational quality for recovering addicts.

theological

atonement

Compensation for wrongdoing

sanctification · propitiation · expiation · reconciliation · forgiveness · absolution · mercy · pardon · election · predestination

spiritual

faith

Trust without proof

enlightenment · deliverance · liberation · soul · eternal life · afterlife · paradise · heaven · resurrection · immortality

rescue

deliverance

Rescue from bondage

survival · refuge · sanctuary · asylum · protection · safeguarding · intervention · aid · relief · escape

hope

promise

Commitment to act

messiah · redeemer · advent · eschatology · millennium · rapture · second coming · kingdom · glory · revelation

Opposites
spiritual fate

salvationaldamning

Proving guilt conclusively

condemnatory · soul-destroying · hellbound · accursed · diabolical

redemptive quality

salvationalruinous

Causing severe destruction

destructive · corrupting · degrading

Phrases
Family

salvation, salvations

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Rated G